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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 7d

Average infection: 1 per year

Risk of long term issues on first infection: 10%

Risk increases with each subsequent infection.

After your 3rd you have a 30% chance of long term issues.

How many years until you become disabled?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

most people really are terrible at assessing risk

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 13h

Excuse me, I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude but that's Couvet.

Duvet is what them classy French ladies say when you tell them you're pleased to make their acquaintance.

MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 14h

Nah cousin that’s a boule.

Duvet is a picturesque village in the Val-de-Travers district of the Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net · 14h

No kinfolk that’s flambé.

Duvet is the convention held every two years by the Black Greek sorority wearing pink and green

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Cognitive Cunt @meelajay.blacksky.app · 20h

Can anyone help me find a gift link for this article??

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The Mental Health Benefits Of Social Prescribing The Arts For Students

An emerging innovation in college mental health is providing students opportunities to engage in arts related programs, either on campus or in the local community.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 19h

Don't even get me started on The Enlightenment.

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly? They're not wrong- look at the theocracy happening: politics was just a means to acquire power to enact religion

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9d

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h... @pambelluck.bsky.social @nytimes.com

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Long Covid has affected at least 1.3 percent of people under 18, or about one million American children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 20h

Here's a great graph put together by a mathematician friend that helps visualize the risk over time.

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Wren💛🏸 @hiwrenhere.bsky.social · 7d

The chances for a single incidence of long covid look something like this.

A graph of the function f(x)=100(1-0.9^x). Showing the increase in risk of getting long covid over about 20 years. At the 20 year mark it reaches about 90%, At the 10 year mark, about 65%, after 5 years it is just over 40%

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t say this loudly enough. If you have cold like symptoms test because you need to differentiate and even if you don’t have any symptoms test occasionally because asymptomatic is still a thing.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Covid infections have never gone away. Just transparency. When the government declared the Pandemic over they:

Ended testing
Masking
Restricted vaccines
Ended transparency on the stats

It’s not over folks.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 22h

It's 2050.

Students are forced to use AI to "learn" and do analysis.

Small pockets of people gather in homes to learn to think critically and avoid being put in prison.

Everything is literally, actually on fire. We all wear the suits they use at volcanoes. We pay a subscription fee for them.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 22h

For the record I actually don't think we should be circumcizing people for non-medical reasons but this man is just...

And if I point out liberals played a role in creating these monsters I'd get yelled at as if Democrats somehow actually oppose these people.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 22h

"Stop doing thing I dislike because autism."

That's the play.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1d

You're welcome!

BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1d

Weill I hope scrolling is satisfying (enough) and time passes quickly!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

he's right and I hope he backs this up by addressing the immense wealth the Catholic Church holds, especially in very poor countries. lead by example!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

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.

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 1d

“So many people, so many germs! I have chronic illness. I don’t want to get COVlD again and make my life harder. Even if there wasn’t COVID, the mask prevents con crud!” Karen Walsh allegrosolutionsllc.com, author, Allegro Solutions’ Founder+CEO 📸 @msjulieslam.bsky.social #NYCC #MaskTogetherAmerica

Karen Walsh, double-masking with a black KN95 under a cloth mask made with pattern of Grogu (Baby Yoda) from the Mandalorian. Karen was wearing a pair of purple framed glasses, a black top with graphics on it. She also has multiple piercing on her eyebrows, nose and ears, multi-color mohawk hairstyle, and tattoos on her arm.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

If there were more masked people at #NYCC I’d actually go again. I miss it a lot. Comics artists cannot afford to get covid. “Fans” coming unmasked endangers talent

MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 1d

“So many people, so many germs! I have chronic illness. I don’t want to get COVlD again and make my life harder. Even if there wasn’t COVID, the mask prevents con crud!” Karen Walsh allegrosolutionsllc.com, author, Allegro Solutions’ Founder+CEO 📸 @msjulieslam.bsky.social #NYCC #MaskTogetherAmerica

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 1d

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/gre...

‘Greater risk’: Covid-19 mask mandate returns to California county; aims to protect ‘most vulnerable population’ - The Times of India

US News: Sonoma County in California is bringing back mask mandates for healthcare facilities. This measure starts November 1 and runs until March 31, 2026. He

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Eric Bourdages @eze3d.bsky.social · 1d

"It's innevitable."

"Adapt or die."

"Embrace it or get left behind."

"The genie is out of the bottle."

"It'll get better, just wait."

"This is the worst it will ever be."

These things are said to get you to believe/fear you don't have agency to resist, question & criticize.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1d

Well that just sounds like a massive waste of time.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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