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Casey Whitaker

@alphacentauri53.bsky.social

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💖🧬✨🇨🇦🇳🇱Alpha Centaurian librarian and Akashic record keeper. Observer in Time and Life. Intergalactic visitor and journeyer. New directions, improvisation and blue sky thinking strongly encouraged. Mtigwaaki🌎

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · Nov 10

Keep looking ahead. There is hope. Change will come. Women are the future, as they are both the present and the past.

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks very much for this 🧵💖📌

Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you for letting us know. We are most fond of brother Greg💖. Sending loving and healing energy🙌✨

Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you, my brother, and a most good morning to you💖
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Thanksgiving Day here in beautiful northeastern Canada🇨🇦

Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 14h

Many articles describe the ever-increasing spate of new or revived illnesses as unexpected, unexplained, unprecedented - and never mention COVID. It is still circulating, still mutating, still destroying our immune systems.
This one is so refreshingly honest.
#CleanAirNow
#MaskUp
#Vaccinate
#Isolate

On a cellular level:
HIV depletes immunity by infection.
SARS-CoV-2 dismantles it by exhaustion, apoptosis, and transcriptional silencing.
Both converge on immune failure.
Different path, same outcome - a chronic state of immune deficiency.
Across organs we see - microangiopathy neurodegeneration mitochondrial collapse immune exhaustion
This isn't long COVID.
It's a multi-organ immune failure syndrome - an AIDS-like state by another name.
Can this process be reversed?
Some immune circuits recover.
But mitochondrial loss, T-cell exhaustion, and chronic antigen exposure can persist - leaving an imprint even in people who recovered.
A form of hidden immune debt.
If mild immune exhaustion remains widespread, we should see its fingerprints at the population level: rising secondary infections faster pathogen spread reactivation of latent viruses
And emerging epidemiology increasingly points that way.
Maybe post-COVID isn't the exception.
Maybe it's the new baseline.
A slow erosion of immune resilience reshaping how societies age and how other pathogens spread.
If the term AIDS sounds too heavy - give it another name. But do not pretend it isn't happening. Biology doesn't care about semantics.
We won't heal what we refuse to see.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1974875270990499954.html
Zdenek Vrozina🇵🇱

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 15h

“We are going to overshoot 1.5C of global warming probably around 2030 on current projections,” Lenton said.
“This puts the world in a greater danger zone of escalating risk of further damaging tipping points.”

#ClimateActionNow
#NatureSky
#ClimateSky
#GreenSky
#NoPlanetB
#Gaia

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 15h

Peace
@deadder.bsky.social🇨🇦❤️

Trump sits behind the presidential seal in the Oval Office while an aide, holding a newspaper with the headline “Trump brings peace to Middle East” says “Now try bringing peace to America”

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 15h

You are most welcome!💖

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💙 KG-S for democracy ✊ @kgso.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for the boost! Next Saturday show up in masses! Protest peacefully! This administration has to go! The state of our world is changing daily! Fascists are coming out of their holes and destroying 80 years of progress! We must all stand our ground and show our leaders we won’t allow it!

Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 16h

TYSM my brother
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Man In The High Castle 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗞️⚖️📚🤬 @davek67.bsky.social · 17h

🚨⚖️📚Trump’s border moves now alarm Canada. Charlie Angus says Trump okayed a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho near the border after getting a private 747 from Qatar. He’s bragged of Putin “channels,” hit Canada’s auto industry, claimed he “saved 100,000 lives.” Canada rethinks defense ties in crisis.🇨🇦

TRUMPS MILITARY MADNESS ON OUR BORDER

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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LippyJimmy @lippyjimmy.bsky.social · 15h

Orange isn't interested in saving lives in Gaza, he's interested in building a resort in Gaza. Period.

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 16h

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 16h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...
Oh dear, when Trump said America didn’t need anything from Canada, he forgot to say that didn’t include our business, our travel to the US, & our MONEY.
Talk about wanting your cake & eating it too.
#FAFO America, you voted for this.
#BoycottUSA
#ElbowsUp
#CanadaStrong

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 16h

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 🌊 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 16h

🌎Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day 🌎

Today we honor the rich history, resilience, and culture of the First Nations and Indigenous peoples who were the original stewards of this land long before colonization.

Let’s take today to reflect, learn, and uplift Indigenous voices every day not just today. 🪶❤️

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when economics genius and petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre was telling his gullible followers to buy crypto as a hedge against inflation?
www.thestar.com/business/cry...

Crypto’s record selloff sparks intrigue over who got wiped out

A record $19 billion in bets evaporated and crypto prices tumbled, due in large part to newly severe China tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.thestar.com

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Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾 @moberzan.bsky.social · 16h

I just love these people

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Dem Lady Always @demladyalways.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you Casey!

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 16h

Love the frogs, my sister!🙌🌺

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 16h

À Charm el-Cheikh, en Égypte, afin d’assister au Sommet pour la paix, un événement historique où les dirigeants du monde se rencontrent en vue d’une paix juste et durable au Moyen-Orient.

Ce moment est porteur d’espoir pour les Israéliens, les Palestiniens et le reste du monde.