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Amber Westcott-Baker PhD

@amberwb

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I have a bunch of degrees and a bunch of chronic illnesses. I tried to be a professor for a while, but illness won. I hate this site and can’t seem to leave.

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Why I’m not training for the revolution / climate collapse…
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@MrMatthewTodd I have to take 13 pills a day just to be able to digest food.
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LOL — “the Ayn Rand Disneyland that is Fox News” — @DanRather
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@WFKARS It doesn’t even make it to fetus stage. The *embryo* dies, or mom and embryo die.
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@RobDenBleyker @GodOfTweets @kmason1957 Coyotes, large predator birds, and big(ger) cats are also happy to kill house cats.
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@Sen_JoeManchin 🤦‍♀️ Maybe listen to your own constituents, then, Senator Houseboat.
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@OhNoSheTwitnt Big “Black people shouldn’t be allowed to have nice things” energy.
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@moej4prez Ah, I see your toddler is in the “putting random objects into spaces where they happen to fit” phase.
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@AOC This tweet is your reminder that @AOC will be 35 in November 2024.
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@RavenJae5 @itsJeffTiedrich Because when they do, they get vilified and gaslighted and their rape kit (which is traumatic and violating to have collected in the first place) disappears or sits on a shelf for years untested. And then the guy walks through some loophole. Yes, this is why.
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@esjesjesj I wonder what her personality was like before it was entirely devoted to hating people she previously didn’t even know existed.
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@WFKARS (My Fallopian tube was blowing up before I even knew I was pregnant. Estimated to be 2-4 weeks.)
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@diannaeanderson “ThEy’Re ReMoViNg hEaLtHy BrEaSt TiSsUe!!!”
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@x3r0gxx Be very careful posting stuff like this. This is *exactly* how I ended up getting assaulted by cops/EMTs because someone called for a “wellness check” and they busted in and took me to the psych ER, where they forcibly injected me with a mystery sedative substance.
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@postcarbonsteve @laurenancona Who wants to see stars anyway?
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@duty2warn They don’t believe it. They’re adopting talking points, very often cynically.
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@NoLieWithBTC HOWEVER, Disney COULD stop funding Republicans and start funding their opponents.
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@torriangray “But if it wasn’t for [Biff Tannen trying to rape you in the parking lot at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance]…” *in unison* “…WE NEVER WOULD HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE!” (So of course we now employ him to personally wash our cars to support his small business!)
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@x3r0gxx When I woke up someone (MD? Lawyer?) said they’d made a mistake and discharged me without providing any documentation. Neither I nor my spouse signed or received a single paper while there. I didn’t get treated for the actual medical condition, had to wait for a doc apt.
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@roachmortem …Did she think she’d get to keep all of them?
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@chulesee @duty2warn Voting against a sex-trafficking law and a revenge-porn law…
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@NoLieWithBTC I keep seeing people say this… have you BEEN to Orlando? Their parks (plural), hotels (plural) and other attractions are massive, with massive infrastructure. It would be a logistical (and environmental) nightmare to move the physical structures, let alone the workers.
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@RBReich If he doesn’t like government subsidies, he should give back all the ones he’s received.
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@esjesjesj Yeah Elliot “looked so happy” with that plastered smile that didn’t reach his eyes.
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@donwinslow If only there were something in the Constitution that prevented such things… 🤔
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Hey @MSNBC , why haven’t you interviewed @ShahidForChange or even mentioned that @SpeakerPelosi is being challenged by a more progressive candidate (whom she refuses to debate)? #MSNBCAnswers
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@bartleby_era @ReelSmartCookie It was LinkedIn. She was probably looking for a job. 🙄
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@CantEverDie Literally the next thing on my TL… ⬇️
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@JoshuaPotash So if your cancelled hospital appointment kills you, you can’t have a funeral either?
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@Foxie_of_Chaos @ChristiCaldwell The most “the cops won’t come after me or my kid” advice I’ve ever seen.
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Jesus, @MSNBC , why are you putting CHAD WOLF on TV????
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@OgLakyn Those personal hard drives fail, too—or become obsolete and difficult/impossible to recover data from. Nothing is eternal.
