I don’t like all the year end wrap-up stuff (I know what I listened to) but I always look forward to these headlines.
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I don’t like all the year end wrap-up stuff (I know what I listened to) but I always look forward to these headlines.
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Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
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Portugal’s history reminds me it is always, always ordinary working people with the most to lose, who fight fascism. The solidarity between students, feminists, anti-racists, and trade unions. The bravery of clerical workers, shoemakers, bookkeepers, clockmakers
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Portugal’s history reminds me it is always, always ordinary working people with the most to lose, who fight fascism. The solidarity between students, feminists, anti-racists, and trade unions. The bravery of clerical workers, shoemakers, bookkeepers, clockmakers
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Peter Pitseolak spent his life preserving the knowledge of the traditional ways of the Inuit through his writing, sketching and photography.
Learning photography using borrowed cameras, he captured over 2,000 photos during a period of 20 years.
This is his story.
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Learning photography using borrowed cameras, he captured over 2,000 photos during a period of 20 years.
This is his story.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Peter Pitseolak spent his life preserving the knowledge of the traditional ways of the Inuit through his writing, sketching and photography.
Learning photography using borrowed cameras, he captured over 2,000 photos during a period of 20 years.
This is his story.
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Learning photography using borrowed cameras, he captured over 2,000 photos during a period of 20 years.
This is his story.
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For all Americans who want to settle—or who have settled—in Canada, learn the history of Indigenous and Black communities in Canada
Read about the Indian Act and the Report on Indigenous women and girls gives a fascinating reveal of the history of Canada.
Read about the Indian Act and the Report on Indigenous women and girls gives a fascinating reveal of the history of Canada.
September 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
For all Americans who want to settle—or who have settled—in Canada, learn the history of Indigenous and Black communities in Canada
Read about the Indian Act and the Report on Indigenous women and girls gives a fascinating reveal of the history of Canada.
Read about the Indian Act and the Report on Indigenous women and girls gives a fascinating reveal of the history of Canada.
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Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media.
Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.
Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.
Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media.
Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.
Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.
Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
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Beware of any politician doing this. It’s a major red flag of the most cynical political opportunism, weaponization of lies & misinformation, and manipulation of some consultant’s idea of a “wedge issue.” It would waste public money, risk or even cost lives, weaken the city, make traffic worse, etc.
Current Mayor of Christchurch New Zealand Phil Mauger is campaigning for reelection on basis of ripping out bike lanes! This for a city that used to be famous for cycle friendly infrastructure before earthquakes of 2010 and 2011!
#NZpol
#NZpol
August 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Beware of any politician doing this. It’s a major red flag of the most cynical political opportunism, weaponization of lies & misinformation, and manipulation of some consultant’s idea of a “wedge issue.” It would waste public money, risk or even cost lives, weaken the city, make traffic worse, etc.
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1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
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Ignorance might be bliss, but at most, only in the short term.
“By not knowing if you've had Covid, you absolutely will not connect any subsequent new-onset chronic health issues you experience to the 'cold' or 'flu' you had previously. And neither will a doctor.”
“By not knowing if you've had Covid, you absolutely will not connect any subsequent new-onset chronic health issues you experience to the 'cold' or 'flu' you had previously. And neither will a doctor.”
1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
August 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ignorance might be bliss, but at most, only in the short term.
“By not knowing if you've had Covid, you absolutely will not connect any subsequent new-onset chronic health issues you experience to the 'cold' or 'flu' you had previously. And neither will a doctor.”
“By not knowing if you've had Covid, you absolutely will not connect any subsequent new-onset chronic health issues you experience to the 'cold' or 'flu' you had previously. And neither will a doctor.”
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Yikes! COVID leaves evidence of DNA damage compared to those people not infected. The extent of the DNA damage correlates with the severity of the COVID infection.
COVID is bad for you.
COVID is preventable.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public settings.
Clean the air we all breathe.
COVID is bad for you.
COVID is preventable.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public settings.
Clean the air we all breathe.
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yikes! COVID leaves evidence of DNA damage compared to those people not infected. The extent of the DNA damage correlates with the severity of the COVID infection.
COVID is bad for you.
COVID is preventable.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public settings.
Clean the air we all breathe.
COVID is bad for you.
COVID is preventable.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public settings.
Clean the air we all breathe.
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!!! This is the first time I’ve seen a recall for potentially radioactive food. I hope this is a one-off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t.
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.link
August 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
!!! This is the first time I’ve seen a recall for potentially radioactive food. I hope this is a one-off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t.
Diminish a band name:
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dirt
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dirt
Diminish a band name:
Weakestthans
Weakestthans
Diminish a band name:
Lovertoddler.
Lovertoddler.
August 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Diminish a band name:
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dirt
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dirt
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N95s are the protections that experts have identified as necessary to protect patients and staff in healthcare settings. If anyone's wondering where the astroturfing MAGA-bro campaign to block them is coming from, here you go:
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
N95s are the protections that experts have identified as necessary to protect patients and staff in healthcare settings. If anyone's wondering where the astroturfing MAGA-bro campaign to block them is coming from, here you go:
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That's...one way to pick sides I guess.
The CSA and the world's top experts on PPE and aerosol hazards (COVID, measles, TB etc) on one side, 🤣Brian Lilley 🤣 and some infection control rando who memorized a bunch of misinformation in med school and thinks that makes them a PPE expert on the other.
The CSA and the world's top experts on PPE and aerosol hazards (COVID, measles, TB etc) on one side, 🤣Brian Lilley 🤣 and some infection control rando who memorized a bunch of misinformation in med school and thinks that makes them a PPE expert on the other.
Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a
state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and
also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental
impacts—o...
journals.asm.org
August 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
That's...one way to pick sides I guess.
The CSA and the world's top experts on PPE and aerosol hazards (COVID, measles, TB etc) on one side, 🤣Brian Lilley 🤣 and some infection control rando who memorized a bunch of misinformation in med school and thinks that makes them a PPE expert on the other.
The CSA and the world's top experts on PPE and aerosol hazards (COVID, measles, TB etc) on one side, 🤣Brian Lilley 🤣 and some infection control rando who memorized a bunch of misinformation in med school and thinks that makes them a PPE expert on the other.
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If you need a resource to send to family and friends to try and enlighten them about the dangers of COVID, this is a terrific, comprehensive one that’s still regularly updated. Thank you so much for this, @durianliftoff.bsky.social.
C-19: Archives
SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 archives: Scientific publications, media articles, resources, and comment.
www.c19.life
July 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you need a resource to send to family and friends to try and enlighten them about the dangers of COVID, this is a terrific, comprehensive one that’s still regularly updated. Thank you so much for this, @durianliftoff.bsky.social.
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The problem with the phrase "causes of death other than COVID" is that, according to these studies, long-COVID and related complications are causes of death other than COVID.
Life Expectancy in California Has Not Rebounded After Covid
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The problem with the phrase "causes of death other than COVID" is that, according to these studies, long-COVID and related complications are causes of death other than COVID.
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1. I firmly believe that *the* future revolution in our understanding of human health engendered by research into Long Covid will be that pathogenic infection plays a far, far more significant role in the development of chronic diseases than we currently understand.
July 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
1. I firmly believe that *the* future revolution in our understanding of human health engendered by research into Long Covid will be that pathogenic infection plays a far, far more significant role in the development of chronic diseases than we currently understand.
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Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
June 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
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The most disturbing thing I saw during the pandemic was the look on the face of the father of the pregnant 20-something year old who we shocked ≈20 times over 2.5 hours but couldn’t keep in a perfusing rhythm while that patient’s mother wailed.
I have never seen a man so broken in my entire life.
I have never seen a man so broken in my entire life.
RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The most disturbing thing I saw during the pandemic was the look on the face of the father of the pregnant 20-something year old who we shocked ≈20 times over 2.5 hours but couldn’t keep in a perfusing rhythm while that patient’s mother wailed.
I have never seen a man so broken in my entire life.
I have never seen a man so broken in my entire life.
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I will never understand the objection to masks in healthcare.
It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive.
People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid
It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive.
People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid
June 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I will never understand the objection to masks in healthcare.
It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive.
People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid
It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive.
People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid