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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1m

Is there a retail store? 😉

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 18h

Special education.
Targeting the most vulnerable children and families in our society for the lulz.
Tell me again how very Christian this is.
The cruelty here is unfathomable.

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

"Atukorale and Kane credit the Biomedical Engineering department and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst, UMass Chan Medical School, and funding from the >> National Institutes of Health << for their support. "

someday we'll tell our grandkids about the NIH.

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

Adding a link for the curious. Author: Prabhani Atukorale, asst prof of biomed eng in the Riccio College of Eng at UMass Amherst www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 5h

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.

www.americanheritage.com/shall-we-hav...

“Shall We Have a King?”

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.

www.americanheritage.com

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna drop this link for other locomotive junkies. Also, the switch is great, that crane is wild. torontorailwaymuseum.com/no-1-museum-...

No. 1: Museum Workhorse, Railway Artifact - Toronto Railway Museum

No. 1 is a diesel-electric locomotive at the Toronto Railway Museum. Read more about its life before the museum, see restoration photos and

torontorailwaymuseum.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2d

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 1d

“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.”
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living.

"As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."

www.huffpost.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22h

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

edition.cnn.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🐷 Pig-to-human liver transplant

A world-first: a 10-gene-edited pig liver was transplanted into a living human, functioning for 171 days. The graft produced active human-compatible proteins and avoided early rejection.

🔗 www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016...

#SciComm #Transplantation 🧪

Genetically engineered pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation

The advent of genetically edited porcine-to-human xenotransplantation has predominantly focused on cardiac and renal applications, with no reported cases of porcine-to-human liver xenotransplantation....

www.journal-of-hepatology.eu

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tonyinmarin @tonyinmarin.bsky.social · 1d

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

Also, how much does Starlink cost?

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

I eat healthier now bc junk food is too expensive. MAGA could push for 100% tax on junk food and use the proceeds to subsidize healthy foods and nutritious school lunches . But no, let's push supplements from donors' companies

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures. Rural hospitals are vanishing, and Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.
abcnews.go.com/US/loss-life...

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

abcnews.go.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

I love reading the histories of the bands and personnel. Never knew they were Scottish !
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmala...

Marmalade (band) - Wikipedia

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

iirc for a brief moment 25 years ago there was qualitative consensus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...

Climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration - Wikipedia

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

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