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Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, truly this type of reasoning is undeserving of any response. But I will mention that it omits that school transmission has caused who knows how many cases of Long Covid, taking people out of schools, jobs, etc. (Guess how I know).

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 4h

They're all just about theoretical bribery now, aren't they?

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 4h

So it looks like the only major accomplishment of this admin is changing names?

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Ocean State Media @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social · 6h

This weekend, celebrate the Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Azorean and Latino communities that are an integral part of Fall River, New Bedford and the whole south coast area! Learn about this festival, plus more activities, here:

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Love notes made of shells and dancing among the dented fenders | Weekend 401

From Sailor’s Valentines in New Bedford to a dance party in an auto body shop, this weekend’s picks are anything but ordinary

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Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social · 8h

The Vatican has published a new document on Nostra Aetate and #interfaith dialogue: A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate We'll be posting some highlights here. www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...

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Note. A Journey of Hope. Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate (16 September 2026)

Note. A Journey of Hope. Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, 16 September 2026

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 21h

A cult is when someone is clearly a political liability and you stick with him.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧵US Weekly COVID update: Oct 5, 2026 🔸1 in 124 Actively Infectious 🔸396,000 Daily Infections 🔸2,890,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸118,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸145,000 to 580,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸700 to 1,300 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com

An image titled "COVID-19 Heat Map, Based on CDC Wastewater Data & Standard Levels," dated Oct 5, 2026 (data last updated Sep 26), by Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA (@michael_hoerger) and pmc19.com. It features a color-coded map of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Map Legend and Risk Tiers
• Very Low (Light Blue): PMC Prevalence Estimate <0.9%
• Low (Light Green): 1.2% (range 0.9-1.5%)
• Moderate (Orange): 2.0% (range 1.5-2.4%)
• High (Red): 2.9% (range 2.4-3.5%)
• Very High (Magenta): >3.5%
Summary Text
The text states that the US has at least 36 states and territories with COVID outbreaks. It notes that while the apparent wave peak has passed, transmission remains high across much of the country. A listed breakdown of states with observed outbreaks includes Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and South (text cuts off).
The top right corner indicates this is page number 3.

Based on the provided image from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, here is the detailed alternative text description:
An informational graphic titled "National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)" dated October 5, 2026, with the source URL pmc19.com listed. The data is broken down into three main sections:
Infections
• Proportion Actively Infectious: 1 in 124 (0.8%)
• New Daily Infections: 396,000
• Infections the Past Week: 2,890,000
• Infections in 2026: 118,000,000
• Cumulative Infections per Person: 5.44
Long COVID
• Long COVID Cases Resulting from New Daily Infections: 20,000 to 79,000
• Long COVID Cases Resulting from New Weekly Infections: 145,000 to 580,000
Excess Deaths
• Excess Deaths Resulting from New Daily Infections: 100 to 170
• Excess Deaths Resulting from New Weekly Infections: 700 to 1,300
The top right corner indicates this is slide or page number 8.

An image titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" from the PMC Model, dated Oct 5, 2026 (page 5). It shows a data table from pmc19.com detailing transmission statistics for U.S. states alphabetically from Alabama to Mississippi.
Table Columns:
• State name
• Standard CDC Level
• Revised CDC Level (Downshifted)
• PMC Estimate (% Actively Infectious)
• Chances anyone is infectious in a room of 10, 25, 50, or 100 people
Key Highlights:
• Highest Infection Rates: California (3.4%), Connecticut (4.6%), Guam (4.3%), Hawaii (6.7%), Massachusetts (4.5%), and Mississippi (2.8%) are highlighted in red or pink rows indicating high risk.
• In Hawaii, the PMC estimate is 1 in 15 people actively infectious, with a >99% chance of someone being infectious in a room of 100 people.
Footnotes:
A note states that on August 14, 2026, the CDC revised descriptors downward without notice, a practice the author calls "bluewashing".

An image titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" from the PMC Model, dated Oct 5, 2026 (page 6). This is part two of a data table from pmc19.com, listing U.S. jurisdictions alphabetically from Missouri to Wyoming.
Table Columns:
• State name
• Standard CDC Level
• Revised CDC Level (Downshifted)
• PMC Estimate (% Actively Infectious)
• Chances anyone is infectious in a room of 10, 25, 50, or 100 people
Key Highlights:
• Highest Infection Rates: Montana, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington are highlighted in red or pink rows indicating high risk.
• Texas shows 1 in 19 (5.4%) actively infectious, with a >99% chance of an infectious person in a room of 100.
• U.S. Virgin Islands shows 1 in 16 (6.2%) actively infectious, with a >99% chance in a room of 100.
Footnote:
Repeats the note about the CDC downshifting categorical risk descriptors on August 14, 2026.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If they had just looked up "pigna" in an Italian dictionary, they might not have had to send their Investigative Team on the hunt. But that would have been too easy. www.wpri.com/target-12/pi...

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Pineapple, pinecone or hand grenade? The Federal Hill mystery in Providence

Target 12 uncovered original 1970s blueprints and spoke with the architect’s family about the iconic Providence landmark.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"These other testimonies, they didn't meet a female Jesus; they didn't meet a soft or passive Jesus." Julian of Norwich: "Our tender Mother, Jesus, He may homely lead us into His blessed breast, by His sweet open side, and shew therein part of the Godhead and the joys of Heaven."

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." I guess Isaiah 53 has no more traction in Evangelical circles.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem in the US, at least, is that no one seems to think they get COVID anymore.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A first for me. My talk this week begins with the line: "I would like to begin by thanking His Eminence Cardinal Gregory for the invitation..." #NoPressure

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had the pleasure of working with Benny for 2 years at PC. A great scholar, an engaging teacher, and a talented dialoguer. Congratulations to him and to the Lux Center!

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

how did we get to a point in global history where it seems every major society is split 50-50 in elections. Seems fishy to me.

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Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us on Oct 20 for the annual Fay Rozovsky Lecture in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue in person or online! Thomas Bolin, Scholar-in-Residence in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations "Jews in the Eternal City: Soundings in a 2000-Year History" Register: tinyurl.com/EternalCity26 #interfaith

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the highlights of my career was teaching a group of Providence College students here.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And some people have decided AI is bad because it is being forced on them for no apparent reason but profit.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tom! Talking about #Rome!! You won't want to miss this!

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I still think the Pope's giving Anthropic a major seat at his Encyclical launch (that's a weird way to put it, isn't it?) was a mistake.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ma figghia was getting into some things she shouldn't have been so I had to pick her up. She started kicking and yelling and finally came out with: "I WANNA GET DOWN!" The musician in me couldn't help but laugh.

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Elmo's Happy Dance on the Moon

ALT: Elmo's Happy Dance on the Moon

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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A single-panel cartoon by Wayno (dated 5-11-16) showing a traditional Russian nesting doll (matryoshka) standing at a ticket counter. The doll wears a red headscarf, a yellow dress with a red flower, and has rosy cheeks. Behind the counter, a skeptical ticket agent in a light blue shirt narrows her eyes at the doll and asks, “One ticket… Really?”

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USA: COVID-19 Trend Summary: October 2, 2026 As of September 30, 2026: 🔹19 states have COVID-19 infections growing or likely growing 🔹8 states have infections declining or likely declining 🔹23 states show no change Source: www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling...

CDC map showing estimated COVID-19 epidemic trends across the U.S. as of September 30, 2026.
- 🟣 Growing: 19 states are growing or likely growing, with increases across parts of the Midwest, Northeast, Northwest and Alaska.
- 🟢 Declining: 8 states are declining or likely declining, particularly across the South and Southwest.
- ⚪ Not changing: 23 states have stable infection trends.
- ⚫ Not estimated: Some areas lack sufficient estimates.
- California, Texas and Florida show declining trends, while Wisconsin, Minnesota and parts of the Northeast show growth.
The CDC estimates trends by Health Service Area, so conditions can vary within individual states.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eating a casual lunch on a rainy weekend day. Mom: Well, life has its good and its bad. <pause> Ma figghia: What's "life"? Me:

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Paul Pondering Deeply

ALT: Paul Pondering Deeply

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population" A large Swedish study found that a 4th COVID vaccine dose was linked to a 31% lower risk of being diagnosed with Long COVID during the first 6 months after vaccination, compared with receiving only 3 doses.

A news article headline on the website Bioengineer.org, published on October 1, 2026, under the Health section.
The bold black title reads: "Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population". Below the title, the author byline reads "BY BIOENGINEER" with a reading time estimated at 6 minutes.
Underneath the text is a conceptual photo set against a solid bright blue background. On the left, a gloved hand holds a textured 3D model of a grey coronavirus particle with red spike proteins. A medical syringe filled with an orange and clear liquid is pointed directly at the virus model from the right.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, ma figghia said it to me for the first time: "I'm never going to listen to you ever again!" My, how fast they grow up!

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So....wasn't all this trained by ripping off the knowledge of human experts?

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shouldn't we just call it "degenerative AI"? I mean, come on, people.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've already got Super Intelligence, they're called Professors. 😘

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are some days that knock the wind out of your week.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s sad… but we knew that’s where we were. At the point where killing others is seen as inevitable… just the cost of doing business.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You might wonder why I’m not shocked about the outcome of the C19 Inquiry resulting in C19 being downgraded to the “who cares if we spread it” category. We’ve been living that reality for years. I thought they already had it in writing somewhere, around the same time it became BSL-2.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Synesius of Cyrene to his friend Joannes (ca. 412): Congratulations on becoming a monk and wearing that drab grey robe. I admire you so much, and think you're so great, that I'm just gonna say grey is white in this case. [nb:paraphrase] #SartorialTheology

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tfw you say "oh yeah, I can definitely have that done by then" when you didn't realize how far into the month we actually were at that point.

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Harry Potter Slow Turn

ALT: Harry Potter Slow Turn

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