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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Becky Ancira Robertson @ancirabecky.bsky.social · 5h

www.connexionfrance.com/practical/fr...

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar

A vaccination campaign against Covid begins in France on October 14

www.connexionfrance.com

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 7h

The longer it takes to crash, the worse it's going to be. The bubble keeps getting bigger while the fundamentals keep looking worse. Everyone knows that this is unsustainable.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7h

The world economy has held up much better than expected this year despite the chaos triggered by Donald Trump's tariffs. But the biggest tests have yet to come

World Economy Faces Triple Risk of Tariffs, AI Bubble and Soaring Debt

The world economy has so far withstood the biggest barrage of US tariffs since the 1930s as American consumers continued to spend, companies absorbed higher costs and an AI boom fueled a new breed of animal spirits.

bloom.bg

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 7h

[...]“the virus isn’t just a pathogen. It’s an architect of cognitive collapse. Its target: empathy, conscience, foresight.” In simpler terms, he explains in another post that “billions are silently losing the part of their brain that makes them human.”

Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 5d

Are we suffering from benevolence debt?

As a Covid-Conscious person, your choice to continue with masking and mitigations is part of the legacy you're building.

It matters more than you'll ever know.

guinesspig.ghost.io/a-little-gol...

A Little Gold Dog, A Not-So-Little Legacy

There’s a little figurine of a dog I keep on a shelf in my home. It’s painted gold, mounted on a weighted piece of wood, and has an embedded metal hook. I assume it’s to hold a leash, since it came w...

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 2d

“U.K. Consultant Neuropathologist @JamesThrot ties it all together: “the virus is…an architect of cognitive collapse. Its target: empathy, conscience, foresight.” In simpler terms, he explains in another post that “billions are silently losing the part of their brain that makes them human.”

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 17h

Speaking of the donor class, the Atlantic has consistently wanted people to forget that COVID is dangerous so that nothing inhibits them from being mindless consumers propping up the economy.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · Jun 11

Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?

A sick kid
Headline:
Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?
Story by Abner Gater and Ivan Lytomyzelf

Photo from Adobe

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

You should read this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social if you haven't already done so: organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 21h

And here is one of the twins some years earlier in a show hosted by Calleja, which shows how life is in rural areas. Here, Calleja is showing him in helicopter his village and surroundings. What a cute guy, and how with simple words he describes how much he loves his village and the countryside.

Sergio Felices, un joven pastor:

Uno de los momentos más emotivos del programa ha llegado cuando Jesús Calleja ha montado en el helicóptero a un chico que lleva toda la vida en el p

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 21h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 21h

I live in a city, but my heart has been linked to villages all my life. This touches my heart. I miss the cows, the countryside, the meadows, the woods. The clarity of mind, the simplicity of life.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 21h

I want to talk about extensive livestock farming (vs industrial intensive farming) and the important role it plays in maintaining villages alive in rural areas.
In the vid, young farmers in a little village in the Pyrenees.

Dos hermanos más difíciles de distinguir que sus ovejas. Fernando y Sergio Felices

YouTube video by El campo es nuestro Aragón TV

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 22h

The first skirmishes will occur in unexpected places. Mutiny is in the mind of an apprentice cook. Then dense silence. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose. Pandemonium, mayhem.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 22h

You saw a little crack and heard metal noise. Then, in a blink of an eye, all of it crumbles.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 23h

H5N1, Yersinia Pestis, Sars2, antibiotic resistance...

Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to stop looking at civil service as a career path in the USA. It's a stepping stone, nothing more. Some people will be stuck, hanging on, but everyone else will steer clear of getting locked into rusted handcuffs.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 1d

The blame game would be a propaganda distraction to hamper any intent of making the main players pay for the crime. Libs and cons...

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 1d

What they are delaying - for just a bit longer - is the house bubble burst, going global, pushing it to the limit with real estate corporate shareholding motherfuckery.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 1d

We'll have to oppose tooth and nail any bailout at the expense of social infrastructure.
Down with speculators and privatizers.

Hannah Harkness @harkitshannah.bsky.social · 1d

People worrying about the AI bubble when I’ve jumped ahead and am already mad about the government bailout of the AI bubble

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

I really hope the AI bubble bursts soon. So sick and tired of them shoving it into everything whether it makes sense or not.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 1d

Looping the loop, inflating the bubble. AI will drag us all into quicksand.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Another one for the list

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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to late September.

The XFG.* "Stratus" variant continued to dominate, growing to 85% frequency.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew slightly to 10%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR #LP_8_1 #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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