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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/09/2026
📣 CDC colleagues: Working on something you want to see get more attention? An article, project, or program you’re proud of? DM us. We’ll do our best to highlight the amazing work you’re doing. 💚 Let’s make sure good public health work gets seen.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/06/2025
🧵Over 6,000 doctors, nurses, researchers, and others released an open letter of warning against the administration’s destruction of public health, research, and Medicaid programs. “We are certain this will cost lives.” This is the energy we need right now. Refuse to be silent. Lives depend on it.
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Stripe @biostripe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@detroitredwingsnhl.bsky.social came close tonight. Good game, just wish they'd been playing with this much energy at the beginning of the season. #LGRW
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Julie Jenkins @juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off. 

There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert. 

There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess: 

I am on my way with the necessary equipment.
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 21/11/2024
I wish Donald Trump’s Security Detail were as competent as his Cabinet.
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Stripe @biostripe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
www.facebook.com/share/p/GYnx... Rest, then be ready to rise up.
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Stripe @biostripe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Everyone is roosted for the night. #peace
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Stripe @biostripe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My offspring just complimented my outfit saying that I look like Ian McKellen...🤔
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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Stripe @biostripe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Been up since 3:15am. Do I nap or press on with the day?
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