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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge
@riceboilsover.bsky.social
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#TeamOrca. I live in the woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels.
#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
#COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild
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Not surprising given that the Atlantic is owned by Steve Jobs’s widow who also owns this yacht:
A monstrous white yacht with a boxy, modernist shape that looks vaguely like a museum had a baby with a cassette player. It would probably take a superpod of orcas to capsize it.
October 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We're still in a pandemic w/ 1 in 81 people infectious nationally (or 1 in 15 in Vegas 😬), every COVID infection accelerates aging of everything from your brain to your immune system, plus there are plenty of other hazards from wildfire smoke to bird flu so yeah-respirators protect your health!
National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.) for the week of 10/6/25 from pmc19.com/data: Infections: Proportion Actively Infectious - 1 in 81 (1.2%) New Daily Infections - 602,000 Infections the Past Week - 4,540,000 Infections in 2025 - 189,000,000 Cumulative Infections per Person - 4.69 Long COVID Long COVID Cases Resulting from New Daily Infections - 30,000 to 120,000 Long COVID Cases Resulting from New Weekly Infections - 227,000 to 910,000 Excess Deaths Excess Deaths Resulting from New Daily Infections - 170 to 280 Excess Deaths Resulting from New Weekly Infections - 1,300 to 2,100
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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“During COVID” is today.
H/t @michael-hoerger.bsky.social
Instagram post from Dr. Michael Hoerger of a graph titled “SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)” The graph covers the full duration of the pandemic, showing all 11 major waves. The time period most people refer to as “during the pandemic” ie 2020-21, prior to Omicron, features peaks at half the height of the peaks after the humongous Omicron spike of early 2022. The second highest wave of the pandemic was in winter 2023- 2024. The current wave is getting close to the winter 24-25 peak, at 1.3 million infections per day.
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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There is a faint line visible on my flowflex test but it’s diagonal. wtf??
😬😳😬
A hand holding a Flowflex COVID test with a clear control line and, if you squint, a diagonal gray line going upwards from left to right (higher end closer to the letters C & T)
September 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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“Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It’s A Sewer Rat” by Caitlin Seida
17. Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It’s A Sewer Rat Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that’s seen some shit. It’s what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as Optimism, persistence, Perseverance, and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and Bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It’s a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Blackcap raspberries grow where literally nothing else wants to grow in my yard (even mint doesn’t like that soil!) and they make for really delicious pie too!!
Fully baked blackcap raspberry crumble pie sitting on a cooling rack A parbaked pie crust in a glass pie plate filled with raw blackcap raspberries and a handful of golden wild raspberries
July 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Normie folk on FB are noticing but none of them understand the cause…

www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Is it me or does it seem as if the skill of everyday drivers has exponentially decreased lately
July 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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WHAT IN THE EVERLASTING FLYING FUCK IS THIS DANGEROUS NONSENSE??!?
Screencap of a Facebook reel with white text overlaid over footage of a grassy lakeshore. The text says: “When you realize that measles protects against cancer, you start to understand why Big Pharma wants to prevent you from having it..”
July 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This person cannot be for serious.
Screenshot of a skeet: “Hoping the center-left technocrats are part of that new leadership, or these young progressives are going to sink the party and lose a lot of elections for the left.”
July 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I love this!! It’s exactly what I would like my yard to turn into!
The sun shines down on dense blackcap raspberry canes laden with ripening fruit. A small white pine emerges from among the canes on the right. In the background is a dark forest.
July 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I have never really liked graduations but I extra don’t like them when the CO2 looks like this:
Aranet CO2 monitor readout showing a steadily increasing slope throughout the graduation maxing out at 2500ppm, followed by a steep drop after we left the building.
June 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Alt text of the whole thing:
Hotez’s commentary: “RFK Jr.’s opening lines in WSJ toast are impressive: after all it was Mr Kennedy & his organizations waging a 20 year war of activaccine/antiscience disinformation on the American people that created the situation he reports. Nothing but reprehensible propaganda and gaslighting…” Quoted text from RFK Jr.: “June 9, 2025 4:00pm ET Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether towards health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning.”
June 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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If you see this, post a flower 💐

The mayapples bloomed a few weeks ago! I’ve never been fortunate enough to forage any of the fruit though—the squirrels are too fast!
A white, six petaled flower on a pale olive green stem, that forks behind the flower and continues upward out of the frame. Behind the flower, you can see large green leaves, each with six forked segments radiating from a central point.
June 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Spent an intensely satisfying hour digging creeping bellflower. If I could just have a week straight of weather like this with nothing else to do I could totally get it all dug out… (I tell myself.) #gardening 🌱
A hand wearing a blue glove holding what appears to be a 6” long parsnip but is actually the taproot of creeping bellflower aka Satan’s weed or hellflower. In the background, a trash bag inside a 5 gallon bucket is full of bellflower.
May 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This is supposed to be a feel-good story but I have seen the pictures of COVID placentas.
Screenshot of WISN 12 News post with the headline “Wisconsin hospital has 14 pregnant nurses in one unit”. The featured image is all the nurses in their scrubs, lined up, smiling, with their hands on their pregnant bellies.
May 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Have you heard about the documentary CYCLE? It just premiered at the Milwaukee Film Festival this week. I was fortunate enough to get to see it and it's incredibly powerful.
lionart.media/cycle/
Movie poster for the film CYCLE with the logo of the MKE Film Festival 2025 in the lower left hand corner. The word CYCLE appears on a diagonal and in the background you can see protest signs and crowds of people protesting police violence.
May 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Was just submitting my comment asking them to approve the 2025 version of Novavax (deadline is today! Get on it if you haven't commented!) But then I saw this banner across the top. Seems ominous.

To comment in support of Novavax, here's the link! www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
Yellow banner across the top of the regulations.gov page that says Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8AM EDT
April 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I came across this on FB yesterday and it pissed me off because this is exactly the kind of imagination-killing, motivation-crushing bullshit we DON’T need right now. A thread: 1/
Screenshot of a social media post (platform unclear) from an account called @runawaymarbles that says: Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032. Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?” because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that. We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting. If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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That’s a far more generous interpretation of his actions than I’d give him. I’m not sure that public service is what he’s committed to, at least according to this quote in one of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s articles… sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-wi...
Screenshot from a 2023 Sarah Kendzior article with this text highlighted: “In 2007, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the New Yorker that God had selected him for the US Senate in order to be the guardian of Israel.”
March 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Not sure why I have multiple mutuals with this person.
Screenshot showing a blocked post (see: earlier in this thread) followed by my reply which says “Cheering on collective punishment is some fascist shit” to which galeca.bsky.social replies “You voted for it! Suffer sucker!”
March 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Hi, we need to talk about the smug liberal to fascist pipeline again. Because advocating for collective punishment is absolutely fascist shit.
Screenshot of two posts- the first, from Kevin Bennett, says: “And dust ain’t dust. Imagine the pesticides and other chemical pollution that normally sits in the ground, now blowing around into your lungs…” The reply is from me and says “Also this:” with a link to the Texas Observer article called “Something in the Air: People in the Panhandle are getting sick from breathing fecal dust created by cattle feedlots…” This screenshot contains the replies to my post of the Texas Observer article. The first is a reply from Calvinball Enthusiast who says “This is what Texans voted for.” I replied to him and said “Cheering on collective punishment is some fascist shit.” He then replies back to me saying: “Texans did this to themselves from decades of irresponsibility. I had nothing to do with any of this. Tough shit for them. Maybe one day they will learn to vote responsible, but I doubt it.”
March 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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There were elections while I was there & I would lurk around the edges of the political rallies trying to pick up pamphlets without getting myself arrested (b/c the embassy kept warning us to stay away from the rallies). Here's an example of the kinds of things that were part of the discourse: 2/
Reprint of a leaflet by the Rodina party originally published in the election newspaper "Moscow is our Motherland" on November 208, 2005. The top features a black and white drawing of a white man with blond hair, wearing dark gloves, with one fist in the air, holding a broom in the other hand. Next to him is the text "Очистим Москву от нелегальных мигрантов" which translates to "Let us purge Moscow of illegal migrants". Below is a paragraph of text which roughly translates to: "Illegal migrants use city infrastructure without paying, take away work from the people of Moscow, agree to work for a pittance, and commit half of all crimes committed in Moscow. Neither those who use cheap imported labor nor the workers themselves pay taxes. Markets in Moscow are under the control of criminal gangs who rely on masses of illegals." Below that are a series of bullet points titled "Illegal migration in numbers": "- 2-3 million - how many illegal migrants are located in Moscow according to experts' estimates - 50 percent - more than half of crimes in the capitol are committed by illegal migrants - 90 percent - according to data from officials from the Moscow Internal Affairs department, this is how many of the migrant workers in the city are illegal - 230 000 000 000 rubles - according to estimates from the Federal Immigration Service of the Russian Federation this is the economic losses from illegal migrants - this is one and a half times greater than all of Russia's education spending in 2005!"
March 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Billionaires need their yacht money
The ugly mega yacht owned by the billionaire owner of the Atlantic
February 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Fuck this absolute fucking jackass (the article's author, not OP). Why did the deniers win? Because this specific publication (and others like it), and this specific author, (and others like him) peddled and CONTINUE TO PEDDLE dangerous disinformation!
The politicization of health advice became even more consequential as the summer of 2020 ended. Most American public schools had closed in March. “At their peak,” Education Week reported, “the closures affected at least 55.1 million students in 124,000 U.S. public and private schools.” By September, it was already apparent that COVID‑19 posed relatively little risk to children and teenagers, and that remote learning did not work. At the same time, returning to the classroom before vaccines were available could pose some risk to teachers’ health—and possibly also to the health of the adults to whom the children returned after school.
February 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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There is a Shirley Abrahamson quote for almost every occasion. In this case there are two:

www.shirleyabrahamson.org/quotes/
Screenshot of two quotes by Justice Shirley Abrahamson from the website shirleyabrahamson.org: “The people must govern this country; wisdom from the bench, wisdom from public officials is not a substitute for the common sense and moral commitment of a concerned citizenry” (May 24, 1988) “Each of us must work to give the majestic phrases of the constitution—due process of law, equal protection of the law—real meaning to every person. We are each called upon to perform our part in a constitutional democratic system. Each of us in our own way has a firm obligation to do whatever can be done to achieve the ultimate objective of a just and humane society.” (October 9, 1985)
February 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM