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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 7h

A Trump supporter tried to commit an actual massacre at the CDC, shooting out 150 windows and killing a cop, and the media barely covered it.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 17h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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opal @defnotadino.bsky.social · 9h

It horrifies me that a tiny handful of people are allowed to CHANGE THE SKY for all humans. Forever.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 21h

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY IS DUE TO DRUG ADDICTION. IT'S A MEDICAL EMERGENCY YOU FUCKING GHOULS.

This is part and parcel of what's keeping us from having universal health care: they really believe that some ppl deserve medical care and some don't.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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herostratus356.bsky.social @herostratus356.bsky.social · 11h

We did it, Pepe. We reclaimed frogs from the Nazis.

You can rest now.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 11h

She said please, please, please, and finally got what she wanted. #Caturday

A gray tabby cat is in a cave bed, looking disgruntled. Beside him, half hidden in the darkness, is a tiny black-and-white kitten, looking hopeful.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jul 27

3. you guys should have just voted for hillary

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jul 27

2. the role aa plays in american society is deeply fucked up

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 13h

It's not like Bernie has ever really accomplished anything noteworthy other than the barnstorming, so he may as well stick to that and let an actual legislator take his place in Congress.

RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 13h

This

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 14h

I keep a politics-free cat account, & I can’t follow back cat Twitter mutuals I’ve had for years because I can’t turn off their political reposts, sigh.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 16h

It is not even remotely the same thing, wtf?

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 18h

My kingdom for the ability to turn off individual user's reposts.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 18h

I have no idea why you think I'm somehow against that.

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 19h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 22h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21h

I’d invite German newspaper readers to reflect on the number of articles you’re seeing atm about a researcher on anti-fascism having to flee the US (I found 2) compared to the time a student thought the bánh mì was inauthentic.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 19h

Brain farts happen to us all

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 21h

That’s really good.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 21h

Since I can no longer reach more than 0.5% of my TikTok followers, cutting my overall income by ~75%, I’m going to start a thread of other disabled and/or older people who are much funnier than I am, in the hopes it might revive my moribund account

This one took me a sec
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDvtpHT/

pump

TikTok video by BlindDude ❌

www.tiktok.com

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of leftists who talk about mutual aid also use therapy speak & social justice language to justify being antisocial assholes.

Just ask the nice lady who made chili for her neighbors.

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