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blaine
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genetics BS ➡️ history MA ➡️ PharmD candidate | 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | MECFS | 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸 | any/all
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carverredacted.bsky.social
All right so it looks like I'm going to be going to the urgent Care today so that I can get looked over before the holiday tomorrow. I really do need help.

venmo.com/code?user_id...

cash.app/$CAugustMcMu...

PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

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November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
miamidsa.org Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 8h
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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piperanderson.bsky.social
Saja boys singing:
"You're all I can think of, all the news I drink up
AI bubble pop, iminent bubble pop!"
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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asolove.bsky.social
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Business card with the text: Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner? - "Am I being profiled?" - "I exercise my right to be silent" - Refuse to sign any statements. - Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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margaretmanto.bsky.social
Vaccines.gov, the CDC's vaccination site search engine, got a MAHA makeover in June. Then it stopped working altogether.

New from me:

www.notus.org/health-scien...
CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.
“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
jblainefoster.bsky.social
in this episode of ER, Dr. Carter has been banned from prescribing or administering schedule II narcotics, which has led to a significant plot point due to his inability to give a patient *checks notes* Versed
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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onbradstreetfarm.bsky.social
I’m trying to recover from the apple and pecan pie slander I just saw on my timeline by recommending making Pecan Bars with a shortbread crust so that you still get pecan pie but without adding another pie to the mix. They freeze well, too.

www.justataste.com/pecan-pie-ba...
Pecan Pie Bars Recipe
These easy pecan pie bars star a buttery shortbread cookie base and a chewy pecan topping made without corn syrup. It's like pecan pie in handheld form!
www.justataste.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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justicar.xyz
It's best if you put it on the lowest shelf in your fridge on a rack in a roasting pan.

Why the lowest shelf? So if it drips or leaks, it doesn't leak all over everything underneath it.

The rack is so air circulates around the whole bird, allowing for better thawing.

The pan is to catch drips.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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carverredacted.bsky.social
I don't have the energy to do the screenshots to update what my balance is look like but here's just a reminder that I'm going through some crap and still don't have any income.

venmo.com/code?user_id...

cash.app/$CAugustMcMu...

PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
jblainefoster.bsky.social
The hepatitis B vaccine is, among other things, linked to a 50% reduced risk of liver cancer
jakescottmd.bsky.social Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · Sep 19
Blue line shows ages 0-19: near-zero hepatitis B cases. The birth dose created an entire generation nearly free of hepatitis B. Adults who missed this protection still get infected. That's 30 years of proof this works. Tomorrow's vote could end it.
www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-su...
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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jakescottmd.bsky.social
Blue line shows ages 0-19: near-zero hepatitis B cases. The birth dose created an entire generation nearly free of hepatitis B. Adults who missed this protection still get infected. That's 30 years of proof this works. Tomorrow's vote could end it.
www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-su...
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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silverlightzoi.bsky.social
still at $0 for groceries and i have ONE meal shake left, $0/475 for rent tmrw, and $0/60 to get to my procedure

can anyone help me eat today and get to my procedure and pay rent tmrw 🥹?

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venmo.com/u/katiwithoutthee
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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chessawrites.bsky.social
I deal with this every day, all day.

"When the people in your life don’t understand PEM, they’re not just failing to understand a symptom. They’re failing to understand the central mechanism that governs your entire existence."

#PwME #ME #MECFS #LongCovid #disability #spoonie #ChronicIllness
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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seagulljaap.bsky.social
Another post that would have gone hard on Mormon Twitter.
Picture of Pam Bondi (face superimposed on Joseph Smith) with the text "Pam Bondi Finds Sealed Portions of the Epstein Files That Won't Be Revealed Until The Millennium."
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf." Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac. To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet? My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist @msergie whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular." Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge." Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it" Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame. Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was" Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291" Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well." Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations. As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity." Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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sweetmax.bsky.social
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
bored ape nft. a monkey in an electric teal hoodie with white drawstrings, the monkie has headphones around his neck and looks like they don’t want to make small talk
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
jblainefoster.bsky.social
CN: cancer (no death)
charles.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network
This fucking clown believes in miasma theory. He literally doesn't think germs are real. What the fuck are you publishing, Atlantic?

"Can the guy who killed a bunch of kids in Samoa lead the scientific establishment?"

Obviously fucking not, you absolute toilet goblins.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
lasagna bons temps rouler
peterjwagner3.bsky.social Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 1d
I now am working “lasagna” into “Let the Good Times Roll.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
Isaac Chotiner: "I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting." Chotiner, with the kill shot: "Come on Ben. I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are."
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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lukesteuber.com
mood
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes running through the house; he gets yelled at and says “the law is on the books but it would talk all their resources to enforce it
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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laurenunderwood.bsky.social
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
jblainefoster.bsky.social
“we must move with the times”
aklingus.bsky.social A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 1d
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
•*• Funny-Presence4228 LPT: How to win as a guest and make new friends at a raging, alcohol fuelled party Food & Drink I'm getting older now, and some of my friends' kids have recently started college. I've been reliably told that alcohol-fuelled parties are still happening, and I shared this advice about how to make new friends and be a hero. One of them took my advice, and now has a new girlfriend because of this. The key to the following advice is an element of secrecy because the surprise makes it even better. Arrive late and sneak Lasagna into the party. I mean, taking a large, catering-sized tray of lasagna, along with a stack of paper plates and forks, to a raging house party. I used to do this back in college. I'd make one, sometimes two, in the afternoon in big foil trays before goin to a party. Show up around 10.30pm, and slip them into the oven without asking permission telling anyone. Medium heat for 30 minutes to warm it up. Get my paper plates out, and shout: "Lasagna is ready" to a packed house of drunk people, and hand them all a fork. It's cheaper than bringing beer, no clean-up, and I got laid pretty often. Important note: Make sure the person who owns the oven is the first in the line, and don't make a mess. Maybe make one meat and one vegan or something... This last point was less of a concern back in my day, but we must move with the times.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
jblainefoster.bsky.social
“I never thought the recall process would eat MY MLA’s” sobs woman who led the Make It Easier To Recall MLA’s Party
markusoff.bsky.social Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 2d
Nearly one-fifth of United Conservative MLAs are now subject to recall drives. Including the speaker and six cabinet ministers.
ctheriault.bsky.social Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 2d
And then there were 9.

6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website

Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson +
Dale Nally.

www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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persisting.bsky.social
I will never tell you what this wiki entry is for. I want you all to guess instead.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM