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streetsdept.bsky.social
This morning, I stopped by the Share Food Program to learn how you can get help and give help to your neighbors in Philly right now during the government shutdown.
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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politicsgirl.bsky.social
“A sane government would never do this.”
axidentaliberal.bsky.social Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · Feb 8
“This abrupt change..will have devastating consequences on medical science. Many people will lose jobs, clinical trials will halt, and this will slow down progress toward cures for cancer and effective prevention of illness”

“A sane government would never do this”
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately — The Washington Post
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
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February 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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cwebbonline.com
You guys need to see this and take it in…

Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
January 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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saschatrippe.bsky.social
Gentle reminder: To date, covid-19 has killed approximately 27 million people globally (excess deaths).

It was, and is, absolutely a thing, and so are other diseases.
💉Get vaccinated
🧴Wash hands
😷 Mask up in crowds
💻 Work partially remotely
💨 Air rooms

It's all still true.

🧪 #Health #Medicine
Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19
For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. For comparison...
ourworldindata.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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quirkygrrrl.bsky.social
Regulate Dick, Not Jane.
January 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social
This ~ 💯%
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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jenandjeff.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes
The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center. A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image. A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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cortland.me
watching cabinet appointments get announced like
Screen shot from scrubs where JD, Turk, and Elliot are all looking off camera confused.
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM