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“Our government will cut red tape” The red tape:

We want to hear from women with autoimmune conditions who received an incorrect or delayed diagnosis

Construction for a Canadian-backed mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, Mura Indigenous leaders report. The project threatens food security, water access, & ancestral grounds, while prosecutors warn environmental studies remain flawed. @aimeegabay.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

In the back of the drawer I found the watch that I lost at the start of the pandemic, and so I kept digging and so I kept digging to see if I could find the other things that I lost at the start of the pandemic, but (alas) my faith in other people wasn’t in there.

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

Olivia: Next in my "it's okay to..." series. "Your feelings of grief, loss, anger, frustration and sadness are all valid. It's okay if you're struggling right now, these are difficult times we're living in 🩵" H/T: @o-bel.bsky.social

We’re encouraging people to carve #SaveTheAcademy pumpkins and then post them tagging @acadnatsci.bsky.social and Drexel (who isn’t on here), to continue the point that we’re not giving up. Get some templates and take action at save-the-academy.org (scroll down to find templates).

The CDC might take away a key data source on Long COVID and ME. You have until this Tuesday, October 20, to tell them why that would be a mistake. The advocacy group Solve ME has put together a script that people can use to leave a comment: solvecfs.org/cdc-me-cfs-l...

After I handed her the jar she had asked if I would get her from up on the top shelf the silver-haired woman said “thanks, I knew I could ask you for help,” and when I replied with a caught off guard “why?” she just said “because you’re wearing a mask.”

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

Do you all want to hear about peri-menopause? Cause you’re going to hear about perimenopause. I’m Going to sit down with @drjengunter.bsky.social for a nice little chat. Let me know if any questions or topics you want covered.

This is Dexcom’s social media apology, and though accurate about changes it does leave some things out, like how it explicitly owns your blood sugar data and you’re granting an irrevocable, sublicensable license in any user data you provide.

I don’t always get performance art but this performance art is perfectly clear! Free Graham

How many zombies could Rob Zombie rob, if Rob Zombie could rob zombies?

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my distaste for "smart" household objects has only gotten more vindicated as technology has advanced

Today in "whoops, linguists were a tiny bit kidding about the whole novel sentences thing, sometimes a phrase actually has coincidentally been said already"

Please get your HPV vaccine! Block the virus that causes genital warts, reduce cancer risk for you AND your partners! But let's ALSO talk about the viral origin of some warty pumpkins. These lumpy-bumpy pumpkins are probably that way on purpose: a developed hybrid called 'Knuckleheads'.

You are not defined by your worst decision, biggest mistake or most embarrassing day. You’re more than your health issues, job status or ability to produce for capitalism. We’re all doing our best to survive… and you are worth it just as you are.

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net

Dammit, alright. I was going to skip tonight, but I do want to be able to crush my enemies.

If you never thought you'd ever hear a group of Anything Muppets from SESAME STREET sing the Blood, Sweat & Tears song "Spinning Wheel", well, never say never... (Oh, and keep an eye on the puff of smoke, knowing that it's coordinated between a performer & a separate cued smoke mechanism)

the Blade blood rave techno song is a load-bearing part of my youth

With Halloween coming up, it's time for the reminder to avoid buying/using fake spiderwebs. They can entangle and entrap birds. There's some good alternative ideas on this web page ... birdlife.org.au/news/bird-sa...

Types of Ghosts II

For screen readers to recognize headings, heading text can't just be body text or normal text that's been made to look bigger and bolder. It must be formatted as a heading. In Microsoft Word and Google Docs, this can be done in the styles box. In HTML, use the tags h1 through h6.

This is amazing.

ACTION ALERT📣 It’s past time for BC to protect patients and healthcare workers by reinstating a mask mandate in healthcare settings. Join us to tell policymakers that we would rather have masks than:

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW ARE YOU HUNGRY?

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.

Carried out a study with 144 #LongCOVID participants and 90 controls. Since LC is not always known/diagnosed well, the 90 controls had to go through a questionnaire to determine if they did not have LC. (20 (?) shifted into LC group!)

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

If you’ve ever stood at the Cook Inlet and watched them, you’d be furious right now

Let's play Canada or US: Mon, Sept. 21: Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) describes EDI policies as “discriminatory” and says they are “delivering bad value for taxpayers by weakening research excellence and undermining public trust and confidence in federally funded research.” 😲🤬