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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, SARS-CoV-2 affects a lot more than the immune system, which is one reason I don't care for the metaphor.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

"'Socialist' is right in their name!"

- People whose minds will be blown when they hear the truth about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 2h

Wake up babe, Pierre Poilievre's on Twitter claiming the Nazis were socialists again

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

Betcha it's not remotely shocking.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

New JPMorgan data shows how different Americans in different income brackets perceive the economy.

www.cnbc.com

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 2h

The genocide case against Israel is proceeding, as it should.

War crimes don't vanish after the conclusion of war.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

"The case is proceeding."

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the US-backed agreement to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xhyzpq

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

www.salon.com/2022/12/02/n...

Calling COVID “airborne AIDS

Despite blunting the immune system, COVID is very unlike HIV. Experts say

www.salon.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

He also is on record that "airborne AIDS" isn't a good metaphor (in the same article as me).

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

Neat.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How COVID-19 Might Be Tied to Other Respiratory Disease Outbreaks

This Medical News story discusses the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and recent increases in other respiratory diseases.

jamanetwork.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

www.salon.com/2022/12/02/n...

Calling COVID “airborne AIDS

Despite blunting the immune system, COVID is very unlike HIV. Experts say

www.salon.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

I'm on record as not liking the "airborne AIDS" metaphor for various reasons, but I'm also on record that I think SARS-CoV-2 very well may cause immunity theft.

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

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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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

Just FYI, it's only mid-October in Japan.

CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 2h

Japan sees early flu activity, with school closures

Japan typically reports increased influenza activity at the end of November.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

Only about 0.0003% of the world's population follows me on here. Y'all are the elite.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

And the USA is a great strategic partner whose policies we need to adopt even if it means crushing tariffs that affect our farmers? Come on.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon. (Wrong answers only)

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

No aid scale-up yet in Gaza, aid agencies say

A major ramp-up of aid needed to ease famine and suffering in Gaza after two years of war has yet to happen, the Red Cross and U.N. agencies said on Tuesday, as Israeli authorities warned of slower aid flows as the southern Rafah crossing remained shut.

www.reuters.com

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 6h

(Showing you some annoying shit that sucks ass) and would you believe a computer made this all by itself?

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 8h

As media and world leaders fall over themselves to praise Trump the peacemaker, a reminder that the United States funded the genocide and vetoed a ceasefire six times.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 9h

Lemme guess. If you don't use the right equipment or you don't use it properly, it doesn't work -- therefore implying that the right equipment used properly wouldn't work?

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

HEPA purifiers not tied to less viral exposure in elementary classrooms, analysis finds

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 9h

Lol. American propaganda is really something.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 10h

Carney is PM. What are you doing in this thread exactly?

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 10h

Stop normalizing this garbage.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 21h

I really don't know what your purpose is here. I said more programs like it. So what is your issue? Just need a reason to act like a Carneybot?

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22h

I think Liberal partisans being "Oh yeah? What about that?" regarding Carney not cutting programs that the NDP pushed for under Trudeau, in advance of an austerity budget about to drop, is a great example of partisan politics melting partisan brains.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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