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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 7h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 2d

<reading my own posts> “this guy gets it”

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ry 🏳️‍⚧️ @ry.cd-rom.net · 13d

im going worm mode

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 13d

I absolutely think more Dem messaging needs to hammer home the effects Trump’s Medicaid cuts will have on the most vulnerable people and systems in the country , but – and this is crucial – they can do that without calling naked fascism a “distraction.”

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14d

two parts that stand out here that make me doubt that party leaders understand the limitations of the black box data/memos they are using in the place of actual leadership & politics

The operative notes that Blue Rose is, of course, selecting what messages to test. The messages are often written by its team — and those messages aren't necessarily good.
Indeed, by its own metries, the firm's messages calling Trump's military takeover a distraction from tariffs and Medicaid cuts only tested in the 52nd and 51st percentiles among the messages it's tested so far this year — or "barely above average," as the firm noted. Why not try writing more messages?
"If you try a message and it doesn't work, the conclusion shouldn't be that there's no way to talk about this," the operative says, adding that Blue Rose puts out its advice "with a lot of authority, and people listen to it."

A common criticism of the Blue Rose model is that virtually no one consumes political ads or messages the way these participants are viewing them. Most people watching TV or scrolling through their social media tune out such messages or skip right past them; an ad needs to grab their attention in a way that won't be replicated in the tests.
"A message nobody hears cannot persuade them," says the progressive research expert.
"They're testing with a captive audience when their task is to actually get heard — meaning get people to stop scrolling in the first place. What they've tested is so bland no one is going to notice."

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14d

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 14d

The human brain was optimized for:

• Gossip in tribes of 150
• Tracking berries vs. poison berries
• Running from tigers

Now we use it to argue online with strangers about macroeconomic policy.

Evolution’s patch notes are a mess.

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postsmistress general @funybuny.bsky.social · 15d

low resolution of a field of bright green grass with several rabbits sitting around, captioned "This world is inhabited by creatures known as Bunnies"

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Sister Jennifer of the Little Flowers of Perpetual Annoyance @kizukishi.bsky.social · 15d

Hairless dingus

Hairless tuxedo cat, asleep on his back, his arms hanging limply, eyes shut, mouth open like a dingus

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 16d

I was not even particularly old in 2009 (one could even say I was very young!) and I still find this passage of time thing bizarre and horrifying.

worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 16d

of all the “you must have been born on or before X date to do Y” signs, this one at the blood donation center freaks me out the most. 2009??? There are 16-year-olds born in 2009????

sign in a blood donation center cubicle reading “YOU MUST HAVE BEEN BORN ON OR BEFORE
TODAY'S DATE IN
2009
TO BE ELIGIBLE TO DONATE”

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16d

Rest in power, Assata Shakur.

"A wall is just a wall
and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.

I believe in living
I believe in birth
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port."

Kakuya Shakur
Just now -

At approximately 1:15 PM on September
25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her
last earthly breath. Words cannot describe
the depth of loss that | am feeling at this
time. | want to thank you for your loving
prayers that continue to anchor me in the
strength that | need in this moment. My spirit
is overflowing in unison with all of you who
are grieving with me at this time.
Sending much love and appreciation to you
all,

Kakuya Shakur

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 17d

I think this is sweet, albeit in an odd way. If you love a place and the fact that your family member died there doesn’t change that, why not have a hypothetical send-off meal there?

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New York Times Cooking Instagram post. The image in the post is a text card reading:

WHERE TO EAT: If you were leaving New York forever, where would you have your farewell dinner?

ORNA GURALNIK: Possibly Bricolage in Brooklyn — I love the place, and my father actually died a beautiful death there. My parents were visiting and they went to have dinner, just the two of them.
They had a really lovely dinner.
My dad finished his beer, held my mom's hands and told her, "Your hands have only gotten more beautiful as you've aged." And then dropped dead. This was three years ago.

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Gus & Echo @katskitties.bsky.social · 18d

Human had a baked potato for early dinner which means delicious sour cream for me!!

Gus is licking a dollop of sour cream from human’s fingers while sitting on the dining room table

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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social · 18d

Welp. I’ve been called before the committee. Again.

Two stern looking cats, side by side. On the left is tabby cat Joe, lying loaf style on the end of the bed with a fat polydactyl paw dangling over the edge. Sitting up straight on the right is his brother Frankie. Frankie has tabby stripes on his back and forehead, a Christmas tree shaped splotch on his nose and a white front.
They’re both looking at the camera, and they’re both running out of patience.
#CatsOfBlueSky

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 20d

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"In more than two decades of research on the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy, not a single reputable study has successfully concluded that the use of acetaminophen in any trimester of pregnancy causes neurodevelopmental disorders in children."
-ACOG President Steven J. Fleischman, MD, MBA, FACOG

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Call of Cthu-Luke @llobrow.bsky.social · 22d

Gen Z Hamlet: she suffer on my slings and arrows until I outrageous fortune

Horatio: shut the fuck up, Gen Z Hamlet

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 22d

Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry."

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Friend describes where man entered the woods

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 22d

(Which I know Dr Janega, as a historian of gender and partner to a sex educator, knows! As a young-ish person and sex educator, I just want to point out that there can be appropriate and non-creepy ways to look at the social factors behind these kinds of changes. BoJo bloviating isn’t that, though!)

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 22d

“Why aren’t young people having sex/drinking/driving as much as they used to?” is an interesting sociological question that deserves study by trained academics who can conduct interviews and gather data in a consensual & respectful way.

Boris Johnson writing in a tabloid is none of those things.

Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22d

It's so creepy to watch old people obsess about the amount of sex young people are having.

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

most, if not all, “I’m for vaccines but kids shouldn’t get so many at once/shouldn’t get combination vaccines/should have vaccines spaced out” nonsense pseudoscience BS goes back to Andy Wakefield, a man who I cannot describe my preferred fate for lest I be banned from this website.

kate b.ooOooO 👻 @katebitz.bsky.social · 24d

idk if people know the genesis of this recommendation, but it very much is due to Andrew Wakefield attempting to make the combined MMR vaccine sound scary through a specious study … because he held a stake in products that would have profited off the scare

CNN @cnn.com · 24d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

As someone who, as a child, had to be held down by 3 grown adults to get vaccines, I am more than happy to champion the cause of “if you remove access to combination vaccines for BS reasons, you should have to console angry toddlers who had to get 2 shots instead of one until the end of eternity.”

worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

if you are a parent of an under-4, you should absolutely 100% use this when contacting your reps about how RFK jr and his cronies need to go. (It doesn’t matter if your kid is actually very tolerant of getting vaccines – your representatives don’t need to know that!)

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

Again, pointless, ridiculous change, but it’s got an obvious counter: “You’re saying my [insert age of under-4-year-old] child now has to get two needle sticks instead of one? Are you kidding? Do you know how hard it is to get them to stay still and calm enough for one?”

worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

I cannot stress enough how pointless this change is. MMRV is given because kids can handle getting 4 vaccines at once and it reduces the number of needles a kid is stuck with. Separating into MMR+V just means more needlesticks, more paperwork, more headaches, more chances to miss a vaccine dose.

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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 24d

And just to be clear: if there is an actual medical reason why a kid can’t get one component of the MMRV vaccine but can get the others (I’m sure there are cases, I just don’t know of any), there are already ways to work around that. This change solves zero problems — it just creates new ones.