Maria Lunita
@lintubirdy.bsky.social
tired nerd | contains too many feelings about TOTK/BOTW | data scientist with a MPH Epidemiology
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Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
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One thing that is very noticeable this year is people having inflated expectations of what parties can actually do in politics. It's bipartisan, but this article is perhaps the clearest example of inflating your expectations of what a party can do in politics.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One thing that is very noticeable this year is people having inflated expectations of what parties can actually do in politics. It's bipartisan, but this article is perhaps the clearest example of inflating your expectations of what a party can do in politics.
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.
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The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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As always, watching Spice8Rack videos is like:
"Oh cool a video about funny cardboard rectangles"
*40 minutes later*
"Wow Spice, you're right, I do need to molotov a corporate office"
"Oh cool a video about funny cardboard rectangles"
*40 minutes later*
"Wow Spice, you're right, I do need to molotov a corporate office"
🚪 NEW VIDEO 🕷️
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess!
youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess!
youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo
Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess
YouTube video by Spice8Rack
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
As always, watching Spice8Rack videos is like:
"Oh cool a video about funny cardboard rectangles"
*40 minutes later*
"Wow Spice, you're right, I do need to molotov a corporate office"
"Oh cool a video about funny cardboard rectangles"
*40 minutes later*
"Wow Spice, you're right, I do need to molotov a corporate office"
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It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."
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BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
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"Magic has become a vehicle for someone else's nostalgia" is a devastating but accurate description.
🚪 NEW VIDEO 🕷️
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess!
youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess!
youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo
Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess
YouTube video by Spice8Rack
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Magic has become a vehicle for someone else's nostalgia" is a devastating but accurate description.
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Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.
archive.ph/Whji1
archive.ph/Whji1
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.
archive.ph/Whji1
archive.ph/Whji1
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Republicans in Congress presumably worked their whole lives to amass the power they have been given by their constituents, only to give it away without the slightest complaint in exchange for TV hits and free hats.
September 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Republicans in Congress presumably worked their whole lives to amass the power they have been given by their constituents, only to give it away without the slightest complaint in exchange for TV hits and free hats.
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definitionally you can't engage in blood libel against people who are openly rounding people up and putting them in camps and disappearing them
blood libel is a whole different thing
blood libel is a whole different thing
JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
definitionally you can't engage in blood libel against people who are openly rounding people up and putting them in camps and disappearing them
blood libel is a whole different thing
blood libel is a whole different thing
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I decided it would be a good idea to compile all my reporting on this topic in one place, so that other people wanting to get a glimpse into this mindset / mentality have a good starting point. You can find that list here. www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I decided it would be a good idea to compile all my reporting on this topic in one place, so that other people wanting to get a glimpse into this mindset / mentality have a good starting point. You can find that list here. www.linkedin.com/pulse/intern...
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People are going to die because of this.
September 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
People are going to die because of this.
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aka Meta brings in racism specialist to make the robot more racist
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
aka Meta brings in racism specialist to make the robot more racist
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Randhawa said: “I’m on top of the world right now. I feel great. Like I could run a marathon, or defeat God in single combat – hang on a minute! I forgot to add those things to my to-do list. I’ll put them both under ‘Priority’.”
Autistic woman celebrates rare burst of energy by running herself into the ground again
An autistic woman experiencing a rare burst of energy has decided to mark the occasion by doing all the things that exhausted her in the first place. Navya Randhawa, 36, was recently forced to take a…
thedailytism.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Randhawa said: “I’m on top of the world right now. I feel great. Like I could run a marathon, or defeat God in single combat – hang on a minute! I forgot to add those things to my to-do list. I’ll put them both under ‘Priority’.”