Chris Womack
@hollowoak.bsky.social
White cis het GenX male--but don't hold it against me. Friend to all but the willfully uninformed.
The hell the US is going through? The pain, the terror? I see it. Am experiencing it. Plus I've got cancer. Cut me some f'ing slack.
Oh, and mask up.
The hell the US is going through? The pain, the terror? I see it. Am experiencing it. Plus I've got cancer. Cut me some f'ing slack.
Oh, and mask up.
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I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured.
I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work.
www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...
I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work.
www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...
Bad Press — Public Health is Dead
Coming Soon
www.publichealthisdead.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured.
I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work.
www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...
I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work.
www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Frog
Toad
Big red dog
Some pig
Mouse and motorcycle
shit I'm still not doing it right
Frog
Toad
Big red dog
Some pig
Mouse and motorcycle
shit I'm still not doing it right
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
Coyote
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Frog
Toad
Big red dog
Some pig
Mouse and motorcycle
shit I'm still not doing it right
Frog
Toad
Big red dog
Some pig
Mouse and motorcycle
shit I'm still not doing it right
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I remember following comedians, authors, talk show hosts and artists.
In the Trump decade my social media has become scientists, economists, journalists and lawyers.
All of us trying to stay abreast. All of us scared.
In the Trump decade my social media has become scientists, economists, journalists and lawyers.
All of us trying to stay abreast. All of us scared.
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I remember following comedians, authors, talk show hosts and artists.
In the Trump decade my social media has become scientists, economists, journalists and lawyers.
All of us trying to stay abreast. All of us scared.
In the Trump decade my social media has become scientists, economists, journalists and lawyers.
All of us trying to stay abreast. All of us scared.
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Just to add one more thing to this great thread: consider how, if your phone is seized, will your Signal chats be revealed to authorities. Maybe before trips or protests, just delete the app. You can re-install later and sign back in.
Reminder that any encrypted chat is only as safe as the people in it.
This article deeply implies that the FBI had an informant inside the group, potentially even the creator of the group itself.
I will say it again:
No encryption is safe against adding the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic.
This article deeply implies that the FBI had an informant inside the group, potentially even the creator of the group itself.
I will say it again:
No encryption is safe against adding the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic.
The FBI accessed and spied on a Signal group chat that was organizing immigrant “court watch” efforts in NYC.
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Just to add one more thing to this great thread: consider how, if your phone is seized, will your Signal chats be revealed to authorities. Maybe before trips or protests, just delete the app. You can re-install later and sign back in.
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There is a post gaining speed here that starts "Introduce yourself with the first 5 cars you’ve owned"
Please don't do this. It's still (stupidly) used as a security question for some things, & it's been used as a security question since long before people thought to lie in their security questions
Please don't do this. It's still (stupidly) used as a security question for some things, & it's been used as a security question since long before people thought to lie in their security questions
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There is a post gaining speed here that starts "Introduce yourself with the first 5 cars you’ve owned"
Please don't do this. It's still (stupidly) used as a security question for some things, & it's been used as a security question since long before people thought to lie in their security questions
Please don't do this. It's still (stupidly) used as a security question for some things, & it's been used as a security question since long before people thought to lie in their security questions
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By Zdenek Vrozina:
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
By Zdenek Vrozina:
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
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I knew that Buchanan's VP Breckenridge became a Confederate general immediately after leaving office but I only recently learned that former president John Tyler joined the Confederate government. Man...fucking traitors
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I knew that Buchanan's VP Breckenridge became a Confederate general immediately after leaving office but I only recently learned that former president John Tyler joined the Confederate government. Man...fucking traitors
@profanity.accountant how's my driving call 1-800-FUCK-YOU
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
@profanity.accountant how's my driving call 1-800-FUCK-YOU
Just as with Tom Holland's lipsync battle video, anytime this appears on the timeline we are dutybound to repost
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Just as with Tom Holland's lipsync battle video, anytime this appears on the timeline we are dutybound to repost
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I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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There’s this attitude out here in California that people don’t need to stress about the Trump admin (outside of immigration) because we are such a large economy, and it always makes me think of Hong Kong
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
There’s this attitude out here in California that people don’t need to stress about the Trump admin (outside of immigration) because we are such a large economy, and it always makes me think of Hong Kong
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While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
![PDB: "if I were to ask you where did AIDS come from, what would you say?
Makary: The film 'thank you Dr Fauci' explores a non-tradi narrative which has not gotten the attention it deserves and that is that [HIV] may very well have come from a lab in Africa"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wojva3mvygznfwpmkdyujvul/bafkreignvi7dtc7q2t2ae23ya7v3qqnaqjxpxc3uzb5xaxad4ii3x375y4@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
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For the 2025-26 season our office has given 48 COVID shots vs 700 flu shots.
The bad people have already won. Nobody wants them anymore.
The bad people have already won. Nobody wants them anymore.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
For the 2025-26 season our office has given 48 COVID shots vs 700 flu shots.
The bad people have already won. Nobody wants them anymore.
The bad people have already won. Nobody wants them anymore.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
Coyote
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
Moose
Squirrel
Coyote
Roadrunner
Wabbit season
wait I think I'm doing this wrong
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This is a powerful read if you want to know how to talk to a person with LC about how they are doing, in a truly genuine way.
"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is a powerful read if you want to know how to talk to a person with LC about how they are doing, in a truly genuine way.
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As Jay goes on to note, there's not much else to say that wouldn't pull a ban or other problems
But I can tell you, my country is making FOREVER enemies here.
But I can tell you, my country is making FOREVER enemies here.
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
As Jay goes on to note, there's not much else to say that wouldn't pull a ban or other problems
But I can tell you, my country is making FOREVER enemies here.
But I can tell you, my country is making FOREVER enemies here.
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If you knew every Covid infection you prevented also prevents organ damage, diabetes, cancer, early dementia, other ailments, would you mask again?
N95 is effective prevention tool. Covid vax can keep you out of hospital, maybe prevent Long Covid but doesn’t entirely prevent infection 😷 does better
N95 is effective prevention tool. Covid vax can keep you out of hospital, maybe prevent Long Covid but doesn’t entirely prevent infection 😷 does better
Sadly, people have been lied to by omission by our govts and public health and they don’t know that no one fully recovers from Covid.
“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence.”
— David Putrino, Long Covid researcher
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence.”
— David Putrino, Long Covid researcher
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If you knew every Covid infection you prevented also prevents organ damage, diabetes, cancer, early dementia, other ailments, would you mask again?
N95 is effective prevention tool. Covid vax can keep you out of hospital, maybe prevent Long Covid but doesn’t entirely prevent infection 😷 does better
N95 is effective prevention tool. Covid vax can keep you out of hospital, maybe prevent Long Covid but doesn’t entirely prevent infection 😷 does better
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when the ai bubble bursts I think we should convert the data centers to indoor weed farms, they're already rigged for tons of lights and water
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
when the ai bubble bursts I think we should convert the data centers to indoor weed farms, they're already rigged for tons of lights and water
Aw man you ever be listening to music and a killer track comes on and you go "this is a killer track, wonder whatever happened to these guys" and then you realize the band is INXS 😬
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Aw man you ever be listening to music and a killer track comes on and you go "this is a killer track, wonder whatever happened to these guys" and then you realize the band is INXS 😬
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Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
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“I'm chill because there's a lot worse things than dying. And right now, I'm with you, and that's pretty nice.”
Chapter 9 is here! Come meet one of Wellington's scariest Urban Legends, who haunts the... SPCA?!
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Chapter 9 is here! Come meet one of Wellington's scariest Urban Legends, who haunts the... SPCA?!
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November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“I'm chill because there's a lot worse things than dying. And right now, I'm with you, and that's pretty nice.”
Chapter 9 is here! Come meet one of Wellington's scariest Urban Legends, who haunts the... SPCA?!
www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-...
Chapter 9 is here! Come meet one of Wellington's scariest Urban Legends, who haunts the... SPCA?!
www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-...
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Happy Friday all! Here’s our #MutualAid💞💸 and #CrowdFunding 🧵 for the week of Friday, Nov 28
#FridayFundDay #FundFriday
#HelpFolxLive2025
All MA requests are welcome; just post them in this thread.
Wishing everyone the best fortune 💚
(it’s tough out there - take this with you 🐝)
#FridayFundDay #FundFriday
#HelpFolxLive2025
All MA requests are welcome; just post them in this thread.
Wishing everyone the best fortune 💚
(it’s tough out there - take this with you 🐝)
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Happy Friday all! Here’s our #MutualAid💞💸 and #CrowdFunding 🧵 for the week of Friday, Nov 28
#FridayFundDay #FundFriday
#HelpFolxLive2025
All MA requests are welcome; just post them in this thread.
Wishing everyone the best fortune 💚
(it’s tough out there - take this with you 🐝)
#FridayFundDay #FundFriday
#HelpFolxLive2025
All MA requests are welcome; just post them in this thread.
Wishing everyone the best fortune 💚
(it’s tough out there - take this with you 🐝)
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November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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@ericswalwell.bsky.social just sent me a fundraising email claiming he’s in the lead in the California governor primary
*because the fucking BETTING MARKETS said so*
and that’s just one more reason why I need this guy to lose to Katie Porter
*because the fucking BETTING MARKETS said so*
and that’s just one more reason why I need this guy to lose to Katie Porter
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@ericswalwell.bsky.social just sent me a fundraising email claiming he’s in the lead in the California governor primary
*because the fucking BETTING MARKETS said so*
and that’s just one more reason why I need this guy to lose to Katie Porter
*because the fucking BETTING MARKETS said so*
and that’s just one more reason why I need this guy to lose to Katie Porter