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@awhale.bsky.social
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phd candidate at columbia, social/spatial epidemiology of polysubstance use, transportation injury, SGM health. warriors basketball. perfect opinions. he/him

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 23h
these are certainly some words i read www.themirror.com/entertainmen...
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Fans turn on Eminem after collab with MAGA darling Kid Rock on Christian album
Kid Rock announced he was releasing a new Christian album, sharing the tracklist on social media, where Eminem was listed as a featured artist on the upcoming record
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fever got bumped, welcome to the blissful few weeks where insane right wing cc fans aren’t watching the W anymore
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Venice is a parody of LA. “go down California Ave, then turn down Shell St, then left onto Palms Blvd.” please be serious.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
just realized walking through the airport that I’m completely decked out head to toe in athleisure. you either die a hero etc etc
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No. Be a safe man for women to talk about victimhood with for God sake. Cut the fucking ego and fix how you talk to trans women by the way.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the way this onion headline has a deathgrip on my psyche every time I open my closet
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Poppy's I Disagree is a true 10/10 metal album, and it's especially jarring if you knew her earlier bubblegum pop stuff as That Poppy
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just picked up a bag of sushi hand rolls then walked past action bronson on the street
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the hardest things about being a cyclist is dealing with the nagging feeling that a serious crash is inevitable. Because you can indeed do everything "right" and it still does not matter.
I followed every precaution and it didn’t matter

New to biking here

I started in July around the time of the fatal car crash with that biker. That and hearing everyone who bikes to work tell me that they have had horrid experiences with cars was disheartening. 

I made sure to only use protected routes. I take Southwest corridor for basically my whole trip and even though it adds so much more time to my commute, it makes me feel safe. 

None of that mattered because at some point, even for a second you will hit the main road. And you will always lose to the 4 ton machine. I got hit by a car parking in the bike lane. He was more concerned with his car than the fact that I could have my life potential altered forever because he was looking at his phone. And at the end of the day, the police can literally choose to not respond to your 911 call and you get stuck with medical bills. 

It’s hard to have a conversation about sharing the road when people in cars feel entitled to do whatever they want and the only person who’s ever in danger is the biker. I love biking in this city and I have found a really love and joy for the outdoors because of it. Now I am terrified to even get on a bike lane, even if there is one, if it’s shared with the main road.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/09/2026
Hey friends. Don’t forget to get this year’s flu shot and your COVID booster. CVS has them available now, at least in NY. Just scheduled mine
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
is there anything the new york times loves more than glossy image rehabilitation of "former" right wing internet personalities? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
one of the best sunsets I’ve ever seen in New York tonight. stunning. sorry to everyone who missed it
sunset over New York from Brooklyn through a rooftop restaurant. beautiful watercolor sky of pink orange and purple
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
who knows if she will actually run, but if she does, I think she will either win or the Democratic Party as we know it dies
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
just saw HOPE and did this multiple times in the theater. incredible film start to finish
the lean forward to focus meme
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
look people may have disagreed but I have been vindicated by history. and even though it's technically not on the album, brand new chanel$ is unquestionably the song of the summer. maybe fall too. slayyyter season bb open.spotify.com/track/3FZoov...
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Slayyyter · brand new chanel$ · Song · 2026
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
vacant lot remediation is one of the most robust evidence-based interventions for community violence and neighborhood wellbeing that we know of. like UBI, it works literally everywhere it's implemented
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what does gavin newsom actually stand for? what are his interests, his values, his goals? it seems like the only thing he cares about is power for its own sake. which begs the question, what would he do with that power if he were to, say, become the president?
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
golden should be stripped of all his committee work for this. utterly inexcusable, and a failure of leadership to not discipline this behavior www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/n...
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House Democrat Crosses Party Lines to Endorse Rep. Mike Lawler in Midterms Race
Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican seeking re-election in a swing district in New York, was backed by Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I recommend you stop telling trans people what they should do and start telling the politicians to advocate equal rights for everyone.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I really think that if we band together and work really hard, we can get both of these dorks to leave new york forever
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
does this type of messaging actually work on anyone? if I get a text that starts "is your phone off?!" from anyone—let alone the democrats asking for money—they're getting blocked
spam fundraising text from the DCCC that reads
(1) unread message from the DCCC
HELP TAKE BACK THE HOUSE
Is your phone off?! Donations to take back our House Majority are PLUMMETING. Top Democrats just agreed to unlock the 400%-MATCH to fix this -- but ONLY for the next $5,000. Rush in $10 to take back the House Majority before this RARE opportunity passes you by: 
[donate link]
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On this day 52 years ago, Robert A. Caro published “The Power Broker” and forever changed how exhausting boyfriends could be
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
bury me inside the Charli xcx ziggurat
the stage at tonight’s Charli xcx show in Brooklyn. it is a dark stacked temple design with a walkway jutting out the front and 4 levels, with an opening on the first in front of the walkway. smoky bright light is pouring out
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
bury me inside the Charli xcx ziggurat
the stage at tonight’s Charli xcx show in Brooklyn. it is a dark stacked temple design with a walkway jutting out the front and 4 levels, with an opening on the first in front of the walkway. smoky bright light is pouring out
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New York Times Opinion

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Erika Kirk: What Ive Learned About Grief
Sept. 7, 2026i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for u tho
or sorry that happened
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
finally read careless people and I understand why meta fought its release so hard
Screenshot of Goodreads: 
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Your rating: 4/5
Read from: 08/23/2026 - 09/10/2026
However much you hate Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, et al, I promise it is not nearly enough.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol they’re panicking
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
just close the lid and wash your hands
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In a new pre-print, researchers identified a policy they estimate could save 114K lives + $1 Trillion per year: Medicare for All 📉 Saves administrative costs (+ time) 🩺 Improves access to care 💊 Reduces cost of meds 🌾 + Keeps rural & children’s hospitals open www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Graph depicting cost savings with Medicare for All, with full description in linked paper
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/09/2026
in earnest though: noise pollution is legitimately a very serious public health issue that does not ever get enough attention despite the extremely well documented direct harm that it causes, let alone how aggressively antisocial this behavior is. no exaggeration, cube all of these cars instantly.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"As a publicly funded institution, NIH strives to exemplify principles of transparency and works to bolster its efforts to usher in an era of radical transparency." from Leading in Gold Standard Science, An NIH Implementation Plan, August 22, 2025 www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
this regime will end one day, we will retake power, and trans people will still exist. and we will remember who stood by them and who did not
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
it’s important to participate in the political process
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Today 22:42
Ken Paxton: One of my least favorite things is asking for money, but l'm desperate. Talarico is flooding TV. We must do this: 26text.com/sfa
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get fucked Paxton you absolute squid
The sender is not in your contact list.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
humbling moment: the airport is playing my favorite lord huron song
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
was just talking the other night about how we should focus all of our police abolition arguments on sheriffs as step one. no one likes them and everyone acknowledges they're useless
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
super interesting (and unsettling) conversation about flock cameras on @wnyc.org featuring @404media.co
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this is a real time with bill maher panel from 2009
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 03/09/2026
ULEZ is truly transformative, and it's insane that people are still mad about it. Every city in the world should be doing this. bsky.app/profile/dmos...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I hope people read Gloria Steinhem's criticism of white feminism.
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Gloria Steinem on "white feminism", racism and why white women voted for Trump
The feminist leader says the feminist movement should be for everyone - but that we need to be prepared to have difficult conversations about race.
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
perhaps the most MD/MPH take to come from someone without an MD, though DrPH/MPH and does clinical research is spiritually similar
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
two months until election day
Luthen Rael (to Cassian): These days will end, Cassian Andor. The way they laugh. The way they push through a crowd. The sound of that voice telling you to stop, to go, to move. Telling you to die. Rings in the ear, doesn't it? But they'll think about us soon enough. Soon enough, they'll have something else to listen to.
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