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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Okay I think I’m taking a bluesky break at least for the weekend. Don’t forget to take care of yourselves, friends. You can’t pour from an empty cup.

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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 25/07/2025

if you have a license that interacts with these system please contact your board and make a collective stand against participating in these systems

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I have never been a big fan of YouTube for this reason. Why do you need a 15 minute build up to get to the point? Argh. 2 minutes total would have been too much. I would rather read.

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Catsdanceatmidnight @midnitecat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed" If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Lol the weather app is once again extremely wrong forcing me to delay mowing yet again.

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Calling all scientists-join @faseborg.bsky.social on their August recess advocacy challenge. You don’t need to be a member to participate. Congress doesn’t seem willing to cut science funding as deeply as the White House wants but needs to hear from you 🧪 www.faseb.org/journals-and...

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a man says call your senators with his hands folded

Alt: a man says call your senators with his hands folded

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Take 2 on webinar. It’s called “Staying Grounded: What International Postdocs and Administrators need to know”

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Why yes, I did just sign on for a webinar 30 minutes early because my brain convinced me that’s when it was.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Same issue with answering a question they asked or explaining an interesting topic. People assume you’re talking down to them, I’m not, I’m just talking about this cool topic I know a lot about and I’m trying to share my knowledge with you. I don’t care that you don’t know, I’m sharing so you do.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Oh neat. The sump pump for the washing machine has started doing loud drip noises but no leaks and is otherwise working. That’s definitely not already overstimulating me. 🙃🫠 I guess time for headphones even though I don’t want them.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Outlawing homelessness: when I spent five years rough sleeping during the early 90s, almost all the homeless men were vets with PTSD. Reagan shut mental health institutions and put them into the world with zero support. Every guy in our camp had been in 'Nam. Rinse...repeat.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A constant thought in the brain of people with pattern recognition 😩:

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I had some ice cream out of a bowl with skulls on it. That helped some.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It wasn’t just that day, it’s been the whole week.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A story My late friend needed housing. They were disabled and living with abusive parents. Their mom said abusive and toxic things, hid their meds, & used chemicals knowingly setting off their child’s asthma. Their dad made food that regularly made them sick. 1/

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

*INSTITUTIONALIZATION IS WORSE THEN JAIL* Disabled, mentally ill, and homeless people thrown into institutions don’t get phone calls, lawyers, or trails. THEY ARE DISAPPEARED with no time limits or advocate for as long as the state pleases. You know it’s bad when prisoners have more protections.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The houseless EO has hit particularly hard tonight. I know so many amazing people who have been houseless or close to it. Everyone deserves better.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Finally watched Kpop Demon Hunters tonight. I was not prepared for the emotional gut punch 😭 but it was really good.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Not only are there already not enough resources, new Medicaid cuts will gut the flimsy safety net, ending pathways out of punishment. Meanwhile, you know who leaves the light on 24/7/365. It's a straight-up mass incarceration edict gussied up with words like "humane" to help his allies sell it.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

How many houseless people are veterans? Nobody should be treated this way but you’re going to thank people who voluntarily served their country by doing this? Because we know they won’t get the help they actually need.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

do you know what does reduce crime & recidivism, cost significantly less than incarceration, hospitalization, institutionalization or even running shelters? housing (usually with some level of subsidy & support in maintaining it), harm reduction & voluntary pathways to recovery.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

in addition to there not being enough treatment facilities/programs as it is, there’s tons of evidence on how forced/coerced treatment does more harm than good incarceration is also incredibly fucking expensive (more so than hospitalization at times) which the community ends up paying for

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Boosting this again because it was morning for the west coast.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

And they’re just deciding what we should or shouldn’t have accessible to us because a small group of people bothered them.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Oh hell yeah, Hazbin Hotel finally announced season 2 is coming October 29.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025

Watch this. This is the precedent set by Gavin Newsom's proposition 1 & in New York. Involuntarily hospitalizing the mentally ill en masse. This is been coming for a long time. And we've been screaming about it.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Here are the questions that @itch.io, @drivethrurpg.com, and any other company that tries to justify this kind of action has to answer: 1) Who decides if something is NSFW? 2) What's to keep any unpopular group of people from being labelled as 'inappropriate' and removed? And most importantly,

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My wfh supervisor decided he needed a catnip break

Black cat Kimchi sprawled out on his side all stretched out covered in random bits of catnip with a disassociating who me expression on his face

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Annoyed I have to make an agreement for adults to sign for a volunteer position based on past behavior.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 24/07/2025

"Why Black people don't call the police." And "Why cops make the murder rate go up." Part 1000. Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert. Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...🤔 And charged her.🤡

Rapper GloRilla performs "Let Her Cook" at the BET awards in a white suit and hat. Her backup dancers are dressed as servers.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Temperature “realfeel” 108 degrees F. No thank you.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025

Your must-have info in the dystopian hellscape of our country is what to do if the gestapo storms the comics convention to abduct people to secret prisons.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 24/07/2025

itch delisted content & banned anything “nsfw.” queer & trans authors are fucked because the powers that be think queer & trans people existing is nsfw. itch claims they acted because payment processors demanded it. a hate group pressured processors with 1000 letters. i think we can do better.🧵

thetransfemininereview.com

Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted

A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My friend would have loved this, they loved skramps. This is so adorable.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

No Kimchi, the random Philo leaf you found is not catnip or yours. Don’t worry, i got it away from him before he ate it.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Reason 7,521 that cats are perpetual toddlers: random things on floor are fair game to eat.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025

like don't get me (or Michael) wrong--willful complicity is def a thing--but it is, also, astonishing the extent to which some of these people are like, 'but my colleague is always so nice in the capitol cafeteria' or 'but he too is a harvard man' and similar foolishness

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

So what action steps can we take to fight this payment censorship nonsense? Because I want to do something and I’m sure others do, too. I just don’t know where to start.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 24/07/2025

I am sorry to announce Hulk Hogan has ultimately lost his rivalry with the Undertaker.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Mutual aid for me but not for thee seems to be their motto.

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Okay but…I had no idea he was an an actual person. I thought he was just a character on the show lol. His character looks just like him.

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