Brittany
@britbarbie.bsky.social
Trying to make the world suck less.
NYC- LDN
NYC- LDN
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social could you guys let me know who made the pizzamas dice box trays this year? I’d like to buy from the same people if they sell them non-commercially. (I realise I can’t get another as a pizzamas style, sadly! But the quality and size is pefect)
June 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social could you guys let me know who made the pizzamas dice box trays this year? I’d like to buy from the same people if they sell them non-commercially. (I realise I can’t get another as a pizzamas style, sadly! But the quality and size is pefect)
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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing.
Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.
The cameras are staying on!
Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.
The cameras are staying on!
February 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing.
Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.
The cameras are staying on!
Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.
The cameras are staying on!
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Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
Antidepressants harder to quit than heroin? Fact-checking RFK Jr.
Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Yes, the HPV vaccine is safe, despite R.F.K. Jr.'s claims. It's remarkably effective at preventing cancer — roughly 97% effective in preventing cervical cancer, and nearly 100% effective in preventing external genital warts.
Is the HPV Vaccine Safe? Yes, Despite What R.F.K. Jr. Has Said.
During his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to disavow comments he had made disparaging the vaccine as unsafe.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yes, the HPV vaccine is safe, despite R.F.K. Jr.'s claims. It's remarkably effective at preventing cancer — roughly 97% effective in preventing cervical cancer, and nearly 100% effective in preventing external genital warts.
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The extraordinary endTB trial offers a path to much shorter and less toxic curative therapy for drug resistant tuberculosis. This is huge news. Hopefully we'll see these regimens adopted quickly, especially now that bedaquiline is more affordable.
So grateful to all the researchers involved.
So grateful to all the researchers involved.
Proud to see the endTB trial, work of a huge team, led by @partnersinhealth.bsky.social, @msf.org, IRD & supported by @unitaid.bsky.social, published in @nejm.org today. Safe, effective, shortened treatments for drug-resistant TB can be available to all. #TBSky #ForeignAid tinyurl.com/NEJM-endTB
Oral Regimens for Rifampin-Resistant, Fluoroquinolone-Susceptible Tuberculosis | NEJM
For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality evidence plagued care for patients
with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. The advent of new drugs to treat tuberculosis
and enhanced funding now p...
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January 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The extraordinary endTB trial offers a path to much shorter and less toxic curative therapy for drug resistant tuberculosis. This is huge news. Hopefully we'll see these regimens adopted quickly, especially now that bedaquiline is more affordable.
So grateful to all the researchers involved.
So grateful to all the researchers involved.
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The number of total crashes during the start of congestion pricing in NYC is *even lower* than the number of crashes in the same part of Manhattan (south of 60th) during the pandemic-affected weeks in the start of January 2021 and 2022. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
January 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Hello! Do you want to join me in D.C. on April 8th and 9th to meet your congressional offices and encourage them to pass the End TB Now Act and to support TB funding in general? Do you live in one of the yellow states below? If so, please join us!!! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hello! Do you want to join me in D.C. on April 8th and 9th to meet your congressional offices and encourage them to pass the End TB Now Act and to support TB funding in general? Do you live in one of the yellow states below? If so, please join us!!! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!
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In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
www.npr.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
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As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many American companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.
As D.E.I. Programs Come Under Attack, Companies Like Costco and Microsoft Forge Ahead
As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many American companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.
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President Biden's move to to create two national monuments in California — that together will prevent mining and drilling as well as wind, solar and other energy development across more than 848,000 acres — means that he's protected more federal land than any other president. nyti.ms/4h69HYU
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
President Biden's move to to create two national monuments in California — that together will prevent mining and drilling as well as wind, solar and other energy development across more than 848,000 acres — means that he's protected more federal land than any other president. nyti.ms/4h69HYU