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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 4h

I've been holding my breath waiting for the shutdown to come to an end, the Democrats potentially successfully reduce cuts to healthcare premiums..

And then silently pass all of the anti-trans amendments for healthcare anyway. REALLY hoping I'm wrong, but a good track record is sorely lacking..

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 17h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 4h

What Vance means is that’s what *white* ppl do and that’s behavior he thinks we should excuse from *white* ppl who by the way, are not kids but are in fact adults who know better.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 11h

I naively thought we had good insurance (that we also pay a fortune for) until we needed mental health care at which point we realized that a lot of people and programs don’t take insurance at all. Tens of thousands of dollars and a second mortgage later I’m too aware of how awful the system is.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

"Medical gaslighting as a service" is not a use case I anticipated! Doctors seem to enjoy that part of the job so much, why would they outsource it to an app?

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 8h

Pain does not work like this.

Nothing works like this. There's a reason lie detectors are inadmissible bullshit machines.

But even if it did, those thermometers mentioned in the first sentence? They don't work properly on Black skin. Same with pulse oximeters: they don't work on melanin, either.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 7h

NEWS: Judge Illston grants labor unions request for a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the Reductions in Force that began during the shutdown.

"As of right now the TRO is in effect."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

NEWS: Here's a report on the shutdown RIF TRO issued by Judge Illston at a hearing just now. (This is also the end of a thread from @jennifershutt.bsky.social on the hearing.) —>

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 7h

Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown

w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/brea...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown

WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the thousands of layoffs it initiated after the government shutd...

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

You can literally only tell I am in the kind of pain that makes abled people scream out loud by taking my blood pressure or just—and this is radical—believing what comes out of my mouth.

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

“The cumulative global incidence of long COVID is around 400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion—equivalent to about 1% of the global economy.”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long COVID science, research and policy - Nature Medicine

This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking rese...

www.nature.com

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

It pisses me off to no end that Long Covid affects hundreds of millions of people globally and no one I know can name a Long Covid expert or any of the leading labs looking into it. It’s simply not a topic people want to pay any attention to, and I consider that living in fear, or at least denial.

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

There is no quicker way to make people uncomfortable and to not want to talk to you than to share the latest findings of what Covid does in our bodies.

Almost no one I know has done a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021 when we were told to vax and relax into Delta and Omicron.

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

UCLA’s Long Covid clinic director explains that Covid is not a lung issue but “vascular and neurologic infection.”

A Duke cardiologist shares “we see people have symptoms from almost head to toe.”

People don’t care, they don’t want to hear it.

www.heart.org/en/news/2024...

Beyond breathing: How COVID-19 affects your heart, brain and other organs

The "head-to-toe" effects of COVID-19 infection mean you still need to be cautious, experts say.

www.heart.org

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

The average person is not informed that Covid is not confined to the respiratory system and infects blood vessels, immune cells, and the brain.

We rolled the dice and have exposed everyone to SARS2 repeatedly, and the idea that this has been determined safe through rigorous study is patently false.

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 20h

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true.

Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid.

Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 10h

I think the biggest problem is also the lack of understanding of asymptomatic infection. And it's likely because a lot of other infections do have a pretty quick symptom onset. One of my relatives had covid recently and "just had a stuffy nose for a few days" but at least tested/isolated. Most don't

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.bsky.social · 10h

It's also backward, because the COMPANY is SAVING MONEY by allowing someone to work from home.

By letting everyone stay remote, my husband's employer dropped the lease on two whole office buildings! And that was just where we live. The NYC real estate they've let go is even more savings!

Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 11h

Companies have decided to pay people less who work remotely, even if they have more expertise and/or provide more value to a company than certain people who go into the office.

Guess who needs remote jobs more? Marginalized groups! especially disabled people! What a coincidence! 🫠

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Simon Corston-Oliver @simonhco.bsky.social · 1d

Three male wood ducks looking mighty fine on World Migratory Bird Day at Burnaby Lake, BC.

#birds #birdphotography #naturephotography 🌿

Three male wood ducks standing in a row on a log in Burnaby Lake. The center duck is facing us. The ducks on either side are facing away but turning back to groom.

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 11h

Companies have decided to pay people less who work remotely, even if they have more expertise and/or provide more value to a company than certain people who go into the office.

Guess who needs remote jobs more? Marginalized groups! especially disabled people! What a coincidence! 🫠

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 1d

Not only is stimming an incredibly regulating and quite healthy thing to do;

aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Dec 3

“Stimming had a SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE impact on autistic adults’ self-rated self-efficacy”

“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”

“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”

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Repetitive Behaviours in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: Associations with Sensory Sensitivity and Impact on Self-Efficacy - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Purpose: Restricted and repetitive behaviours are a core feature of autism diagnoses but have not been widely studied in adulthood. This study examined the rates of and associations between repetitive...

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 11h

oof. ><

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 15h

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

i am not interested in attempting to widen the gulf between me and the overwhelming majority of society, who has stopped taking any precaution about covid whatsoever in any situation including the fucking emergency room, by trying to get people to mask

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