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@rifka.bsky.social

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she. REAL late 30s. cringe. not cool discord: rif.161 bg: political linguistics🏴 (autodidactic mostly). san diego wheelchair user. VERY AUTISTIC, I CAN COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY OR NOT AT ALL. relatedly, also #1 USian Carrlyn AND Quinton fan 🏒🤴⚽️🌊 🏉(🛡️)🇳🇿🥍🦭⚾️📿🏀✨

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · Aug 31

We used to protect children from viruses. We used to protect immunocompromised adults too. We used to protect cancer patients from viruses known to cause and inflame cancer. We used to protect children from dangerous products that had killed ONE child. ONE.

How many deaths have u learned to accept?

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 5h

ok looking it up it’s wonderful! “officialese” in english is a morphological mess imho

shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 6h

you know who beamed ten friggin deutsch in the war

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 17h

If the ongoing pandemic has taught me anything after 5 years mostly in isolation it's that in the eyes of society:

I'm dispensable.
I'm worthless.
I'm a nuisance.
I'm a burden.
I don't matter.

Try living with that every day. Try coming on here and seeing people routinely reinforce that message.

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 17h

I can't go to the dentist to repair broken bonding on two teeth and to fix enamel damage from one of my meds.

I'm in pain from these things, but there's nothing I can do about it, because people refuse to mask, and when my chronic illness is already severe, I can't risk getting worse from covid.

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 17h

As someone with ME/CFS my entire life is "rational assessment of the threat environment," because I walk a daily tightrope of illness management.

I don't have the luxury of ignoring the science, which overwhelmingly proves the threat of covid is still very real.

That's not fear, it's fact.

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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Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social · 15h

!!!!!! Disabled people matter for fuck’s sake and we’re well informed about our own health situation and the risks of covid. Many of us have learned the hard way by having covid obliterate our bodies and lives. It’s infantilizing and ableist to say we’re not well informed.

Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 17h

Convenience wins out over compassion, though, and asking people to protect others is too much apparently.

Because when disabled people beg for basic consideration, we're branded demanding and fearful.

Framing our legitimate needs as fear is not okay.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13h

The 👁️👁️ in here is that AZ is prepping a lawsuit against the federal gov for **taxation without representation*^ given it’s been 21 days and Grijalva is no closer to being sworn in.

Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 14h

Adelita! Swear her in!

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 13h

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

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HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction.
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Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks of HIVI/AIDS and Long COVID/PASC.
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Tissue reservoir persistence drives long-term damage in both HIV and SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 mirrors HIV-1 in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause chronic infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 -associated neurological disorders (SAND) parallel HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND).
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Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just normal men

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Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social · 3d

Visited Saffron Walden today and admired its Great Ditch or Battle Ditch. The medieval town was unwalled; this earthwork (ditch + ramp) was its full defensive perimeter

View down the length of a wide, grassy ditch, with a path along one side and red vines hanging from tall trees on the other

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

In my own subfield, since 2000 or so, we've substantially updated out understanding of Greek hoplite warfare, perhaps most importantly the social model of who served as hoplites.

Major alterations to the timeline of the Roman military transition from maniples to cohorts.

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 6h

the revolution is not a forgettable luncheon

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Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 7h

Some people don’t notice your impact until your presence is no longer at their convenience.

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of these democrats’ accounts want to cop trump’s style with “parody” attempts lacking a cohesive point of view, or where the nuance of the voice is lost in stale comedic devices. But at least you could tell their last sentences are making fun of the last sentence of his posts. This, I wonder

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 14h

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 7h

It’s time to switch to present tense

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Take The House Neutralize Trump the Rogue SCOTUS 7 & GOP. @fighttrump.bsky.social · 16h

They have kidnapped a 19-year-old black boy who is a US citizen is this the United States slave patrol 2.0

The Supreme Court of the United States of America has made legal kidnapping and slavery based upon the person’s skin color in 2025.

bsky.app/profile/crus...

The Crustian Daily @crustiandaily.news · 16h

An ICE agent has violently kidnapped a young black American man in Chicago. Video footage shot by the Save American Movement shows the moment of the kidnapping, while his sister explains that her brother is an American citizen.
www.crustiandaily.news/p/ice-violen...

ICE Violently Kidnap Black 19-Year-Old American Citizen In Chicago

Video shows the moment ICE take an American citizen without explanation

www.crustiandaily.news

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 13h

Terrific news out of California. Read the whole thread to learn just how nefarious Lexipol’s policy was, and how the California legislature shut it down. Hats off to @steelandballast.bsky.social for bringing this story to light.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

A new California law will effectively ban officers from questioning the families of people killed by police before alerting them to the news of their loved one's death.

This practice was popularized by Lexipol, the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals. 🧵

California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt

A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.

www.motherjones.com

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 7h

please click on my Gish list

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John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social · 13h

Which is to say, for example, if Platner attracts more independent voters than Mills, he’d probably have a better chance against Collins if he got to the general, but might lose to Mills in the primary all the same.

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kristina @matulasmercantile.bsky.social · 13h

hiii here some mask chains I made recently 🍎🍄‍🟫👻🧛🗡️🩸 pretty much all still available for anyone interested: www.matulasmercantile.etsy.com :3 ty

#covidcautious #stillcoviding #maskup #wearamask

a picture of 2 mask chains: there both gold. top one has acorn, mushroom, and fox charms as well as fall colored preciosa crystal beads inbetween. the bottom is a plain gold chain that has two red glass beads and leaves to resemble apples

a picture of a silver mask chin with two bat charms and 2 preciosa crystal drops to resemble blood. red and black beads throughout the chain. the chain is on a red background

a picture of 4 mask chains. they’re all ghosts. from top to bottom they’re purple, green, pink, and blue themed. each as their own themed color beads to coordinate

a picture of a gold mask chain with red, grey and black beads. there’s two gold swords and 2 czech glass red drops on each side

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Michael Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 12h

Sure man.

www.npr.org/2017/11/03/5...

Clinton Campaign Had Additional Signed Agreement With DNC In 2015

NPR has learned that Hillary Clinton's campaign had an agreement, separate from one also signed by Bernie Sanders' campaign, providing control over party decisions in exchange for relieving DNC debt.

www.npr.org

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Jedr @jedren.bsky.social · 12h

please.
really. please.

Dems lie so blatantly, obviously, & repeatedly. People run from your party. How can you lie like this?

Dems play on the strictest interpretation of words.
The DNC doesn't PUBLICLY endorse. They actively, quietly, fundraise, campaign, & promote one & sabotage others.

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shtum entity victim #BringBackLink @rifka.bsky.social · 7h

lol

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 12h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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NO WEIMAR → NO REICH @sma99.bsky.social · 1d

hey bub quick question HIV is airborne orrrr

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