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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 10h

social media…
•connected me w faraway friends as a lonely only child
•allowed me to learn abt the small college i’d ultimately attend
•is how i met all 3 of my current partners
•got me my current job
•played a major role in getting 300k+ masks on faces during the 2025 LA fires
…& prob more too tbh 🥺

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10h

i went looking for a simple and specific clothing item and wow everything sure sucks and is expensive now

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 9h

believing in science, but not wanting to continue wearing a mask would sound like this: “i’m getting vaccinated bc it’ll help me fight off covid, but does not prevent me from spreading covid nor does it prevent me from developing long covid. these are risks i have decided to take”

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 10h

unfortunately, you do not believe in science if you think getting vaccinated is enough to stop the spread of disease and that there’s no way you could ever develop long covid so catching covid (while vaxxed) must be harmless. that is not what the science has been saying at all.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

Join us in defending the autonomy of the school

bit.ly/nodealtexas

An outline of a longhorn with “No Deal, TX” written above it

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 14h

the valid fears created by this political moment are making folks do some interesting things (specifically talking about extended family members so NOT terminally online and more solidly center politically)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15h

This is terrible news for drought-stricken Texas. We're going to lose a lot of trees.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

US National Weather Service says La Nina conditions likely to persist through Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 reut.rs/3VYGBSG

US National Weather Service says La Nina conditions likely to persist through Dec 2025 to Feb 2026

The U.S. National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center published an advisory Thursday on the emergence of La Nina conditions in September, which are likely to persist through December 2025 to February 2026, with a 55% chance of a transition to ENSO-neutral likely in January to March 2026.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 15h

insurance claims can be denied if you use the wrong format of zip code (9 digits v. 5 digits) and insurance companies can switch this policy at any time without telling providers. truly absurd. very little care in that.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 17h

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 17h

@meactnet.bsky.social's Executive Director, Laurie Jones, wrote a op-ed about the medicaid work requirements that was recently published in MedPage Today!

Thank a look below!👇

MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 1d

"There is nothing beautiful about shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it. But this is precisely what our nation is now poised to do."

ME/CFS and long COVID advocate Laurie Jones writes on Medicaid work requirements. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117839?trw=no

Opinion | Medicaid Work Requirements Will Devastate People With Invisible Disabilities

ME/CFS and long COVID patients must qualify as 'medically frail'

www.medpagetoday.com

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 17h

tyyyyy!! i think some folks also call them face gaiters. neither a balaclava nor a face gaiter is a respirator

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 17h

Balaclavas are not respirators. Equating them reinforces the idea that cloth masks are adequate protection against airborne pathogens.

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Alana @alanasaltz.bsky.social · 19h

My new favorite form of toxic positivity is when someone complains about something, I literally agree with them, and they then backpedal and say "oh it's not that bad" and try to make it sound like I'm overreacting and too negative. I can't win. I'm not allowed to be negative even if they start it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Don't tell Palestinians not to have hope or that the ceasefire deal is doomed.

They know what Trump is. They know what the Occupation is. They live under Occupation every day. We're not doing them any favors telling them what they already know.

Let them have hope. We all need it. So do they.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

thankfully i haven’t seen anyone do this so i have no reference for “LET them have hope.” from my POV, we do not “let them have hope,” the Palestinian people have taught me so much about hope, if anything, they have let me in on their commitment to each other and to life.

so shut up and let them be

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Don't tell Palestinians not to have hope or that the ceasefire deal is doomed.

They know what Trump is. They know what the Occupation is. They live under Occupation every day. We're not doing them any favors telling them what they already know.

Let them have hope. We all need it. So do they.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

he’s also an anesthesiologist who got sued for making an illegal monopoly in his area

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

CYPRESS HAS ONE OF THE WOOOOOOORST STATE REPS, Dr. Tom Oliverson who says yes to all the bills written by think tanks and was notorious for introducing one of the first anti-trans bills in texas a few sessions ago. that area needs to show they don’t agree. i wish the location was public!

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

You do you, but I guess I'm skipping the next one, because there's no point to a secret rally. I'm not going to RSVP to get an address. 🙄

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

i have like 1.5 out of the 5 ingredients it takes to make it so i’m having the worst knock off lol but it tastes similar-ish lol

chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

a doctor doctor shot from juiceland would fix me rn (i’d probably still feel sick but it might go away in the like 30 minutes after taking it)

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i can’t believe we got another woke pope after all

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

all while a virus that causes brain damage spreads without ample mitigation or surveillance

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 14d

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

and yes, some folks have mold! but also, if you have a weakened immune system (which can happen w covid infections), you’re more likely to develop CIRS. these diagnoses aren’t mutually exclusive.

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