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Alcinoe

@alcinoe.bsky.social
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Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Interests include tech, science fiction, art, ice hockey (Boston Bruins), cooking, and following news from all over. I care about Sudan and Ukraine. Covid is airborne. Bernie voter, then Harris, now devastated.

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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh no. That's Beacon House. Some units are for MGH patients who live out of town. My mother stays there when she gets her cancer treatments (She can't go up the stairs to my house). The rest of the building is senior housing. I hope that everyone is ok.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh crap. M 8.0 earthquake 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama. 33 km deep. Exact location and magnitude may change as we get more data earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Map showing the location of the earthquake in southern Panama
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ugh.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 24/09/2026
Deeply alarmed by the ICE raids in New Bedford and the South Coast. Disappearing parents on their way to work or to pick up their kids from school is appalling and does NOTHING to keep communities safe. We must abolish ICE and stop this campaign of cruelty and terror.
An article by GBH titled: At least 2 dozen immigrants detained in ICE arrest wave across New Bedford, Dartmouth and Fall River
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vegetarian food is delicious and healthy. Hanging out my wash makes my clothes smell good and they are wrinkle-fee. My tiny city yard is filled with trees, and I don't need air-conditioning. Most of my furniture is 40 years old or more. Desk chair from my ancestors 200 years old. Really comfortable.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This isn't good: two grifters forcing "peace" on Ukraine.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wow, I've never had a problem on any platform.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I did. I love quartz.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm sorry, and I will always say no. It makes me sick and afraid.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 3 Both zinc ore #Sphalerite and calcium plagioclase feldspar #Anorthite will split cleanly if you hit them with a hammer, but only one can claim a larger split of your votes! VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
A photo split between toothy translucent yellow crystals chewing on a grey rock and a blocky milky-yellow translucent crystal where every corner and edge is cut by a small oblique face.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/08/2026
“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Folks, @callanbentley.bsky.social had me on his youtube show to discuss the Nepal flood disaster. Have a watch. 🧪⚒️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUx1qYIW4U
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Analysis of the Nepal/Tibet flood: interview with geomorphologist Dan Shugar
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It wasn't an earthquake: bsky.app/profile/drwe...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some early reports said that the horrifying flooding in Nepal was the result of an earthquake. However, the signal was actually the recording of the landslide. TL:DR - there was no earthquake, it was a landslide. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Screen shot showing the USGS event page. The landslide released the same amount of energy as a M5.2 earthquake
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think they care. Because right after the midterms, JD and his allies in the billionaire class and their press allies will begin bringing up reasons why Trump should be impeached. And the Democrats will fall for it. Once JD takes over and tech bros take charge, nothing will stop them.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 24/08/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was 29 and had lived in Durham, North Carolina since arriving from Mexico at age three. He was detained this summer at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia and diagnosed with acute leukemia while inside. indyweek.com/news/priscil...
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Mexican Man From Durham Dies From Leukemia While In ICE Custody
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center. He died on Friday, July 24.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He isn't going to last that long, and when JD takes office (after encouraging Trump's impeachment) we'll see what the tech bros really mean about destroying democracy.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I agree. I love to see Canada strong.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Monday should be interesting. You have be under threat of bombs to buy bonds?
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Buy bonds or be bombed. Nobody would buy them now for any other reason if threats are needed to create a market.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I doubt it.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yes. I can and have taken the T to Central in Cambridge and walked home after a flight.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm so sorry. I always listened to you. Thank you.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Buy bonds or get bombed.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/08/2026
Bossing the bond market around never works ft.trib.al/M88VZe3 | opinion
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Bossing the bond market around never works
Despite Scott Bessent’s efforts, investors worry something is up
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am trying to understand this. If you buy back bonds, aren't you increasing debt to do so? If people are willing to sell their long-term bonds, that maybe paid higher interest rates, doesn't it mean that they see too much risk to keep them? Doesn't that point to something that nobody wants to buy?
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wow.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
15 November] … my little Jerusha. The dear little Creature lies in dying Circumstances. Tho’ I pray and cry to the Lord… Lord she is thine! Thy will be done!... [18 November] …About Midnight, little Eleazar died. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The Past Is Never Dead—Measles Epidemic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1713
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The conclusion that emerges from all these events is that the United States’ food-safety system is in deep trouble—and it’s just one of the many serious public-health crises we are facing..." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Explosive Failures Fueling the Cyclospora Outbreak
We're getting a stark reminder of what happens when you gut a public-health system.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Preliminary information about the M7.4 earthquake in Colombia
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Innocent scientists don't go to prison, they go to gulags. And Democratic countries don't have gulags.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You were one of a few, and when I found you at the old social media site, suddenly everything made sense. I couldn't understand how something like biogen with worldwide spread could have happened here in my own city. It didn't make sense with dirty hands and close contact.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I liked it!
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is interesting how many things we've learned about foodborne disease and specifically Cyclospora. Yet at the same time, it feels like we haven't learned that much. I hope we will recognize there were many, many mistakes made in this outbreak & that we learn from these mistakes. bit.ly/4fsGlG2
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Cyclospora: Then and Now
Cyclospora cases continue to climb in the U.S. but this isn’t the first time we’ve had a multi-state outbreak linked to produce. Back in 1996, there was a major cyclospora outbreak across several stat...
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is awful. People who have done nothing wrong are losing their jobs and communities are losing their most irreplaceable and essential members.
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gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Layoffs of Haitian workers could impact the continuity and quality of care for people who benefit from human service programs. bit.ly/4pOVt42
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Haitians facing TPS termination grapple with a confusing process
Layoffs of Haitian workers could impact the continuity and quality of care for people who benefit from human service programs.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Haha!
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Looks like I'll spend summer days inside my tiny bedroom with the door closed and my air filter on. The smoke hurts my eyes. I try my hardest not to contribute to climate change. But it still finds me.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 13/07/2026
One person is reportedly dead following a shooting involving ICE agents in Biddeford, according to a social media post by Maine House Speaker Speaker Ryan Fecteau.
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Developing: 1 killed in ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine House Speaker says
House Speaker Speaker Ryan Fecteau said state police were investigating a shooting Monday morning near Pool Street in Biddeford, Maine.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yes.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#BBCNews - International court tells BBC of breakthrough in Sudan war crimes probe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sudan war: ICC tells BBC of breakthrough in war crimes investigation
The ICC has been looking into atrocities committed in Darfur over the past three years.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Closing the windows really helps.
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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 09/07/2026
Police said a 17-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her Waltham home Friday night has a severe food allergy and asthma. She left without an EpiPen or inhaler. on.nbcboston.com/5RQQb1f
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Waltham police seek missing 17-year-old
Police in Waltham, Massachusetts, are asking for the public’s help to find a missing teenager. Authorities said Wednesday that 17-year-old Victoria “Tori” Amore had last been seen leaving her Lexington Street home around 11:19 p.m. Friday. She got into a dark sedan, but police do not know the make or model. Waltham police noted that Amore has a severe food…
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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Always read Will's columns. This is another good one. Gift link share.inquirer.com/Ci3khk
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America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires. | Will Bunch
The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.
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Alcinoe @alcinoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This looks like a landslide - about 17 seconds into this video: www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Aerial footage reveals destruction in coastal Venezuela
Multi-storey buildings have collapsed in La Guaira following two major earthquakes on Wednesday.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
More than 4 million people may have experienced very strong, severe, or violent shaking. Causalities and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Chart showing how many people experienced different levels of shaking Bat graph showing potential economic loss and estimated fatalities
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