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Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone
February 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone
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Do you fly in airplanes? Drive on highways? File taxes? Have kids or elderly parents? Go to the doctor? Prefer not to be poisoned by toxic chemicals? Then you rely on the government services that Musk is hobbling. It is tragic that many Americans won’t realize this until those services are killed.
February 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Do you fly in airplanes? Drive on highways? File taxes? Have kids or elderly parents? Go to the doctor? Prefer not to be poisoned by toxic chemicals? Then you rely on the government services that Musk is hobbling. It is tragic that many Americans won’t realize this until those services are killed.
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“It is not possible to step away from humanity to assert humanity. We always must step towards it.”
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
From Octavia’s Parables podcast, which has provided me with calmness and clarity in the past couple months, for which I am increasingly and immeasurably grateful.
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
From Octavia’s Parables podcast, which has provided me with calmness and clarity in the past couple months, for which I am increasingly and immeasurably grateful.
February 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“It is not possible to step away from humanity to assert humanity. We always must step towards it.”
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
From Octavia’s Parables podcast, which has provided me with calmness and clarity in the past couple months, for which I am increasingly and immeasurably grateful.
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
From Octavia’s Parables podcast, which has provided me with calmness and clarity in the past couple months, for which I am increasingly and immeasurably grateful.
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I know that "throughout the universe" is often used in legal contracts/docs but it gives me such joy to see it deployed here
“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe,” to hire or fire any employees but its own, Alsup said.
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawful
A federal judge in San Francisco finds the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I know that "throughout the universe" is often used in legal contracts/docs but it gives me such joy to see it deployed here
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Because not only are you critical of collective action… you are not participating in any responsive action
February 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Because not only are you critical of collective action… you are not participating in any responsive action
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The way that pessimism is used as a preventive to every collective action is unhealthy
February 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The way that pessimism is used as a preventive to every collective action is unhealthy
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Yes. People who don’t want to do anything, constantly critiquing the actions of folks who are doing something.
Sit in silence, then. Stop annoying us. We’re busy.
Sit in silence, then. Stop annoying us. We’re busy.
The way that pessimism is used as a preventive to every collective action is unhealthy
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yes. People who don’t want to do anything, constantly critiquing the actions of folks who are doing something.
Sit in silence, then. Stop annoying us. We’re busy.
Sit in silence, then. Stop annoying us. We’re busy.
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How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy. Great reporting by the Times here of an effort that began in Sept 2023. “Wouldn’t it be great, Mr. Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government?” [kottke.org]
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
This is excellent reporting by the Times (although at times it makes Musk’s actions sound heroic rather than unconstitutional, criminal, and treasonous) on how Elon Musk took over a huge chunk of the US government, which
kottke.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy. Great reporting by the Times here of an effort that began in Sept 2023. “Wouldn’t it be great, Mr. Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government?” [kottke.org]
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If you have been exposed to #measles you can get post-exposure vaccination. Ideally within 72 hours of the exposure. This can help reduce the severity of illness and could even prevent you from developing symptoms at all.
Given exposures in gyms and at airports consider this a free tip.
Given exposures in gyms and at airports consider this a free tip.
February 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If you have been exposed to #measles you can get post-exposure vaccination. Ideally within 72 hours of the exposure. This can help reduce the severity of illness and could even prevent you from developing symptoms at all.
Given exposures in gyms and at airports consider this a free tip.
Given exposures in gyms and at airports consider this a free tip.
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More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the ongoing coup. “Miller is carrying out the daily work of governance while Trump serves as head of state, focusing on the fun parts of being president.” [wired.com]
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the ongoing coup. “Miller is carrying out the daily work of governance while Trump serves as head of state, focusing on the fun parts of being president.” [wired.com]
Politics are always a grief issue.
Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts.
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Politics are always a grief issue.
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Such an important point. Movements for justice begin in steps and proceed through stumbles and successes. The key is to keep trying, in community for the cause.
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Such an important point. Movements for justice begin in steps and proceed through stumbles and successes. The key is to keep trying, in community for the cause.
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Here are The Top 10 Dogs of the week!
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This Dog Is Innocent
YouTube video by WeRateDogs
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February 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here are The Top 10 Dogs of the week!
youtu.be/3Ni0YXHD6m0?...
youtu.be/3Ni0YXHD6m0?...
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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
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How a pediatrician persuades vaccine-hesitant parents. “She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child.” [kottke.org]
How to Persuade the Vaccine Hesitant
I loved this short thread from Andrew Miller about how his pediatrician wife helps parents who are skeptical of vaccinating their children change their minds.
So my wife is a pediatrician and works in some hospitals wit
kottke.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
How a pediatrician persuades vaccine-hesitant parents. “She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child.” [kottke.org]
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
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🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world.
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
February 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world.
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
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I see people deactivating various social media accounts, which I understand & respect, but I’m done letting Bad Tech Bros™️ chase me out of my community spaces.
Maybe there are no more “good places.” Maybe there are only good people doing their best to navigate—& use for good—problematic spaces.
Maybe there are no more “good places.” Maybe there are only good people doing their best to navigate—& use for good—problematic spaces.
January 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I see people deactivating various social media accounts, which I understand & respect, but I’m done letting Bad Tech Bros™️ chase me out of my community spaces.
Maybe there are no more “good places.” Maybe there are only good people doing their best to navigate—& use for good—problematic spaces.
Maybe there are no more “good places.” Maybe there are only good people doing their best to navigate—& use for good—problematic spaces.
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I’m gonna give it a couple more weeks because I’m still in risk-assessment mode but I absolutely cannot do the “firehose of Trump news” again. Part of it is him, but part of it is my own lack of discipline regarding news consumption.
Just opening this app lately makes my blood pressure go up.
Just opening this app lately makes my blood pressure go up.
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m gonna give it a couple more weeks because I’m still in risk-assessment mode but I absolutely cannot do the “firehose of Trump news” again. Part of it is him, but part of it is my own lack of discipline regarding news consumption.
Just opening this app lately makes my blood pressure go up.
Just opening this app lately makes my blood pressure go up.
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Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
January 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.