Ashley
@aamas739.bsky.social
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Freelance editor, book hoarder, far too tired most of the time https://inkpot1.blogspot.com/
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The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
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"The virus can inflame blood vessels and raise the risk of clots and strokes. Think of it as a smoldering inflammation after an infection that can last for years to come." Hey, that sounds really familiar! 😷 Maybe there are other viruses that do that, too. 😉
Shingles Vaccination Tied to Drops in Cardiovascular Events, Dementia, Death
Those with post-vaccination shingles still saw a 50% lower risk of vascular dementia
link.broadcaster3.medpagetoday.com
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Perfection
Donald Trump shelled J.D. Vance's security detail.
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legit crying so hard right now about this little boy who gave away his skateboard to save a little kitten
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“A new study suggests that these vaccines might boost the effects of immunotherapy drugs, perhaps by alerting the immune system & helping direct immune cells to attack tumors. That’s in addition to helping protect against Covid, which can be particularly important for cancer patients”
mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests
The potential reasons that a Covid vaccine would help treat cancer are intriguing.
www.statnews.com
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Same problem in publishing and film.

Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.

People can't create like this.

We shouldn't have to create like this.

There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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No honor.

The whole administration has no honor, but Rubio is the tip of the statecraft spear.
So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.
I was hoping last night's early bedtime would be enough to catch up on sleep but alas no
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You heard him, my fellow disabled and high risk folk, just avoid going in public forever. Sheesh. Stop asking for things like access to society or not being killed by your neighbors.
For the "everyone should mask" crowd: If you want to protect yourself, get vaccinated. If you want to add a layer of protection, wear a mask. If you fear getting infected despite those 2 precautions, avoid going where you believe the risk is elevated. Don't expect the world to take care of you.
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Katherine Boyle, former Peter Thiel intern, says government is an enemy of families.

So she's investing in high-tech weaponry...for the government.

I shared my thoughts on her "American Dynamism" — a VC pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.

NYT gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
www.nytimes.com
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Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/
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Beware the bipartisan 'hero'. In times of rising authoritarianism, they are a seductive ruse.
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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What blew my mind was a doctor who, after having had 2 infections themself, told me about all the terrible effects repeat infections were having on their patients but after their 3rd infection started claiming that it was milder now and only really bad for elderly folks
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Translation: they haven’t strong-armed any Rs to change their Epstein votes yet.
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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ok it caught up – the white house is now blocked by 626,768
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They want us to believe they’re “joking” when they do this shit.
They don’t know how to joke.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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LET US LIVE 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️
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The NYTimes was not able to rule out the possibility that Donald Trump was actually filmed wearing a crown and flying a jet that doused Americans with diarrhea.
"Brown liquid" ftw. I thought they'd at least acknowledge the consistency. I also love the "appeared to be AI." I think it's pretty safe to conclude he didn't have the whizzes at Industrial Light and Magic whip that up for him.
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like this is vicious.

they waited for the grandmas to go home so they could do this.
LAPD now shooting 40mm foam rounds at people, some narrowly missing photographers who were stuck in between the line and protesters. Just absolutely evil shit.
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
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"There is little published evidence that any therapy is effective at removing microplastics from the body."

But that's not stopping entrepreneurs from selling treatments or consumers from buying them.

This is an issue to solve w/ regulation, not probiotics.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
As new treatments for microplastics emerge, here’s the evidence on how well they work
Entrepreneurs aim to remove microplastics from the body, but the cost can be steep and the clinical benefit remains uncertain.
www.washingtonpost.com