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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

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DWCISME @dwcisme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Trump must mend the breach or resign. Actually, Trump should just resign.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

One of those posts I want people to see, but hitting a heart on it is very difficult.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Global sea ice has reached its minimum for 2025. It has dropped 18% since 1979 🧪 #GreenSky

Minimum global sea ice extent chart showing a noisy yet steep fall over 46 years. Source: NSIDC

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They'd never be able to do this without pawns. Those people are just so sure it won't be them.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

For people who want to avoid Amazon, Lowe's has them for about $6 in my area. Searches in other stores could help us find better places if we must spend money.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Biden wasn't "passed over." He had lost a son and didn't want to run. Dems have absolutely been too passive and far too willing to constantly give ground (which includes Obama in bold). Biden didn't shore up all the things Trump broke. He just pretended it was all still there.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

FFX is one of my favs! Don't get too bogged down in the extras, but also, the extras are fun and blirzball on the vita when away from the PS is fun. 😁

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Psst: it IS an entitlement. Republicans have just convinced America that means something dirty and wrong. It means you earned it and deserve it.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Yeah, but hospitals definitely have those people in spades.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc- OR a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes, rendering them VULNERABLE to antibiotics, INCLUDING those they once resisted! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In a recent study, McMaster University researchers found that zinc plays a vital role in how some of the world's most dangerous bacteria resist antibiotics. The study has been published in Nature Microbiology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. The widespread acquisition of metallo-B-lactamases, such as VIM-2, contributes to the emergence of carbapenem-resistant pathogens, and currently, no metallo-ß-lactamase inhibitors are available in the clinic.
Here researchers showed that bacteria expressing
VIM-2 have impaired growth in zinc-deprived environments, including human serum and murine infection models.
Using transcriptomic, genomic and chemical probes, researchers identified molecular pathways critical for VIM-2 expression under zinc limitation. In particular, disruption of envelope stress response pathways reduced the growth of VIM-2-expressing bacteria in vitro and in vivo.
Furthermore, researchers showed that VIM-2 expression disrupts the integrity of the outer membrane, rendering VIM-2-expressing bacteria more susceptible to azithromycin. Using a systemic murine infection model, researchers showed azithromycin's therapeutic potential against VIM-2-expressing pathogens. In all, their findings provide a framework to exploit the fitness trade-offs of resistance, potentially accelerating the discovery of additional treatments for infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 25/01/2025

This is huge! Potential way to fight antibiotic resistant infections by depriving bacteria of zinc. 🦠🔬🧪🩺

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 25/01/2025

🦠💧 Bacteria vs 'Forever Chemicals' Scientists have found a type of bacteria that can slowly break down harmful PFAS chemicals This could help clean up polluted water and other environments. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Environment #Pollution #SciComm 🧪

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PFAS biodegradation by Labrys portucalensis F11: Evidence of chain shortening and identification of metabolites of PFOS, 6:2 FTS, and 5:3 FTCA

The biodegradation of three per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), namely perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), 6:2-fluorotelomer sulfonic acid (…

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

NoVA is in there Look closely.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I used TT as a pick me up mostly. Had a feed full of adorable animals w occasional video game stuff. Political stuff was mostly during the election or a few vids here and there. I'll really miss all the animals vids. 😮‍💨

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

And their only care is that women get busy making them more bodies. :(

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I don't like Dark Souls or feel drawn to any of them either. But I love ER, BB and Demons Souls. :) Dark Souls lacks the feeling in those games and that's the only way I can describe it.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Ok but have you played Demons Souls, Bloodbourne, or Elden Ring?

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Ah, now nobody who hasn't had it could possibly understand. 😂 They really got you wrapped up good with the "logic." Quickly "but, over there" -- both systems have COIs. Still, I'd take them over KP's 7 days of antibiotics & be sure to live in states with external review laws.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Dude, your health care isn't what you think it is. I just hope you don't learn the truth in a way that really hurts you. Why would you talk to mon-Kaiser doctors and health care professionals? Bc you aren't brain washed and seek outside info. Except, you are. Clearly.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

You *really* need to talk to medical professionals not in that Kaiser system. And listen, FFS, instead of telling them they don't understand something pretty easy to understand. 😂

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

YOU don't understand an integrated model. If KP tells your Dr a course if antibiotics is 7 days, your doctor orders antibiotics for 7 days.KP doesn't pay for more, your Dr knows that, & your Dr won't be a KP Dr getting a room full of patients from KP if he keeps trying to order 10 days.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You can claim it's not a conflict all you like, but it doesn't change the fact it's an obvious conflict of interest -- and more than one. I've seen and heard from plenty of people in the medical system belaboring the results. You should talk to more professionals outside KP.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I very much understand what it is. You refuse to acknowledge how much conflict of interest there is for patients in a system that determines access at _every_ level of healthcare when its financial interest is opposed to the chronic patient's length of life.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It's a system chock full of conflicts of interest. The doctors' employment depends upon keeping Kaiser happy. Kaiser protects itself, which includes its practitioners. Patients are just revenue stream. The business side runs the medical side.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

about isn't pragmatic either. Many times the ire is because of how much people have studied and seen, other times because of how many repercussions have touched them or people they care about. And perhaps once you've fully studied govts, you'll see that yourself.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

So if people are hating a government, asking what that government has done to cause the ire is a pragmatic approach, more so than assuming some neutrality and good intentions of government. Governments are power structures prone to corruption. Assuming others haven't studied govts they feel strongly

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Hating a government can absolutely be based on research and going in with your "pragmatic point of view to better judge." Quite a few governments have earned the ire of people around the world. Pretending it's automatically based on less than real outcomes is not pragmatic of you.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

That would only mean accepting some governments, not preclude hating any governments.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Hating the govt, yes, that's ok. Hating the people who are stuck with it is not ok. The people are just people like all the others on the planet.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Apparently certain people have not learned yet that there's only so much stress our medical system can take (and it's decreasing, not increasing). And even though a strain of flu may be extinct by our actions, they learned nothing. www.npr.org/2024/10/18/n...

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Influenza strain's disappearance, attributed to COVID protocols, alters 2024 flu shot

U.S. flu vaccines were redesigned after an influenza strain disappeared globally. Physical distancing and masking during the early days of COVID likely pushed the strain into oblivion.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is some Russia/Putin sh.. No, expansion on Earth is not acceptable. You want land, go to space. Go to space, and stay there.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Kaiser already controls the doctors in its plan, and how they treat patients. It's a much more painful 7% than it appears.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Kaiser is a mislead. They already control the doctors and how they treat patients, so 7% denial is more painful than it appears.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Not just one. Think about Joe Rogan too.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Oh, it's hilarious you think kids won't be trans just bc you elected Trump. You don't stop people from being who they are, and you never can or will, no matter how much you hate. I'm not the one w "his meat" in the mouth. You're looking in the mirror again.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

There are things that deserve it, but those people are rarely the ones who get it anyway. And having it leaves it open to abuse and to the wrong people getting it.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The judge probably doesn't meet The Heritage Foundation's requirements. So she's actually for We the People. [ Sarcastic "Oh no! That's terrible!" sound insert here] I really enjoy assuming "she" here. That must be such a nice way to live life. Guess that's why you fight for it.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some people can't really imagine or envision anything just by description. I have the opposite issue. I can't really read comics. I've tried. But stories only in pictures with a few words make me unable to follow a story. It's different skills I've never developed (or just can't develop.)

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America 4 All — A4A @america-4-all.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

In 2019, American cancer patients paid approximately $16 billion out-of-pocket for cancer treatment. Meanwhile, United Health reported $33 billion in profits last year. This means one insurance company alone could cover every American's cancer treatment and still have about $17 billion in profits.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's my understanding that there's a black hole in the middle of all galaxies, and what's even more fascinating, the size of the hole corresponds to the size of the galaxy spinning around it.

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Society lacks the therapists needed; free college tuition for positions needed in the country would go a long way to filling it, and help other societal problems, but wouldn't give these men the impetus to seek therapy. //2

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So they need to actively help themselves? I agree. Saying they "need help" implies someone else is doing the helping. And other people cannot do the work they need to do for them. /1

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"men need help" -- help from whom?

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Aviditie @aviditie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ah, well, that must mean the books about it were banned./s 😂 How you think being awake and aware is an insult, I do not know. But go do your wiki research instead of reading the books and articles that aren't banned, even though they're usually listed right there in the references section.

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