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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 9m

Also true

Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 20m

Wow, say what you want about Charlie Kirk's politics (they were horrible), but dunking on a dead guy this hard is totally fair game because freedom of expression

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 33m

Why would anyone want an on-demand clanker slop film that is guaranteed to be mid

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 4h

Billionaires who buy media don't do it for them to succeed in a sales and income sense. Success for them is less independent power of the fourth estate and more control and tools for the capital class

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

bluesky needs group chats so bad

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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 6h

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

STAT @statnews.com · 8h

Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 5h

They don't really want nutrition data collected if it might contradict the preconceived and inflexible theories that are being pushed by these MAHA grifters who are now unfortunately in control

STAT @statnews.com · 8h

Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21h

i got some bad news about the rest of academia

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

WEALTH
IS NOT THE FRUIT OF LABOUR
BUT THE RESULT OF ORGANISED, PROTECTED, ROBBERY.
FRANZ FANON

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 23h

Feast of Thanksgiving !

A table full of dishes served family style, with deep fried turkey, salt beef, peas pudding, boiled dinner (carrots, turnip and cabbage), garlic mashed potatoes, savory dressing, sweet potato mashed topped with marshmallows pecans, and Yorkshire puddings and cranberry sauce

A plate with deep fried turkey, salt beef, peas pudding, boiled dinner (carrots, turnip and cabbage), garlic mashed potatoes, savory dressing, sweet potato mashed topped with marshmallows pecans, and Yorkshire puddings topped with turkey gravy

A flight of pies, one lemon meringue, one apple and one pumpkin

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that was fast

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

Deep frying a turkey, past the first step it is in the oil and it didn't explode...

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

We should have an economy that isn't based on a small number of people self-dealing and wash-trading a make-believe future that nobody asked for

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

Jews Muslims and Christians have always been there. Israel is a European colonial project. And an apartheid state that has committed a genocide. Holy books have no role to play in international law.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 1d

You don't need a holy book to know that Jews were in Israel a lot more recently than ancient times.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, so much bad, so very little good

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that I can’t immediately tell if a video is AI now actually makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot believe there are people who think this is a good thing

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

For a very long time, this weird libertarian mishmash basically ran under the national radar because Portland was so small. But the whole time, my understanding of Portland was as a place where absurdist, self-determining approaches to everyday experiences were the norm.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

Off the top of my head
calraisins.org/wp-content/u...

calraisins.org

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

I mean personally disagree this is not the "worst nutrition trial" I have seen so so so many things...(Shudders).It is definitely a trial where they had lots of results they were not expecting. The lack of reporting of the primary outcome or any explanation of when to expect it or why is a problem

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it always the "worst nutrition trial", I'd love to see some good trials for once, also why would you report only secondary outcomes in a paper before you publish the primary outcome paper, what are you doing people?

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 1d

This may be the worst nutrition trial I've ever seen.

Subjects got a minimally processed diet or an ultra-processed diet, ostensibly to test the effect of processing.

But the UPF diet was higher in sat fat, sugar, refined grains, & lower in fiber.

What happened?
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

Roses are red
Fossils are old
www.newsweek.com/jordan-peter...

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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