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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

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really terrible to witness both uk and US govts do this thing I’ve seen inside games studios where all the people experienced in actually doing the thing watch people in power push through the thing that is in a year going to be a complete disaster and result in incredible pain

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A sticker design from our ongoing pre-order. Some folks have suggested I switch one of the knives for a butcher knife! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...

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A little good news. Three weeks later. The Los Angeles Wildfires Are Fully Contained www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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This Black History Month, you'll be supporting Black Penned Stories. Follow this Starter Pack. This isn't DEI. It's Anti-Segregation. #BlackSky #BookSky go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e

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I’m old enough to remember when allies were valued and treaties and international agreements were respected. Oh wait! That was 2 weeks ago. #resistance

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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

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There seemed to be a gap in the reporting of the #LAfires so I wrote this piece: “What effect did the removal of Indigenous Californians have on the LA fires?” medium.com/the-new-clim...

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An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.

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Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

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treebeard and the hobbits #thelordoftherings

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but videogames are meant for everyone, at every age.

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Pete Hegseth has a history of - alcohol abuse - gross mistreatment of women - management & financial failure - defending war criminals and he’s been confirmed as our next SecDef But tell us again how it’s actually women and people of color who are “underqualified”

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T. Rex Evolution xkcd.com/3042

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For nearly three weeks, thousands of firefighters and personnel have mobilized to SoCal to protect our communities. They've battled flames along thousands of acres while facing extremely inhospitable conditions on the ground. We commend your bravery. Thank you to our heroes.

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This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

submitted 41 days ago • 811 comments

miss my sicko wife

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As an autistic woman I am sick and tired of seeing autistic men have their bad behaviour excused by autism. "But but but he's autistic. He doesn't know 🥺" He does. He does know.

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Brazil fires consumed wilderness area larger than Italy in 2024 – report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... @theguardian.com @mapbiomas.bsky.social

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This is so true about everything: “We need to be thinking differently,” he said. The way we've been doing thing is not working. We can't tweak or tax credit our way out of these multiple crises. We need to do something different. cough nationalize the fossil fuel industry cough

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Imagine having this in your country in the same month and thinking pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement is the right move.

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If your first response to the bishop’s sermon was “but we don’t listen to women who preach” rather than to consider her pleas for mercy for the vulnerable… your hatred & misogyny are on full display. 1/2

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People are always quick to invoke the autism defense when someone, 99.9993 percent of the time a white man, does something horrible or says something really gross. I have never seen anyone invoke that defense for benign autistic traits that creep out NTs, like infodumping.

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it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

submitted 43 days ago • 497 comments

"this fictional character must be held accountable" hey man have you looked at the news they're doing sieg heils on live television

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Neither here nor there, but I do wonder how the response to Bishop Budde's sermon would be different if it had been delivered by a man. I'm seeing a lot of overt and covert gendered critiques, which is just a reminder to me, once again, that people really hate women in powerful positions!

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I’ve been autistic for 43 years. Yet somehow I’ve avoided amassing billions of dollars to further the cause of worldwide fascism. Weird how that works.

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Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

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lol, there's a little confiscation desk at the Demolition Dome in Undermine that has a bunch of artifact weapons

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Cafe sketching featuring vulture griffins

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#ffxiv #fandaniel

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Anyone else absolutely hate google A.I ???? Why would I want an a.i generated response to a medical problem im having

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Happy Graces F Remastered release day! We hope everyone enjoys this quality remaster.

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No adventuring party is complete without a surly wizard who does not want to be there. #TheBreakfastGuild #OriginalCharacter

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I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.

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Open thread to read your sign 🐈‍⬛🤍

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📅🐲 Day 9: Favorite Gen 1 Ground Type - Cubone

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Sneak peek of the next issue of our retro gaming and anime zine, Between the Scanlines. 🕵️‍♀️ Back in action after a few weeks break and ready to rock and roll with some Slayers action! 🔥 Coming out on Monday.

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“Climate science ain’t rocket science. When you make things hotter and drier, they burn more easily.” vancouversun.com/news/could-v...

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started my reread of #ASOIAF and immediately began withering away upon realizing I am now Ned Stark's age

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“Drop that baby!” My watercolor of Leptoceratops defends their young against Quetzalcoatlus. I do think smaller ceratopsians were punching above their weight class and made sure to convey it here. #paleoart #sciart