Rachel Silver Rocket
@rachelsilverrocket.bsky.social
🍉 Humanist and geneticist, music loving long covid victim and mum. Hoping this place stays evidence led and free of bigoted conspiracy theorists. More science and cats please.
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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Both China and the European Union have slapped retaliatory tariffs on the United States.
Trump's idiotic tariffs (and his general misunderstanding of how they work) have unleashed a new global trade war.
Buckle up — because In a trade war, there are no winners. Watch
Trump's idiotic tariffs (and his general misunderstanding of how they work) have unleashed a new global trade war.
Buckle up — because In a trade war, there are no winners. Watch
April 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Both China and the European Union have slapped retaliatory tariffs on the United States.
Trump's idiotic tariffs (and his general misunderstanding of how they work) have unleashed a new global trade war.
Buckle up — because In a trade war, there are no winners. Watch
Trump's idiotic tariffs (and his general misunderstanding of how they work) have unleashed a new global trade war.
Buckle up — because In a trade war, there are no winners. Watch
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I don’t know, millions of people got in the streets a few days ago, the moderates are freaking out about their money, and the President of the United States is carrying out a wildly unpopular, intentional demolition of the economy.
Might be time for leaders with spines to actually get in the game.
Might be time for leaders with spines to actually get in the game.
April 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I don’t know, millions of people got in the streets a few days ago, the moderates are freaking out about their money, and the President of the United States is carrying out a wildly unpopular, intentional demolition of the economy.
Might be time for leaders with spines to actually get in the game.
Might be time for leaders with spines to actually get in the game.
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Hostile political rhetoric stokes division and directly contributes to violence against migrants. We saw the outcome of the Conservatives' use of it last year with far right riots. Labour has to stop following the same path by demonising migrants.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
Exclusive: 136 organisations tell PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summit
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hostile political rhetoric stokes division and directly contributes to violence against migrants. We saw the outcome of the Conservatives' use of it last year with far right riots. Labour has to stop following the same path by demonising migrants.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.
February 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
How can you support us?
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December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
How can you support us?
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WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
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WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com
JOIN US - there's cake!
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NEW!!! Petition re COVID infections spread in healthcare settings et al. Please share if you would like to support it. "Direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes..." petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings.
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW!!! Petition re COVID infections spread in healthcare settings et al. Please share if you would like to support it. "Direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes..." petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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I ran #OSHA 2009-2017, and am now often asked what will happen to #OSHA in the coming Trump administration. In this longish🧵, I try to summarize what happened during Trump I and begin to predict Trump II, recognizing that this one could be wildly different than the last one. 1/
November 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Oil and chemical companies who created ‘The Alliance to END Plastic Waste’ have produced 1,000x more NEW plastic in five years than the waste they cleaned up.
It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of GREENWASHING.
It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of GREENWASHING.
Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:55 AM
🚨BREAKING: Oil and chemical companies who created ‘The Alliance to END Plastic Waste’ have produced 1,000x more NEW plastic in five years than the waste they cleaned up.
It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of GREENWASHING.
It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of GREENWASHING.
Christmas printing with Miss 10's design.
November 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Christmas printing with Miss 10's design.
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One of my favorite couch gags of all time, Eric Goldberg's animation on this is beautiful and a pure delight to watch.
It's moments that make me glad that The Simpsons is still around, it really goes to show how this crew really loves and celebrates animation with these guest animator Couch Gags.
It's moments that make me glad that The Simpsons is still around, it really goes to show how this crew really loves and celebrates animation with these guest animator Couch Gags.
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM
One of my favorite couch gags of all time, Eric Goldberg's animation on this is beautiful and a pure delight to watch.
It's moments that make me glad that The Simpsons is still around, it really goes to show how this crew really loves and celebrates animation with these guest animator Couch Gags.
It's moments that make me glad that The Simpsons is still around, it really goes to show how this crew really loves and celebrates animation with these guest animator Couch Gags.
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This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
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This article happened because I reached out to the journalist after a previous article and asked just that.
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2024...
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2024...
Weathered COVID before? Scientists say every new infection puts you at risk of getting long COVID
The sometimes debilitating illness infects a third of people who come down with a case of COVID. Scientists and doctors are scrambling to understand and treat it.
thebeaconnews.org
November 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
This article happened because I reached out to the journalist after a previous article and asked just that.
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2024...
thebeaconnews.org/stories/2024...
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This is chilling. In September, as Elon Musk began buying Trump a presidency after Trump promised him a federal department he could use to destroy his enemies, Trump agents at the Heritage Foundation began filing FOIA requests to find anyone in government who had ever mentioned Musk in any document.
Inside the conservative hunt for partisans in the federal government before Trump takes over | CNN Politics
In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a wave of letters arrived at the Department of Transportation, asking the agency to turn ove...
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
This is chilling. In September, as Elon Musk began buying Trump a presidency after Trump promised him a federal department he could use to destroy his enemies, Trump agents at the Heritage Foundation began filing FOIA requests to find anyone in government who had ever mentioned Musk in any document.
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Here you go, a starter pack of Independent Record Shops to follow (pass it on, guessing they’d appreciate that) go.bsky.app/FFCkVXG
November 16, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Here you go, a starter pack of Independent Record Shops to follow (pass it on, guessing they’d appreciate that) go.bsky.app/FFCkVXG
It's a bit depressing, just shy of 3 years in, to get confirmation that my chance of getting better, without new therapies, is nearly zero. Alas it fits with my lived experience of just getting worse with every infection, so I suppose at least helps with the gaslighting. Hurry up please, science.
Our researchers found that working days lost to long Covid could cost the economy billions yearly.
Patients referred to long Covid clinics use a mobile app to track symptoms and reported little improvement in the six months since seeking help.
More here 👉 brnw.ch/21wOF6l @nihrarcs.bsky.social
Patients referred to long Covid clinics use a mobile app to track symptoms and reported little improvement in the six months since seeking help.
More here 👉 brnw.ch/21wOF6l @nihrarcs.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
It's a bit depressing, just shy of 3 years in, to get confirmation that my chance of getting better, without new therapies, is nearly zero. Alas it fits with my lived experience of just getting worse with every infection, so I suppose at least helps with the gaslighting. Hurry up please, science.
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In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.
Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.
Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.
Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.
Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.
November 16, 2024 at 7:14 AM
In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.
Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.
Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.
Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.
Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.
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Here’s a piece everyone who cares or claims to care about the Gaza genocide needs to read. We can’t look away, we can’t normalise mass murder, even if only because this could one day be our fate too.
November 15, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Here’s a piece everyone who cares or claims to care about the Gaza genocide needs to read. We can’t look away, we can’t normalise mass murder, even if only because this could one day be our fate too.
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Via Waterford Whispers
September 18, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Via Waterford Whispers
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November 15, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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this guy sucks so hard that he can't get any friends, so he bought a site to make all the users his friends, and they left; and he made a robot to tell him he was cool and it instead said he fucking sucks just like we all know he does
how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals
how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals
Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
fortune.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:42 AM
this guy sucks so hard that he can't get any friends, so he bought a site to make all the users his friends, and they left; and he made a robot to tell him he was cool and it instead said he fucking sucks just like we all know he does
how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals
how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals
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The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives.
154 MILLION LIVES 🧪
Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
154 MILLION LIVES 🧪
Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
www.scientificamerican.com
November 15, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives.
154 MILLION LIVES 🧪
Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
154 MILLION LIVES 🧪
Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...