kate
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Napping instead of making lemonade 😴
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PFP: Pies Are Awesome 🥧
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Hello, #NEISvoid! New #MECFS and #LongCOVID genetics preprint out today: 🧪
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Identification of Novel Reproducible Combinatorial Genetic Risk Factors for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in the DecodeME Patient Cohort and Commonalities with Long COVID
Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as ME/CFS or simply ME) has severely impacted the lives of tens of millions of people globally, but the disease currently has no accurate diagnostic t...
www.medrxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hello, #NEISvoid! New #MECFS and #LongCOVID genetics preprint out today: 🧪
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Why is the BBC allowing all these non-experts to sit around unchallenged on air saying #overdiagnosis is real? It's pure nonsense and entirely driven by a desire to remove support from people who are entirely warranted to have it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why is the BBC allowing all these non-experts to sit around unchallenged on air saying #overdiagnosis is real? It's pure nonsense and entirely driven by a desire to remove support from people who are entirely warranted to have it.
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How many times do we have to re-learn that it's airborne? It should really be the default assumption unless proven otherwise.
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.
Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How many times do we have to re-learn that it's airborne? It should really be the default assumption unless proven otherwise.
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It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
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I seem to have accidentally stumbled upon a lost media CHRISTMAS MYSTERY...can you help me solve it?
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I seem to have accidentally stumbled upon a lost media CHRISTMAS MYSTERY...can you help me solve it?
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
Here's what happened: I sang a carol to my partner the other day, and he didn't recognize it. Fair enough, he's from England, so we don't always know the same music. So I tried searching for it...
This sent me to a search engine and TIL paprika is in the nightshade family, so no wonder I react
good news, dehydrate some peppers and put them in a spice grinder and you've got paprika
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This sent me to a search engine and TIL paprika is in the nightshade family, so no wonder I react
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The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe was originally expelled from their lands when the national park was established.
www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...
www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...
Native American tribe reclaims 900 acres of Yosemite National Park in California
The South Sierra Miwuk Nation was expelled from the lands 175 years ago.
www.fresnobee.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe was originally expelled from their lands when the national park was established.
www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...
www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...
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The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil
The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them about installing multi-billion dollar infrastructure on their traditional land...
english.elpais.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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“Who we love & how we love are inherently political. We declare our kinship through our actions & words in both explicit & subtle ways.”—Alice Wong, “Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“Who we love & how we love are inherently political. We declare our kinship through our actions & words in both explicit & subtle ways.”—Alice Wong, “Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
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Collectively, we need to be held in a loved one’s arms and wail like a tired toddler for a solid 5 mins straight. I’m so serious. lol
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Collectively, we need to be held in a loved one’s arms and wail like a tired toddler for a solid 5 mins straight. I’m so serious. lol
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In sixth grade I used the word "stolid" in a paper and my teacher marked it as a spelling error, then accused me of cheating when I tried to argue, so I like to put it into each of my books as a cute little fuck you to that lady.
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
In sixth grade I used the word "stolid" in a paper and my teacher marked it as a spelling error, then accused me of cheating when I tried to argue, so I like to put it into each of my books as a cute little fuck you to that lady.
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I think one of the reasons the Atlantic stirring up the pot with that accommodations are TOO MUCH article is timing. In the wake of effective attacks on affirmative action in higher ed, it’s REALLY difficult not to see all this discourse as attempts to shape opinion against accommodations/ADA.
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I think one of the reasons the Atlantic stirring up the pot with that accommodations are TOO MUCH article is timing. In the wake of effective attacks on affirmative action in higher ed, it’s REALLY difficult not to see all this discourse as attempts to shape opinion against accommodations/ADA.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet.
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet.
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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Abled people, who by definition don't regularly interact with healthcare as patients, are always shocked when told about nurses being *wildly* full of woo.
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
So. My 89 yo mom got her weekly nurse visit, who is new and not the one we normally see. Yeah, without any questions from us, she explained quite clearly that vaccines are bad for you and the mark of the Beast.... it's from the Bible, doncha know.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Abled people, who by definition don't regularly interact with healthcare as patients, are always shocked when told about nurses being *wildly* full of woo.
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
This has been true ime...
SOO many anti-vaxx
Some try to push essential oils over meds I can't function without
I've been told to stop taking treatments
Nurses who question germ theory
SOO many anti-vaxx
Some try to push essential oils over meds I can't function without
I've been told to stop taking treatments
Nurses who question germ theory
Abled people, who by definition don't regularly interact with healthcare as patients, are always shocked when told about nurses being *wildly* full of woo.
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
Everyone else is like "yeah dude, half the time your nurse is gonna tell you it's demons and that you need more blue light or something"
So. My 89 yo mom got her weekly nurse visit, who is new and not the one we normally see. Yeah, without any questions from us, she explained quite clearly that vaccines are bad for you and the mark of the Beast.... it's from the Bible, doncha know.
.
.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This has been true ime...
SOO many anti-vaxx
Some try to push essential oils over meds I can't function without
I've been told to stop taking treatments
Nurses who question germ theory
SOO many anti-vaxx
Some try to push essential oils over meds I can't function without
I've been told to stop taking treatments
Nurses who question germ theory
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Breaking: Spain brings masks back.
Mandatory in hospitals, primary care, and long-term care—for patients, visitors, and staff.
Strong recommendation everywhere else.
Public health moving where evidence points.
Note: Really worth upgrading to respirators.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/28/s...
Mandatory in hospitals, primary care, and long-term care—for patients, visitors, and staff.
Strong recommendation everywhere else.
Public health moving where evidence points.
Note: Really worth upgrading to respirators.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/28/s...
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Breaking: Spain brings masks back.
Mandatory in hospitals, primary care, and long-term care—for patients, visitors, and staff.
Strong recommendation everywhere else.
Public health moving where evidence points.
Note: Really worth upgrading to respirators.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/28/s...
Mandatory in hospitals, primary care, and long-term care—for patients, visitors, and staff.
Strong recommendation everywhere else.
Public health moving where evidence points.
Note: Really worth upgrading to respirators.
euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/28/s...
💯 agree
Grifters flourish in spaces where trust has been repeatedly violated
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Grifters flourish in spaces where trust has been repeatedly violated
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Based on my years of reporting on this, we got here because the medical industrial complex did not give one single fuck about women, and still doesn’t, which trained women to not trust medical experts and then orgs like Goop swept in and made money off of that.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
💯 agree
Grifters flourish in spaces where trust has been repeatedly violated
👇🏻
Grifters flourish in spaces where trust has been repeatedly violated
👇🏻
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”