WaysideCat
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#MaskUp SARS-CoV-2 is a BSL-3 ☢️ pathogen
LC since March 2020
#covidisntover #VaxUp #CleanTheAir
Renewable energy now
LC since March 2020
#covidisntover #VaxUp #CleanTheAir
Renewable energy now
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People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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"Last July, NPR reported that each ChatGPT search uses ten times more electricity than a Google search. In March 2024, Forbes reported that the water consumption associated with a single conversation with ChatGPT was comparable to that of a standard plastic water bottle."
A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It
The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Last July, NPR reported that each ChatGPT search uses ten times more electricity than a Google search. In March 2024, Forbes reported that the water consumption associated with a single conversation with ChatGPT was comparable to that of a standard plastic water bottle."
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We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection.
"Why are heat pumps controversial? Because the Energy and Utilities Association, which lobbies for gas appliances, paid a public affairs company to make them so. The company, WPR, boasted that it set out to “spark outrage”."
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Why are heat pumps controversial? Because the Energy and Utilities Association, which lobbies for gas appliances, paid a public affairs company to make them so. The company, WPR, boasted that it set out to “spark outrage”."
If you've stopped, it's time to mask up again.
Increasing prevalence of H5N1 globally, drastically reduced surveillance in the US, H3N2 driving a severe flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, a mismatched flu vaccine, and the possibility of undetected human - human transmission of H5N1 is a recipe for a reassortment event.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you've stopped, it's time to mask up again.
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How Capitalism Works, Covid Edition, pt. 9743
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
How Capitalism Works, Covid Edition, pt. 9743
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November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Thank you to the Irish Independent for this article and this is why so many folks are off sick. Sadly now six of my friends have long covid. This is a national crisis behind closed doors. www.independent.ie/life/health-...
Long-Covid is still here. I can’t walk, cook, work, socialise or live independently – and I am not alone
The country, and the rest of the world, was in the grip of a global pandemic, so when Lydia Fischer Dooley, developed a dry cough, fatigue, weakness and lack of appetite at the start of 2022, she righ...
www.independent.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thank you to the Irish Independent for this article and this is why so many folks are off sick. Sadly now six of my friends have long covid. This is a national crisis behind closed doors. www.independent.ie/life/health-...
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For those up the back who are yet to fully understand the implications of Cøvid related immune dysregulation
Here's a clue
The #Leonardi_Effect is alive and very busy‼️
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Here's a clue
The #Leonardi_Effect is alive and very busy‼️
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Frontiers | Transcriptome analysis of classical blood cells reveals downregulation of pro-inflammatory genes in the classical monocytes of long COVID patients
IntroductionDespite extensive research, the pathogenesis and predispositions underlying long COVID (long-term coronavirus disease 2019) remain poorly underst...
www.frontiersin.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
For those up the back who are yet to fully understand the implications of Cøvid related immune dysregulation
Here's a clue
The #Leonardi_Effect is alive and very busy‼️
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Here's a clue
The #Leonardi_Effect is alive and very busy‼️
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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1. Rather than, 'Two of the worst winter flu seasons of the past decade have been seen in the last three years, something partly attributed to the *bounce-back of the virus after Covid restrictions were lifted combined with immunity being low*'...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK facing long, tough flu season, NHS chiefs warn
Vulnerable urged to come forward for flu jab quickly as virus has come early this year.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
1. Rather than, 'Two of the worst winter flu seasons of the past decade have been seen in the last three years, something partly attributed to the *bounce-back of the virus after Covid restrictions were lifted combined with immunity being low*'...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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AI is utterly incapable of serving humanity, because it consumes extraordinary amounts of water and other resources that humanity needs to live, at a time when we're running out of them.
Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'
Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'
The MAI Superintelligence Team will pursue research for improving artificial intelligence companions, diagnosing diseases and generating renewable energy.
cnb.cx
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
AI is utterly incapable of serving humanity, because it consumes extraordinary amounts of water and other resources that humanity needs to live, at a time when we're running out of them.
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action!
svlint.org/ActB
svlint.org/ActB
Take action for uncontacted peoples!
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples’ forests are being invaded and ripped up to extract resources and make way for roads and ranches, by those who value profits over human rights and survival.
Send an ema...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action!
svlint.org/ActB
svlint.org/ActB
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what a thread, what a success
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
what a thread, what a success
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Tom Hanks understands that Covid is not over & that masks work!
He says he’s in a play and can’t get sick.
“I’ve had covid enough. I don’t want to do that again”
This is the way. Wearing a mask helps keep you healthy and it protects those around you.
A respirator like an N95 is best!
He says he’s in a play and can’t get sick.
“I’ve had covid enough. I don’t want to do that again”
This is the way. Wearing a mask helps keep you healthy and it protects those around you.
A respirator like an N95 is best!
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Tom Hanks understands that Covid is not over & that masks work!
He says he’s in a play and can’t get sick.
“I’ve had covid enough. I don’t want to do that again”
This is the way. Wearing a mask helps keep you healthy and it protects those around you.
A respirator like an N95 is best!
He says he’s in a play and can’t get sick.
“I’ve had covid enough. I don’t want to do that again”
This is the way. Wearing a mask helps keep you healthy and it protects those around you.
A respirator like an N95 is best!
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ICYMI - I expected folks to find this really interesting, but my flurry of posts after this one might have limited its visibility, so here it is again.
If folks are as worried about autism as RFK keeps telling them they should be, they should stop listening to him & vax up, pre-pregnancy.
If folks are as worried about autism as RFK keeps telling them they should be, they should stop listening to him & vax up, pre-pregnancy.
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"Children born to mothers infected with covid-19 during pregnancy faced a higher risk of autism, along with other neurological differences such as delays in speech and motor development, according to a study published Thursday."
"The analysis of more than...
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"Children born to mothers infected with covid-19 during pregnancy faced a higher risk of autism, along with other neurological differences such as delays in speech and motor development, according to a study published Thursday."
"The analysis of more than...
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Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says
A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pand...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
ICYMI - I expected folks to find this really interesting, but my flurry of posts after this one might have limited its visibility, so here it is again.
If folks are as worried about autism as RFK keeps telling them they should be, they should stop listening to him & vax up, pre-pregnancy.
If folks are as worried about autism as RFK keeps telling them they should be, they should stop listening to him & vax up, pre-pregnancy.
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Seeing a salmon in these waters is like looking into a night sky that has been dark for as long as you can remember. Forever, you've read and heard older people talk about tiny lights that once twinkled above - but to you, the sky has always been dark.
Until one day, you see a single star. 🌎
Until one day, you see a single star. 🌎
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seeing a salmon in these waters is like looking into a night sky that has been dark for as long as you can remember. Forever, you've read and heard older people talk about tiny lights that once twinkled above - but to you, the sky has always been dark.
Until one day, you see a single star. 🌎
Until one day, you see a single star. 🌎
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While backing up family photos of my father in law - who died earlier this month - my husband's @dropbox.com account was disabled.
They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos.
1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.
They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos.
1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
While backing up family photos of my father in law - who died earlier this month - my husband's @dropbox.com account was disabled.
They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos.
1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.
They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos.
1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.
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Uruguay built a power grid that runs almost entirely on clean energy — at half the cost of fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil... @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Uruguay built a power grid that runs almost entirely on clean energy — at half the cost of fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil... @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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Tonight, we parody a great, recurring sketch from Last Week Tonight:
How is This Still a Thing?
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@thedailyshow.bsky.social
#TheGreatestMEdicalScandal #JohnVsJonVsME
How is This Still a Thing?
@lastweektonight1.bsky.social
@thedailyshow.bsky.social
#TheGreatestMEdicalScandal #JohnVsJonVsME
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
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We will rebuild
Horrible, horrible images from Portland:
It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We will rebuild
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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October is #POTS Awareness Month!
POTS is a serious condition where simply standing can cause rapid heart rate, dizziness, fainting, and crushing fatigue. It often strikes those with #MECFS & #LongCOVID. All month we’re sharing resources & raising visibility. Stay tuned!
POTS is a serious condition where simply standing can cause rapid heart rate, dizziness, fainting, and crushing fatigue. It often strikes those with #MECFS & #LongCOVID. All month we’re sharing resources & raising visibility. Stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
October is #POTS Awareness Month!
POTS is a serious condition where simply standing can cause rapid heart rate, dizziness, fainting, and crushing fatigue. It often strikes those with #MECFS & #LongCOVID. All month we’re sharing resources & raising visibility. Stay tuned!
POTS is a serious condition where simply standing can cause rapid heart rate, dizziness, fainting, and crushing fatigue. It often strikes those with #MECFS & #LongCOVID. All month we’re sharing resources & raising visibility. Stay tuned!