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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 8h

Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine how much worse this would be if we still didn’t have decades of ingrained public health response to measles. Imagine how it would be if it were treated like Covid. They will try to force that on us once they realize the impact of these isolations is economically identical.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19h

Three weeks is such a long time, especially for a kid. Vaccines help keep children healthy and in school. “Unvaccinated children who were exposed to the virus will be “excluded” from school for three weeks, the length of time it could take for a measles exposure to cause symptoms, Bell said.”

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19h

Three weeks is such a long time, especially for a kid. Vaccines help keep children healthy and in school. “Unvaccinated children who were exposed to the virus will be “excluded” from school for three weeks, the length of time it could take for a measles exposure to cause symptoms, Bell said.”

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 19h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15h

Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

"free speech zone" is such a bullshit phrase

according to the constitution, the entire country is a free speech zone

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 23h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 7h

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 23h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration tried to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, with two Ohio ABC affiliates temporarily refusing to run his show. Free speech advocates said it was authoritarian. A prominent antitrust activist says corporate consolidation is partly to blame ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/jimmy...

Jimmy Kimmel was squelched in Ohio, elsewhere. Is that because broadcasters are too big? • Ohio Capital Journal

The Trump administration tried to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, with two Ohio ABC affiliates temporarily refusing to run his show. Free speech advocates said it was authoritarian. A prominent antitrust…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · 3d

106 healthcare organizations, 15 countries, 4,872,295 patients,
propensity score matched, 3-year follow-up

Individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection had significantly higher risks of
A)HPV-related cancers
+67% cervical
+131% vaginal
+98% vulvar
+92% anal &
+78% oropharyngeal
Das ist katastrophal

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3d

If you come visit our campsite, this is what you get. @floregonian.com

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3d

Nomnomnom.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3d

Brunch is lesczo with scrambled eggs. The Eastern European comes out when R cooks campground meals.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3d

Just want to say thank you to the guy who looks like Jason Momoa who took his shirt off while packing up his camping gear. 🍻

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning my seasonal friends.

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 4d

An older version of the classic Airstream but with a tweak for those who like to combine their pontoon experience with camping. Great view of the dunes from up there.

An airstream trailer with a platform and sunshade reminiscent of the deck of a pontoon boat.

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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 4d

There’s now an app for all things fungi 🦠🍄
Dr. Matthew Pullen, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, helped launch Dr Fungus—a free app that brings the trusted resource to your phone.

Explore fungal infections, antifungal treatments, and case-based learning—all in one place.

Home - Doctor Fungus

Welcome to Doctor Fungus! An Educational Website of theMycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC) [View Legal Information] Where to Start Mycology Case of the Month An Introducti...

DrFungus.org

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