alex massey
@alexverdant.bsky.social
Three raccoons in a fancy vest.
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
We should all be concerned that decades-old Aboriginal rights slogans (ie Always was always will be; no pride in genocide; land back, no justice no peace) are being outlawed by government & ill-intent lobbying settlers. These are sovereign slogans. They've purpose. There's no pride in ANY genocide
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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👩🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👩🌾 Grab your tools
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Seeing as I'm now unable to stop thinking about another project I want to make in this form & style, y'all might as well go play the hour-and-a-bit-long sapphic vampire thriller interactive fiction I made.
Play it in any browser! Or just boost it.
Play it in any browser! Or just boost it.
"So, About Last Night..." by Elissa Black
An interactive vampire hangover story.
expectproblems.itch.io
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Seeing as I'm now unable to stop thinking about another project I want to make in this form & style, y'all might as well go play the hour-and-a-bit-long sapphic vampire thriller interactive fiction I made.
Play it in any browser! Or just boost it.
Play it in any browser! Or just boost it.
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@marawilson.bsky.social @comraderobot.bsky.social I am sick so I took the lazy road and just added little wired devices to some rats I drew for the Paris Olympics, but I think it does work:
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@marawilson.bsky.social @comraderobot.bsky.social I am sick so I took the lazy road and just added little wired devices to some rats I drew for the Paris Olympics, but I think it does work:
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.
I think we lost some work because authors were afraid to show their weirdnesses, rough edges, to ask uncomfortable questions.
We can debate all day about who got cancelled and whether or not they deserved it, but one thing I have noticed is that a lot of queer YA written from ~2019-2022 has a kind of sterile after-school-special vibe where you can just tell they sanitized the fuck out of it to appease the Twitter hivemind
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.
Well now I want a Muppet Knives Out.
MUPPET KNIVES OUT
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Well now I want a Muppet Knives Out.
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
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No words. I’m a block from home.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
No words. I’m a block from home.
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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.
Time for my monthly stabbing*, what a fun time it is to know this will happen every month forever.
*Wild guesses welcome
*Wild guesses welcome
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Time for my monthly stabbing*, what a fun time it is to know this will happen every month forever.
*Wild guesses welcome
*Wild guesses welcome
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Swords for all trans people!
September 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Swords for all trans people!
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Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel.
If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.
If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel.
If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.
If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.