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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 2h

This was awesome when I saw it on my trip: bsky.app/profile/pype...

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 14d

Saw this in Chicago outside Wrigley field last week!

Image of a t-shirt with a graphic of The Blues Brothers and the text
"We're on a mission from
Da Pope"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2h

When I was there, they had cardboard stand ups!

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

"Pope Leo, a man who has spent the bulk of his career in Peru, will surely reject Latin American ideas about Catholicism" is the funniest Anglo cope

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Brian Morans @whpshw.bsky.social · 3h

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

It feels very weird to have such an absolute lad as Pontiff. Like a Pope you know has gone to town on a big thing of wings.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Skeletal Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 18h

“Amy! What is best in life?”
IDK, but watching somebody who loves Distressing Animal Facts share one with someone who’s equal parts delighted and horrified to learn it has gotta be pretty high on the list.

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LittleBrisby 🐀 @littlebrisby.bsky.social · 17d

✨ eating is the sole privilege of the living ✨

#dungeonmeshi #tragonesymazmorras #fanart

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 20h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 21h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 7h

Why aren’t they vaccinated? Because it isn’t available in SL, a fact that I’ve been publicly fighting about for a year. www.linkedin.com/posts/mattwa...

I don't typically ask you for much but this is important: I need my professional network to squad up to help me with something. What I need: Connections and pressure on CEPI (Coalition for Epidem...

I don't typically ask you for much but this is important: I need my professional network to squad up to help me with something. What I need: Connections and pressure on CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic P...

www.linkedin.com

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 7h

Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social · 1d

I Still Think Beast Should Be Sent To Prison shelfdust.com/2025/02/12/i...

I Still Think Beast Should Be Sent To Prison

By Steve Morris Years ago I may have broken one of the classic X-Men. Over at ComicsAlliance, I wrote an article which pointed at several then-recent instances of war crimes committed by Hank McCoy…

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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 2h

#Books
#FuckTrump

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6h

The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books.
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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 5h

Yellow fever, dengue, and malaria used to be endemic to river valleys and the southeastern US. That was back in the day before we had decorative man made ponds in gated subdivisions and stagnant puddles from lawn irrigation everywhere. They'd be much more widespread now.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2h

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 6h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Paul Tate @paultate2995.bsky.social · 3h

The Pope is a White Sox fan.

That's okay, because God's grace is greater than any human failing.

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DuzClues @duszclues.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder what Catholic doctrine is when the Pope heckles you

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Dr. James D @doctorjamesd.bsky.social · 8h

Ooooh that's a good point, cool musical instruments would count. I could buy a Furby Organ!

two furby birds are sitting on a ledge with the words behold the twilight of man below them

Alt: two furby birds are sitting on a ledge with the words behold the twilight of man below them

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

You should care about trans rights just generally, because trans people are people, they have always been here and they always will be.

BUT if you MUST put a cis spin on it, this is where transphobia gets you. It's either bodily autonomy for all of us or none of us.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 22h

This is pretty wild reading & if you like me are a gym enthusiast who knocks back a protein shake or 3 throughout the week & thought plant protein was better for your body than whey, probably important to read!

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

there are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers. last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them!

when the agency does do inspections, it overwhelmingly focuses on domestic manufacturers. that's a problem because a LOT of these materials are sourced from foreign factories

$Manufacturers generally don’t even have to notify the FDA when introducing a new product. A 2023 Government Accountability Office report found the FDA’s oversight of the supplement industry so lacking that it urged Congress to expand its authority. The report noted that the FDA relies largely on voluntarily submitted complaints and inspections to identify safety issues and ensure companies are complying with manufacturing guidelines. Those inspections cover only a fraction of the industry. There are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers, according to an agency spokesperson. Last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them: 510 domestic and 90 foreign. With so little oversight, people who turn to supplements out of concern for their health are left to navigate the risks on their own. “When these products that should be straightforward contain more heavy metals than expected, that exposes the challenge for consumers these days,” says Cohen.$

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