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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Jul 30
Today is my Birthday !!!

Stuff is hard all around so I completely understand if you can’t

I have an Amazon wishlist that is entirely my shoot the moon and kitchen items but it allows me to be surprised if ya want Check out this Gift List I just created. www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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mauiwong.bsky.social
Whenever you see Bari Weiss' name, remember:
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
mauiwong.bsky.social Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · Dec 6
Remember what Dr. Refaat Alareer told us about Bari Weiss.
Refaat in Gaza @itranslate123 If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss @bariweiss and her likes. Many maniacal Israeli soldiers already bombing Gaza take these lies and smears seriously and they act upon them. BanderaCar @bandera car Sent you a photo: hey there third world paedophile fag. are you raping ideas @stardustisrael Send me your address, we are going to wipe you out in Gaza. איציק @BotlL44686578 When we get to Gaza I personally will rpe rawdog your old mother Daniel Boharon @Boharon Daniel Im going to expaned you mom wife and child recktom in front of your Sergei Safrigin @Sergei_Saf Kill yourself Muli Segev @mulisegev You are a pure Nazi. And you will end up exactly like them. Rest assured Followed by Uri Horoch
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
I sat in front of him in the office … it’s when I got better headphones
jkarsh.bsky.social Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 4h
Poker isn’t right coded. The loud, selfish assholes who badger people at the table, they’re right coded. Like, they’re never ‘not’ Republicans. But the community as a whole contains multitudes.
brr.bsky.social brr @brr.bsky.social · 6h
what?
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
PERTUSSIS?!? PERTUSSIS

Babies are dying of things I only read about in Little House on The Prarie
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

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Kentucky Public Health KENTUCKY HEALTH ALERT Increase in Pertussis in Kentucky Recommendations for Identification and Prevention November 21, 2025 Kentucky health officials are alerting providers that cases of pertussis ("whooping cough") have increased steadily across the Commonwealth in recent weeks. To date, 566 cases of pertussis have been reported in Kentucky in 2025, the highest number of cases in the Commonwealth since 2012. This follows a trend that was first announced in July 2024 when pertussis cases began increasing in Kentucky to levels not seen in over a decade. Health officials anticipate that pertussis will continue to increase during the winter months based on historic trends. Many U.S. states and other countries are also experiencing elevated levels of pertussis. Many of the recent cases have occurred in young infants, and health officials also recently confirmed the third pertussis-related death in a Kentucky infant within the last year. This follows two other infant deaths that were announced in June. These are Kentucky's first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy. Health officials urge all Kentuckians to remain up to date on recommended pertussis immunizations and emphasize the importance of maternal immunization during pregnancy, and for all infants beginning promptly at two months of age. Health officials also encourage providers to consider pertussis as a diagnosis in addition to circulating seasonal respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV and COVID-19. A significant number of cases have also occurred in school-aged children, many of whom were up to date on pertussis vaccination. Immunity from vaccination or natural infection wanes over time so infections can occur in people who are fully vaccinated. However, the vaccine is known to reduce disease severity, and hospitalization among vaccinated individuals is rare. The Kentucky Dep… Kentucky Public Health regularly in Kentucky, however an increase beyond the expected background rate has been reported in recent weeks. Though pertussis vaccination (DTaP or Tdap) is available and widely implemented, B. pertussis continues to spread in the U.S. due to lack of vaccination or timely boosters, the lack of lifelong immunity from vaccination or natural infection and the long duration of infectiousness in untreated cases. Symptoms of pertussis usually begin with a runny or congested nose, a low-grade fever, and mild coughing; apnea/stopping breathing can also occur in infants. After one to two weeks, the cough can progress to rapid, violent (paroxysmal) coughing fits that can cause the "whooping" sound, vomiting or labored breathing. Young children are the most severely affected; most teens and adults will have mild symptoms. People with preexisting health conditions that may be worsened by whooping cough are at high risk for developing a severe infection. Testing for Pertussis: The preferred methods for pertussis testing include nasal pharyngeal (NP) swab or nasal wash via PCR testing or culture. PCR has optimal sensitivity during the first three weeks of cough, is widely available at commercial laboratories and has a fast turnaround time. Culture is considered the gold standard due to excellent specificity but may take longer to complete. Serology for antibodies to B. pertussis is available at many commercial laboratories, however, serologic assays are not generally recommended for primary diagnosis of pertussis due to variability and unknown clinical accuracy. The most promising serologic assays are those that measure IgG antibodies against pertussis toxin only and are collected two to eight weeks following cough onset. Prevention of Pertussis: Prevention of pertussis is primarily achieved through routine vaccination with DTaP (ages two months to six years) and Tdap (ages seven years and older), followed by appropriate booster doses. Vaccination of pr… Bordetella parapertussis B. parapertussis is a bacterium that is similar to B. pertussis and can cause pertussis-like illness but does not produce pertussis toxin. Symptoms of parapertussis are typically milder and infection may be asymptomatic. There is no vaccine for B. parapertussis and post-exposure prophylaxis is not recommended, however treatment recommendations for symptomatic patients are the same as those for B. pertussis. B. parapertussis is not reportable in Kentucky. Thank you for your attention to this alert and guidance. The KDPH pertussis website includes supplemental resources, including a pertussis quicksheet with additional information that providers may find useful. If you have questions regarding reporting, testing, or prevention of pertussis or other infectious diseases, please contact the Kentucky Immunization Branch at (502) 564-4478 or after hours by calling the KDPH Epidemiology on-call line at 888-9-REPORT (888-973-7678). Our Mission: To improve the health and safety of people in Kentucky through Prevention, Promotion, and Protection
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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thelionmachine.bsky.social
It's hard to describe how I feel every time this happens. I'm so overwhelmingly angry. We HAVE the ability to vaccinate virtually everyone who can take the vaccines so that herd immunity works in so many communities. A horrible way of dying was almost gone forever. It's not fair. It's not fair.
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
Kentucky Public Health KENTUCKY HEALTH ALERT Increase in Pertussis in Kentucky Recommendations for Identification and Prevention November 21, 2025 Kentucky health officials are alerting providers that cases of pertussis ("whooping cough") have increased steadily across the Commonwealth in recent weeks. To date, 566 cases of pertussis have been reported in Kentucky in 2025, the highest number of cases in the Commonwealth since 2012. This follows a trend that was first announced in July 2024 when pertussis cases began increasing in Kentucky to levels not seen in over a decade. Health officials anticipate that pertussis will continue to increase during the winter months based on historic trends. Many U.S. states and other countries are also experiencing elevated levels of pertussis. Many of the recent cases have occurred in young infants, and health officials also recently confirmed the third pertussis-related death in a Kentucky infant within the last year. This follows two other infant deaths that were announced in June. These are Kentucky's first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy. Health officials urge all Kentuckians to remain up to date on recommended pertussis immunizations and emphasize the importance of maternal immunization during pregnancy, and for all infants beginning promptly at two months of age. Health officials also encourage providers to consider pertussis as a diagnosis in addition to circulating seasonal respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV and COVID-19. A significant number of cases have also occurred in school-aged children, many of whom were up to date on pertussis vaccination. Immunity from vaccination or natural infection wanes over time so infections can occur in people who are fully vaccinated. However, the vaccine is known to reduce disease severity, and hospitalization among vaccinated individuals is rare. The Kentucky Dep… Kentucky Public Health regularly in Kentucky, however an increase beyond the expected background rate has been reported in recent weeks. Though pertussis vaccination (DTaP or Tdap) is available and widely implemented, B. pertussis continues to spread in the U.S. due to lack of vaccination or timely boosters, the lack of lifelong immunity from vaccination or natural infection and the long duration of infectiousness in untreated cases. Symptoms of pertussis usually begin with a runny or congested nose, a low-grade fever, and mild coughing; apnea/stopping breathing can also occur in infants. After one to two weeks, the cough can progress to rapid, violent (paroxysmal) coughing fits that can cause the "whooping" sound, vomiting or labored breathing. Young children are the most severely affected; most teens and adults will have mild symptoms. People with preexisting health conditions that may be worsened by whooping cough are at high risk for developing a severe infection. Testing for Pertussis: The preferred methods for pertussis testing include nasal pharyngeal (NP) swab or nasal wash via PCR testing or culture. PCR has optimal sensitivity during the first three weeks of cough, is widely available at commercial laboratories and has a fast turnaround time. Culture is considered the gold standard due to excellent specificity but may take longer to complete. Serology for antibodies to B. pertussis is available at many commercial laboratories, however, serologic assays are not generally recommended for primary diagnosis of pertussis due to variability and unknown clinical accuracy. The most promising serologic assays are those that measure IgG antibodies against pertussis toxin only and are collected two to eight weeks following cough onset. Prevention of Pertussis: Prevention of pertussis is primarily achieved through routine vaccination with DTaP (ages two months to six years) and Tdap (ages seven years and older), followed by appropriate booster doses. Vaccination of pr… Bordetella parapertussis B. parapertussis is a bacterium that is similar to B. pertussis and can cause pertussis-like illness but does not produce pertussis toxin. Symptoms of parapertussis are typically milder and infection may be asymptomatic. There is no vaccine for B. parapertussis and post-exposure prophylaxis is not recommended, however treatment recommendations for symptomatic patients are the same as those for B. pertussis. B. parapertussis is not reportable in Kentucky. Thank you for your attention to this alert and guidance. The KDPH pertussis website includes supplemental resources, including a pertussis quicksheet with additional information that providers may find useful. If you have questions regarding reporting, testing, or prevention of pertussis or other infectious diseases, please contact the Kentucky Immunization Branch at (502) 564-4478 or after hours by calling the KDPH Epidemiology on-call line at 888-9-REPORT (888-973-7678). Our Mission: To improve the health and safety of people in Kentucky through Prevention, Promotion, and Protection
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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kamikazecomic.bsky.social
Solidarity with everyone going through it right now.
You are not alone.

