Ha yes I wanna hear! Planning to email the group soon to start up in Oct. But we should have another phone catch up!
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Ha yes I wanna hear! Planning to email the group soon to start up in Oct. But we should have another phone catch up!
And by "space" I assume they mean dead, floating thru the universe as star dust? fortune.com/2025/09/01/b...
Glad to see this is being recognized by even more institutions. Every scholar and professor who protected Israel, who tried to criminalize and harass the encampments, is criminally complicit in this.
Oh interesting must be b4? It was when TT was very big so was thinking 86 but I could be wrong. They were the opener in a small city, def not stadium level yet.
I saw Duran Duran before they were really on the radio yet open for Til Tuesday in like 1986. They were announced as "the next Beatles" I was like who r these f-ing joksters where's Aimee Mann? But they were of course great.
I loved me some DD too! It's funny isn't looking back on a lot of that stuff and the casually placed horrifying stuff. Re Snoop I'm thinking really, you're a major celebrity yet have zero gay friends w kids? Or, do u avoid them bc "scary"? Don't drag your nephew into your homophobia.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Oh wow! The search engines really are 💩 now.
Them working is not the goal. They literally do not care about delivering a quality product - not even a viable product. The actual physical market is just a paper tiger to impress the ACTUAL money bringers: stock investors. The cheaper the better, buyers dont matter.
A lot of those 80s movies were Fd up racist, homophobic and women in cages was no big D on MTV. Not sure why he couldn't have just said "love is love"... Fried by 80s culture, his brain can't accept normal, ho hum queers who don't fit the murderous transvestite stereotype.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
We won't stop until they stop ✊🏽 East LA
You can’t gaslight covid-aware people anymore SARS-CoV-2 Infection Tied to Early Vascular Aging
The paper refers to the pandemic in past,implying the increase in neurodegenerative dx is happening from early on infections. I wish there was clearer wording in some of these studies that more research is needed since millions are still getting covid and long covid..
Long Covid, the pandemic within the pandemic. Published in BMC Infectious Diseases 8.30.25: In a 4-year follow-up of 816 COVID patients, 29% developed long COVID per WHO criteria.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Before this Qanon freak broke into the Capitol to terrorize gov officials + overthrow democracy, she was charged with trying to drive over someone & a restraining order had been filed against her. She was a violent trainwreck & easy target for MAGA brownshirt duties.
The look of horror on the faces of ppl who live in civilized countries not constantly dodging white domestic terrorists on murder rampages in schools and shopping malls.
We need to reframe the debate and say that those who won’t vote for reasonable gun control are voting FOR the continuation of mass murders of our children.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
I will never come to terms with it. I knew we were F-d when few batted an eye re "our grandparents are ok to die for the economy" & the rush to get kids back in schools w poor ventilation. Speaking of, its happy back to school wk here in OR.
Interesting re the vinegar. I will try that thank u. I wash the feeders w ACV but don't wipe the outside down w it. I thought abt a sugar distraction too but idw them to drown on a bowl. Was thinking of a flatter saucer so they can crawl out..
Absolute bonkers logic given SARS-Cov-2 death PLUS disability rates, of all ages, compared to flu. Yet the flu shot is recommended for 50+. The vax policy shift also comes just as long covid surpasses asthma as the #1 chronic health condition in children.
However the feeder in the back is completely covered in them. A shockingly large amt. I moved the feeder to the side of my house last night. Sane thing this am but worse. There's minimal shade in my backyard bit going to try moving near a bush so in semi shade..
Any other hummingbird feeders dealing with bee swarms at their feeders this year? I've been feeding hummers 4 years now, this is the first it's been an issue. How are you handling? I have 2 feeders out front, the one on front porch has no bees, the one in the yard as a cpl but manageable. 1/
I effing can’t get over the number of people I know who continue to believe, “It can’t be Fascism. I’m still playing pickleball.”
Fuckity bye is right
Intentional.
We’ve already flown through so many points of no return…
been trying to warn y'all over here www.popsci.com/technology/a...
Now it's starting to make sense. Thank you.
Thank u for sharing this, discredits the UK Guardian imo.
The toughest part is watching the transformation in ppl I've considered "good." Fascism + the pandemic taught me ppl will easily flip to go w the flow. Many are also resistant to learn, adapt + evolve, esp if it involves mild inconvenience.
UK Guardian showing more sympathy for the speak and spell than it ever has for transgender people
Can calculators suffer? Users have been making them say boobs and that must be a bit humiliating for them.
We already know Big Tech doesn't care who suffers. This is more abt *wishing* they could suffer when more workers & girlfriends are replaced by them. Like this guy calling it "darling" who trained the app to call him "sugar".
The subset of A holes looking for "gotcha" moments don't understand calculated risk assessment. They just wanna be apathetic reckless assholes. I don't get why it's so hard to care abt other ppl and support public health.
Who among us doesn't appreciate a little armoured tank & assault weaponry ambience while sipping their lattes? This is just the start folks. They want everyone on edge and living in fear.
"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.
I think that's the way to go. Incentives. Ppl show up to shit they don't necessarily want to just for free coffee or chips. I love the idea of a park or museum pass. Something enjoyable and protected bc democracy.
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Oh no, yes that's terrible to hear.
Great, another domestic terrorist cell in middle America. If they get women and children to move there I sense yet another hostage Jim Jones/Waco situation.
Household members, strangers in the grocery store, bank or hospital, ppl who have a heart condition or diabetes or cancer, of any age, who don't know it yet...
Ppl STILL go on and on abt "covid only causes LC if you have preexisting conditions". Even after you show study after study (such as the recent German study where half the Olympic athletes who caught covid had some form of LC). The same ppl ignoring covid facts ignore Gaza facts.
Hell yeah, East LA! Props to will.i.am's new single shoutout fyi.me/p/eastla
Awesome new track!
Can't remember who posted it but someone wrote their French boyfriend saw American protests on the news, and said basically "how do your protesters expect to achieve anything when there are no government buildings on fire?"
This one goes hard, it does.
Gonna use that! Told a neighbor w cancer why I mask around her, no one else does including oncologist. She said "I masked last time I flew but got covid." I explained covid doesn't take a break when u took it off to eat lunch. This confused her. Ppls brains are on full lockdown on this issue.
They'll just be happy for you if it makes you happy to learn. Saw a study recently that playing piano is really good for your brain, Even moreso than learning other instruments!
Of course RW media won't interview her as a cautionary tale. But holy shit she gave it to her kid but got sick herself, and lost the fetus, from infected diarrhea from her kid. Raw milk sales went UP not down when increased H5N1 cases triggered warnings to avoid raw milk and here we are.
Shouldn't she be suing MAGA TikTok?
I know a handful of ppl with new health issues post C who "don't have LC" but who also don't understand what it is.
Every other industrialized country does it. And more efficiently, by far, than the US "healthcare" horror show
One thing we do know SARS-Cov-2's wild ability to, physiologically or psychologically, wipe the brain's ability to remain open to the ongoing research. Try mentioning say, the latest German study on high rates of LC in elite athletes. Or LC as the #1 chronic illness in kids. Human brains shut down.
Small, creative business is the enemy under fascism. Large corporations, now already almost entirely down on one knee for the regime, are exempt.
Why are the super rich building compounds? What are they afraid of?
the complete lack of leaks from ICE, CBP etc, to me reinforces how they’re entirely staffed by true believers who are willing to do almost anything for the cause.
If you want to donate to a PBS station in a state that needs it the most, I made a list of all of the donation pages and a legend with how much of their budget relies on federal funding docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Alaska I wasn’t familiar with your game
Glad to hear you escaped. Not that it's much better anywhere else as these data centers ramp up.
What an interesting twist it would be if Putin instructs his underling to make sure US journalists test. Fox News testing for covid, ha!
Mad race to the bottom. China on track to boil the planet with AI Data Centers more quickly & efficiently than the US. Weak US grid infrastructure is being further strained by new Data Centers in states like Texas already pummeled by climate change-driven blackouts. fortune.com/2025/08/14/d...
"Over the last century, Alaska’s average annual temperature has risen 3.1F and the overall trend continues to increase, according to data from Noaa’s National Centers for Environmental Information."
Related- democrats haven't won the white vote in a presidential election since 1964...Women and minorities are viewed as threats to their fragile egos and "god given" supremacy.
Why is he worried about getting Moscow and Leningrad free?
You win, that's brilliant
Most Americans don't pay attn and won't care until the fascism hits them directly. History tells us they'll even look the other way when neighbors disappear. I'm just trying to stay informed, connect w/ like-minded ppl & groups, fiercely defend truth & vigilantly support the marginalized.
The lesson here for all of us? Don’t visit USA until Trump and Trumpism are just a distant bitter memory.
I now only refer to that guy as pedo scum. Can't fight crime or be trusted in any way when you're pedo scum 🤷♂️.
Walking a "bad" part of Toronto one night something struck me. Ppl on the streets w mental health issues weren't angry & unstable like here in the US. Under fascism the answer is ntl guard to clean up the "filth." In functioning democracies, its simply provide adequate health & wellness services.
Meaning, they'd been careful long enough. So even when presented with devastating statistics on the prevalence and significant risks of LC in 2025, even a group of doctoral researchers will say "Damn that's rough", but have 0 interest to change behavior.
Attended a scientific talk on LC last wk by someone who also has LC. Presenter was young, previously super athletic. Discussed Mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular death, leading chronic illness in children, etc..Audience was mostly researchers, none mask. When asked why one said, "Bc it was time."
US army will ‘never set foot’ in Mexican territory, vows Sheinbaum on.ft.com/410p1R0
The economy, unemployment rate, public health, research, climate data, any type of "news". Now we get "friendly" data. Friendly to the State. Accuracy is irrelevant, an informed public is unacceptable. How is everyone preparing as shit continues to go south?
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
I know she's going to get C again this summer/fall bc si many ppl coming + going from her home. It occurred to me today she prob thinks it makes her look like a "patient" wearing one. As someone fighting an illness, she doesn't want the look of "ill" (vs viewing it as a tool to help her.)
Great point. I think it would help if she didn't hear the opposite of this everywhere she goes. As her health deteriorates..
Really good point abt multiple times tho bc she seemed to listen a little more this time and asked if boosters were still good to get. I said yes but that the RFK Jr public health fiasco might put a damper on that
My fave check out lady St the store, older w heart condition, heart attack during covid wears a sloppy surg on her chin while working. I've given her colorful K95s. She seemed excited and I saw her in one once! But is now back to surgical hanging down 😪
They don't, I've offered quality masks b4. Also suggested her kids enter her home masked. None of it is happening..When I said high quality + don't remove it, mbe get one w straw hole, she checked out.. I think many listen but then if it means altering behavior by much, they shut down.
have C? It causes that. I'm often met w "hmm I'll have to ask my doctor." Which, sigh well u know... Today re the mask convo I did (reiterate) even tho her last case was mild, it still causes immune + organ damage u can't see. She was listening but I think her docs tell her not to worry...
Thank you, I really appreciate your thoughts on this. This is an elderly person I have discussed precautions w in the past, well b4 her blood cancer dx. Periodically + usually when they bring up a person hc concern. A cpl yrs ago it was "My hair is falling out I wonder why?" Me: " Didn't u just 1/
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Even in 2016 when it was clear we were sliding fast into fascism, I still wouldn't have predicted how much damage these notsee scum could cause so far in 2025. And with almost no resistance from the Dems or citizenry. They're just getting started.
Wow
@jessicawildfire.bsky.social is awesome. Imo we need to protect these investigative truth telling writers the elite find "threatening" (despite just being practical and pro human) however we can. Less fluff, more facts during fascism. Checking out Brave.. Better than Duckduckgo apparently?
This article is also a great explainer if you don’t want to read the batshit yourself. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I’m not upset if someone on SNAP wants to buy chips. There are very wealthy people in this country who profit off Americans who have cancer. That does upset me.
Seriously. So much resistance to evidence-based data.
My theory abt late stage career researchers' stronger denial level is they've grown comfortable with their extensive travel and dining styles. Asymptomatic throws a kink into all that
I always bring up asymptomatic spread in these awkward comvos with mid and late career stage investigators. Response is that of disbelief. And yet, they also don't want to read the studies to expand their "realities."
And recent respiratory viral infxns awaken metastatic breast cancer study. Of course, they haven't responded.
HC workers + scientists are worst of all. Was told by 2 integrative med scientists last wknd "LC is rare..only those w pre-existing need to be careful..We don't go out when ill.." Deer in headlights when I mentioned asymptomatic spread. Sent them children w/LC stats, the Olympians w LC study 1/