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in the interest of the importance of telling our own stories, i have a request for #SocialScienceSky #ResearchSky: may i pick your brain on a line of qualitative questioning for data collection from my fellow autoimmune patients about the shortages that hit us so hard due to mis & disinformation?

hi hi hi it’d be a pleasure to share my fave masks! it’s def worth trying a few to see what fits you best; i thought i’d found THE ones for me when i made this video but i actually went on to try a breathteq in adult small (pictured below in black and lavendar) and it’s now my daily wear!

I think it is important to say about this, that from all the data we have on long covid, that if these people have covid (currently high in the US) around 10% of these people are going to walk away with a chronic, possibly permanent disability, and that should not be an acceptable number to anyone.

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

The learning loss / child experimentation crowd suspiciously quiet

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

oh i’ve really done it this time 🥲 📍somewhere in northern new hampshire, october 2026 📸 nikon n90s 🎞️ kodak portra800 #IShootFilm #FilmPhotography #StayBrokeShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmSky #PhotoSky #Nikon #KodakPortra

This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

Why the Hulscher-McCullough Ivermectin Cancer Study Was Retracted: bad methods, COIs. Better question: why was it published to start with? www.techarp.com/fact-check/h... via @techarp.bsky.social

few things will ever top this for me and i think it counts bc medical related: JB attempting to show a disinterested ostrich a bottle of hydroxychloroquine

Good health has long been the cornerstone of good economies… so… you tell me what a politician that undermines health protection behaviours is…

the more things change etc etc

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film’s here and 🥺 📍bread and puppet theater, october 2026 📸 nikon n90s 🎞️ cinestill800t (with some slight color correction on the scans) #IShootFilm #FilmPhotography #StayBrokeShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmSky #PhotoSky #Nikon #cinestill

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they didn’t do it before the regulations, they didn’t do it with pathogens, why would they now 😮‍💨

They are among the biggest sources of cancer-causing pollution: chemical manufacturers, steel-making plants, facilities that sterilize medical devices. In 2024, they were required to take steps to reduce toxic emissions. That all changed when President Trump returned to office and gave them a pass.

Here is a video overview of the NYT investigation @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and I did that examines how President Trump moved first to grant pollution passes to chemical plants. Then former petrochemical lobbyists he appointed moved to make these waivers permanent www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

having a great time at the snake oil worlds fair

What's so striking about the original piece is how utterly incoherent it is. It's logical consequence of pursuing the "peer review is censorship" mentality that Jay has espoused ever since everyone and their undergrad RA pointed out that his April 2020 study was hopelessly flawed.

Seeing the huge Uline sign on the Brewers outfield wall and reminded of how the company's owners funneled their cardboard box billions into right wing causes:

i have had lupus since 2006, but only to my knowledge since 2016, and while some things have remained the same in our courses of treatment over the past 20 years—hydroxychloroquine my main man among—there has been SO much progress in autoimmunity just on my lifetime, it’s almost hard to comprehend.

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

It is entirely manufactured by a fairly small number of rich people shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

even if i don’t need my cane immediately (+i use it rarely as it hurts my wrists), i keep it in the car just in case someone decides they can’t accept my lupus as it looks that day, as i doubt sun sensitivity is a terribly compelling reason to those who care to accuse people of faking placard need 😮‍💨

film’s here and 🥺 📍bread and puppet theater, october 2026 📸 nikon n90s 🎞️ cinestill800t (with some slight color correction on the scans) #IShootFilm #FilmPhotography #StayBrokeShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmSky #PhotoSky #Nikon #cinestill

oh i’ve really done it this time 🥲 📍somewhere in northern new hampshire, october 2026 📸 nikon n90s 🎞️ kodak portra800 #IShootFilm #FilmPhotography #StayBrokeShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #FilmSky #PhotoSky #Nikon #KodakPortra

Is the Atlantic still doing the thing where every time they run a “oops turns out Covid might be terrible” article they also coincidentally run one called “are disabled people liars or just crazy?” Because I seem to recall that’s why Ed Yong left.

Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but this reads a whole lot like eugenics dressed in the cadence of a lazy proverb.