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OmegaMamba (she/her)

@omegamom.bsky.social

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New Mexico, science, climate change, politics, science fiction and fantasy, adoption, Troubles With Young Adult Children, Long Covid. Warning: My timeline is quite full, so I don’t follow back!

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · Nov 30

For those who don’t know how to do Alt-text on pics, memes, screenshots, etc., a small thread:

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · Nov 30

For everyone who thinks Alt-text is text in your *post* that describes your photo: No! It is *attached* to the photo! You can still do a silly post about your pic *and* do alt-text! Example:

This is the top of my test post in the Bluesky app at the end of the Alt-text process—the whole thing wouldn’t fit in one screen. The photo is of a Greek town filled with whitewashed buildings, some of which have vivid aqua/turquoise painted roofs, against an ultramarine sea.

This is the bottom half of the same post.

When you click on the photo, you get the description. NOTE: You can type in UP TO —> 2,000 <— characters to describe it! (You don’t need that many. Really. Trust me.)

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 15m

Congrats! 😁

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 3h

I finally got a subscription for @trueref.bsky.social and dudes...The volume and range of quality pose photos you can download for a shockingly low price is incredible. A treasure trove of everything you could need. As a broke artist, this is a worthy investment and a generous resource to support.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 48m

😱 It’s a QUILT!! A QUILT?!? How the heck???

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Vertex, quilt by Betty Busby #sciart

Quilt with yellow rust, red and brown shapes that suggest radiolarians

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Anna Dumitriu, Plague Dress, mixed media #sciart

19th century looking brown dress with embroidery. It is filled with plants

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Fungal Wall, hand-tufted rug by Lizan Freijsen #sciart

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Susan Aldworth, from the Brainscapes series, etching inspired by brain scan #sciart

Semi-abstract etching of brain structure in white on a dark purple blue background

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4h

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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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 6h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 1d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 8h

Can’t these people just hire an English literary criticism major to follow them around and debate / educate them so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with their stupid messianic delusions

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 13h

Harvard-Ökonom David Cutler hat ausgerechnet, dass Long Covid so teuer ist, dass praktisch jeder Aufwand für Diagnose, Therapie und Prävention gerechtfertigt ist.

OECD geht von 0.5-2.3 % des Bruttosozialprodukts allein für 2024 aus.

Long Covid kostet USA ohne Berücksichtigung der reduzierten Produktivität 3.7 Billionen $, entspricht 17 % des US BIP vor der Pandemie, entspricht Kosten der grossen Rezession.
Harvard Ökonom David Cutler: aufgrund dieser hohen Folgekosten lohnt sich praktisch jeder beliebig hohe finanzielle Aufwand für die Diagnose, Behandlung und Prävention von Long Covid.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

“HALP”
Betelgeuse complained about being lonely and now there are consequences #Caturday

Silky grey cat held by a person in a green fleece shirt. Cat looks alarmed.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17h

Every once in a while I remember Trump changed vice presidents because he sent a violent mob to take care of his previous one and that’s not a thing anyone even talks about.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry! It was *19* million cases of Covid in the US by the end of 2020.

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 14h

…to the mercies of grifters and con artists.

Dunno. But I do feel that automatic dismissal as cranks is bad.

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 14h

(Oops, extraneous l!)

…because a 5-10% incidence rate on a disease with only 83,000 diagnosed cases leaves you with a scattered amount of 4,000-8,000 people presenting with long-term ME style symptoms. I’d rather see actual medical research donethan leave these people…4/

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 14h

I actually would really like the people with possible “chronic Lyme” to be included with ME/CFS folk in the investigations into post-viral illnesses (even though it’s bacteriological in nature). It may be simply that it’s not taken seriously because of the low incidence rate..l 3/

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 15h

In the first few months of the pandemic, it was very hard for those with lingering symptoms to be taken seriously. But as cases continued to grow, the 5-10% incidence rate (some estimates as high as 30% for wild SARS-CoV!) was impossible to dismiss. 2/

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 15h

So why is “chronic Lyme”, or “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome”, which apparently has about the same incidence as Long Covid, ~5%, not considered as valid as Long Covid? One answer might be that there were only ~80,000 cases of Lyme in 2024, versus 9 *million* Covid cases in 2020. 1/

Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 6d

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 19h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

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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