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ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
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Masking for myself & others IS my ´love language’. Darwinist at heart: Adapt
Latina. Daughter of Yolanda Chaparro, a 🇨🇴 leader that successfully fought for her right to Die with Dignity. Miss her everyday!
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I’m actually shocked this is finally happening and it’s under this administration.

Yes it’s true they’ve never been required to use female crash test dummies to test car safety for women.
Federal government to require car companies to use female crash test dummies
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy — the THOR-05F — on Thursday.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Another mask story.

A family boarded the flight, and as soon as they saw my mask they pulled their masks out and put them on.

Now mine was a respie of course… and they were using whatever they had, upon which I’m gonna chose not to pass judgement…
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
By now
you have probably seen the news
about how bird flu
has “wiped out
nearly half of the females
in the world’s largest
elephant seal population,”
which is a tragic reminder
that we are in an era of plagues,
and that “we”
does not only refer to humans.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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As she recounted
a disappointing dinner party
my work friend asked
if I knew the feeling
of being with people
(of being with good people)
but still just feeling
profoundly alone,
and as I adjusted my mask
I looked
at my friend’s bare face
and simply said:
I know the feeling.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I hope, my friend,
this week
you are fortunate enough
to have many things
for which you are thankful
but, my friend,
just be thankful
if you can get through
this week
without getting sick.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
The risk from surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000 of catching COVID. We should handwash for many reasons but this alone WILL NOT protect you from COVID. 🧵
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Por si algún científico aparece defendiendo los herbicidas, ha salido un artículo científico explicando el daño que producen a los anfibios.
Estamos perdiendo poblaciones de anfibios a una velocidad alarmante
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41240495/
Exposure to the herbicide 2,4-D exacerbates infection outcome of a global amphibian pathogen - PubMed
Exposure to multiple environmental stressors threatens amphibian survival globally. While infections and pesticides are capable of driving declines, interactions may exacerbate their impact. Here, we study experimental exposure of painted frogs (Discoglossus pictus) to a commonly used herbicide (2,4 …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Brazilian singer Eva Rodrigues Praia Walkey, 40, has died after nearly 5 years battling severe Long COVID. She faced repeated hospitalisations, grueling treatment, and never regained her health. Her family confirmed she passed away on 18 November in Manaus, Brazil.

Source: archive.md/nxK4K
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reposted by ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
As you all know… I’m not allowed to talk about vaccines using anything other than government approved materials.

Luckily these are Australian rules…

I will not be quoting the US CDC. 😠
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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A reminder that avian flu is destroyed when you cook chicken and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 degrees.

Please get a food thermometer and stay safe

#avianflu
#Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Avian flu detected at commercial poultry farm in Strathroy-Caradoc | CBC News
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says avian influenza has been detected at a commercial poultry operation in Strathroy-Caradoc.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I know that these days
it can often seem
the only people
testing positive for Covid
are celebrities,
but you must understand
that this is not because
celebrities are
the only people
still contracting Covid
but that most people
no longer bother testing.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
I would like to say that, as someone who has lived my entire life, raised a family, and practice medicine completely within a system of Government paid/provided, free and/or at a truly low cost - all Americans deserve this, because healthcare is a human right.
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Good comedy is not just good jokes, it’s also good presentation. Humour, sarcasm, banter are regularly misunderstood on social media, because we can't see or hear the author. We miss the presentation that not only makes it funny, but also makes it clear.
#GoodMorning, everyone.
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s crazy how quickly people were convinced that a deadly virus that killed millions is now just a “mild cold”

#COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAirborne #Maskup😷

Source: x.com/DcrInYYC/sta...
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted by ChaparritaAF 🇨🇦🇨🇴 🇸🇬🇩🇪 (She/Her/Ella)
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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(1,4) This weekend I went on social media and said that I would give Rep MTG a moment of grace. However, I also agree with every word of what @alyssamilano.bsky.social writes hear. As a Parkland survivor, I have been impacted by her past and
alyssajmilano.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter to Marjorie Taylor Greene
From, Alyssa Milano November 17, 2025
alyssajmilano.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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You can date and marry men older than you who are like, nice looking. And nice. Not like denying vaccines to children or anything
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM