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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 5h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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チターチ @49-4.bsky.social · 18h

#umamusume

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

There are measles outbreaks across the country.

Covid is still surging and prompting many healthcare facilities to reinstate mask policies.

There’s misinformation about vaccines, Tylenol, autism and chronic illness.

Public health is in shambles… and now they’re firing dozens of CDC staff.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 11h

Re-posting these are they are meant to be seen. The very catholic triptych showcasing the Ysayle, Haurchefaunt, and Aymeric.

Ysayle with hands in prayer, eyes closed and head tilted up with a halo. Haurchefaunt smiling while holding his sword before him with a heart that has a wound. Aymeric, bent over his head in his hands looking tired a crown floating over his head.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

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Black Sphinx 📚☕ @blacksphinx.bsky.social · 10h

New Friday tradition: post a book you love by a favorite author of yours and tag them!

Ghost Eaters by @claymcleod.bsky.social was my first horror book as an adult and I'm still thinking about it ~three years later! I'm scared of plastic sheets now. 5/5 💜

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman. The cover is mostly black and grey-blue with a humanoid figure in the lower half, covered in a plastic tarp.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 11d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 11d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 1d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 1d

Waaaaay too many fuckin goth/metal/folk bands.

The second anybody dresses like a viking I'm trawling the internet to find out exactly HOW BAD.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?

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월 @mondayday.bsky.social · 1d

잉…….

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can

this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21h

I actually get more annoyed when people say they “just” use AI for their emails or to check their grammar. You’re killing people. For your banal shit. Not for some great discovery or curing cancer. Because you can’t write an email.

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双葉 @hutaba0718.bsky.social · 19h

昨年の守護天節

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · Aug 22

fairies 🦋

Digital painting of a fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attracts butterflies.

Digital painting of a deer centaur. He has long snow white hair that drapes over his chest, goatee, and a pair of velvety black antlers with a blue-ish sheen. His centaur body is of a black stag with a white belly. and white spots sprayed across its back. On its back is also a pair of medium sized butterfly wings with blue markings and coloration. He is wielding a staff that's seemingly made of gnarled organic material, perhaps wood, and on its end is a pair of reptilian hands, holding a white crystal ball. There is a flurry of black and blue butterflies swirling around him.

Digital painting of a centaur with unicorn horn on his forehead, and big butterfly wings. He has elegant hair and tail that is flowing in the wind.

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Ghoul ¦ Danny Devito Stan Account @damagedbrainzs.bsky.social · 29d

130.-

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こるり @koruri.bsky.social · 2d

ワンドログラスワンダー（ダイナー）
#1hrUmaClub
#umamusume

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Tom BPM (the B stands for Boo👻) @bearpigman.bsky.social · 19h

oh they're about to make $400,000,000

FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 1d

Commencing basic training regimen.

The Galatea Magna attire is now available on the FFXIV Online Store! 👑🖤 sqex.to/ffxivstore

A Miqo'te with pink hair and pigtails posing in the Galatea Magna attire, consisting a spiky crown, a black sleeved buster, shorts, subtly transparent tight, and thick-soled heels, all accented with leather belts.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 4d

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M.E. Morgan @morlevart.bsky.social · 15d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚💙

#BookCovers #art

The full-wrap book cover illustration for the novel VESSEL OF WOVEN NIGHT by Kellen Graves.

The full-wrap book cover illustration for the novel A BONE IN HIS TEETH by Kellen Graves.

The full-wrap book cover illustration for the novel VOW OF ETERNAL NIGHT by Lily Crozier.

The full-wrap book cover illustration for the novel THE FLOWERED BLADE by Taylor Hubbard.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

I take issue with calling POTS a heart rhythm disorder… but it’s certainly something you don’t want.

Covid can have devastating effects on your cardiac and vascular system.

POTS can be utterly debilitating, difficult to diagnose and treatments are merely bandaids.

Wear a mask.

Nearly 1 in 3 adults with severe long COVID have rare heart-rhythm disorder, data suggest

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Tails Gets Trolled @tailsgetstrolled.org · 1d

On this day, Tails gets trolled was uploaded to deviantArt. Happy 14 years of TGT everyone!

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