Marīa
@solusandra.bsky.social
My name's spelled Maria, but pronounced like Mariah.
Freelance editor (graphic novels); day job in B2B cust srvc; poet & painter; multiple sclerosis.
Profile pic by the amazing @emilypearsonart.bsky.social. Header photo by me, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Freelance editor (graphic novels); day job in B2B cust srvc; poet & painter; multiple sclerosis.
Profile pic by the amazing @emilypearsonart.bsky.social. Header photo by me, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Overall mortality in unvaccinated individuals was roughly 50% HIGHER. The advantage held EVEN AFTER removing coronavirus-related deaths from the mix.
The study has been published in JAMA. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The study has been published in JAMA. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🧪🧵⬇️
![Results
A total of 22767 546 vaccinated and 5932 443
unvaccinated individuals were followed up for a median
(IQR) of 45(44-46) months. Vaccinated individuals were older than unvaccinated individuals (mean [SD] age, 38.0 [11.8] years vs 37.1 [11.4] years), more frequently women (11688 603 [51.3%] vs 2 876039 [48.5%]) and had more cardiometabolic comorbidities (2126 250 [9.3%] vs 464596 [7.8%]). During follow-up, 98 429 (0.4%) and 32 662 (0.6%) all-cause deaths occurred in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, respectively. Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 (weighted hazard ratio [wHR], 0.26 [95% CI, 0.22-0.30]) and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality (WHR, 0.75 [95% Cl, 0.75-0.761), with a similar association observed when excluding severe COVID-19 death. Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause. Mortality was 29% lower within 6 months following COVID-19 vaccination (relative incidence, 0.71 [95% CI,
0.69-0.73]).
Conclusions and Relevance
In this national cohort study of 28 million individuals, the results found no increased risk of 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against COVID-19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA vaccines that are widely used worldwide.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:llgfbjvsqkaicezsf7mzjxr3/bafkreig4bvaenjdjhh4kucrucxpblxm4dgzmjxa4242po3z7f66hf7npxa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Overall mortality in unvaccinated individuals was roughly 50% HIGHER. The advantage held EVEN AFTER removing coronavirus-related deaths from the mix.
The study has been published in JAMA. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🧪🧵⬇️
The study has been published in JAMA. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🧪🧵⬇️
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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I really, really hope everyone posting about having a cold or the flu feels better soon, but I really, really, REALLY hope you're all testing for Covid. Even if it wouldn't change how you treat yourself, it could make a difference in how dangerous you are to others. Please test & isolate if needed!
December 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I really, really hope everyone posting about having a cold or the flu feels better soon, but I really, really, REALLY hope you're all testing for Covid. Even if it wouldn't change how you treat yourself, it could make a difference in how dangerous you are to others. Please test & isolate if needed!
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Rogan is a genuine public health threat. People dismiss him by saying he’s just indiscriminate or not careful but I disagree. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing and we should say that out loud.
Not only is he confusing measles and chickenpox… he’s also pushing a eugenics agenda.
He’s claiming if you die from measles it’s because you’re “already sick”.
First, that’s not true. Many healthy children died from measles.
Second, sick people deserve protection too.
He’s claiming if you die from measles it’s because you’re “already sick”.
First, that’s not true. Many healthy children died from measles.
Second, sick people deserve protection too.
December 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Rogan is a genuine public health threat. People dismiss him by saying he’s just indiscriminate or not careful but I disagree. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing and we should say that out loud.
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this group is suspicious as hell & run by some right-wing asshat who posted "all lives matter" & anti-trans videos on the SAME facebook account in 2020 as the NOW official shelter page
www.dailydot.com/irl/black-tr...
mutual aid is important as hell, this is just a gross thing to do asshole
www.dailydot.com/irl/black-tr...
mutual aid is important as hell, this is just a gross thing to do asshole
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
this group is suspicious as hell & run by some right-wing asshat who posted "all lives matter" & anti-trans videos on the SAME facebook account in 2020 as the NOW official shelter page
www.dailydot.com/irl/black-tr...
mutual aid is important as hell, this is just a gross thing to do asshole
www.dailydot.com/irl/black-tr...
mutual aid is important as hell, this is just a gross thing to do asshole
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Believe it or not, I've even seen what amount to fake agents, who aren't properly vetted by smaller writer conferences and they have zero clients but make some money pretending to be, basically, and doing talks and workshops at a level low enough to avoid detection.
Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days:
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Believe it or not, I've even seen what amount to fake agents, who aren't properly vetted by smaller writer conferences and they have zero clients but make some money pretending to be, basically, and doing talks and workshops at a level low enough to avoid detection.
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Be careful out there Mpls St Paul
I attempted to go to the office and it’s so icy the bus got stuck and ended up walking almost 2 miles back home
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Be careful out there Mpls St Paul
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By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
NYC's socialist mayor has a radical proposal: making government do its job
Rent freezes and free buses can come later. But what if landlords obeyed the law and transit ran on time?
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
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I hope everyone has at least one surprisingly amazing and wonderfully good thing happen to them today.
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I hope everyone has at least one surprisingly amazing and wonderfully good thing happen to them today.
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Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us
Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us
@firepile.bsky.social
Seasons all blend together on my mantle.
Seasons all blend together on my mantle.
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@firepile.bsky.social
Seasons all blend together on my mantle.
Seasons all blend together on my mantle.
There's a very good reason that pasteurization is the gold standard for milk & other dairy products.
Raw milk has no significant benefits over pasteurized milk and many significant risks!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Raw milk has no significant benefits over pasteurized milk and many significant risks!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
There's a very good reason that pasteurization is the gold standard for milk & other dairy products.
Raw milk has no significant benefits over pasteurized milk and many significant risks!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Raw milk has no significant benefits over pasteurized milk and many significant risks!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Sharing this video for educational purposes under fair use.
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Sharing this video for educational purposes under fair use.
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Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
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It hurts that this has to be said. Anything I cite I have read first. I cannot be in the minority here right?
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It hurts that this has to be said. Anything I cite I have read first. I cannot be in the minority here right?
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“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”
R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”
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‘Tis the season for wearing a mask during your Christmas gift shopping instead of coughing and sneezing on retail employees and customers
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
‘Tis the season for wearing a mask during your Christmas gift shopping instead of coughing and sneezing on retail employees and customers
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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They said they would do this - it’s all there in the Project 2025 document - and now they are.
Absolutely no one should be surprised by this.
77,303,573 Americans voted for this.
Absolutely no one should be surprised by this.
77,303,573 Americans voted for this.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
They said they would do this - it’s all there in the Project 2025 document - and now they are.
Absolutely no one should be surprised by this.
77,303,573 Americans voted for this.
Absolutely no one should be surprised by this.
77,303,573 Americans voted for this.
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
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Didn't the Dems cave precisely because they were "promised" there would at least be a vote, and we told them all not to fall for it, but they did, and here we now are?
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Didn't the Dems cave precisely because they were "promised" there would at least be a vote, and we told them all not to fall for it, but they did, and here we now are?
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Public housing authorities have an incredibly difficult mission. Their tenants are always poor, and often disabled or suffering from the worst things life can throw at you. It's not easy to be their landlord.
But you simply don't have to fail as hard and spectacularly as MPHA has.
But you simply don't have to fail as hard and spectacularly as MPHA has.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Public housing authorities have an incredibly difficult mission. Their tenants are always poor, and often disabled or suffering from the worst things life can throw at you. It's not easy to be their landlord.
But you simply don't have to fail as hard and spectacularly as MPHA has.
But you simply don't have to fail as hard and spectacularly as MPHA has.
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Yesterday, 10 days before Christmas, the City of Minneapolis filed 42 evictions against some of our poorest neighbors.
Failure of management, failure of mission.
Failure of management, failure of mission.
On Monday 12/15/25 MPHA filed 30 evictions, and its affiliated entity Community Housing Resources filed 12 evictions.
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yesterday, 10 days before Christmas, the City of Minneapolis filed 42 evictions against some of our poorest neighbors.
Failure of management, failure of mission.
Failure of management, failure of mission.