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Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water. Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.
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Measles titers are good but going for my Tdap this week bc it's been a minute since my last tetanus shot. Getting COVID boosted too. Good on Shingrix for another 5 years. If you've been putting off any vax, get them now. For those who can't access vaccines as much as for yourself.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

My friends, I have been excessively doomscrolling and doom-reposting and so here is the whiteboard drawing I left for my office roomie to find tomorrow morning. #TimelineCleanse

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

#AltText Photo 1: An urban sidewalk with a black pole that's painted yellow toward the top. Next to it is a comfy wooden bench with three planks for the seat and three for the backrest. A person wearing a backpack is sitting upon it. Photo 2: Another angle of the bench with the mark sfbabc.org

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Measles titers are good but going for my Tdap this week bc it's been a minute since my last tetanus shot. Getting COVID boosted too. Good on Shingrix for another 5 years. If you've been putting off any vax, get them now. For those who can't access vaccines as much as for yourself.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

New moment of “WTF”: -pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity) -nl times: reach out to CDC for testing -now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center” 😳😳😳

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

I asked the old punk how we will get through this, and he replied: we will get through this by taking care of each other. So I told the old punk that isn’t very specific, and he replied: taking care of each other isn’t about doing something specific, it’s about doing something.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Image description: A person with curly black hair in a head-strap N95 pops a wheelie on a black bicycle alongside a row of white Waymo vehicles engulfed in flames, billowing clouds of smoke.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The cat is checking my #glucose. #diabetes #chronicillness #cats

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Dem challenger for Susie's seat! #MainePolitics

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

An appropriate and relatable crash-out. #MomSky

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

#bloomscroll plus #bumblebutt for a little splash of color on your feed

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

If any outlets in Louisiana want me to come on their stations or podcasts to talk about some of the richest men in our state funding an extremist organization, I'd be happy to come on.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

They went into this knowing this was practically a certainty. It's really brave. I really hope this 1) spurs more people to try to help those in Gaza, and 2) gets more people to wake the fuck up about how horrendous Israel is.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

4 members of #CDC's vaccine expert panel have received termination notices — their special gov't employee contracts have expired. Not clear if job cutting has hamstrung the bureaucracy or if more is at play here. But unless they get new SGEs they can't serve on #ACIP www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

First flying shrimp of the season. ☺️ #inverts 🌱#ifyoubuildittheywillcome

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Revolutions require dancing

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

An interesting propaganda photo that centers a flaming car, with Mexican flags in the background. It doesn't match with the words does it. A photo of police violence, or ICE raiding would be far more apropos.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

1% chance that the cops actually investigate this. You know why

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

And this isn't a riot. This is a protest. The violence comes from cops.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

#TarotSky When you're outside vibing and ask for a message, first be sure you're ready to hear it. 😬 (to be read counter-clockwise)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My yesterday brain had all kinds of virtuous plans for today. My tomorrow brain is already trying to elbow in with every what if and why didn't you. But my right-now brain has sunny 72°F with a mild breeze & a good book, so I'm staying right here.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The algo this afternoon:

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HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

🦋 Representative talks to National Guard at LA anti-ICE protest Maxine Waters represents CA-43 which includes Compton in Los Angeles county, site of yesterday's car fire. She has represented her district for 34 years. "This is wrong & I hope that none of you will use those guns to shoot anybody" 🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

TIL, while not mowing the yard-becoming-meadow, that there is a plant called mouse-eared chickweed. Apparently I am not supposed to be as smitten with it as I am. Nevertheless, 😍

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment