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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton

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Writes lots of Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down. Midwife to Be. Voodoonauts Fellow '22. Hurston/Wright Speculative Fellow '23. She/Her. AuthorWinifred, no matter where you are, no matter how far. winifredburton.com I block AI/NFT/Crypto accounts

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 6d

My in-bio site is functional in a static business card kind of way. I know newsletters are what all the cool authors have, the way my neurology is set up newsletters are hell. But Ko-fi is a great place to catch up with me, and if we're accustomed to interacting my DMs can get you my Signal.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1h

Year of Return, indeed.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 3h

Accra. Accra?!

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 3h

An ICE deportation flight (OAE3710) just departed Baltimore, MD for Accra, Ghana. It originated from Phoenix, AZ, and stopped in El Paso, TX before landing in Baltimore. ICE Flight Monitor is actively monitoring and will update here.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 7h

Watching Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh and his theme is so beautiful. I feel like Hollywood made an accidental hood classic when they put Tony Todd in a floor-length fur & gave him elegant piano music. He’s like Teddy P with superpowers.

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 8h

for those who pretend they can't put 2 & 2 together, that's the connection to palestine.

THIS is what we've BEEN saying.

you're welcome.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 9h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 13h

If you can you should…

if you can’t don’t block the generosity of others

Giving is how we get through

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22h

If you're comfortable, & you have everything you need taken care of with a little extra, you don't have to give to mutual aid, but why wouldn't you? The hoarding mindset is capitalist. You can easily be part of the community that supports real life vulnerable folks. We're all we got. You gon learn.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 12h

I want a functioning government and a strong public sector but a lot of government work is violence work and that part needs to change.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

Today is Sunday, Oct 12
Good afternoon ❤️

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell

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🦇 Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 9h

All hail the glow cloud. ⛅️

A cloud covered sky reflecting the light facing Diamond Head, HI, from Makakilo.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 9h

In case you feel like the fourth wall has completely come down too.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 10h

I think one of the challenges of AI discourse is that many people have not yet felt or seen the consequences of overusing water and electricity, and so everybody pointing out that queries use a ton of both means nothing to them. Yet.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 9h

the problem i keep having with everybody i come across whether it's a friend, relative, coworker etc is the same: americans are so used to relative comfort, they don't see it as privilege. they see it as THE TRUTH. as REALITY. every problem they know of has a ready solution.

they think we're kooks.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 10h

I don’t even know what the fix would be for communicating how bad shit can get.

Do you remember the recent blackouts in Texas because of grid failures? Imagine that, nationwide, during an extremely cold winter.

Do we need to start fear-mongering?? It’s feeling like we need to do that!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11h

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 11h

It's why I keep saying the zombie apocalypse is real.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

i've gone to multiple sparring sessions over the past few weeks and fairly sure my baby counts for at least 2 or 3 of the 5 worst shots I've taken

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Had this in a breakfast joint in Metarie.

Whole restaurant. 🎤 Bohemian Rhapsody. 17/10.

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhat related I love it when a restaurant back to front of house sings along with a song and it’s like you’re in a musical number.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

im rewatching The Shining for the millionth time and while i think the book does some things better (getting us into Jack's head) the book is a story about a good man swallowed by ghosts and Kubrick's story is about a family annihilator, and thus much, much scarier

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

It's the discontent being 2 octaves lower than a riot, for me.

Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Flood, (R-NE), wasn’t received as expected by his Constituents on 10/4. Met with Boos & chants of “Tax the Rich” & “Vote Him Out”they’re not happy about Medicaid & SNAP cuts

JUST Wait ‘till they 👀 their ACA INCREASES!

Vote for ACA subsidies Mike & end the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 1d

Please help Qat! #MutualAid #HelpSky

Get fucked, Jay 🖕🏾 #FreeLink @qatapult.bsky.social · 2d

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

My toddler also headbutted me this week and broke my glasses. They also headbutted my partner in the nose, brought a 6'3" man to his knees!

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SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 1d

He probably asked why that baby didn't have no coat or socks on 😭😭😭😭😭

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Gotta have a code.

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