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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 6h

I've been hoping studies like this would happen since 2020. This is just the very beginning, but it is the beginning. Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue | ScienceDaily share.google/7NxfWS1IJtm2...

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Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue

Scientists found that five seemingly unrelated conditions, including long Covid, ME/CFS, and PTSD, may disrupt many of the same biological networks involved in immunity, metabolism, and cellular energ...

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DIY 4 Lyfe, yo! ✊✊✊

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Penultimate excerpt from opening notes in The #Anarchist #Medical #Book anarchistmedicalbook.com The book is arranged in the following way: each section has a choose-your-own-adventure system of trying to triage the category into which your current condition falls.

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The Anarchist Medical Book

The Anarchist Medical Book Born from the collective wisdom of hackers, scientists, and healers who believe that healthcare knowledge belongs to everyone—and that direct action gets the bread. This is ...

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More notes of the #Anarchist #Medical #Book anarchistmedicalbook.com As Christopher Schwarz noted in The Anarchist's Tool Chest (Highly recommended book, but hard to find in physical form), these days paying for things is considered good, and doing things yourself is considered fringe behaviour.

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The Anarchist Medical Book

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have done some cursory work to make the MicroLab independent of the Raspberry Pi brand by supporting other boards and hardware configurations. If you want to help make it work with any old laptop, let us know and we'll help you get set up. fourthievesvinegar.org/contact/

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Contact Us We don’t send a lot of newsletters and we don’t have chatbots - we prefer connecting directly. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot provide medicine of any type. If you are looking for abortion drugs, ch...

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow! Another note from The #Anarchist #Medical #Book? Yup! anarchistmedicalbook.com Additionally, it bears mentioning that there are many things which are very hard to treat at home. You need to decide where the better part of valor lies, and asses the associated risks.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yet another note from The #Anarchist #Medical #Book anarchistmedicalbook.com Illness is the adversary of us all.

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Debby ⁂ ❤️🐧📎 @debby.blue-ocean.social · 08/09/2026

The 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective published 3.5GB of papers and articles with DIY potential. From pharma to diagnostic hacks, this is knowledge meant to be used. 📚 Ready to explore? Let's see what we can build with it.🤓 #DIY-medicine #OpenScience #Biohacking #Medicine4All #FreeHealth #OpenMedicine

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We spent the last 10 years looking for treatments that were languishing on the shelf or locked behind the walls of big pharma and institutional medicine. Some of them we hijacked, pirated, or otherwise made real. Many more remain in our Library of the Unfinished: share.mayfirst.org/s/i9FzmgKtgK...

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Nextcloud - a safe home for all your data

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The business dickheads have realized that some people will pay a lot of money not to die.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Met up with some rad southern anarchists the other night. Have no doubt that the work will continue even as we adjourn the collective. It is reassuring to remember that Four Thieves is a node in a network. A thread in a web. A handful of starlings in a great murmuration.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One more reason we're relieved to move on from "doing the work" to "spreading the word" is that now we know for sure we will never sell out with something like this:

A generated image of a boxed kit titled "MATTEL MICROLAB DIY Automated Chemical Reactor". The box shows young people excitedly raking notes and holding up vials of liquid. The kit includes a sleek mini-microlab as well as an instruction book, reagents, solvents, and additional tools and gear. It is reminiscent of chemistry kits from the 1900's but updated with modern branding.

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

immediately signed up to buy this-- not only can i tell it is going to be a great resource but it is also very charming

the section "something's come up" from the table of contents of the anarchist medical book, with subheadings:
- i feel something
- i can't something
- my something looks weird
- i've got gross goop
- i've got lump
- something is wrong but i can't categorize it

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Transgendest ✅ @transgendest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you for your hard work on this book, which is one of the most important being written today. any anarchist who has ever cared for a sick person or been sick themselves knows why.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Members of the collective spreading seeds, hoping they take root in fertile soil.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Faust’s Lament by Wolfgang von Göthe, translation by Four Thieves Alas! I have completed study of Philosophy, Law, and Medicine, And tragically, also Theology I have taken great pains to study thoroughly, Yet here I stand, poor fool that I am, And am no wiser than before.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And toil no more with words.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Advance derision for the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective and the Anarchist Medical Book anarchistmedicalbook.com

Love from the Haters:

"Speaking for the Big Evil Pharma Industry, if I may, you Vinegar Thieves are living in our basement and subsisting on what we provide."
-Derek Lowe, self-described "Big Pharma Shill"

"If they can liberate women from the reproductive obligations that they have as women, that's a blow to capitalism." -Karlyn Borysenko, Antifa Researcher, Turningpoint USA

"This is like if 3D printing started with guns... You're going to undo the last 30 years of my work."
-Eric Von Hippel, Open-Source "Advocate"

"Oh, I would never make an EpiPencil! But it's nice that you created it so other people can."
-Lynn Buquo, NASA

"Who's this?... No this is a joke call. I don't know how you got this number, but please don't call again."
-Daniel O'Day, CEO Gillead Pharmaceuticals

"I'm not sure the MicroLab would be useful on an individual level, but maybe... to serve a small community it could work." -Martin Shkreli, infamous "Pharma Bro"

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Well well well... What have we here? A remixed MicroLab design with a larger outer reactor core jar and an easily removable reaction chamber. We're figuring out how to handle alternative designs and forks as we hand off the project. Keep 'em coming!

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What do you mean medicine costs a lot of money?! @dennismhogan.bsky.social

Dennis M. Hogan
@dennismhogan

I have terrible news about medicine

jolene of arc @okaypompeii
sucks that all the little coffees I buy cost money; they should be free because I need them, like medicine

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For anyone who needs help naming their successor org, we have a helpful matrix!

Name Your Cells, Vinaigrettes! Some example combinations of numerical + liberatory + acidic solution combinations are below:

The

Duo, Twin, Pair, Bi, Duce, Snakeyes | Liberators | Sour Wine
Triple, Triumvirate, Trey | Outlaws | Acetic
Tetrad, Quad, IV | Redistributors | CH3COOH (Pronounced “Chooch”)
V, Quintus, Penta | Bootleggers | Malt
Hex, Sex, Sax, Boxcar | Commandeers | Eisel
Sept, Hept | Nonconsensual Open-Sorcerers | Cider
Octopus, Stopsign | Night Gardeners | Tonic
Ennea, Nova | Unshacklers | Elixir
Deca, Deci | Repurposers | Oxymel
Elf, Elevensies | Wrenchers | Brine
Dozen, Zwölf | Greyhands | Draught

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

During our exodus from Las Vegas, The Anarchist Medical Book was briefly on airport bookshelves. It's not anymore, but you can reserve your copy here: anarchistmedicalbook.com

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Links to our final talk and to the slides are available on the website: fourthievesvinegar.org The torch is yours to pick up. Additionally, a preview of The Anarchist Medical Book is up. Check it out and sign up to be notified when it's complete: anarchistmedicalbook.com

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Right to Repair–for Your Body. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have t...

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our former front man @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social lording it over the peasants at #BSidesLV is just one reason the collective had to break up.

A bearded man looking at the camera. Behind and below him people party in a pool in Las Vegas.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thanks for 10 great years everyone! Looking forward to continued passing of the torch to all y'all.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our #BSidesLV talk will be streaming live 13:00 Pacific time Wednesday August 5 at the link below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgsB...

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BsidesLV 2026 - Breaking Ground - Wednesday

YouTube video by BSidesLV

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Who is at BSides this year? It looks like a great turnout.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The MicroLab devs pushed a small fix to the Recipe Press yesterday. (That's software that generates the "recipes" that run reactions on the MicroLab.) The fix helped the chem team finish a reaction we'll be showing off at #BsidesLV in about a week... See you there!

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our upcoming talk at @bsideslv.org will be our last and it's got us at the collective reflecting fondly on the last decade of open source science and DIY medicine. We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has contributed over the years. #BSidesLV

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Locknote : The End of the Beginning Breaking Ground, Wednesday August 5th 13:00-13:45 Come see the last Four Thieves talk at BSides. We'd love to see you all and say hello/goodbye. bsideslv.org/talks#11f178...

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Talks - BSides Las Vegas

BSides Las Vegas is a nonprofit organization formed to stimulate the Information Security industry and community.

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Anyone going to BSides Las Vegas this year? Four Thieves is going to be there, and we'd love to see y'all.

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Alright vinegarettes! We got a big drop coming soon and we're going to be doing a little publicity around it. If you know anyone who might be interested in hosting our merry band of oft-do-wells on a stream, podcast, show, or battle arena, please have them reach out: fourthievesvinegar.org/contact/

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it her! @koboldthatbites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

oh! a fascinating read, and plenty easy to follow for those outside the medical fields (unlike many of the documents sources lol)

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

✨💖🦠🦠🦠💖✨ We've got a new release dropping right now! The Care and Feeding of the Human Gut Microbiome. A helpful primer on gut health for beginners and intestine aficionados alike. Plus, a little foreshadowing. Check it out: fourthievesvinegar.org/2026/06/28/t...

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The Care and Feeding of the Human Gut Microbiome

A Primer on Gut Health for Beginners Gut health is all the rage these days. Probiotics and prebiotics proliferate. Fiber is cool again. And it's not just for pooping anymore! Major convenience stores ...

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Take note my friends: the narrative of "over-the-hill" is bullshit. It won't happen if you don't let it. Yale study finds nearly half of older adults improved with age | ScienceDaily share.google/SXjDG4XyFztC...

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Yale study finds nearly half of older adults improved with age

A long-term Yale study is challenging one of the biggest myths about aging. Nearly half of adults over 65 improved physically, mentally, or both over time, despite the common belief that aging means c...

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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Some other members of the collective would like to add: "Fuck those guys".

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