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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · Oct 14

"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral." — Edward Said.

I'm thinking about this quote a lot. How many of us have given up because something is too hard? How has that created a less just world? Are we ok with this immorality?

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you this is perfect!

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 11h

#neisvoid #longcovid folks, what are some good supplements for memory and brain fog? I got a pal who is suffering and could use recommendations

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 13h

seems bad

Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 16h

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 18h

It was the 80s

Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

oh boy this one is a lot

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

some folks have been *really* trying that one though lol

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

So as a non scientist I was wondering if you know how many papers show equivalent damage by flu viruses? I sometimes worry that my personal focus on covid is skewing my understanding of the wider viral landscape.

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct

Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

The article mentions that many have "built up immunity" to covid and like ... yeah, through infection. They have *partial* immunity through infection. That's like saying you've avoided sun damage by getting a tan

Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

At this point I'm laughing. I'm actually laughing. It's been five years

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 1d

"We'll iterate after launch"

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 3d

the world: idk about this AI slop. we should maybe not do that

the sweatiest guy you've ever seen: you don't understand. it's inevitable. it's coming to kill us. we have to make more

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 4d

Any time someone I know says those words I privately mark them down as 'easily led' and leave it at that.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 5d

one of the biggest names in trans healthcare discrimination is also one of the biggest names in ME/CFS healthcare discrimination (Simon Wessely) & as a trans person with ME/CFS i'm begging all of us to make this intercommunity connection

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 8d

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10d

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10d

Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 10d

My first bookmark 🤗

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10d

This is beta mindset, Gareth. Your spouse is your co-worker. Your parents are your boss. Your kids are employees. The only relationship you should get "emotionally attached to" is the one you have with that AI chatbot who loves you because of the new branch of physics you've invented together.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10d

You're supposed to be emotionally attached in a relationship. That's what a relationship is.

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 10d

Look I know you have deadlines but did you really need to run this. Pure nonsense

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12d

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12d

"this is not about politics. this is about power."

what the fuck do you think politics is if it is not about power?

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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 12d

Hegseth is the absolute embodiment of the term 'slime puppy'

Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 13d

Keith probably facilitated more transcendent experiences than any spiritual leader could hope to. What a privilege to know him.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13d

Lovely obituary here

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57

The producer and DJ, real name Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year