Lynda Montgomery
theotherlynda.bsky.social
Lynda Montgomery
@theotherlynda.bsky.social
Words and deeds
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Never thought I would be proud to say I'm from NE Ohio because of its regional sewer district.
new track on our great lake greatest hits album 🔊
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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added sound and now will be looping this the rest of the day thank you.
March 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In today’s episode of adventures in fiction, we learn that John Parkinson, author of Theatrum Botanicum (1640)apothecary of London and the Kings herbarist, looked a lot like our very own Dan Chaon.
February 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Blackout Friday is coming!
February 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Get me what I want for my birthday: a functioning government!
Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.
February 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM