MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social)
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Culture and politics, some science, some music, some humor. And whatever. Photos are generally mine and unmodified. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈ally #science
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Wait a minute. Detlef the baller from uw and nba in the 80s?
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I sat in the right field arcade seats when Barry Bonds was breaking records, felt the same.
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It’s pretty sweet
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Yup. Clear and cool August
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Just realized this is the same song as ‘season of the witch’ #musicsky Very nice tho youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0
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Before the storm #blueskyartshow #shiny #photography
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What have you done with our late night comedians
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Agree completely. Could call it maladministration. Intentionally breaking what they are supposed to administer.
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Everything about this administration is an embarrassment.
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A huge number of people are stabilized and functional because of psych meds. Taking them away is not going to reduce shootings.
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Good book to read, house mix in the earbuds
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I still want to see the secret service texts from Jan 6. Juicy I betcha.
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I love that she and murkowski take turns making performative no votes but never actually stopping anything.
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Or in senatese, ‘failed to react’. Show me an impeachment resolution, Susie!
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It has been pointed out, FDA are professional vaccine skeptics and many candidate vaccines are not approved due to safety or efficacy issues. People opposing approved vaccines are just anti-vaccine rather than ‘skeptics’, they are causing unnecessary illness and death. #vaccines
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So well said. I hope someone is listening.
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Bingo
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"mitochondrial challenges". What a dangerous idiot- he needs to resign.
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Repubs are killing biotech. Big gift to China, they file way more patents than US now. -- In 2012, 19% of the money that venture capitalists raised was invested in biotech. But that dropped to just 6% in 2024, before falling further to 4% in 1Q of 2025. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/t...
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And enshittenment
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OK I get where you're coming from- good luck. Not sure why you are against preventative vaccines that would also save lives and reduce the viral load around us.
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Very sorry to hear about your experience. But the criteria for a successful vaccine is to reduce illness and death (with good safety), not to prevent completely. Covid vax greatly reduces severe illness and death. People should know RFKJr is killing the vax side effect compensation fund!
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Most people would call vaccines the first line, and all that's needed for many diseases. If you're already sick it's too late for a vax. PPE can and did save lives- absent emergency it's a personal choice based on perceived risk e.g. being immunodeficient. If no vaccines, the risk is high.
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@madhupai.bsky.social) reposted
Even as the US administration is destroying mRNA vaccine research, Canada quietly approved updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for fall rollout - new shots will target the LP.8.1 variant - both approved for adults and children six months of age and older
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That was my point in reply above. Nature is perfectly capable of occasionally generating a virus that humans can’t stop. E.g. non symptomatic carriers exist. Fast mRNA vax is today’s best defense against a new virus with high transmission and high lethality. Saved 100s of millions.
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‘Eliminated’ is not actually possible today for Covid or flu even with the best (mRNA) vaccines. But vaccinated people are much less likely to get sick or die (for both). We are now un-eliminating measles, with worse to come.
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Andean cat stylee
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Gotta zoom in
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Those are in fact the files you are looking for
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People that were outperformed by their satirists: Joe Cocker < John Belushi Bill O’Reilly < Colbert Melania < Fake Melania Trump < Newsom Who have I missed
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I am noticing less ALL CAPS lately! Gavin is winning!
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So obviously trump will now give Ukraine the weapons and money they need to go on offense, right? Tell him he’ll be showing up Biden when they kick out the Russians.
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But Texas is all good ?!
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"You can't control the amount of energy that everybody is getting" What a clown. He wants to go back to 1950’s ‘inactivated’ vaccines that don’t work against most diseases.
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As much as I wish this to be true, these transfers are Epstein totals, mostly not trump related. But I want to see all of them.
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It’s crazy that a person this stupid is the President
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Couldn’t find the original on Bluesky to credit, but every day I think of this one: Trump’s face looks like first wipe
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On the positive side, if half of Rs want him out we might win some elections
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The vaccine reduced cancer by 1400 percent! Oops that’s trump math. Anyway the stupid is strong in this guy- people with broken brains and dead hearts are running our country. How can R’s be ok with sick and dead kids?
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It’s as if there was a DOGE bro working there
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The stupid is strong in this one
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Slow version nice too
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youtu.be/TnUDjMtiGCA?...
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How about high-speed rail on earth?
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They will respond to rooftop sunbathing first
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Diphtheria killed 30,000 American kids per year just 100 years ago. It’s in the on deck circle. I had childhood friends crippled by polio, suffering their whole lives. How did McConnell let RFK Jr happen?
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Democrats don’t give a shit about Sydney Sweeney’s commercials, it’s just a big jerk off to fill Fox culture outrage quota. Maybe a double jerk off for some of them.
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Very cool! Will be good skills for after the next collapse of civilization.
Peter Gleick (@petergleick.bsky.social) reposted
The bottom line on EPA's effort to overturn the #endangerment finding? It's purely a political argument cloaked in false, misleading, dishonest scientific language, because actual #climate science unambiguously supports the conclusion greenhouse gases are dangerous to the climate and society.
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Lab leak theory was mainly a convenient way to blame Chinese government way before data in hand, thanks for detailed update. Anyway, big difference between lab leak of a natural virus vs leak of NIH GOF-engineered virus which I heard stated as a fact by Vought and unchallenged by interviewer.
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Mostly convenience but a bit more chance of breaking. My dad had acetate records from the 40’s and 50’s that broke very easily.
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Nice bavovna
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Aaaaahhhh thank you
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That’s why the election fuckery is going to be extreme and blatant from now on e.g. Texas. R’s have no prayer of convincing a majority of voters they should remain in charge and it’s sinking in.
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Dougs gotta up their game
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Vinyl should only be stored vertically, this made my head hurt
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This panel stuck in my head since I was a kid
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Very cool story, thank you. I also recall how game developers drove technology development through the same era.
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youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo Believe the women! Trump should go to jail. #epstein
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Don’t forget Emil Bove saying ignore the judges
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Gonna need a bigger museum
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I saw somewhere that Sleep Cycle can generate an almost instant map of earthquake strength from its user data. Congrats on the award!
Juan Cole (@jricole.bsky.social) reposted
Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age
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You on a roll Gurl