cloverbee
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"You look sick"
Me: Thanks. It's the sickness.
Me: Thanks. It's the sickness.
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"You look sick"
Me: Thanks. It's the sickness.
Me: Thanks. It's the sickness.
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So happens now is this rise measles will also create a rise in all vaccine-preventable illnesses (and other illnesses) b/c everyone who recovers will essentially be reduced to immune system infancy.
It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.
It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
So happens now is this rise measles will also create a rise in all vaccine-preventable illnesses (and other illnesses) b/c everyone who recovers will essentially be reduced to immune system infancy.
It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.
It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.
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If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles and Immune Amnesia | ASM.org
Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.
asm.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.
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If you want to help the Brown University community, donate blood.
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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December 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you want to help the Brown University community, donate blood.
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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I could say a lot just about that sentence. Medicine is not common sense. It's research and effort and it takes time. There is no "common sense" shortcut to understanding human biology.
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I could say a lot just about that sentence. Medicine is not common sense. It's research and effort and it takes time. There is no "common sense" shortcut to understanding human biology.
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![[dog burning in fire sitting at table with coffee this is fine meme]
This is not fine
but the problem is so inconceivably large that i feel powerless to affect it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreid33lidkhfryor5orbfqbcpuignmdcj57nghr5tpa2fzok5wlke6q@jpeg)
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Sorry if I sound like a broken record, I just want people to realize it IS okay to get the current 2024-2025 COVID vaccine as a booster this year, ESPECIALLY if you know you will not be eligible to get the updated 2025-2026 vaccine due to this administration’s restrictions.
August 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sorry if I sound like a broken record, I just want people to realize it IS okay to get the current 2024-2025 COVID vaccine as a booster this year, ESPECIALLY if you know you will not be eligible to get the updated 2025-2026 vaccine due to this administration’s restrictions.
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ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’.
They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters.
Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care.
ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity.
The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters.
Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care.
ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity.
The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
August 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’.
They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters.
Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care.
ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity.
The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters.
Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care.
ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity.
The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
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When doctors can't figure out what the hell is wrong with you, they send you to Rheumatology. When rheumatology doesn't know what the hell is wrong with you, you are so f-cked.
August 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
When doctors can't figure out what the hell is wrong with you, they send you to Rheumatology. When rheumatology doesn't know what the hell is wrong with you, you are so f-cked.
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What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
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Good for her, and for Boston.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good for her, and for Boston.
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“The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 & today our immigrant brothers & sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, & it is a miscarriage of justice now,” Burroughs continued.
“We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus — making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps.” — Ann Burroughs, CEO of the Japanese American National Museum
LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds
“We are outraged and deeply distressed,” said the Japanese American National Museum, noting the “stark” parallels to the arrests of Japanese Americans on the site in 1942.
hyperallergic.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 & today our immigrant brothers & sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, & it is a miscarriage of justice now,” Burroughs continued.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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monday again
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
monday again
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I won't always keep a long streak in reading apps. And that's okay. I don't want to be driven by the compulsive need to maintain a streak and read a novel because I "must."
August 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I won't always keep a long streak in reading apps. And that's okay. I don't want to be driven by the compulsive need to maintain a streak and read a novel because I "must."
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Real talk: the Social Security trust fund will run out soon if nothing is done.
But there is a simple fix that does not require cutting benefits or raising the retirement age. Here it is:
But there is a simple fix that does not require cutting benefits or raising the retirement age. Here it is:
August 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Real talk: the Social Security trust fund will run out soon if nothing is done.
But there is a simple fix that does not require cutting benefits or raising the retirement age. Here it is:
But there is a simple fix that does not require cutting benefits or raising the retirement age. Here it is:
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July 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Rockwell was one of the first painters where it really clicked for me, as a kid, that he was telling a story; that all artists were doing that in some way.
Norman Rockwell was actually a progressive and challenging artist and his reputation for nostalgic schlock was undeserved.
July 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Rockwell was one of the first painters where it really clicked for me, as a kid, that he was telling a story; that all artists were doing that in some way.
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AG Neronha, coalition sue Trump Administration for blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding:
"Health care must be affordable and accessible for all Americans, and we will continue to fight against those who enact policies to the contrary."
www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...
"Health care must be affordable and accessible for all Americans, and we will continue to fight against those who enact policies to the contrary."
www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...
July 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
AG Neronha, coalition sue Trump Administration for blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding:
"Health care must be affordable and accessible for all Americans, and we will continue to fight against those who enact policies to the contrary."
www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...
"Health care must be affordable and accessible for all Americans, and we will continue to fight against those who enact policies to the contrary."
www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...
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I would add anything about “God’s will” or “everything happens for a reason” do you say this to kids with chronic/terminal illnesses too? Do you say this to people who’ve been assaulted? People who just lost a loved one? Is it supposed to be comforting?
"you're only as old as you feel" has been the most hilariously awful thing to say to any chronically ill person(and especially terminally ill) alive since its discovery
and yet it is still the phrase i've heard most often
and yet it is still the phrase i've heard most often
July 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I would add anything about “God’s will” or “everything happens for a reason” do you say this to kids with chronic/terminal illnesses too? Do you say this to people who’ve been assaulted? People who just lost a loved one? Is it supposed to be comforting?