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Joshua David @joshuadavid.bsky.social · 12h

This reminded me of a Majority Report interview w David Rushkoff. Rushkoff describes being approached by several billionaire preppers, all of whom were concerned with how to maintain control over their security and help during a bunker scenario. It's a fascinating interview.
youtu.be/nS3-dQen-YM?...

The Tech Bro Billionaire Ethos That Will Eat Us All | Douglas Rushkoff | TMR

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 5h

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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David @walterrothbard.bsky.social · 5h

It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants because you decided they crossed some sort of line into a forbidden zone. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants at all.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 5h

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 14h

Most autistic people I meet *like* being autistic. It’s core to who they are & comes with many strengths

What’s hard is surviving in a society that rarely accommodates, respects or tries to understand us

There’s a BIG difference between being autistic & being unsupported

Let’s not confuse the two

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 7h

you tell this person that their actions are directly contributing to the public disappearance of wide swaths of the population who can't even safely get the medical care necessary to survive and this person goes well it's not fair to me, I have to live my life.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 7h

I just think that if you are going to state definitively that something is not a risk, then you should be able to readily cite at least ONE study that wasn't later retracted as false. or you should have to read ten of the newest papers on how covid fucks you up. vibes will not save you!!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4h

Good morning!

Why yes, I am the freelancer.

Did I complete my security awareness training module?

No, I ignored that email since I’m not a full-time employee.

Oh, I see.

Contractors are now required to complete those as well now.

I Am a Freelancer (In the Lack-of-Gigs Economy)

Thanks for reaching out. Yes, I’m interested in your one-week project, which you’ve described as a “sprint”—a fun euphemism for seven days of sheer...

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 6h

At some point we're gonna have to have media that isn't just a rehash of what Boomers had when they were kids

A photo of Jim Carrey overlaid with a Variety headline that says he's in talks to star in 'The Jetsons' live-action movie.

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe it’s just me, but, if a person throws a tantrum for almost 6 years because they feel entitled to never face the consequences of their actions, they are obviously NOT a brave responsible mature prosocial ally?

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you to everyone who's donated! Ive hit 48% on this but taking in book sales would have pushed it to 50% or so anyways!

I will still leave it up as any extra dollar will help me next month and for any credit card payments, but at least this month is secured.

Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 2d

nearly the middle of the month, if i can get this up to 50% i would be extremely grateful, even shares are just as important!
#MutualAid #GFM #Ko-Fi

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Support LaikaLGagarin

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 19

Necessary actions of care and concern, such as wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, should not be regarded as being too much to ask of someone. In truth, wearing a respirator mask is the least that a person can do.

#COVID19 #respirator

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 7h

it's almost daily you see a moderately known person with a large following authoritatively say that covid isn't a big deal anymore and you go okay so what studies have you been reading because hundreds of thousands papers disprove that and they're just like well because I think so. vibes alone.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6h

A must-read. I can’t even keep track of how many friends & acquaintances with Long Covid (myself included) have poured our life’s savings into trying to recover, making painstakingly slow strides here & there, only to have it all wiped out & worse by a reinfection. Please give us a fucking break!

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 13h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 16h

Once again, the message of socialism is: there is no fundamental conflict between landlord and renter, between occupier and colonized. This has been the tendency of socialists for 150 years.

If anticapitalism isn't anti-state, it becomes pro-capitalist within a single electoral cycle...

PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 1d

NYT today: "For months now Mamdani has been meeting privately with former leaders in city government, business executives... He made key concessions when it comes to policing, [he's] open to compromise on his proposed millionaire tax." His first step was reaching out to NYC's top 25 business leaders

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 16h

Zohran Mamdani is full of shit! And everyone who thinks their saviour is a fucking Democrat politician needs to go fuck themselves.

PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 1d

NYT today: "For months now Mamdani has been meeting privately with former leaders in city government, business executives... He made key concessions when it comes to policing, [he's] open to compromise on his proposed millionaire tax." His first step was reaching out to NYC's top 25 business leaders

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism & the State imposed themselves through conquest. They can't be voted out of power. This isn't abstract theory for me, I say this as someone who has dealt with housing precarity my whole adult life, someone with chronic and serious health problems, someone who deals with police violence...

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 16h

"Not punish landlords!" 🙃🙃🙃

Small brain to big brain meme
OLOVE KAMALA
ANDNEWSOM!
MAYBEO
SHOULD CHECK
AIPAC TRACKER
MAMDANIS
OUR HOPE!
MO ONE WHO GENUINELY
sUPPORTS PALESTINE AND OPPOSES
FASCISM WOULD HAVE ANYTHING
TO DO WITH THE DEMS, A PARTY
THAT FUNDS ISRAEL AND ICE
MAMDANI IS THEIR LATEST TROJAN HORSE

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Meagan @meagkram.bsky.social · 5h

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

“Downplaying the long-term immunological and neurological consequences of reinfection is a public-health error on par with minimizing HIV in the early 1980s.”

"’We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.’

That's a direct quote from a new peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

https://www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S2773-0654(25)00146-4/fulltext

The authors argue that while SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are biologically different, they share disturbing parallels:

• Persistent immune dysfunction (T-cell exhaustion, reduced recovery)
• Tissue reservoirs that keep the body inflamed
• Accelerated biological aging and vascular damage
• Neurocognitive decline eerily similar to HIV-associated brain injury
• A possible rise in infections and cancers once held in check by healthy immunity

Their conclusion:

‘Downplaying the long-term immunological and neurological consequences of reinfection is a public-health error on par with minimizing HIV in the early 1980s.’

It's not ‘Airborne AIDS’ — but it is an airborne virus that can chip away at the immune system with every exposure.

Prevention still matters. Masks, ventilation, filtration, and vaccination still matter.

You don't need to panic. You just need to pay attention.

Dr Sean Mullen

• Salamon et al., AJPM Focus (2025). Open Access.”

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 7h

Yep, clankers are assholes. @davidgerard.co.uk
youtu.be/uVf7VUX_iUk?...

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 9h

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eerie eira 👻 ⚧ @eiras-place.bsky.social · 13h

i hate the pretentious liberal mentality of the no kings protests. peaceful protest achieves next to nothing. mask up and break shit!!!!!

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Ronlyn Domingue @ronlyndomingue.bsky.social · 13h

HIV is transmitted through body fluids and requires direct contact. COVID is airborne, so a person could just go into an area with a high viral load and get it. How many more human beings are likely to be exposed to and spread COVID compared to HIV?

Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 14h

So for everyone who has said that comparisons between HIV and COVID-19 are inflammatory and irresponsible, I’m sharing this new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that does just that and finds some clear parallels:

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

A screenshot of article highlights:

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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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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 9h

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fritzoids @fritzoids.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Last day of the fair!

#onwednesdayswewearmasks #saltingthevibes #yallmasking

a white woman wearing a dark blue boatfold respirator and a light blue jeans jacket stands in front of a large swing carousel. Because the sun is setting the carousel is lit up with lots of individual light bulbs.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 9h

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 13h

Got my car serviced yesterday. Did I wear my Flo Mask in order to avoid contracting cooties that were inevitably circulating? You bet your sweet bippy I did. Personally, I am not willing to be complicit in getting and spreading Covid-19 and contributing to the harm and suffering of others.😷✌️❤️

I am standing in front of a white building and wearing a Flo Mask.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 11h

the alt i haven't posted on for months just got banned for spam, great job keeping everyone safe mods! your system definitely isn't fucking stupid!

Hi there,

A Bluesky account you control (@timelordofalderaan.bsky.social) has been assessed as a spammy, fake, or inauthentic account. Your account was reviewed by Bluesky content moderators and was found to be in violation of our Community Guidelines. As a result, your account has been taken down.

As a reminder, Bluesky requires that users not use Bluesky to do harm to others, including spamming, phishing or otherwise using technical means to disrupt the Bluesky experience for other users.

If you have any additional questions or wish to appeal this decision please email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz.

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