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Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social · 2d

#NewBookDay This one! Know it's going to be a treat from one of my favourite authors!
#GraemeMacraeBurnet #Benbecula

#BookSky 💙📚

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 9h

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling
We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us!
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13h

With every stupid action, they are definitely making infectious diseases great again

Cartoon of RFK Jr wearing a red MAGA hat which says “Make Infectious Diseases Great Again”

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 9h

chuffed.org/project/mawa...

We keep telling, we keep helping, we keep giving. These families need us, now more than ever. You can offer tangible help. Please do.

Help displaced families in Mawasi

Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.

chuffed.org

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17h

Firing measles experts in the midst of a measles outbreak seems highly logical and smart

🤦🏽‍♂️

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, even as the nation grapples with the most cases recorded since 2000, when measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

Scientists who focused on other infectious diseases, like an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also were let go.

nyti.ms

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16h

Just like they killed USAID, they are now killing CDC

“CDC is over. It was killed”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 2d

Pick a book, any book

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed: NCIPC: National Center for Injury Prevention & Control - comms & policy
(Not clear on what else @NCIPC was RIFed - much was already RIFed earlier)

All that important violence prevention stuff?
Suicide. Drowning. Youth Violence. Concussions in sports. Community violence.

NCIPC’s focus 👆

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today.

He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.

White House memo that says MEMORANDUM
October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed:

The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics(CFA)/ informatics.

🧠🪱 - I thought we WANTED to stop public health emergencies? And efficiency and improvement sound like … good things 🫠

🧠🪱 - respectfully, you’re a human malware update nobody approved. Fuckin’ idiot. Killing people.

Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics

CFA works toward decision-making to improve outbreak response using analytics and modeling.

www.cdc.gov

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed:
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠

2024 Accomplishments

Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States

www.cdc.gov

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed:

LLS - Laboratory Leadership Service

Y’know, another crucial hands-on and practical training program where fellows hone their laboratory expertise and skills.

Yet another blow for when the next novel disease outbreak comes…..

So fucking short sighted.

About The Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS)

LLS is a laboratory fellowship for health professionals to gain laboratory expertise and skills.

www.cdc.gov

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 1d

Well,that's this week done.

I managed to knock out 16 watercolours in 1 week. Very pleased,relieved, & surprised.

They're all animals from Montserrat, and include several endemic species; they're a mix of mammals, birds, insects, & reptiles/amphibs

#naturalhistoryillustration #sciart #notahobby

16 watercolour completed #sciart illustrations of birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals found on the island of Montserrat. All illustrations are cut to white of seperate sheets of paper.

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

I would have believed you too.

a bat with its tongue out is eating a piece of meat .

Alt: a bat with its tongue out is eating a piece of meat .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Who's a good boy then

Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

This #dog - like predator is the oldest known #mammal ancestor. The 280-million-year-old bones of this saber-toothed predator were uncovered in #Spain.

Link for more: www.popsci.com/environment/...

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a bat? Not just batshit nuts

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Ah Facebook.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly regurgitating bbc news farage and co and Facebook groups.

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

Ticks eat bats

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 1d

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I swear she's doing it to wind me up which makes it worse. It's like she's gloating that it's ok now to hold those views. And putting me in my place, telling me she doesn't support my work, my core values, my friendships.

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