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#MaskUp that pretty face! - New "razor blade throat" #Covid strain hits US, in CA and NY - 7th week of new variant surge in Southeast Asia, still rising, hospitals slammed - Taiwan’s cases, ER visits doubled again - Covid now rising in Aotearoa, France, India, AU www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

All, if you haven't seen it already: HHS has canceled funding for the Moderna bird flu vaccine. Please call your reps.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

Mark your calendars for June 6 - MDP will host DNC chair Ken Martin (@kenmartin.bsky.social) on the Blue Bench Podcast! Got a question for Chair Martin? Drop it in the comments below. #mtpol CC: @democrats.org

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

the mRNA vaccines are an absolute miracle of science that saved millions of lives and we're going to throw the entire technology out because they could not vaccinate society against putting the worst and most ignorant people alive in charge of our medical system

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

I want to scream and break things

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

There's something so embarrassing about burning myself cooking at home. At work it's like, yeah, that'll happen, hazard of the job. At home it's like...haha, defeated by Egg.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year! (Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!) bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

"oh you agree with someone who's correct but you disagree with this different person who's wrong?? why are you so closed minded?" so much of centrism is just that lol

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

these guys get their foot in the door by asking “aren’t you skeptical of powerful scientific insiders?” Many people are. But the real question is “do you want your powerful scientific insiders to be actual scientists or roadkill eating morons?”

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

If you haven't been masking up, it's probably time

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

finally we can get a warrant for Neanderthal’s arrest

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is why I don't believe any of the forced birther arguments about valuing human life. In a country that will kill pregnant women and children for snake oil salesman and you're nowhere to be found protesting these moves? GMAFB

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The reason we ostensibly passed RFRA in the first place was because Native Americans were being discriminated against by so-called neutral laws. The fact that it’s now used to allow Christians to ignore duties to their employees, but CAN’T be used for the original purpose, is just bullshit.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

‘AI is in everything! If you use spellcheck, you can’t be mad about ChatGPT!’ Look, you determinedly obtuse cantaloupe, don’t slander spell check, first created in 1961, made for PCs in 1980. NO ONE THINKS A SPELL CHECKER IS GEN AI. What in the ever-loving straw-man tomfoolery.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

I didn't buy any candy at the store this morning and now I'm home and have no candy to eat. Can't believe this is happening to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely would have enjoyed this movie about 15% more if they'd actually styled them in a period appropriate way. Don't tell me it's prom night 1988 and then give me 2025 hair and makeup. Commit.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It sort of depends on the story and the world? I'm never going to be someone who builds something with lots of clearly defined rules, but exactly how vibes based vs structured magic is will vary with what I'm trying to do with it storywise.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Then the free market has determined that the AI industry is untenable and it should die. So let it fucking die. In fact, kill it faster.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I already deleted my account and I'm not starting over. Too late, bro.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

In the US, 300 people a week are dying of Covid. 1200 a month. 15,600 a year. They’ve restricted COVID testing & reporting… so it’s safe to say those numbers are an undercount (and they don’t include the thousands being disabled) Do they urge mask use? Clean air? No. They restrict vaccines:

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

A million Americans have died of COVID since this was printed. Reports estimate that hundreds still die of it every week. But the majority got bored of their neighbors' survival. The alienation is a wound in my heart that has never closed. I try to be kind, but I feel alone everywhere.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

15-25 year old me: tee hee i love all the deaths in the final destination movies 40 year old me: this is what happens when you get rid of regulations and oversight. Everything is shoddily built and they’re cutting corners

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

I wish people would stop calling my book "smut." Even if they're kidding, it's not funny. I have NO problem with smutty / sexy / spicy books... but my book is a CHILDREN'S BOOK written for TEENAGERS and people keep making this assumption or joke that it's smut just because the characters are queer.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

a feeling I get a lot these days is "I would pay extra money not to have this feature in my device" maybe I am old now but I don't think it's just me

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

“American exceptionalism” has led many Americans to think that we are absolutely essential and it’s just not true.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I know a lot of folks hate phones (I do too!) but this one is just text. Just take a few minutes. We need an avalanche. We need to scare them.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Great. This news comes as (1) U.S. govt health communication is sputtering; (2) Trump/RFK fools are running the U.S. health agencies; (3) FDA says COVID vaccines will no longer be available for most folks under 65, and (4) Moderna is pulling the application for its new two-in-one flu/COVID vaccine.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall. Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

What if, instead of literally everything being awful all the time, we tried not that? Just for fun? I'm so tired and I hate making phone calls and being mad

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Today is the day to call, even if you have never called before. >> reps.fyi >> 5calls.org >> capital switchboard (202) 224-3121

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office. If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

I truly do not understand this mentality. Also, it’s not really a booster, it’s a vaccine against new strains. Just like how the influenza vaccine is. We should have the choice to get it. They shouldn’t take that away.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

This version of Moderna's covid shot was showing 40% improvement over the existing one and its been delayed a year because of these awful antivax shitfucks.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I’m still sorta surprised at how thoroughly Target misunderstood its customer—or, at least, one of its most important customers. Relatively well-off, college-educated suburban women do a disproportionately massive amount of consumer spending, loved Target, and are statistically not Trump voters

submitted 8 days ago • 123 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments