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Not The Brain
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Nerd. Queer. Neurospicy. Spoony Polyam. Loves to dance, swim, science, make art and flail swords... Not nessecarily good at any of it Xe/Xem Gender not found. Might be a squirrel 🏳️‍🌈 ⚧ Pink.dalek on instagram Robi on Applied Materials actual play pod
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If you're in a higher-risk category, get your mpox vaccine.

I know people who had the Clade IIb variety and it was *bad*. You don't want this one...
🧵🧵 MPOX
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Three cases of Mpox Clade 1 confirmed in Los Angeles this month, none with recent foreign travel.

That suggests *local spread* is happening.
People here already have it and have transmitted it.

This is concerning - let’s delve in.
(Marathon post ahead!)
A potentially more severe strain of mpox may be spreading in L.A. County
It’s the first time this particular type of mpox, known as “Clade I,” has been found in the United States among people who had no history of traveling overseas to high-risk areas.
www.latimes.com
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She had prepared a second volume of her poems but could not afford to publish it. It is in these dismal circumstances that the first Black woman to publish a book of any kind died from pneumonia, uncared for and alone, in Boston in December 1784 aged 31.

apple.news/Ak6TSMwQKQYy...
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet — The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
apple.news
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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I was doing some gouache practice on stream today and this Red-Fronted Macaw turned out nicely. Painted for #streamink prompt 'Extinction' .. where this lovely bird is nearly hitting, sadly.

#art #macaw #gouache
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October 20 2025 #MutualAidThread!

See image or it's alt text for the rules.

🚨Reply to this post to participate in the thread.🚨

Follow this account to reply.

Mutual aid resources: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#HelpSky #MABoost #FundSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 💕💸
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People who tell me “You’re an extreme case, we’re not talking about you” when it comes to disability benefits…

I don’t care.

When you come for one disabled person, you come for us all.

I’m not as selfish as you to do the “Oh I’m alright then”.
I actually care about others.
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This is bad but also if you are an adult born between 1970 and 1990 you should consider getting the MMR as you were probably not vaccinated against all three infections

Yesterday I booked an MMR jab after realising I lived abroad for the first two years of my life so wouldn't have had any jabs
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if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:
Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis
I don't know how much longer I'm going to bother with this site
Really quite bad that it *appears* that @jay.bsky.team wsnted someone banned because she found him annoying and had @support.bsky.team invent a completely Orwellian excuse based on a nonsense reading of his BSky posts

This is the kind of behavior we expect from the Twitter leadership ….
Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.

His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.

Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
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Had a nice break away from reality for the weekend.
Today has been miserable
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A perfect Squirrel of the Day for October 6, 2025 #sqrlpix
(that paw tuck! 12/10)
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The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.
My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.
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If you keep voting for politicians who want to cut public services and roll back human rights, eventually you end up desperate but powerless because if you so much as squeak in protest the government is free to do what it wants to you.
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Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs

I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...?

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest
Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Someone in front of me has loads of patches on their jacket, including ones of dinosaur skulls. I've ID'd all of them #MigbtBeANerd
Is the embodiment of anxiety, panic, hyper vigilance, stupidity, crying at stupid things and wanting to crawl into myself and disappear
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This is partly my point - Get involved in local activism. Help work to notify activists in your area of ICE patrols. Build community outreach programs. There is a TON to be done between the binaries of boycotting & physical violence - its just hard for us to imagine it because we aren't show in.
Well I don't know what else would be working besides violence in this case.
Just denouncing these things won't make them stop. Showing people how horrible companies are, doesn't make them stop. So the ONLY thing people can do besides literally trashing places that these companies own is not pay.
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We need heroes. People to respect and emulate. People who inspire us to do our best and be our best. Jane Goodall was a hero, and she will remain one.