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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 11h

Hey peeps, im really struggling this month, ive had to change internet plans and getting the new one up and running is costly when youre poor.
Please consider donating or sharing. I didn't want to post this but this swap is eating every cent i have

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𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 14h

CAN SOMEONE HELP A BLACK DISABLED FEMME AND CAT WHO ARE ON THE THOUSANDTH TIME ASKING FOR HELP TO NOT DIE😍

HELP US: bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #QueerAid #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 19h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 14h

Please boost to Help Me see the dentist to treat this painful abscess?

At $230/$1200 (estimate) needed for next round of dental work to get this infection under control.

PayPal.me/MousePounder
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

www.youtube.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 9h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 15h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 10h

THIS! I don’t understand how so many of you can say:
“I don’t eat red meat, causes cancer”
“I cut out soda, that stuff will give you diabetes”
“I rarely drink, I don’t want liver disease”
But then won’t mask when I tell you repeat Covid infections causes all those things.
WHY AREN’T YOU MASKING? 😷

Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 16h

“I exercise to prevent CVD and dementia.”

“I don’t smoke because, it causes lung cancer and heart disease & makes everything smell.”

Ok… so instead you choose to freely breathe in the biohazard that causes vascular disease, brain damage, AIDS-like conditions, and loss of smell.

Make it make sense

Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 19h

Just curious…

Hands up if you just believe the science you publish and you think everything else is bullshit?

I’m referring to the half-decade of research & half-million publications showing SARS-CoV-2 can lead to new and worsening health conditions of every variety.

I’m talking to you academia.

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𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 8h

We are getting nowhere, I am dangerously ill, and we don’t have any time left. Someone please do something.

PLS HELP US NOW:
bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive

Help Brittany Survive | Linktree

Trying to rebuild our lives, survive, and maybe even thrive. 🪻

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𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 8h

Phone is completely freezing considering I’ve been at this for over 12 hours

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 8h

We are getting nowhere, I am dangerously ill, and we don’t have any time left. Someone please do something.

PLS HELP US NOW:
bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive

Help Brittany Survive | Linktree

Trying to rebuild our lives, survive, and maybe even thrive. 🪻

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 8h

What JD Vance meant to say is that Tom Homan has been "bribed" more than $50,000. In fairness to Vance, being the number two Nazi in a fascist authoritarian regime is not easy.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 8h

Did you do this? this is awesome!

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 8h

The reason colonizers are so afraid of immigrants is because they make the mistake of thinking that because all colonizers are immigrants, all immigrants are also colonizers. They think immigrants come with evil in their hearts, because colonizers come with evil in their hearts.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 8h

That poor fish, but at least the cat and the sun look so happy!

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Artwork of an anthropomorphic cat holding a giant fish while in a boat. In the background there's a cartoonishly drawn sun smiling. The fish seems upset.

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 9h

let there be good doggos! bsky.app/profile/hmac...

H Mac @hmac.bsky.social · 9h

Hey neighbor! This is one good dog!

White dog standing on sidewalk chalk art that says good dog

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 1d

$0/$500
Paypal: [email protected]
Venmo: @languagenerd24601
Cashapp: $Ejj24601
Posting for a friend who needs help paying her electric and wifi bill. She is a disabled, brown woman. The person who has been paying these bills

a girl sits next to a ghost with a faceless mask

Alt: a girl sits next to a ghost with a faceless mask

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 9h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 8h

Why, my undergrad alma mater Penn State could resurrect them once-stellar writing MFA they dismantled under the pretense of critically saving a far lot less than they’ll pay that fucking fired coach.

#FuckCollegeSports

Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 9h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 8h

The Mariners and Brewers never spending any money might be a key reason why neither of them has ever won a World Series

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact: Mainers/Brewers World Series would have a combined payroll that's less than either the Mets or the Yankees on their own.

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𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 14h

CAN SOMEONE HELP A BLACK DISABLED FEMME AND CAT WHO ARE ON THE THOUSANDTH TIME ASKING FOR HELP TO NOT DIE😍

HELP US: bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #QueerAid #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025

Help Brittany Survive | Linktree

Trying to rebuild our lives, survive, and maybe even thrive. 🪻

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 8h

8,100 words now. It will be about 12,000 words when I’m done in the morning with edits.

I genuinely thought the longest a piece on The Blue Album would be like 5,000 words but here we are

Girl Music 013 | Weezer |
The Blue Album | "Let's Be Friends and Just Walk Away"
"'Yeah, let's not be grunge. Let's be more like the Beach Boys. But loud!'"
Publishing 10/23/25
by Juno Rylee Schultz
Edits by: Morgan Shaver (they/them), Nathan
Miller (he/him), Bex Stump (she/her)
"I think I had two stories in my head. One wac we're gonna sell a hundred copies and tha I'm gonna have to go back and work at Do Pizza or whatever. But the other one was like,

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NPR @npr.org · 14h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10h

Another thing regarding mutual aid & who your community is, is a lot of disabled people in particular are very isolated. They're in deep poverty & complete abandonment. Literally. So they hop online to have community. Sometimes it's the only community they have & the only way they can get help.

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 8h

Please keep Britt and Topaz safe!! #MutualAid #HelpSky

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 14h

CAN SOMEONE HELP A BLACK DISABLED FEMME AND CAT WHO ARE ON THE THOUSANDTH TIME ASKING FOR HELP TO NOT DIE😍

HELP US: bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest #QueerAid #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 9h

If anyone can donate a large amount, it might save my life.

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