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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure that "front towards enemy" cap (given it's written on _its_ front is sending the message to the people seeing it (and thus facing it) that human thinks it is.

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

(And to clarify: zero problem with it per se, but my nose tells my brain NOPE ito eating it. Each to their own, heh; certainly not judging it! Then again, I'm not xenophobic :P)

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

I think the problem IS how honky it is :P

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the Cadbury kids' eyebrows? (Mine do the same thing.)

New doggo's ears move like that.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

What’s It Gonna Take To Get You In This Woman?

You mull it over, eyeing my soft and shiny skin.
"I do like the finish...
She still runs well?"
He gestures to my exposed thighs,
Inviting a test drive.
At the touch of your long fingers
I let out a gay little moan.
"See?
Purrs like a kitten."

You're coming around.
You could use a tall blonde around for a little while.
Who couldn't?
"What kind of maintenance will she need?"
"A text once or twice a month...
It's not like you'll need to show her off Or tell your friends about her.
You're looking at bare minimum.
She's basically a houseplant."

"And when I'm done with her?"
The dealer looks apologetic.
"We don't do returns.
But resale should be no problem.
That's the great thing about used girls.
There's always someone else
Who wants to use them."

"I'll take her," you say,
Not bothering to take my hand
As I step off the platform.
I could hear it all, of course.
But I smile anyway.
I'm the prettiest girl at the used girl lot
And I got picked again.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

_some_ social injustices but still: good.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Dogs eating / washing my face inna morning when they hear me stir.

Also using me as a surface any time of day :P

(And yelling at me too sometimes, bless.)

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, but their misinformation department just gained another member...

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Can one even _have_ an overkill Pilsner? :P

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 2d

One might argue some of them have had no character(s) at all.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2d

Hard-hitting stuff at the Bezos post

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you keep that browser tab open long enough eventually you’ll need it again

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2d

my husband just referred to happy feelings from playing with the dog as “dogamine”

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 2d

Modern business is out to kill us all. Our post-industrial business model may be profitable for the business owner, but it is overwhelmingly a loss maker for equality, environment, climate and everything that lives and breathes on Earth
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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dawneelizabeth.bsky.social @dawneelizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

apple.news/ABiFmXcCZTMy...
This is such good news for so many people 🙂

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome — Guardian US

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

apple.news

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

There are ways to stop the slide. Te ao Māori is the obvious one. There are more too, to add to the mix, wich would be great (with te ao Māori obviously having pre-eminence.)

It takes real effort and allyship and _change_ to do so. In joy and anger and community.

Tut-tutting isn't it.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

Let's also remember: that corruption index we crow about. Corruption _perception_.

Big diff. This is one of the more internecine, polluting, corrupt, racist, misogynist (etc), exclusionary, xenophobic and essentially unkind places I've ever met (I've met many).

See earlier thing re statistics.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

(But we'll swap shitty sheds for almost a million dollars. It's extraction, by the few; mostly, ahem, previous generations who won't stand aside, or share (and their NuOnes) who also fucked everything else and keep doing so, but NO. Everything's fine! (If you're wealthy and sorted.))

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

And we briefly had some decent people doing a decent job. And they were hounded out.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

Our waterways are fucked and it's going to get worse; we're backsliding (and groundwaters can take decades to flow through)...our water's poisonous now.

Decades of Keep Rates Low means our infrastructure is fucked too.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

We need to stop feeding the lie that NZ is a good or nice place. 87% of our indigenous birds are threatened. Our DV, suicide, loneliness, poverty, health, housing, economy, employment etc statistics are punching above our weight (we do like that horrible term). BADLY.

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 4d

This is staggeringly good. Terrifying. I love Chicago. Stop this performative sadism.

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sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 3d

Oh fuck :( I...no words :(

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