befuddledbookster.bsky.social
@befuddledbookster.bsky.social
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Pro-public health, Covid-concious, second in command of the Red Tory gang, for King and Country.
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The Sudanese don’t have a dedicated propaganda media ecosystem constantly blasting their messages into the phones of everyone in the West through social media, so it’s unsurprising that most western media outlets couldn’t be bothered to even acknowledge what’s being done in Sudan, much less care.
> trying to find news about Sudan
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
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Before the measles vaccine, humans did not have permanent immunity to *anything*

A measles outbreak would come along and wipe out previous immunities, whether from previous infections or vaccinations.

A fresh, periodic reset on every other disease.
My ambitious crossover idea for Hazbin Hotel would see our lovable group of misfits and monsters see new challenges and threats from Heaven in the form of the shenanigans unleashed by the characters of Father Ted when the Craggy Island Parochial House finds itself teleported to hell.

Fun? Perhaps.
You should check out the original Magnificent Seven, Unforgiven, or Silverado if you haven't already. Oldies but goodies.
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Just my thoughts as well. If Trotsky had taken over Soviet leadership instead of Stalin, he would have been just as awful, if not even worse. All "anti-Stalinist" communists eventually devolved into the exact same patterns of authoritarianism, and they always will.
The only reason they think fondly of Trotsky is because he didn’t get the same chance Stalin did. Lenin forged the bloody ground work.
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Since he claimed herd immunity was inevitable, our NIH director invented his own definition to avoid admitting error (from 12/2022).

Since people can only die once, obviously the death rate would go down. This is not herd immunity.
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SARS-CoV-2 interferes with p53 signalilng.

That may not mean much to non-specialists, but as a PhD in that area, it's the biggest possible red flag, and the flag is also on fire.

We don't yet know how bad it'll be, but with public health asleep at the wheel (as usual), there's no real upper limit.
The worst part of the potential for COVID to cause cancer is that it's entirely predictable, but the medical policy types have to control everything, so they locked science out of the room and tried to wing it.

Dunning-Kruger pandemic.
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The mainstreaming of blatant Protocols-tier antisemitism is one of the worst aspects of this era.
Like I don't really care what Internet strangers think of me, I'm gonna do the same Palestine advocacy I do offline all the same, but it's wild how "being Jewish but not simply accepting any old thing people want to say about Jews on here" is equated with "pro-genocide"
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A vaccine is like an airbag. While you’re seatbelt might save you (if you’re wearing it), the airbags are they’re to protect you from the worst possible effects of the crash.
GET VACCINATED!
Protect yourself and those around you!!
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I’m just going to say it - mRNA vaccines for protection against pathogens and cancer are the best.
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The problem is that a strong pro-academic freedom consensus in academic spaces was a vital load-bearing element of our free speech regime, and the moment that consensus broke down the whole thing was easily tipped over into the abyss by preexisting anti-speech busybodies.

Leftists fucked that up.
even the looniest tumblr woke war paled in comparison to the 2000s conservative family values push. the notion that internet blue hairs got anywhere close to the right wing culture war dominance of the 70s, 80s, 00s... is not just ahistorical but strategic misinfo. stop the fuck sayin it.
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Vinay Prasad began his campaign against the pediatric COVID vaccine months before there was any data about it. He also botched basic stats, falsely claiming that COVID only killed 1 in a million kids.

He now leads vaccine regulation at the FDA.

More...
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why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good
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hot take: it's completely ok to not want to play a game where you play a fugly guy doing depressing shit, that is a completely valid aesthetic preference
yeah, I mean bluntly its because the cozy stuff is female-coded. The "i don't wanna be an fugly guy doing depressing shit" thing kicked off the controversy but it crossed into being All Gender very fast

bsky.app/profile/dogs...
This, too, is gender, I fear
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Hypothesis: The re-mainstreaming of antisemitism is at least partially downstream of elite overproduction. US has a large and growing pool of people born to privilege but downwardly mobile and resentful about it, prone to conspiratorial thinking about why they've been locked out of the elite.
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Germany to base Submarine hunters in the UK

Germans based in UK - a change from the last 100 years

8 German P-8 Poseidons to be based at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland and join the 9 RAF aircraft of 120 and 201 Sqns
Remarkably clear evidence. Only the clearest of evidence has been offered regarding this clear piece of evidence.
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Farage to resign following this clear evidence
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My problem with the "the ADL has abandoned its duty to fight antisemitism in favor of defending Israel!" line is that a lot of antisemitism is openly driven by hatred of Israel to at least as strong a degree.

People have been aggressively normalizing antisemitism so they can use it against Israel.
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COVID : NOT SURE WHAT TO BELIEVE

1 “Covid is really bad; don’t spread it”
*Source: 500,000 science journals

2 “Covid really isn’t as bad as people say”
*Source: Trust Me Bro
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mRNA vaccines aren't *magic* but they might as well be.

Seriously, between these and the GLP-1 agonists, we are living through the greatest wave of medical and public health innovation since penicillin.
WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."
NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Excellent -- let's hope that the Royal Navy is able to put the vessels to good use.
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UK and Australia start manufacturing the London lead items, including 6 new Nucleur reactors for the next generation Astute class attack submarine
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20 & 44. Dead within days of each other. “related to Covid complications” & “long-term illness” (possibly Long Covid & reinfection from the same deadly strand)

Nothing to see here. Move along. Just another day “living with the plague.”