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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 36m

This is what happens when you lay off your workers and replace them with AI. Makes me glad that I'm boycotting all of Microsoft's garbage anyway because of their material support for genocide.

Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 3h

My Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X review.

The top phrases running through my mind while testing it:

"Someone's getting fired for greenlighting this launch"

"This is not an Xbox"

"If this is the future of Xbox, Xbox is screwed."

Went with the middle.

www.theverge.com/games/799698...

This is not an Xbox

Microsoft’s first “Xbox” handhelds are shipping not fully baked.

www.theverge.com

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 19m

This is an absolute must watch. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
youtu.be/Fxyg2UMq_no?...

Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij

youtu.be

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👻🐁✨Lil Plague Mouse✨🎃🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 1h

This is a dope essay. I fucking hate masking, ok? I hate wearing shit on my face, I don't even wear jewelry. I have worn an KN95 or better every time I leave my fucking house because the "general public" wants to live with perpetual SARS infections. I am opting out.

Good luck with your sequelae.

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

www.thegauntlet.news

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 1h

😂🤣

Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 1h

You know em… and they suck.

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

"SARS-CoV-2, a respiratory transmitted disease (RTD), spreads over airborne aerosols and respiratory droplets far more easily than HIV-1, a primarily sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can also spread via blood transfusion, organ transplants, and contaminated needles" 6/🧵

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

"HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infections typically present with 'cold-like' symptoms days after infection—sore throat, malaise and fatigue, sometimes fever or cough—or remain asymptomatic in the acute phase, complicating differentiation from common self-limiting respiratory infections without testing" 5/🧵

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

"Immune dysfunction and systemic effects in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections are distinct, but share relevant similarities"

"immune dysfunction, vulnerability to opportunistic infections, accelerated aging and neurocognitive disorders" 3/🧵

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

So is COVID-19 #airborneAIDS?

Read with me 🧵

"HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction"

"Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks"

(AJPM Focus, Oct. 13, 2025)

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

"Both cause chronic immune activation, in both cases probably largely due to persistent viral reservoirs. In COVID-19, this may also have other causes (increased membrane permeability, endothelialitis, autoimmune processes, dysbiosis)" 16/🧵

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PH 🕊️🌱😷 @ph-ph-ph.bsky.social · 16h

HIV
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SARS-CoV2

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

"Both cause chronic immune activation, in both cases probably largely due to persistent viral reservoirs. In COVID-19, this may also have other causes (increased membrane permeability, endothelialitis, autoimmune processes, dysbiosis)" 16/🧵

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 1h

All these Democrats in my mentions who want to admonish me for bringing up Biden’s complicity in where we are sit here fighting with me but never do anything to organize their communities to fight against Trump. ZERO
And when you ask them what have they done it’s

a close up of a cricket on the floor with the word chirp above it .

Alt: a close up of a cricket on the floor with the word chirp above it .

media.tenor.com

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 1h

MLK Jr. said something about this.

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 1h

New admin talking point just dropped… blame our greed on China.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 1h

Absolutely.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 4h

"This is not about me or the others from the flotilla. There are thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of whom are children, who are being held without trial right now, and many of them are most likely being tortured," she says.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 8h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 3h

We don't hate Israel enough.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h

All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified.

“Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others...

⭕️ Breaking: All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified.

“Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks,” Nasser Hospital officials told CNN

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Drop Site’s full post, linked below, details how Israel is violating the terms of the deal while falsely accusing Hamas of doing so

The bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis have not been identified, the hospital’s forensic department told CNN on Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal-hostages-10-14-25?post-id=cmgr3l8su0000356oqp7oci4i

All of the bodies arrived at the facility with their hands and legs cuffed, the hospital said.
The remains were being held in refrigerators in Israel and came with numbers marking them, rather than names, according to the hospital.
"Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks," Nasser hospital said.

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 2h

There was never a ceasefire. Just PR.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

BREAKING: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire east of Gaza’s Khan Younis amid the first phase of the ceasefire, according to sources at Nasser Medical Complex.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ttcve3

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 2h

Dismissing Marx because he's a "dead white guy" is also dismissing all the non-white revolutionaries who studied and built on his ideas

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 2h

If you ever want to make someone mad (especially a "well-meaning" white person) just show them evidence for how their supposed values don't seem to match their actions and get ready to see them self-destruct and DARVO.

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 2h

Ever notice that the people who get all huffy about masking often say we're "virtue signalling" or doing a "purity test" but also in making those points elevate themselves above people who mask?

Almost like they think they are the rational "pure" thinkers here.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2h

🧵 The Wayback Machine isn’t just web pages 💻 It’s a record of decades of projects, family histories, local sites & memories that may no longer exist anywhere else.

What does the #WaybackMachine mean to you? Tell us ⤵️
blog.archive.org/trillion/

#Wayback1T

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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 1h

the worst kind of "not-fascist" is the type who thinks they're helping yet refuses to shift or adapt in any way even after those more marginalized + affected by said fascism try to clue them in repeatedly

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1h

The most remarkable thing about this review is how definitively it marks that we've entered a world where Linux gaming performance is *just better* than Windows www.theverge.com/games/799698...

This is not an Xbox

Microsoft’s first “Xbox” handhelds are shipping not fully baked.

www.theverge.com

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Stationweeper @signalthirteen.ca · 1d

I remember watching zombie movies and the guy who wouldn't tell the others he'd been bit. I used to say, "Nah, no way. Almost no one would do that."

COVID gave my optimism some heavy realism.

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