Jorkin Mahjongus
@teamtoilet.bsky.social
Your former friend, from the internet. Zero covid.
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@teamtoilet.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Do not suffer in advance.
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Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
A Review discusses the scientific basis of and factors controlling airborne transmission of respiratory viruses including coronavirus.
www.science.org
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
We live in the stupidest of all possible worlds, largely thanks to “journalism” like this
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We live in the stupidest of all possible worlds, largely thanks to “journalism” like this
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Testes Tink
United States, Census, 1910
United States, Census, 1910
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Testes Tink
United States, Census, 1910
United States, Census, 1910
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Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
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Yes, because #FluIsAirborne and we are determined to learn jackshit from COVID pandemic.
Review: Human #H5N1 avian flu cases can be asymptomatic, and the virus likely spreads among people
The findings highlight a critical gap in many national and global H5N1 surveillance systems.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
The findings highlight a critical gap in many national and global H5N1 surveillance systems.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yes, because #FluIsAirborne and we are determined to learn jackshit from COVID pandemic.
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my signature fragrance is "First Day Heater is on in the Fall"
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
my signature fragrance is "First Day Heater is on in the Fall"
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Great work from Rachel Fairbank on the winding story of metformin for #LongCOVID at @thesicktimes.org.
Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself.
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
#MedSky
Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself.
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
#MedSky
Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used? - The Sick Times
Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.
thesicktimes.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Great work from Rachel Fairbank on the winding story of metformin for #LongCOVID at @thesicktimes.org.
Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself.
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
#MedSky
Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself.
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
#MedSky
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Penn Medicine: 'Study Shows COVID-19 Reinfection More Than Doubles Long COVID Risk in Children'
'This work, conducted as part of the NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, analyzed data from more than 465,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals.'
dbei.med.upenn.edu/publication/...
'This work, conducted as part of the NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, analyzed data from more than 465,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals.'
dbei.med.upenn.edu/publication/...
Study Shows COVID-19 Reinfection More Than Doubles Long COVID Risk in Children - Penn DBEI
A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that COVID-19 reinfection in children significantly increases the risk of long COVID and other serious health complications.
dbei.med.upenn.edu
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Penn Medicine: 'Study Shows COVID-19 Reinfection More Than Doubles Long COVID Risk in Children'
'This work, conducted as part of the NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, analyzed data from more than 465,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals.'
dbei.med.upenn.edu/publication/...
'This work, conducted as part of the NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, analyzed data from more than 465,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals.'
dbei.med.upenn.edu/publication/...
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COVID-19 Brought About a Large Rise in POTS Cases
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
COVID-19 Brought About a Large Rise in POTS Cases
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link.
Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition.
archive.li/pN2gb
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It's going great
Users of OpenAI's Sora 2 have found clever ways to subvert its controls on hate speech, generating videos in which Mark Cuban, Jake Paul, and Sam Altman appear to shout the N-word. Meanwhile, streamer IShowSpeed was aggravated to see countless Sora-generated clips of himself coming out as gay:
OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
www.rollingstone.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's going great
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“People with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy lived considerably longer than those who did not… .”
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Cancer patients who got a COVID vaccine lived much longer
A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. Researchers from the...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“People with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy lived considerably longer than those who did not… .”
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
“This obviously bad faith take will continue until Nazi morale improves”
One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“This obviously bad faith take will continue until Nazi morale improves”
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If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst
The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.
www.umass.edu
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
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Sorry but you actually can’t hold me accountable because the computer did all that bad stuff. Unrelated, the computer is now alive.
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sorry but you actually can’t hold me accountable because the computer did all that bad stuff. Unrelated, the computer is now alive.
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if you’re writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go “oh that’s fine to say because it’s not a real person” (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that
October 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Average Bluesky employee
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We are recreating the XKCD immunity comic...
Actual public health experts are advocating for this rather than prevention, infection risks be damned.
Actual public health experts are advocating for this rather than prevention, infection risks be damned.
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We are recreating the XKCD immunity comic...
Actual public health experts are advocating for this rather than prevention, infection risks be damned.
Actual public health experts are advocating for this rather than prevention, infection risks be damned.
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41% increased risk of all cause vascular dementia in older adults. Don’t you think it’s overdue that JCVI considered this research in their decisions on covid vaccine roll out? @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social This exposure benefits no one.
COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in older adults
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
41% increased risk of all cause vascular dementia in older adults. Don’t you think it’s overdue that JCVI considered this research in their decisions on covid vaccine roll out? @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social This exposure benefits no one.
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I asked leftists why they won't wear a mask to the grocery store and I got a lot of comments saying, "I'll only wear one if I'm sick."
July 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I asked leftists why they won't wear a mask to the grocery store and I got a lot of comments saying, "I'll only wear one if I'm sick."
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One time I went to the pharmacy not having spoken out loud to anyone else that day and said “I’m here to pick up a scrabiption”
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One time I went to the pharmacy not having spoken out loud to anyone else that day and said “I’m here to pick up a scrabiption”
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Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
September 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?
“The state monopoly on violence is good and we should expand it right now, regardless of the historical context” is a laughably Liberal take to have, especially now
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“The state monopoly on violence is good and we should expand it right now, regardless of the historical context” is a laughably Liberal take to have, especially now
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One of the big COVID facts that tend to make people go deer in headlights is the high percentage of asymptomatic infections. Unfortunately these infections can still cause you or others problems months or years later. This was known back in 2020 but shushed up afterwards.
September 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
One of the big COVID facts that tend to make people go deer in headlights is the high percentage of asymptomatic infections. Unfortunately these infections can still cause you or others problems months or years later. This was known back in 2020 but shushed up afterwards.