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@kramer_susan @MikePerryavatar Knowing his rights probably saved his life.
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@atrupar This is not how we convince people with legitimate grievances to vote for Biden anyway. Disappointing behavior further alienating part of the Dem base.
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@AntiFaHR3 @RequiemArm @pstprtsndprssn It would be a pretty hate machine.
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People are having a lot of fun with “NOBODY BELIEVES YOU,” but check out the pink zombie mannequin hands taking up the armrests.
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@Zombie10k @donwinslow I mean… apparently it’s legal to hunt protestors?
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@rwa_ @oneunderscore__ I think the only reason this didn’t happen is because E didn’t think of it.
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@JoBlakely42 @JoshuaPotash He needs to be ‘careful’ to not say “these are white people.”
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@themattmcd @MoiraDonegan Not to mention the cost of OBGYN/hospital care…
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@shelleddiva @BarryPierce Another generation getting infantilized while also getting blamed for everything that changes or makes the olds feel weird.
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@AshaRangappa_ I find it unlikely that they’re unarmed.
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@OhNoSheTwitnt That and the “It’s cool to run over protestors in the street” laws.
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@Neff688 @maplecocaine Ward Churchill was fired from CU-Boulder for saying 9/11 was an inevitable consequence of our foreign policy (). Also, “censorship” handwringers should remember HUAC: ( ). Twitter cancel parties are not censorship.
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@SarAllyce The ad this cooked site served to me on this tweet 😭
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@VirginiaMounta2 @McFaul Can’t add anyone with an active war.
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Anyone else awake? :P
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@Popehat @GOP The Algorithm™️ thinks this is a tweet about food.
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@LizardbethArt @louie_jackjr @bocxtop But they need that money for “national security”! 🙄
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@Jasperlope @JoshuaPotash Monsters don’t care that they’re monsters.
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@ThePubliusUSA I’m totally fine with him being banned from social media and reduced to crashing rich sociopaths’ parties because he lives in the venue, until he is arrested or dies. It actually is a pretty fitting end.
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@alexandrite113 @cyntiadkins If it keeps happening, I suggest: “If you make me take off my mask indoors to do business with you, my business will be to close my account.”
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@motiblackart I’d be fine with not being able to make anyone like me if my survival didn’t depend on at least SOME people liking me.
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@MichelleMousta1 @johnpavlovitz Depending on the type of business and the amount of choice I have in the matter, I won’t even bother to ask them to change the channel. If they have FOX playing, I don’t want to be around the people who chose to have FOX playing.
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@kyledcheney lol, that took forever for me to figure out — “tod enter mine” = “to determine,” for anyone else confused.
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@BadMedicalTakes Yeah, women and nonbinary people don’t have… *checks notes*…. colons.
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@pattonoswalt I’ll take Things Money Can’t Buy for $600, LaVar.
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@SeaGrapeDreams @RBReich The act of hoarding wealth is itself sociopathic.
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@Castro4Congress @tedcruz All those involved should resign or be expelled.
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@michaelharriot In his fear[mongering], Pat acknowledges the whip handle’s existence.
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@Pinko69420 There was that tweet going around about how it wasn’t realistic that he’d be that verbally abusive when he needed help… like have you heard Michael Rappaport speak? He wasn’t acting.
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@JoshuaPotash Like copying a designer handbag* * if a designer handbag reduced the risk of contracting a deadly, prevalent disease.
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@karensgold @brad_kin @Julie_Bell_ @thelindsayellis @elonmusk He is Edison reincarnate—a carnival barker who takes credit for other people’s innovation and labor.
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@shipper_xphi @verysmallriver I still miss LJ. This hellsite is no replacement.
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@MrCrystalMighty “I was laughing and having fun, so the other person was also having fun” is a common mistake / failure of empathy. It’s literally “what do you mean, my favorite comedian was actually cripplingly depressed?”
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@CantEverDie Enshittification of everything! (LOL, my Apple product has learned to autocomplete “enshittification”… what does this mean @doctorow ??)
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@marceelias Wah!!! Marc Elias is trying to stop us from doing illegal things to steal elections! Wah!!!
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The movie (based on the book of short stories by Asimov) is I, ROBOT. iRobot is a vacuum.
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@heatherpeagler @AngryBlackLady Yeah, something tells me this will get less funny rapidly.
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@fawfulfan He screened Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915) in the White House. Called it “like writing history with lightning.”
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I can’t stop thinking about what a Nazi “hide the undesirables” take this is. Real “don’t put the visibly wounded veterans in the parade” energy.
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One minor quibble I didn’t mention in the video. Democratic ad makers and news editors. Please delete all b-roll of people in masks. Salts the vibes. Remember: We Are Not Going Back.
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@travisakers *waits for the Bernie version*
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@Mom_Overboard A dentist buffed out some small chips in my incisors for free because they were “offending [his] senses.”
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@dieworkwear I’m sure there are lots of conservative menswear experts, but I’m also sure that none of them are funny.
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@JoshDungan1 @esjesjesj I’m sure there are lovely real-estate agents. I’m sure she wasn’t one of them.
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@esjesjesj …that graph is nonsense. The Y axis goes up to 175%??
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@donwinslow What scares me is that everyone is calling it an accident.
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@StinkRatsCharms What, the idea that “You don’t count as ‘people’ when I’m talking about ‘people’ generally” is insulting, degrading, and dehumanizing?
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@DiabolicalSpuds Maybe, but that’s usually the first conclusion a doctor will jump to without looking for physical underlying issues (especially for women and POC patients). Also, undiagnosed GI disorders sure *cause* a lot of stress that can be mislabeled as an “anxiety disorder.”
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@11demo11 @AngrierWHStaff @PhotoCassidy Why yes, Rush, humans ARE supposed to feel something for fellow humans who have experienced loss. It’s an empathy test, and you fail.
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@AdrienneLaw I think she was yelling for someone else to deploy their taser while she kept him at gunpoint (for no discernible reason) when the scuffle caused her to pull the trigger. She sounds genuinely upset/surprised that she shot him. But I think she knew she had her gun out before that.
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@TerinosaurusRex @nooskadraws @iAmBittythings JK Rowling, their author, has become 100% devoted to being a TERF. Instead of writing something else, or just enjoying her pile of gold and her literal castle, she harasses trans people online and IRL. Ppl cosplaying HP in 2024 almost certainly know this, and are ok with it.
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@CommandantLuna @ChristiCaldwell Yeah, I personally can’t think of a book that would be carried in a library that I wouldn’t want my kid to be able to read. A *librarian* acting like kids are just sponges without critical-thinking skills, then withholding tools for developing critical-thinking skills… 🙄
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@chick_in_kiev “AITA?” *breathes in deeply, yells with full fucking chest*
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@TheDarkDuchesss @MingAutocrat “Random things” like building a bunch of infrastructure that still exists.
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@BenEsler @Mach_Dent Dude provided free labor for your amusement—asking literally nothing in return except that he gets credit for it if/when people start sharing it everywhere, so that viral viewers can find who made it if they wish—and you’re complaining about the watermark?
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@duty2warn If you think he’ll bother to arrest people who have humiliated him, you’re not thinking psychopathologically enough.
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@sjmn777 @nytimes @TheTaijiNews Unless she is, like, prosecuted for corruption and gets removed for it. *looks around for accountability for powerful criminals* Yeah, she’s safe.
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@mmpadellan She is effing brilliant.
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@JoshuaPotash Where all funding for childcare and education must be “means-tested,” but funding for corporate bailouts and military/police is not.
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@MushroomsOnMarz I think what you’re feeling is disgust at watching open child exploitation and abuse.
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@UnhWut He probably goes to the same person’s comedy show two nights in a row and wonders why it’s the same material.
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@DWUhlfelderLaw I won’t merely be surprised—I’ll be shocked. It would mean he has some sense of shame. There will be zero consequences if he doesn’t, so why would he?
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@RebekahWriter Wow, his dedication to “I wasn’t talking about disabled people” (as if that is a defense) is WILD.
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@StinkRatsCharms What, the idea that “You don’t count as ‘people’ when I’m talking about ‘people’ generally” is insulting, degrading, and dehumanizing?
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