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Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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voices4vaccines.bsky.social
A study cited in today's ACIP meeting about Hep B and SIDS was misrepresented. The study's authors themselves have refuted an association.
False claims often link childhood vaccines, including the hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine, to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In reality, many studies have looked at this issue and found no connection between vaccines and SIDS. While most studies examined the full set of childhood vaccines rather than HBV alone, at least one study focused just on HBV and still found no link. During this meeting, the ACIP committee is likely to cite this study which at first glance seemed to have found a higher rate of SIDS deaths in the vaccinated group, but the total overall number of unexpected infant deaths due to any cause was not statistically significantly different between HBV vaccinated and unvaccinated groups (p=0.6). In the initial analysis, they looked at deaths of infants who had received the Hep B vaccine. In this group, there were 8 SIDS deaths. By contrast, the group of infant deaths in the matched unvaccinated group that was used for comparison had no SIDS deaths, but did have a lot of other causes of death. This initial imbalance likely reflects confounding: the matched unvaccinated infants were more medically fragile or unhealthy overall, and at higher risk for mortality from other causes, making them an inappropriate comparison group. To address this, the authors calculated SIDS rates using the full population—240,717 vaccinated infants (including the 8 SIDS deaths mentioned above, 3.3 per 100,000 births), and 120,979 unvaccinated newborns (including four additional SIDS cases not captured in the matched subset, also 3.3 per 100,000 births). The resulting identical rates (P = 0.99) show no statistical difference in SIDS risk between HBV vaccinated and unvaccinated newborns.
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Real question: do judges always work on the weekend?
October 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
This program serves ~50% of American children and they can’t even *submit orders* yet.
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Oct 1
“Two weeks after a federal committee of vaccine advisers approved new recommendations for who should get Covid-19 shots, neither Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor his deputy have signed off, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income children.”
Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay
Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
www.statnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Don’t sleep on rewatching Godfather to appreciate Kieran Culkin’s nuanced and award winning performances as both Al Pacino and Robert Duvall.
Screenshot of two Godfather actors’ awards - both with thumbnails of Keiran Culkin rather than Al Pacino and Robert Duvall, respectively.
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Look out for each other.
We are all we have.
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Sep 25
IMPORTANT: 911 service has gone dark statewide in Mississippi.

@nickjudin.bsky.social is compiling a list of backup emergency numbers for cities across the state in the story (updating as he goes).
www.mississippifreepress.org/911-emergenc...
911 Emergency Services Down Statewide in Mississippi
911 lines have gone down across Mississippi, limiting access to emergency services.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
every chance you get - go be with people

you will not regret it.
September 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
So anyway - Happy Drag & Tag Day!!! 💅🏼🦈
September 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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samillingworth.com
Wetlands as water filters

A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands
The important role of wetland conservation and restoration in nitrogen removal across European river basins - Nature Water
This study evaluates the potential of wetland conservation and restoration to improve water quality and highlights the important role of wetlands in nitrogen removal across European river basins.
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Texas and nat’l politicians are circle jerking their way thru an afternoon news conference without providing a single tangible update for the people of the counties impacted.
Useless creatures. As always, Texans will get to work while these tools are busy running their mouths and kissing ass.
July 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Never underestimate the power of slow burning garbage 🔥
universal-sci.bsky.social Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · Jun 21
Fascinating: Did you know that the Sun's energy output per cubic meter is only about the same as that of a compost heap? ☀️🍂

About 277 watts per m3

(277 watts per m3 doesn't seem very impressive. But the sheer volume of the Sun generates an immense output.)
June 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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climate.noaa.gov
June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming.

This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow.
@edhawkins.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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squooshiebunny.bsky.social
Don't let him down.
A beautiful landscape showing rolling hills,green trees, purple flower, and a sky with soft clouds. The caption says: your great grandpappy didn't run shine through these hollers for you to be a bootlicker.
June 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop
guspowers.bsky.social One of many Dans @guspowers.bsky.social · Jun 12
"Put your hands behind your back."

"I'm trying, you have to let go of them first."
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.
June 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
My taxes. I would like my TAXES to cover helping neighbors recover from climate disasters. Ffs.
Screenshot of gofundme email promoting donations to help climate disaster survivors
June 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
Cool cool
Screenshot of an emergency alert for “DESTRUCTIVE baseball size hail”
May 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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samuel.fm
don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the exact kind of communist we’re all going to be
May 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Today is Romani Resistance Day, which commemorates the day in 1944 when 6,000 Romani prisoners in the Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau learned that they were all to be gassed, and rose up to fight back with “stones, iron pipes, wood panels, barbed wire [and] smuggled pikes.”
May 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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sownow.bsky.social
On this day in 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department used a helicopter to drop two bombs onto an occupied house, killing six adults and five children. This was the so-called bombing of MOVE headquarters.
#History #OTD #BookSky
MOVE was the name of a communal group of people of color who claimed independence from national and local laws. Before this day in 1985, MOVE faced accusations that children within the movement were malnourished. When police intervened, gunfire was exchanged and one policeman was killed. This led to a massive force of some 500 police officers converging on MOVE headquarters on this day in a West Philly row house. Just after 5:30 in the morning, police announced that MOVE members had to comply with the law or would be taken into custody. An armed standoff began when police fired tear gas into the home. MOVE members began shooting at police, who returned fire. By 2:00 p.m., the police had used more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. City and police officials decided to drop the bombs on the roof of the MOVE house. Those bombs detonated a gas-powered generator and set the house on fire. No attempt was made by authorities to put out the flames. In addition to the 11 people killed, more than 60 homes adjacent to the MOVE house were burned, leaving hundreds of people homeless. An investigative committee, convened by the Philadelphia mayor, found that dropping bombs on an occupied home was “unconscionable.” The mayor apologized, but no city official faced criminal charges for the attack.
May 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
hillnthehollers.bsky.social
“The same patriarchal power structure that oppresses and exploits girls, women, and nonbinary people (and constricts and contorts boys and men) also wreaks destruction on the natural world…. Its harms are chronic, cumulative, and fundamentally planetary.” - Ayana Johnson & Katherine Wilkinson
May 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM