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December 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I'm sorry, this isn't an attack
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm sorry, this isn't an attack
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✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.
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the best way to protect Jewish people from fascism in the US is to fight fascism in the US.
It is not to protect a violent fascist government in Israel.
It is not to protect a violent fascist government in Israel.
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
the best way to protect Jewish people from fascism in the US is to fight fascism in the US.
It is not to protect a violent fascist government in Israel.
It is not to protect a violent fascist government in Israel.
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At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Zohran Mamdani Is Listening — and Taking Notes
At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
jacobin.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Saw adderall trending and was like “oh, are we talking about manufactured adderall shortage?” I guess it’s always trump…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Saw adderall trending and was like “oh, are we talking about manufactured adderall shortage?” I guess it’s always trump…
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This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
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I'm reposting this not for doomerism purposes but because she talks about some ways that you can identify AI images, which people who follow me may or may not already know about
December 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm reposting this not for doomerism purposes but because she talks about some ways that you can identify AI images, which people who follow me may or may not already know about
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what I would like is for us to all get to live in societies with universal basic income so that artists can just make their art without having to also be TV personalities, sound engineers, video editors, publicists, producers etc
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
what I would like is for us to all get to live in societies with universal basic income so that artists can just make their art without having to also be TV personalities, sound engineers, video editors, publicists, producers etc
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Look a publication that actually looked at a map
bsky.app/profile/chic...
bsky.app/profile/chic...
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Look a publication that actually looked at a map
bsky.app/profile/chic...
bsky.app/profile/chic...
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Yes please.
Social media should be "social." Almost all misunderstandings can be cleared up by asking "What did you mean by that?"
Social media should be "social." Almost all misunderstandings can be cleared up by asking "What did you mean by that?"
As bsky grows in popularity and while tensions are high—PLEASE be kind to each other. Please ask questions if something isn’t clear or doesn’t sound right, etc rather than jumping straight to judgment. Please assume the people who share your values are acting in good faith and doing their best.
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yes please.
Social media should be "social." Almost all misunderstandings can be cleared up by asking "What did you mean by that?"
Social media should be "social." Almost all misunderstandings can be cleared up by asking "What did you mean by that?"
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To me, it's pretty easy not to waste my money on games or other content - it has romance options but no same sex romance options?
I'm not paying a penny and not wasting a second on it.
It can very much fuck off, no matter the hype.
I'm not paying a penny and not wasting a second on it.
It can very much fuck off, no matter the hype.
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
To me, it's pretty easy not to waste my money on games or other content - it has romance options but no same sex romance options?
I'm not paying a penny and not wasting a second on it.
It can very much fuck off, no matter the hype.
I'm not paying a penny and not wasting a second on it.
It can very much fuck off, no matter the hype.
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
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It now reportedly costs over $1M to buy a 3-minute trailer at #TheGameAwards
Many nominated studios only get offered two tickets to attend
(via Kotaku)
Many nominated studios only get offered two tickets to attend
(via Kotaku)
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It now reportedly costs over $1M to buy a 3-minute trailer at #TheGameAwards
Many nominated studios only get offered two tickets to attend
(via Kotaku)
Many nominated studios only get offered two tickets to attend
(via Kotaku)
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That's approx 6x our game's total budget. If you think some of your followers would like our platformer cRPG, set in the 1920s - consider throwing us a share! 🎺
#gamedev #TheGameAwards #indiegame #gametrailer
#gamedev #TheGameAwards #indiegame #gametrailer
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
That's approx 6x our game's total budget. If you think some of your followers would like our platformer cRPG, set in the 1920s - consider throwing us a share! 🎺
#gamedev #TheGameAwards #indiegame #gametrailer
#gamedev #TheGameAwards #indiegame #gametrailer
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Trans people are here. They have been here and they will always be here. #transisbeautiful
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Trans people are here. They have been here and they will always be here. #transisbeautiful
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
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“We found out the day after our presser that Wells Fargo, the bank that owns this building, worked with Friedman Communities, the receiver of this building, to go to the court and request that people be moved out by Dec. 12. That’s next Friday."
thetriibe.com/2025/12/resi...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/resi...
Residents of South Shore building raided by ICE must move by Dec. 12 • The TRiiBE
Many tenants found out about the eviction notice just a day before Thanksgiving
thetriibe.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“We found out the day after our presser that Wells Fargo, the bank that owns this building, worked with Friedman Communities, the receiver of this building, to go to the court and request that people be moved out by Dec. 12. That’s next Friday."
thetriibe.com/2025/12/resi...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/resi...
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