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Caramelized Shallots

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#longcovid, pro-union, anti-capitalist, handweaver, native plant gardener, and of course cats Chef, but I generally don’t talk about food here because it […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ ohai.social/@CaramelizedShallots, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 55m
There are several disturbing aspects to this story.
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Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.
Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...
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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Didn't get any knitting done today. Glad someone could make use of the yarn. #CatsOfMastodon
Grey-striped tabby cat using a big ball of yarn as a pillow. She is looking at the camera, a little annoyed that I disturbed her.
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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
JFC gothamist.com/news/former-nypd-dete… gothamist.com/news/former-cop-who-f… #ACAB
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Former NYPD detective held on $1M bail after police say he shot driver on GWB
Officials say retired NYPD detective Victor Romero, 62, killed 46-year-old Koran Irvine in a road rage incident.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/10/2026
One of the reasons Transportation Alternatives conspiracy theories spread is because there are diminishingly few local news sources in NYC and people have rotted their brains on TikTok and Reels bsky.app/profile/gwyn...
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 22/10/2026
Police pushing civilians around during a council meeting in Memphis yesterday.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
There was also an older man who showed up partway through my presentation/Q&A session and excitedly asked a lot of really good questions. He apparently also got up very very early and enjoyed the excellent stars. It makes me happy to know there are still random non-astronomers who appreciate and […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Made it home from library talk. Was a very small but very very enthusiastic crowd. I love the kids who just can't stop asking questions about black holes! (There were twins of that tonight).
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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
You know what's spooky about radios? The static. The static is always there. It's all around you right now, like an omnipresent ghost. Static is the default, and it's going on everywhere, all the time, whether or not you measure it by building a radio to ever notice. The static only ends when […]
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
A Violonchelista de Fene — by SFHIR in Fene, Spain 🇪🇸 streetartutopia.com/2026/08/30/clev… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
A Violonchelista de Fene by SFHIR in Fene, Spain
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T.M. Baumgartner @tm-baumgartner.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Three new bottlebabies! They seem pretty healthy aside from some minor eye issues. #FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon
Photo of three 3-week-old kittens on a yellow blanket with stylized pictures of women in profile. Two kittens are orange, and one is black.
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
I wonder if NBA teams would've decided to not pay center Kristaps Prozingis if they hired doctors who were more literate about post-viral conditions? The man has POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), which is incurable and causes problems with heart rate and blood pressure when […]
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
"President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda not only is 'making everyone’s lives more expensive' but also is expected to have deadly and destructive consequences far beyond the borders of the United States, as made clear in a global emissions report released Wednesday." […]
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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@weaving @fiberarts Just washed those waffle weave towels I was working on. They just came out of the dryer. I'm so tickled by them. I knew they were going to be 3 dimensional, but actually seeing them...I just can't get over it. Still have to hem […] [Original post on ohai.social]
Pile of several handwoven towels in waffle weave. They all look like they have been pressed in a waffle iron. The towels are pink and white stripes, but the stripes can look quite different depending on the type of waffle it is, which is largely how deep the waffle cells are.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
This post is incomprehensible for people in Europe. Please skip.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
The U.S. is suffering from acute RFK Jr. poisoning. The really bad part is that it also has chronic impacts that won’t be fully recognized for many years yet.
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People Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled in MAHA’s Push for Medical Freedom. - KFF Health News
People who have taken experimental peptides, such as BPC-157, complain of migraines, eye pain, fatigue, and more. Learning whether these popular but unproven drugs are to blame may become harder if Ro...
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
White evangelical protestants in the US are the only religious group 'in which a majority says empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God's truth' www.axios.com/2026/10/20/religious-…
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Carlos Solís @csolisr.hub.azkware.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
I'd say it's clear that they closed their ears during the sermon of the Beatitudes, but there's also the ever increasing chance that they didn't even go to church in the first place: theguardian.com/world/2026/oct…
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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
#NYC loves cops so much that we even have "santitation" cops. Who ar, of course, corrupt af because cops. #ACAB #FTP nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/16/garb…
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Garbage Cops Parked Cars in Bus Lane With Covered Plates
Trashy corruption was on full display by these Sanitation cops.
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Alt Text Health Check @alttexthealthcheck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Results from tracking 17,295 images across 1,026 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 25 images (1.5x the average).
beige.party - 100%
mastodon.scot - 96%
mastoart.social - 94%
ravenation.club - 93%
mastodon.ie - 84%
mastodon.art - 83%
wisskomm.social - 82%
chaos.social - 81%
loforo.com - 81%
mathstodon.xyz - 79%
dice.camp - 76%
mastodon.gamedev.place - 75%
mastodon.top - 75%
hachyderm.io - 72%
wandering.shop - 71%
kolektiva.social - 71%
aus.social - 68%
piaille.fr - 66%
mementomori.social - 66%
sfba.social - 65%
troet.cafe - 64%
framapiaf.org - 63%
mstdn.ca - 60%
tech.lgbt - 60%
norden.social - 58%
mastodonapp.uk - 58%
mastodon.uno - 52%
c.im - 50%
fosstodon.org - 49%
mas.to - 47%
mamot.fr - 44%
famichiki.jp - 42%
infosec.exchange - 41%
nrw.social - 41%
mastodon.online - 39%
universeodon.com - 37%
mastodon.nl - 29%
g0v.social - 29%
mastodon.social - 28%
mastodon.nu - 26%
newsie.social - 22%
gayfr.social - 20%
fedibird.com - 18%
masto.ai - 17%
mastodon.world - 17%
masto.es - 14%
sakurajima.moe - 12%
101010.pl - 12%
kinkycats.org - 10%
o3o.ca - 7%
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
cell.com
Serotonin reduction in post-acute sequelae of viral infection
Post-viral syndromes are associated with serotonin reduction, which may contribute to the neurological and cognitive symptoms seen in individuals with Long COVID.
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
One of the latest additions to my feed that regularly brings me joy: @ThompsonArt The birds! The style! You can even commission your own! 😍🤩
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Remember when Martin Luther King Jr. demonstrated peacefully, but the media focused on individual cases of looting or commotions caused by the police as “proof” they were violent? Same with Black Lives Matter in 2020 or any large protest. The “but they're […] [Original post on mastodon.de]
A comic strip from 1967 showing Martin Luther King Jr. talking to a journalist saying “I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow”
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
people in france protest the exact same way as in the arab spring, but while the european ivory tower media criticized middle eastern governments for their crackdown of protest and praised the revolution, suddenly when the same protests happen in europe they're violent and not right […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Hey Ambassador Huckabee A) Who attacked her? B) What country are they from? C) What army supports them? D) And with whose tax dollars? A: Israeli Terrorists B: Israel C: The IDF D: ours 🇺🇸 You’re welcome
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
I had what I considered to be a gift of doing a 5k down the Avenue of the Giants. It was simply magnificent. I confess I teared up at the start. I’m always grateful when my legs are going to work that day so I can experience something like this.
Photo of the backs of runners on a two-lane road entering a redwood forest.
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Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
I just supported this case! Please donate if you can - only £600 is now needed of £25k and every £2 helps. #ME #MEcfs
Campaign fonJustice4ME
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Fascinating piece from an insider.
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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 @dan613.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
This is so great! The University Health Network of Toronto built housing for 51 high-risk homeless people, and their emergency room visits dropped in half. The group is now increasing the rooms to 300. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-…
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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an interesting paper... Hypothesis : IFN from flu suppresses COVID, but COVID either does not induce as much IFN to suppress flu , and perhaps (as has been inferred for a while) reduces immune competence ➡️ subsequent flu & other infections ⬆️? www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Interactions of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus influence epidemic timing and risk
Liu, Wang et al., use weekly surveillance data from 2021-2024 to analyse the influence of interactions of SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus on epidemic timing and risk. The findings...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Another🚨🧵by Michael Moran aka @internetuserf12 on XTwitter about the timeline of Covid's full impact: 📈 The Worst of the Pandemic Is Decades Away SARS-CoV-2 is not just a respiratory virus that occasionally causes Long Covid. It's a systemic, multi..." 14-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21114...
📈 The Worst of the Pandemic Is Decades Away

SARS-CoV-2 is not just a respiratory virus that occasionally causes Long Covid. It's a systemic, multi-organ pathogen whose damage outlives the acute infection - and because different organs fail on different timetables, the population-wide effects won't plateau all at once. They'll arrive in waves, spread over decades. 🧵
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Anti. 🐘 @antiaall3s.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
This is the second time in my life that a well-intentioned vaccination has made a pre-existing condition exponentially worse. The first time a hepatitis B vaccination activated a previously dormant form of hepatitis C. That was in 1997 and it only really got better with the hep c cure in 2018 […]
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Anti. 🐘 @antiaall3s.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
It's all a numbers game. What has happened to me may we'll be "statistically insignificant", but that doesn't mean it doesn't turn my lived experience into a living hell. As someone who has been "vaccine injured" i can tell you, that's an even bigger stigma than being chronically ill. Because […]
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
🚨🧵by Michael Moran aka @internetuserf12 on XTwitter about "🧪 The False-Negative Problem With Rapid Antigen Tests Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are fast and convenient - but they miss a lot of infections, and the miss rate isn't a fixed number. It depends..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21112...
The False-Negative Problem With Rapid Antigen Tests

Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are fast and convenient - but they miss a lot of infections, and the miss rate isn't a fixed number. It depends almost entirely on viral load, timing, and whether you have symptoms. 🎯

The headline finding: in asymptomatic people, more than half of infections
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
🚨🧵by @ZdenekVrozina on XTwitter back in Sept: "A small Japanese study. Mild COVID. No hospitalization. And yet a measurable, persistent dysfunction still sitting in the blood. This is the question that won't go away - what can we..." 14-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20991...
A small Japanese study. Mild COVID. No hospitalization. And yet a measurable, persistent dysfunction still sitting in the blood.
This is the question that won't go away - what can we objectively measure in people who were barely sick during the acute phase?🧵
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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I've banned 3 remote accounts today for this spam. PLEASE, if you get one of these posts, report it, and don't click anything, or your computer will no longer be under your control. #Mastodon #spam
Post that simply has a google docs link and about 50 DMed accounts
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Abeloth Penfro KC @kneel.before.dog · 17/10/2026
SHARK ALERT! Second time in the pool, and she's quite a confident swimmer now, even though she only ever swims directly towards the exit ramp. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
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Tesla unveils new way to identify dickheads
ELON Musk’s car company Tesla has launched an effective new way to tell if someone is an insufferable bellend.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Escaping containment. I will reiterate: HCWs should not be getting sick. We are not considering that the current recommendations are inadequate to protect those caring for the ill. www.thespec.com/life/health-...
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Kenya’s Ebola cases rise to 7, including health workers who cared for the first patient
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Three Kenyan health workers have tested positive for Ebola after caring for the country's first confirmed case, the Health Ministry said Saturday.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "Cognitive recovery after COVID isn't complete, and that's the optimistic reading of this study. 92 people with post-COVID, a full neuropsych battery, retested a year later. Memory got better. Processing speed didn't." 16-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21092...
Cognitive recovery after COVID isn't complete, and that's the optimistic reading of this study. 
92 people with post-COVID, a full neuropsych battery, retested a year later. Memory got better. Processing speed didn't.🧵
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🎯post by @michaelmoran on XTwitter: "I’m always taken aback by people calling the COVID-conscious “doomers,” as though we’re predicting some hypothetical catastrophe rather than witnessing one already unfolding..." src: x.com/michaelmoran...
I’m always taken aback by people calling the COVID-conscious “doomers,” as though we’re predicting some hypothetical catastrophe rather than witnessing one already unfolding.

Some forms of impending doom may be real, but they remain abstract until they occur. Hundreds of millions of people have already experienced Long Covid, however.

There’s nothing hypothetical about COVID consciousness. It’s an acknowledgment of reality.
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
It's hard for healthy people to imagine what this is like...I spent about 2 years almost 100% bedbound and it is hell. Showered about once every 10 days because that's all that my energy budget allowed. Some people in this severely ill state experience partial spontaneous recovery but some […]
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
A society that can't protect little kids with disabilities, is a society that is DEEPLY broken 💔 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Oregon school shooter attacked special education classroom, police say
Police in Bend, Oregon, are still investigating the motive behind the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. Four people were killed, including three young children and a teacher. Police id...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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For women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blow
Thousands shared their stories for a new study of faculty attrition
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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
My mother-in-law has cats. Lots of cats. And she lives in deepest Somerset. Her beloved cat, Bertie, has been missing for weeks, but he's just showed up... in Cardiff! What did this cat do? Catch the train? Has he been on a holiday somewhere in the meantime? Extraordinary distance to have roamed.
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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Yeah, okay, this is a trap. Exactly as I suspected. nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passke…
nonfunctional.substack.com
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.
Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
"For Dobbin it all started with back-to-back Covid and glandular fever infections in the winter of 2021-22." A reminder that viral infections can have life-altering consequences www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...
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Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis
Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A form of toxic masculinity that often gets overlooked is men mocking women for taking COVID precautions, dismissing post-viral illness as psychosomatic or pressuring them to take off their masks. This is part of misogyny too.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
October 16th (3rd Friday in October) is National Mammography Day Annual Mammos starting at 40, till you die... Do not miss a year, breast cancers double in size every 6 months.
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