Jake Cob

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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when I see people in the UK pushing for privatizing anything about healthcare, I want to scream at them

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I haven’t had so much as a sniffle since 2019; masks are amazing

Seriously considering muting the word Biden on here. All this futile yelling is very stressful.

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AAAAAHHHH

A Crossword Puzzle xkcd.com/2957

Some rough math tells me that an average cost of 2 months is equivalent to a ~1/60 chance of dying 10 years early. These two things feel very different to me. People tend to be bad at thinking about risk, and I think articles that describe it in terms of averages do us a disservice.

The average life expectancy is 28,835 days. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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wow that kicks ass

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.apnews.com When California’s minimum wage increase went into effect in April, fast food workers across the state went from making $16 to $20 overnight.

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

Last summer I read This Is How You Lose The Time War in a hammock while camping, and I've been chasing that high ever since. What books should I bring to the woods with me this month? Let's assume I already know about Bujold, Martine, Pratchett, Leckie, and Chambers.

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We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

Project 2025 is a creation of Evangelicals and it's the core mission of the evangelical right. It's what major evangelical organizations have been building towards for decades. It's not fringe. (I just fact checked a whole book a out this.)

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In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...

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Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

Putting handwashing in "core" and masking in "additional" is perverse.

However, the CDC continues to go out of its way to stigmatize masks, not listing it in its core prevention strategies for respiratory viruses, and calling it an “additional” prevention strategy instead.

It's nice when things get better instead of worse.

"Exit polls indicate a huge win for Labour, which looks poised to take 410 seats in Parliament, versus 131 for the Conservatives, according to the polls." www.nbcnews.com/news/world/l...

Britain ousts Conservative Party after 14 years in major win for center-left Labour, exit polls showwww.nbcnews.com Latest news and live updates from the 2024 U.K. election. Follow live as exit polls indicate a decisive victory for Britain’s center-left Labour Party.

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As an American who Actually Moved To Canada, here are some things to consider if you’re serious about getting the fuck out of the US, a thread:

If you see this, post a photo without explanation

If you see this post a photo without explanation

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6:00 OK I'm going to make this spaghetti. I'll put the sauce in the small burner while the water heats up. 6:15 Water's boiling, put the spaghetti in. It will take 11 minutes. The sauce will be nice and hot by then 8:20 Dinnertime

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"Put the thing where your brain wants you to do the thing" is such a fucking basic rule, why is it so hard

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AAH

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

This gets right at the heart of what's so infuriating about the "it will become endemic" discourse. In infectious disease, the difference between "endemic" and "epidemic" is entirely defined by policy.

Absolutely infuriating that we have no infrastructure to notify the population of these trends. City public health departments should be monitoring local wastewater and sending alerts to the entire population when it crosses a specific threshold.

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where are the Pride events for queers who don't like the sun or loud noises or people

having so much fun at the Pride parade* *doing laundry in rainbow socks

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You need this today. For morale.

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It's a hard-scamming account -- the first I've seen on Bluesky. Please report to Bluesky then Block. This is my only account here.

Yes, I did that. Was actually trying to contact you. I went to your website even.

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All the transit and sidewalks are accessible; there are cute little grocery stores and bookshops and cafes within a short walk of every apartment tower; healthcare is universal and social services are easy to access.

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Hell yeah

In response to Governor Hochul's and Mayor Adams's push to ban masks, NYC Dyke March has updated its policies to require masks.