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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How to digitalize a camera film Repost of @EIRancheroLoco: Original post
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026
Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
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Survey: Lack of knowledge, problems with access may affect adult vaccine uptake more than hesitancy
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
We made five spice duck breast with blackberries and charred scallion and sesame oil mashed potatoes last night. I’m really glad it’s becoming much easier to find fresh duck at the store.
five spice duck breast with blackberries and charred scallion and sesame oil mashed potatoes last night.
five spice duck breast with blackberries and charred scallion and sesame oil mashed potatoes l
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Climate Week is here in New York City, and our work has deep roots. 18,261 trees planted this year. The most in a decade.
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Bri 💝 @breezybrik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don’t miss @sciam.bsky.social next in-person event with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on Tuesday Sept 22nd 📚 we’ll be helping kick off Brooklyn Book Fest with 4 amazing authors and tons of fun prizes! www.eventbrite.com/e/1994954120...
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The Scientific American Panel: Finding the Science in Fiction
The Scientific American returns, exploring science in fiction with four authors of this year's highly anticipated releases!
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First time speaking as CDC Director at a health conference and she doesn't address measles or vaccines; and won't answer a question on 4th PA measles related death- not sure this is the path to rebuilding trust... which she states is her priority www.ajc.com/news/2026/09... @altcdc.altgov.info
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In first public appearance, new CDC director vows to rebuild trust
Dr. Erica Schwartz avoided commenting on measles deaths in Pennsylvania.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz just parroted one of RFK Jr.’s favorite and false talking points: “If someone got hit by a bus, and they happened to have COVID, often that was called a COVID-related death”. She said this right before she spoke with a ballroom full of healthcare executives.
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New CDC chief discusses measles, vaccine trust and staff morale
One month after taking over an embattled CDC, new Director Dr. Erica Schwartz sat down with our Georgia Capitol reporter, Abby Kousouris.
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Merck made $31.68 billion (US) off Keytruda alone in 2025, an increase of over $2 billion from the year before. That's more than twice its total spending on R&D in 2025 ($15.789 billion, a DECREASE of more than $2 billion from the year before). This is well beyond just reward for innovation. 💊💰
Screenshot of the Product Sales and Costs, Expenses and Other tables from the 2025 annual report, found here: https://www.merck.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2026/02/MRK-12.31.2025-10K-FINAL.pdf
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Current COVID, Influenza, and RSV Vaccine Recommendations. www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
Recommendations for vaccines from American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of  Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Academy of Family Physicians.
Full information in link above
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Prior to cancer immunotherapy, vaccination of any kind, not only mRNA Covid (as previously reported), is associated with a small and transient (~6 months) benefit of improved survival www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"I don't know how the Ebola spread is going to slow down. The transmissin is so fast. It's the most devastating thing I've ever seen in my life." www.npr.org/2026/09/10/g...
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'I've never seen anything like this' -- A U.S. doctor treats Ebola's youngest victims
Dr. Rupa Narra is a U.S. pediatrician who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help care for stricken children. Nothing could have prepared her for what she'd face.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A message to Canada’s new medical students entering a system in crisis: These are hard times, but not hopeless times, by @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: A message to Canada’s new medical students: These are hard times, but not hopeless times
Why emphasizing meaning in health care work can be a protective factor against burnout, despair and complacency
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
3 hikers who say they used AI to plan their trip were rescued after becoming stranded on California's Mount Shasta 'They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required,' the sheriff’s office said
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3 hikers who say they used AI to plan trip rescued after becoming stranded on Mount Shasta
Three hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TOday's essential read for all budding medical professionals (nurses too!!!) Thanks @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social for articulating in words what many of us feel in our hearts.
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Opinion: A message to Canada’s new medical students: These are hard times, but not hopeless times
Why emphasizing meaning in health care work can be a protective factor against burnout, despair and complacency
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Some slightly good news for North Atlantic right whales: four consecutive years of small increases after a big decline, and four first-time mothers recorded darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/entities/pub...
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We have wilfully ignored Sudan for years: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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People fleeing Sudan civil war face ‘dire and deteriorating’ conditions in refuge city
More traumatised civilians are arriving every day at ‘shockingly overcrowded’ El Obeid and camps on its outskirts
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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No special glasses needed, just your eyes and the right local viewing time. Miss it and you'll be waiting until 2029 for a lunar eclipse this striking again. #Moon #LunarEclipse #Space #Astronomy #Science
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Great Barrington Declaration kooks who Trump chose to run the federal public health agencies said they'd boost trust in public health but "only 50% of Americans say they trust the CDC's recommendations to improve public health right now, down from 77% last year" Oops www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Only half of U.S. adults trust the CDC’s public health recommendations, poll finds
The only group for whom trust in the CDC has increased over the past year are Republican voters — 67% this year, slightly up from 63% when the poll was conducted in April 2025
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
FDA approved the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine, which is great news for everyone! In clinical trials it outperformed existing flu vaccine technology so well that not even Vinay Prasad could cancel it. I talked to Scott Tong at @npr.org @hereandnow.bsky.social about it www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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What to know about the new FDA-approved flu shot using mRNA technology
The flu shot uses the same technology as the COVID-19 vaccines.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/08/2026
Anyone who has worked in healthcare will never forget the horrors we have experienced through the pandemic. No amount of lying or gaslighting can ever erase that.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
French Intellectuals
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allysons.bsky.social @allysons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
yes, same
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What we are doing here is evil.
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Prof. Sam Kariuki, BVM, MSc, PhD, DSc (Hons, LSTM) @eadirectordndi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Good news! @WHO recommends new treatment guidelines for #leishmaniasis. East Africa: new combo treatment is 90%+ effective, cuts injections 34→14, hospitalization 60-90→14 days. South Asia: safer PKDL options, less toxic. Read more bit.ly/4x9OYv3 #BeatNTDs @dndi.org
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WHO recommends new, better and safer treatment regimens for leishmaniasis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued major updates to its leishmaniasis treatment guidelines, introducing a new regimen for visceral leishmaniasis (VL/kala-azar) in eastern Africa and severa...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky
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The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS
The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 19/07/2026
Fake Ozempic exists online. Fake chemo doesn't. A drug gets a gray market only when it's cheap to make and you take it yourself. Peptides clear that bar. Save and send to anyone trying peptides. Read & subscribe for free: celinegounder.com www.celinegounder.com/p/peptide-pro…
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 18/07/2026
After #Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK FROM THE BROAD STREET PUMP
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s in this hot AF part of the summer, surrounded by wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, unable to eat lettuce that I find myself thinking maybe we should’ve made some different decisions.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Ph I study of the BDBV Ebola vaccine is underway! the trial will recruit 50 adult participant 18-55yo. Serum Institute of India has manufactured and stockpiled approximately 620,000 doses of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine candidate in two weeks for potential future use www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
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World’s first Phase I Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine trial launched by Oxford Vaccine Group
The trial will assess the safety and immune response of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine in 50 healthy adults aged 18–55 years.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12/07/2026
At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography
The Milky Way rising above a hill at Hoopers Inlet on Otago Peninsula with crazy lines of satellites in the sky
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded
Getting results in Shanghai 

In China, it's a different story.

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing.

China is pouring huge resources into developing all sorts of biological research, including gene therapy, aiming to curb its reliance on the West and become an even bigger world superpower. This spring, the country pledged billions in additional science funding. Shu, who trained at Harvard Medical School and is working on solving the same problems as David Corey, has plenty of staff in his lab, all the supplies he needs and can just get more done. "My lab is growing bigger and bigger," he says. And it's far bigger than his lab when he was in Boston, training under Corey and his mentees.

For decades, the U.S. has brought the smartest people in the world — like Yilai Shu — to its shores. Many have stayed. Shu wanted to, but family and a scientific opportunity, with lots of funding, drew him back home. That decision was rewarded when his team had a successful trial on a single injection that can restore hearing.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We could all use some good news these days Ghana cut malaria deaths by 86%!!! And they followed science and good public health policies healthpolicy-watch.news/how-ghana-sl...
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How Ghana Slashed Child Malaria Deaths By 86% - Health Policy Watch
For decades, malaria has been one of Africa's most persistent health challenges. In Ghana, it was once the leading cause of death for children under five. Bed
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The entire thread is a must-read, but this post specifically highlights what happened here: we were saving millions of lives per year for peanuts — literally — grown by and purchased from American farmers DOGE/Musk decided those lives weren’t worth saving anymore
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/ www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wonderful news from the #Ebola outbreak in DRC: four health workers have recovered and been discharged. Every Ebola survivor is worth celebrating. Today, we celebrate the survivors and the teams that made their recovery possible. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
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Four health workers recover from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Four nurses who were being treated for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia, the capital of Ituri, after recov...
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response: Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials. A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain 🧪 My story in @science.org (🧵 to come)
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Can fast, nimble clinical trials deliver a drug to halt the new Ebola outbreak?
Past outbreaks spawned clever strategies for testing antivirals and antibodies, but researchers will still face major challenges on the ground
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is such a moving piece. If your interested in #Ebola — the damage it causes, the trauma families and communities and responders face during and after an outbreak — please read it. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e...
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I saw Ebola as both doctor and patient. I wish people cared more about the Africans I worked alongside
“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 23/05/2026
It's World Turtle Day! 🐢🎉 All 6 sea turtles found in US waters are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Can you name them all? Hint: this one is a green sea turtle an MIT-WHOI join program student encountered while freediving in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. 📸 by Ciara Willis © #WHOI
A sea turtle swims gracefully underwater against a clear blue ocean background. Its flippers are extended wide, and its shell displays mottled patterns of green and brown. The sunlight filters through the water, illuminating the turtle's intricate details. The ocean floor is faintly visible below.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Love seeing this. There are also so many genuinely showy native plants - you don’t have to choose between garden aesthetics and supporting biodiversity and climate resilience.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Every health facility said they were full’: alarm over rapid spread of Ebola in DRC
New strain of virus, aid cuts, and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak
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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This kind of torture and inhumane treatment is an extension of the torture and inhumane treatment present in our prisons. It’s a moral imperative to dismantle it all.
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