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Trying to have more fun when on the internet, although I'll still reskeet stuff about politics and academic matters

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Why was Big Tech ever liberal-coded, was it just because people assume the opposite of their racist grandma who can’t open PDF must also have the opposite politics

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🧪 A CDC report shows over 1 in 4 US adults had a disability in 2022, with the highest prevalence among those 65 and older. Nearly 11% of people with disabilities experienced long COVID symptoms, compared to 6.6% of those without disabilities. 🩺🛟

CDC: U.S. adults with disabilities are more susceptible to long COVID - UPI.comwww.upi.com More than a fourth of U.S. adults in 2022 reported having a disability, which increases their potential for contracting long COVID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced Tuesday.

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And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too. If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit

This news is incredible. 100 days this year CA's used 100% renewables to power the entire grid, & through a heat wave, there's been no significant disruption (cough *Texas*). Energy analysts are seeing a "phase-change" of the grid with the addition of 5 nuclear plants worth of battery storage, wow

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Great read. I studied international affairs decades ago and this aspect didn't even exist at the time.

Underground Empire is a Prime Day deal. Buy it at amzn.to/3PbIyqX or read more at www.programmablemutter.com/p/undergroun...

Underground Empire is a Prime Day dealwww.programmablemutter.com Buy it! Read it! Tell your friends about it!

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I cannot emphasize enough that straight reporting in the NYT should be verified elsewhere if you want to be sure about it. The standards are appalling.

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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Consider this as employers (including states like NY) claw back sick leave for workees

Yesterday, HHS announced that Secretary Xavier Becerra had caught COVID-19 again and is working remotely www.hhs.gov/about/news/2...

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Did somebody ask for complete episodes of SCTV 📺?

SCTV (Second City TV) Seasons 1 to 6 [1976-84]youtube.com Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran int...

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Solidarity with the Teamsters social media manager, who clearly is a person who stands for the working class

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sometimes I get mad that people aren't aware of what's up with solar/batteries, and are just ignoring what is essentially a new industrial revolution; then I wonder if the reason no one is noticing is also the reason it's happening at all

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lmfao

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At the most basic level, we should acknowledge how absolutely weird it is that a guy who was over 70 years old when he first learned that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican is the current emperor God of "the party of Lincoln." Same guy donated to Kamala Harris in 2013. youtu.be/-HuX5jelk20?...

Trump says people didn’t know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican ‘until I came along’youtu.be During a roundtable in Florida condemning socialism and communism, Donald Trump claimed that "nobody ever heard" that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican "befor...

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Obambulate [ob-AM-byuh-leyt] (v.) - To walk in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way.

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timeline cleanse per bio.calpoly.edu/news/expandi... youtu.be/EV96I-LGgiA?...

High-speed snake huddle formationyoutu.be Watch a rattlesnake huddle forming at 10x normal speed. They huddle for warmth, to prevent water loss, and maybe because they just like to snuggle.

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This book was published in 1995

At some point, y'all are going to have to stop pretending to be surprised that most Silicon Valley VCs support Trump. Y'all can't be surprised every time. No it's not a *vibe shift*. They've felt this way since way before Trump. hachyderm.io/@mekkaokerek...

Lol @ Visit Milwaukee

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Love Is Not Enough: How We Can Strengthen & Expand Public Libraries Thursday, August 1st from 6:00pm-7:30pm Eastern Daylight Time / 3:00-4:30pm Pacific Daylight Time www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...

Love Is Not Enough: How We Can Strengthen & Expand Public Libraries · Run for Somethingwww.mobilize.us Most public libraries are governed by elected and appointed officials on library boards. And even if you love your public library, odds are you might be in the dark about how your local library board ...

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My friend Lewis co-founded the Chicago Childcare Collective in Chicago. chichico.org My friend zara has revived with a couple of other people the Philly Childcare Collective. Is there a Childcare Collective in your city/town? No, consider starting one or two.

Chicago Childcare Collectivechichico.org

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Flashback to the 2004 RNC where their swiftboating of Kerry led to this kind of deranged mockery. This era is when people think the GOP was “good” lol

checking in on night 2 of the RNC

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🌴 Fremont, WI

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I implore people to look at polling data on abortion in swing states www.prri.org/spotlight/ex...

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A moment of silence for a hero. apnews.com/article/buxt...

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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Former DCist reporters just announced that they are launching a worker-run local news site for DC called the 51st, operating on reader donations:

A serious loss for local DC news. What's fucked up is that this is the SECOND time DCist has been shuttered, after Gothamist, the group of city-based sites which included it, was bought up & shut down by a billionaire mad that they reported on him. They stay brazenly dismantling journalism.

WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist to focus on audiowww.axios.com The station plans to add new audio products.

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

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well, Biden just called for term limits and an enforceable ethics code for SCOTUS and a constitutional amendment to end immunity for presidents and other officeholders so I guess its officially the public vs the Business Plot 2.0 at this point

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I only read about half of The Privatization of Everything before I had to stop from sheer rage and frustration but there’s a whole section about how the attempted privatization of the NWS has already led to people dying from tornados as subscription services get weather alert priority.

It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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Me and my son don't know nuthin' about no bank robbin', Sheriff.

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This is me, according to a local SoundCloud rapper whose stage name includes "Goku"

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If you’re listening to Taylor‘s coverage of any health issues, please reconsider. She wildly misrepresents studies to fit her own narratives (and is incredibly weird about it).

Ryan, so besmirched above, has (1) a useful & informative piece (2) taking more than one study into account, (3) on a platform that still bothers paying for stock photos instead of midjourneying “viruses in space.” I would recommend reading that instead. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

here's the piece, I talked to a couple of serious scientists for it. Taylor smears them as "random quacks" espousing "crazy conspiracies" because she trusts her followers won't do any digging below the surface prospect.org/health/2023-...

Does COVID-19 Damage the Immune System?prospect.org The balance of evidence strongly indicates that outside of rare cases, it does not.

Post-acute infection syndromes & their underlying mechanisms are incredibly complex. People who take them seriously and work to address them, including remarkable former labmates of mine at Yale, are some of the strongest voices *against* Taylor’s brand of oversimplification & fearmongering.