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Sharon (she/her)
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Asian American in New England. I like science and stories and TTRPGs and art and polysyndeton.
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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Just a holiday reminder! 😂
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Some extremely cool news from the precision medicine space - full article is member-only, but the free section is incredibly promising. In some lupus patients they've seen CAR-T therapy not only remove dysfunctional immune cells but the immune system then replace them with healthy ones!
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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IMPORTANT
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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His two favorite pastimes are baseball and reading JD Vance for filth.

I may be…Catholic now?
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A month after I was hospitalized for my first lupus flare, I tried reading up about my kidney disease. I came across the stat that generally 10 yrs after diagnosis I'd start to experience organ failure.

It's been 11 years. I am so lucky to grow old.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I think from now on anytime someone asks me when I plan to stop masking I’m going to ask them when they plan to stop wearing a seatbelt while driving.
August 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.

Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher, Among Last Known Survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
Mother Fletcher's legacy will live on as the epitome of honor, courage, strength, and resilience in the face of violent terrorism, white supremacy, and cowardice
www.qasimrashid.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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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.
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:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The impact on RI-based colleges and universities is roughly estimated to be $44 million in missed revenue

www.golocalprov.com/news/Estimat...
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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ICYMI like i did. :-(
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"Death of the Author" doesn't mean separating the author's bad behaviour from their art. It means taking away their authority and allowing readers to interpret the art based on their own perspectives. It doesn't absolve the author of being a bastard, in fact it may inform how you interpret the art.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Glad to see this @wired.com guide on high quality masks! A KN95 can help protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses, especially during this busy travel season. I only wish Wired wrote about the pandemic in the present tense 🙏😷

www.wired.com/story/best-d...
15 Good N95, KF94, and KN95 Face Masks to Buy Right Now
Flu season is here. These are the best disposable face coverings we’ve tested—and where you can find them.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM