Nuclear Bunker Ant
@vapornoir.bsky.social
Mel aka. Shuvva || 32 || She/They || NB Lesbian
Science Policy Researcher || COVID Hardass || Professional Germaphobe || Furry Sci-Fi Cartoonist
Science Policy Researcher || COVID Hardass || Professional Germaphobe || Furry Sci-Fi Cartoonist
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Hello, I'm Melissa/Shuvva/Vapornoir.
31 | She/They | NB Lesbian
On the Internet I draw comics about my anthro OCs who live in a surreal cyberpunk hell city.
In real life (but also on the Internet) I am a science policy person and advocate trying to beat COVID into the ground.
31 | She/They | NB Lesbian
On the Internet I draw comics about my anthro OCs who live in a surreal cyberpunk hell city.
In real life (but also on the Internet) I am a science policy person and advocate trying to beat COVID into the ground.
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my favorite part is how, since it's schedule II, they can't just transfer your prescription to a pharmacy that has it in stock. you have to contact the prescribing doctor and get THEM to PERSONALLY move it. and we all know how fucking easy it is to get ahold of doctors don't we folks
i have been on hold trying to get my medication for 20 minutes. btw if you have adhd you are expected to have time to do this with every pharmacy in town on the last day of your meds every single month. you basically just can't do anything that day. it's a day a month that you can't plan anything on
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
my favorite part is how, since it's schedule II, they can't just transfer your prescription to a pharmacy that has it in stock. you have to contact the prescribing doctor and get THEM to PERSONALLY move it. and we all know how fucking easy it is to get ahold of doctors don't we folks
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The nightmare the US federal government's idiotic rules put ADHD people through, is cruel and stupid and pointless but it sure harms their lives as I've seen so many times up close. Being chronically ill in the USA is an enormous investment of time and scarce money
i have been on hold trying to get my medication for 20 minutes. btw if you have adhd you are expected to have time to do this with every pharmacy in town on the last day of your meds every single month. you basically just can't do anything that day. it's a day a month that you can't plan anything on
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The nightmare the US federal government's idiotic rules put ADHD people through, is cruel and stupid and pointless but it sure harms their lives as I've seen so many times up close. Being chronically ill in the USA is an enormous investment of time and scarce money
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Great work by @onschoolsafety.bsky.social advocating for something simple but essential: better air quality for kids and teachers.
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
ottawa.citynews.ca
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Great work by @onschoolsafety.bsky.social advocating for something simple but essential: better air quality for kids and teachers.
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
This world sucks I just thought of a funny bit for my mom’s 65th birthday (which is on Christmas) with an over-the-top “Congrats on the Medicare” parchment scroll signed by the head of CMS but like…THAT’S FUCKING DR OZ RIGHT NOW!!!
And any other government official I can think of sucks now too
And any other government official I can think of sucks now too
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This world sucks I just thought of a funny bit for my mom’s 65th birthday (which is on Christmas) with an over-the-top “Congrats on the Medicare” parchment scroll signed by the head of CMS but like…THAT’S FUCKING DR OZ RIGHT NOW!!!
And any other government official I can think of sucks now too
And any other government official I can think of sucks now too
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🆘No other outlet is reporting on the Long COVID crisis with the compassion or veracity of @thesicktimes.org.
💰But they need your help to continue this work - please consider donating or, even better, becoming a monthly supporter. Some of my favourite work from this year includes...
💰But they need your help to continue this work - please consider donating or, even better, becoming a monthly supporter. Some of my favourite work from this year includes...
We’re over halfway through our end-of-year fundraiser, and we’re not where we need to be to keep our vital work going. We have three weeks left to hit our goals of $60,000 and 200 monthly supporters.
The #LongCOVID community needs us — we need you! the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
The #LongCOVID community needs us — we need you! the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🆘No other outlet is reporting on the Long COVID crisis with the compassion or veracity of @thesicktimes.org.
💰But they need your help to continue this work - please consider donating or, even better, becoming a monthly supporter. Some of my favourite work from this year includes...
💰But they need your help to continue this work - please consider donating or, even better, becoming a monthly supporter. Some of my favourite work from this year includes...
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New Hi, Strangeness!
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
✞︎♓︎♎︎♏︎□︎ 🗐︎⌧︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♏︎♎︎
#hi-strangeness #SpiderForest #webcomic #ocsky #horrorart
hi-strangeness.com/comic/page-60/
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
✞︎♓︎♎︎♏︎□︎ 🗐︎⌧︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♏︎♎︎
#hi-strangeness #SpiderForest #webcomic #ocsky #horrorart
hi-strangeness.com/comic/page-60/
Page 60
Visit the post for more.
hi-strangeness.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New Hi, Strangeness!
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
✞︎♓︎♎︎♏︎□︎ 🗐︎⌧︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♏︎♎︎
#hi-strangeness #SpiderForest #webcomic #ocsky #horrorart
hi-strangeness.com/comic/page-60/
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
✞︎♓︎♎︎♏︎□︎ 🗐︎⌧︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♏︎♎︎
#hi-strangeness #SpiderForest #webcomic #ocsky #horrorart
hi-strangeness.com/comic/page-60/
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It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20:
Remember this iconic astronaut boot print from the moon? 🌕
I recreated the boot's sole in silver.
To go full circle, I then traveled to Florida (2022) and made this imprint on the beach close to the Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 launched from 🚀
🔭🧪 #SciArt
Remember this iconic astronaut boot print from the moon? 🌕
I recreated the boot's sole in silver.
To go full circle, I then traveled to Florida (2022) and made this imprint on the beach close to the Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 launched from 🚀
🔭🧪 #SciArt
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20:
Remember this iconic astronaut boot print from the moon? 🌕
I recreated the boot's sole in silver.
To go full circle, I then traveled to Florida (2022) and made this imprint on the beach close to the Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 launched from 🚀
🔭🧪 #SciArt
Remember this iconic astronaut boot print from the moon? 🌕
I recreated the boot's sole in silver.
To go full circle, I then traveled to Florida (2022) and made this imprint on the beach close to the Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 launched from 🚀
🔭🧪 #SciArt
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December 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️
December 24, 2024 at 1:02 PM
here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️
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No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
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PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places.
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places.
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages.
CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).
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The Salina Daily Union
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Salina Daily Union
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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America is giving up on a generations-long public health struggle **that it had already won**
I cannot emphasize to Americans how FUCKING BAD disease can be and how FUCKING HARD our ancestors worked to eradicate the worst ones for our society.
Those horrific USAID death numbers? From now-untreated diseases abroad.
That doesn't happen here yet. But it did during early covid, and can again.
Those horrific USAID death numbers? From now-untreated diseases abroad.
That doesn't happen here yet. But it did during early covid, and can again.
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
America is giving up on a generations-long public health struggle **that it had already won**
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Finally started playing it, it's very calming.
I've collected a bunch of meat from the human bodies but haven't gotten the stamp so I can sell it to the inn-keeper, repaired a bunch of graves, saw a witch burning, looking to trade nails so I can repair the corpse chute, etc.
I've collected a bunch of meat from the human bodies but haven't gotten the stamp so I can sell it to the inn-keeper, repaired a bunch of graves, saw a witch burning, looking to trade nails so I can repair the corpse chute, etc.
There's a game called Graveyard Keeper where you play a medieval graveyard keeper who has to keep finding new ways to make money.
It takes hours to dig a grave, when you can toss the body in the river and be back for lunch in half an hour. You have a renewable meat supply to sell to the butcher
It takes hours to dig a grave, when you can toss the body in the river and be back for lunch in half an hour. You have a renewable meat supply to sell to the butcher
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Finally started playing it, it's very calming.
I've collected a bunch of meat from the human bodies but haven't gotten the stamp so I can sell it to the inn-keeper, repaired a bunch of graves, saw a witch burning, looking to trade nails so I can repair the corpse chute, etc.
I've collected a bunch of meat from the human bodies but haven't gotten the stamp so I can sell it to the inn-keeper, repaired a bunch of graves, saw a witch burning, looking to trade nails so I can repair the corpse chute, etc.
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It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
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Gen Z character in a video game: My ass is washed.
1) Congratulations on your shower
2) [Sympathy] No way, you have your whole life ahead of you
1) Congratulations on your shower
2) [Sympathy] No way, you have your whole life ahead of you
December 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Gen Z character in a video game: My ass is washed.
1) Congratulations on your shower
2) [Sympathy] No way, you have your whole life ahead of you
1) Congratulations on your shower
2) [Sympathy] No way, you have your whole life ahead of you
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Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
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we should have shot all of the ‘vaccines cause autism’ people out of a cannon into the sun sometime back in the 2000s
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
we should have shot all of the ‘vaccines cause autism’ people out of a cannon into the sun sometime back in the 2000s
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i know what i need and i know what i want
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
i know what i need and i know what i want
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Ok so if no one cares about the airborne virus that infects the lining of your blood vessels and breaks basically every part of your body, maybe they'll be interested in cleaning the air because it's also full of microplastics (those little threads floating in a sunbeam aren't pixie dust).
Every breath you take: High concentration of breathable microplastics in indoor environments
The widespread presence of microplastics (MPs) in the air and their potential impact on human health underscore the pressing need to develop robust me…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ok so if no one cares about the airborne virus that infects the lining of your blood vessels and breaks basically every part of your body, maybe they'll be interested in cleaning the air because it's also full of microplastics (those little threads floating in a sunbeam aren't pixie dust).