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Three years since "I need ammunition, not a ride." 🇺🇦✊🏻

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Evil has never been presented as evil. It always puts on the false cloak of goodness and morality, and does evil things

submitted 22 hours ago • 607 comments

I will continue to call out BS and disinformation. This is who I am sometimes to my own detriment. I am sickened by the leadership who have zero moral compass...no empathy towards the cruel treatment of others. Could our system be better? Absolutely. But a chainsaw approach won't get us there.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Library patron on phone: I'm looking for books by a particular author and wonder if you have any. Me: I can check! Which author? Patron: Nora Roberts, have you heard of her? Me: ........ yes that name is familiar

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Eugenics in action. USA: "So many Americans died from COVID, it’s boosting Social Security to the tune of $205 billion." "New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits due to Covid-related premature deaths." Source: archive.md/GVwox

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“Of 3663 participants, …27.1% reported current Long COVID, and [only] 65 (1.8%) reported resolved Long COVID.” This is NOT a good news study! We must normalize clean air, masking, staying home when sick, hybrid options (for whatever can be) as the norm. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the internment of thousands of loyal Japanese American citizens. This act was a betrayal of our most sacred values as a nation. California stands for our fellow Americans, regardless of national origin or immigration status.

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 5 days ago • 414 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 5 days ago • 924 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 5 days ago • 4561 comments

Works as advertised

submitted 6 days ago • 1208 comments

I just heard...about 5 minutes ago...Rachel Maddow said that Trump has announced he is going to INCINERATE $500 MILLION dollars of COVID-19 tests...that taxpayers have ALREADY paid for. Something needs to happen...fast. This is bullshit that cannot continue. This. Cannot. Continue.

submitted 6 days ago • 338 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 6 days ago • 507 comments

This is fucking fire but also, amazingly, the judge is doing her damned best to establishing on the record that they don’t have a rational basis for their actions.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 7 days ago • 842 comments

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

submitted 7 days ago • 105 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 8 days ago • 446 comments

This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million.

submitted 9 days ago • 563 comments

Though I'm sure fear is the #1 reason, the reason I avoid doctor's appointments now is I'm already immunocompromised and also have long Covid—so I'm afraid I'll catch Covid or something else. Doctors/nurses aren't masking, and everything is circulating. Life has become so damned complicated...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This situation is the sweetest, isn't it? ❤️ Making my kitties happy is so uncomplicated compared to nearly everything else right now.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Many people take their health for granted. They look at those of us with disabilities & think they’re better than us. We deserved it. We want to be sick. We’re not trying hard enough. They believe they will be the exception, and that belief drives them to take risks 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

The fact that FOUR physicians voted to confirm an antivaxxer with zero qualifications to run HHS is just so depressing

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

submitted 9 days ago • 154 comments

"Are you going to mask indoors forever?" No, just until I die or stop caring about being alive and healthy. Unfortunately, people like you have made sure COVID is around everywhere, all the time.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

If Trump sells F-35s to India, the era of US air dominance is over. Full stop.

submitted 11 days ago • 194 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Recipient of two bronze stars and a Chief Justice Roberts clerk.

submitted 10 days ago • 104 comments

Unreal. DOGE posted National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) headcounts. NRO budgets and headcounts are classified to prevent adversaries from using them to extrapolate our intelligence priorities. Stop giving kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing access to this shit.

submitted 10 days ago • 207 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 9 days ago • 2976 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 9 days ago • 538 comments

Stand with science. Always.

submitted 10 days ago • 522 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 10 days ago • 137 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments