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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1m

Katelyn Jetelina has a updated fall vaccine guide up: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/updated-2025-fall-vaccine-guide.

She talks a bit about Moderna's mNexSpike #COVID #COVID19 vaccine in it and its benefits for older people. I think that's the first time I've seen anyone talk […]

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3I/ATLAS Fan Account @bigstape.bsky.social · 2d

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sliding past 3rd magnitude star Tania Australis.
#astrophotography #seestar #comet #c2025a6

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The #washingtonstate Department of Health says its expects vaccines for its Vaccines for Children and Adult Vaccine Program to start arriving in the next week or so. This program provides vaccines at no cost to all children in the state and adults 19 and up without insurance.

The state has a […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Eileen Guo has an article at Technology Review about an ICE reporting app, People Over Papers, getting kicked off Padlet. Because reporting on law enforcement activity in public is now considered … doxing?!?

People Over Papers is apparently now up at iceout.org […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@FritzAdalis thanks. She did indeed spend a lot of the time on this earth enjoying herself.

cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I’m sorry to say our beloved 13 y.o. pup died suddenly last week. We are heartbroken and missing this sweet, opinionated, goofy girl.

We couldn’t stand being home, so we road-tripped up to Canada. But after every hike, we’re, like, she would have loved that […]

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A good-looking brown, white and black dog rolling on her back in a meadow with wildflowers. Her legs are extended and she is looking at the camera with a look of pure joy.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Acting CDC Director O’Neill has gotten around to finalizing the most recent ACIP recommendations in this ridiculous press release: https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/cdc-immunization-schedule-individual-decision-covid19-standalone-chickenpox-toddlers.html

This delay was holding up vaccines for […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Anil Oza and Chelsea Cirruzzo have an article up at StatNews, saying that the CDC still hasn't given its final signoff on the vaccine approval decisions made by the CDC's ACIP committee on Sept. 18 and 19th […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The last of the three King County sites is King County South (KCS) treatment plant, and its Sars-CoV-2 7DRA numbers is continuing its recent down trend, but is still high relative to much of the year. The last averaging calculation is from 9/24.

A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the King County South Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The Brightwater sewage treatment plant (BWT) in Woodinville also spiked up again, nearly matching its peak at the beginning of September. The last 7DRA calculation was made on 9/24.

A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 6d

It’s the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

Let's start with the […]

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A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Elise Takahama at the Seattle Times has a good look at #COVID #COVID19 availability in #washingtonstate under the state’s standing orders: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/how-wa-is-getting-over-new-bumps-in-covid-vaccine-rollout/

While the standing order permits anyone 6 months […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Did I f up the alt text? Thanks for adding it.

cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […]

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Screenshot of text that says:

Being Innocent Won’t Protect You

This is vital to understand. Surveillance systems and sorting algorithms make mistakes. This is apparent in the fact that we are routinely served advertisements for products that don’t interest us at all. Those mistakes are relatively harmless—who cares about a poorly targeted ad?—but a similar mistake at an immigration hearing can get someone deported.

An authoritarian government doesn’t care. Mistakes are a feature and not a bug of authoritarian surveillance. If ICE targets only people it can go after legally, then everyone knows whether or not they need to fear ICE. If ICE occasionally makes mistakes by arresting Americans and deporting innocents, then everyone has to fear it. This is by design.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10d

#wastewater enthusiasts: the CDC revamped their National Wastewater Surveillance System landing page: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html. They also added a Measles wastewater section:
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/measles.html

So, congratulations everyone?

Wastewater Data for Measles | National Wastewater Surveillance System | CDC

www.cdc.gov

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Remember those two wildland firefighters that got hauled off by ICE while fighting the Bear Gulch fire? His lawyer says ICE has dismissed the proceedings, after holding him in detention for a month. No word on the other firefighter […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The last of the three King County sites is King County South (KCS) treatment plant, and its Sars-CoV-2 7DRA numbers is also very much down, but still high. The last averaging calculation is from 9/17.

cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The Brightwater sewage treatment plant (BWT) in Woodinville is also very much down, but still high-ish. The last 7DRA calculation was made on 9/15.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Hello, it’s the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty
(that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater
toots.

A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

Let's start […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Me, to myself: ok, this is a completely weirdo thing that imma gonna post that will be of interest to maaaayyybe two other Mastodon weirdos, here goes!

[gets trending bot notification]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Niche #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater content right here:

The CDC has archived their older SARS-CoV-2 wastewater dataset and created a new dataset at: https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/CDC-Wastewater-Data-for-SARS-CoV-2/j9g8-acpt/about_data.

I have been thoroughly conditioned to […]

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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @krajcitom.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17d

It's a glorious Saturday night in the mountains of southern New Mexico.

The Milky Way stretches from horizon to horizon. Cygnus the swan is at the zenith. (North is left)

First photo is a circular fisheye. It's field of view is greater than 180 degrees […]

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All-sky view of the night sky on a moonless night. The Milky Way is a curdled, textured broad band running from left to right.

A slightly closer look at the Milky Way.

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I hope peeps out in the Blewett Pass area are keeping close tabs on the Labor Mountain fire via Watch Duty or text alerts. Parts of the area are in a go-now evac zone: https://chelangis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=ca1e19e4123b4002a9fb176b25434e03

#washingtonstate

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3I/ATLAS Fan Account @bigstape.bsky.social · 18d

Unprocessed mosaic of the Orion Nebula M 42 shot through light pollution filter.
#astrophotography #seestar #m42

A lot of glowing gas against a starfield

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Proposal: we crowdfund the duct tape to keep ISS running indefinitely, so we can all continue to get these very cool photos from space
https://flipboard.com/@skyatnightmag/astrophotography-41c02g93z/-/a-eOuKevi8QVKeEQlN9X4Grg%3Aa%3A3136858971-%2F0

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