Official donation link for supporting Jamaica:
supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
A whole bunch of people trying to hind the fact their entitled transactional twats in being a leftist

Just whiny kids mad somebody else is cared for or developed a talent and think wanting to deny them that is actual mutuals aid and redistribution
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
“You shouldn’t be paid for your labor because I don’t want to admit that I haven’t developed beyond being a toddler about you having a talent”

Is gonna make me ill .

It’s not an actual political stance . It’s them being recalcitrant children
cheriepriest.com High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 10h
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd. counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain [High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.] • • • every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
Whole album of Embrya is just perfect
sweetbabyraye.bsky.social Raye @sweetbabyraye.bsky.social · Jan 22
This one is up there for me 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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bklynbee.bsky.social
“…skirt around my waist. wall against my face…” 👀🔥🔥🔥🔥

any time, any place - janet jackson
January 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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dcinbox.bsky.social
I have an undergrad who is doing work on how different news networks used different terms over the past 15 years. Here is "woke" at Fox News and in official congressional e-newsletters
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
Yale trained all the awards and they couldn’t think of other things
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h
Hollywood loves our trauma. Black actors are more likely to win awards when playing roles tied to slavery, servitude, or trauma.

Lupita Nyong’o opens up about what happened after her Oscar win. Hollywood kept offering her more parts as an enslaved woman, pushing the same stereotype again and again.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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mubou-rider.bsky.social
Yes because they believe that only their voices should matter and the bots are furter expansion of their voice, no different then only landowners having the right to vote, or the 3/5s compromise to empower slaveowners.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
I would give my all to not need to wait for certain people’s personal business

But sadly you can be racist, advertise for sugaring, openly be known to sleep with men for access and openly hostile to every POC around you and nothing moves

So until that point …..
a woman in a red dress is dancing with her arms in the air .
ALT: a woman in a red dress is dancing with her arms in the air .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
If we could get people to stop when the were just being casually racist, suspect and abusive ?

We would

But we can’t and until that time ?

I want to know everything I need to know that makes folks get active
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
Also as gently as possible?

White women specifically need to retire

“We know too much about folks lives “ first off it comes from Michelle Goldberg whose casual racism gets whitewashed

Also .. if marginalized people could get yall to act before we knew this stuff? We wouldn’t need to know
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 11h
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
blackamazon.bsky.social
While she was also signing letters decrying cancel culture … to actively suppress other journalists who would challenge her narrative
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 11h
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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brittanywong.bsky.social
“All I think about is how this woman was part of mainstreaming this guy,” said Aparna Nair, professor at the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto. RFK Jr. “will do profound damage on a global scale—that’s all that matters."
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 11h
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
concordiapress.bsky.social Concordia University Press @concordiapress.bsky.social · 8h
And we are offering 20% off pre-orders for Kathleen E. Kennedy's 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 with the code KENNEDY2026:
www.concordia.ca/press/illumi...
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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pixelfish.bsky.social
Do kids these days even know about moleskin? And I don’t mean the notebooks.
charlescmann.bsky.social 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 9h
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.

This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
charlescmann.bsky.social 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 9h
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
We gotta find non misogynistic ways to call out stuff like this
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Gotta say, if the genre of article that goes “I talked to the machine that’s poisoning Black communities, and here’s what it said” went extinct tonight, we’d all be better off.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
What actually kills me is as an Ivy League , Public and Private graduate

…
The stuff they are shoving down the throats of the public school kid I was

Is already outlawed for the private school
Kid I was

Just pure apartheid
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
blackamazon.bsky.social
It’s the theft of social justice language for me.

They believe in every tenet of DEI .. just for robots not POC
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold

Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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fooddatanerd.com
Running out of options, and this is hard and scary y'all.
www.caringbridge.org/site/17ef516...
Update: This Is Scary, Y’all
We are using CaringBridge to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and…
www.caringbridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM