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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · Aug 8

Not only have we not attained endemicity for SARS-CoV-2, we have destroyed endemicity for many other viral and bacterial infections like tuberculosis, polio, & staph-A. It's just not the case specifically because of immune system damage from covid. libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...

MSK Library Guides: COVID Impacts: Immune

Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1h

the movies and famous paintings: thread

Beetlejuice in Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I had to get some blackberry and some peach recently.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings.
In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Bari Weiss tweeting about the civil war in the NY Times

Another NY Times employee says: "I am in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting"

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 6h

TONIGHT!

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🌈Spooky_Titty_ass_Tricey👻 @bettyassme.bsky.social · 10h

Idk what I was expecting but this is dope.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 9h

Is the “death of transparency” upon us?

We summoned public records expert David Cuillier to tell us about his new research on news deserts, the decline of freedom of information laws, and how to bring government transparency back from the grave.

Public records expert: ‘We can do better’

David Cuillier explains how the ‘death of transparency’ affects us all, and how our public records laws must change.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 9h

5’2”

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Punished Rep. Holden Disperra @punishedholden.bsky.social · 10h

Most short guys have to pay good money to have a tall goth girl shout at them like this

Huminculous giants fans, dazed from physical activity and several head wounds, staggers disoriented in the street while a tall goth mommy stands over him, shouting in his face

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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 4h

The trip for the second fall was good too. Just clipped one foot into the other. Dude is lucky he didn't eat that curb.

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Big Gizz Daddy In Cincinnati @professorcranium.bsky.social · 9h

The kid pretending he's cheering with them and then snatching the glasses...there is hope for the youth.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 9h

“The U.S. told Israel the focus should be on isolating Hamas for its violations and actions and moving fast towards creating an alternative for Hamas in Gaza, rather than resuming the war”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a green light:

🚨Trump's envoy's Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held a call w Ron Dermer and other officials to coordinate and discuss next steps, a U.S. official said
🚨The U.S. official said the U.S urged Israel to "respond proportionately but show restraint"

www.axios.com/2025/10/19/t...

U.S. scrambles to save Gaza peace deal amid new clashes

"The next 30 days are going to be critical," one official said.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Bukele Gets Trump to Toss the Work of Vulcan, the Task Force that Pursued MS-13

In ongoing U.S. proceedings to deport MS-13 leader “Vampiro” to El Salvador, the defense accused the Trump administration of trying to hide all evidence of Nayib Bukele’s pact with the gang, which the...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

You can read and watch some of El Faro's ground-breaking coverage of Bukele's sordid ties to gangs here:

Charli’s Confessions: Interview with Gang Leader who Pacted with Nayib Bukele

<p dir='ltr'>In January, El Faro interviewed two leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang who not only cut deals for years with the entourage of Nayib Bukele, but also escaped the country with ...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10h

The brave journos at El Faro broke this story and. Bukele is retaliating against them.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

Marco Rubio sold out people cooperating AGAINST the gang that Trump claims to be trying to defeat in order to gain access to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp.

Yeah, we know they suck. But this is just stunning.

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h

At least he's making copies in hell now.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 9h

The thief. 💎

French actor of Senegalese descent Omar Sy as Lupin, gentleman thief, in his hit show walking into the Louvre

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13h

Toni Morrison poem "The Dead of September 11"
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Some have God's words or songs of comfort for the bereaved.… I would like to speak directly to the dead…

Speaking to the broken and the dead is too difficult for a mouth full of blood … the dead are free, absolute; they cannot be seduced by blitz.

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Andrew Rambaut @arambaut.bsky.social · 13h

Our paper on the phenomenon of persistence and latency in Ebola virus in an unobserved reservoir is finally out in preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...