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submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

When I explain this cult to US colleagues in shorthand, it's "Proud Boys as if led by Jim Jones." (I grew up one neighborhood over from Jones's church.) JC: “In over three decades of journalism, I've never talked to so many people as afraid as the women I encountered in this investigation.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

You can eat all organic food, drink green juice every day, do yoga, get vitamin D and touch grass… and still become disabled. Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill. Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

We're pleased to announce a new resource for those with #LongCOVID: a list on our website of over 300 Long COVID clinics throughout the U.S. We'll keep updating this and we'll add clinics in other countries as soon as we can. https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/long-covid-pasc-clinics/

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

now that Covid[dot]gov is full of dead links and conspiracy theories, here's some good resources to bookmark: Covid cases dashboard (@michael-hoerger.bsky.social) www.pmc19.com/data/ Violet's Covid Newsletter (@violetblue.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/collection/1...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

If you're a geriatric millennial or older (looking squarely at you, GenX), have your doctor check your blood titers. Chances are your immunity has waned since your childhood vaccines, and if it has, GET VACCINATED! 💉

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

From this morning: US measles and bird flu updates (incl. vaccine news), RFK to use fitness tracker and commercial data for his autism list, risk info from the largest International consensus on #LongCovid to date, US #Covid case estimate is +1.7M/week, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Study finds driving with COVID-19 raises crash risk by 25%. "A study published April 8 by the Public Library of Science’s Journal of Global Public Health found that driving while infected with COVID-19 raises the risk of an accident by 25%." Source: archive.md/WqkhQ

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

New York & New Jersey are under air quality advisories due to wildfires. Governor Hochul is pushing a mask ban. Even when a good quality respirator is the best way to protect from wildfire smoke. Nassau County already criminalized masks. Call & email elected officials. No mask bans!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

J6er Brandon straka was defended by far right doofus Bill Essayli who is currently the interim US Attorney for all of SoCal (the largest territory in the DOJ). Call your senators - “no” on Bill Essayli for US Attorney.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

@apnews.com you wanted a story about Trump’s collections and garnishment orders on student loans and how it affects us? Here you go. Our Gov is broken. There’s no one answering calls at DoE nor Social Security. The system is broken. See thread.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

“Discord states it as a step towards focusing on ads and microtransactions.” Well, it was nice while it lasted…

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

'On the precipice of disaster': #Measles may be endemic in 25 years if vaccine uptake stays low, model predicts A 10% decline in vaccine uptake could lead to 11.1 million cases of the highly contagious illness in that timeframe. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: NIAID / Flickr cc

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm going through user-made tilesets for an old DOS mahjong solitaire game and I found what's possibly the most evil one

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

this remains the stupidest part he could have succeeded - full authoritarian consolidation, with every major elite institution ready to roll right over for him - so long as he’d left the economy alone and taken the credit but he’s a tariff otaku with brains leaking out his ears and here we are

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

White poppy is a symbol of remembrance for all the casualties of war, civilians & armed forces personnel, & of peace. Black poppy is a symbol that commemorates all those who have died, & are still dying, due to war and its legacy. Purple poppy remembers animal victims of war & human violence. #nzpol

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Presented without comment, just shaking my head and backing slowly away

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

There's been a whole issue over the CA state bar exam for this year. It was a new exam & didn't go well, and now there's this, which adds a whole new level of WTF. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

If you're a geriatric millennial or older (looking squarely at you, GenX), have your doctor check your blood titers. Chances are your immunity has waned since your childhood vaccines, and if it has, GET VACCINATED! 💉

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Mask up and vax up, today's Threat Model: Covid from @violetblue.bsky.social is not a drill-- • #Measles: 800+ cases/25 states • #BirdFlu: 1K+ dairy herds/17 states • #Covid: everywhere/all the time •RFK Jr continues to weaponize HHS Much more: read/share/support: www.patreon.com/posts/127332...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hank you can change your settings to make alt text inclusion mandatory for you to post a pic since you seem to have a hard time remembering, and have a large platform

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

#MaskBans

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

a reminder that measles eradicates the cells responsible for your immune system’s memory of other diseases, leaving you to rebuild from scratch, and will make other outbreaks much worse as a result you don’t want measles! nobody wants measles! what are we doing here!

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Almost Direct link: customerservice.starbucks.com/sbux?id=cont... Scroll down to Something Else and write your email there.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We just published a new study on COVID-19 in Ontario, and it turns out, the way we measured cases may have been way off. Why? Because testing wasn’t equal across age and sex groups. That skews what we think we know. In epi-speak this is called “ascertainment bias”. Here's what we found:

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

@violetblue.bsky.social’s piece at @wired.com highlights a growing shift: more users are leaving US-based digital tools over rising #surveillance concerns. The trade-off between convenience and privacy is harder to ignore. Today’s choices shape tomorrow’s digital freedom. #DigitalExpat #Privacy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

!!!! ⬇️ YES!!!

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We're coming to Pandemic Pals! This Saturday, we'll be at the @pandemiccollab.bsky.social Zoom meeting at 5pm PT/8pm ET. We'll talk about our mission and team, and preview our SAFER global COVID-safe resources directory. The Zoom link will be shared on Saturday. Can't wait to see you there!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thank you for calling this out, fuck this manuscripts account this is abhorrent. In a time where AI is killing artists, the last fucking thing we goddamn need is tearing down artists who try. This infuriates me. It's cruelty disguised as humor.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Update on this is that we are now working on airfare for at least my son Beckham. Pacey may be able to stay in Argentina and finish his schooling under a guardianship. Right now they’re all desperate for funds. My bus to DC never came bc the driver had a medical emergency. I cannot go/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment