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Joseph P. Hillenburg

@cobaltjacket.com
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Transplant dad, #AvGeek, and IT professional at @WiTronix. Strategy Advisor at @transplantfamilies.com & pediatric transplantation advocate. Opinions are my own.

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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 23/09/2026
Not mentioned: Airfone's role in 9/11, specifically, the flight with the passenger revolt.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 22/09/2026
Tech enthusiasts: Save money on expensive Meta Glasses by buying a pair of normal glasses and then adding your name to the Sex Offenders Register.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 10/09/2026
I thought it was excellent to see direct patient communications regarding a critical diagnostic test.
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American Society of Transplantation @astinfo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Living Donor Circle of Excellence recognizes employers that provide paid leave to employees who become living organ donors. Help us grow the Circle! Talk to your employer about supporting living donors and joining the Living Donor Circle of Excellence. www.livingdonorcircle.com
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Join The Circle Of Excellence
Enact policies that save lives. Become a member of The Circle and make a difference. A Project of the American Society of Transplantation. Learn More.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/09/2026
The CDC still isn't counting two deaths from measles in PA, reportedly by order of the new director, Erica Schwartz. I reached out to her spox for comment last week, but haven't heard anything, and afaik she's made no public comments about measles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US health officials exclude measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania from counts
RFK Jr, the health secretary, has suggested the deaths were ‘fabricated’ while the CDC claimed it was reviewing them
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
Indiana Offers Tax Breaks To Attract Religious Doomsday Cults theonion.com/indiana-offers-tax-bre…
Indiana Offers Tax Breaks To Attract Religious Doomsday Cults
Law Aims To Bring More Apocalyptic Fervor To State
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Air Force One catering cart story has proved conclusively that for all his hateful transphobia, Trump would have been the first one to dress in women’s clothing for a spot on a Titanic lifeboat.
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PIDS @pidsociety.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
PIDS has issued a statement in response to the Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans executive order. Read the full statement at: pids.org/2026/08/11/p...
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sara g miller @saragmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: FDA approves Moderna's mRNA flu shot, by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
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FDA approves 1st mRNA flu shot, from Moderna
The vaccine, called mFlusiva, was approved for older adults. In trials, it was found to be about 27% more effective than a standard flu shot.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 05/08/2026
Webinars that should not be necessary: "Finding Help Paying for Your Healthcare" This topic often comes up whenever I talk with advocates from other countries - basically with them being dumbfounded that we have to deal with this.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/07/2026
RFK Jr. Cooking Show Features Easy Weeknight Meals Using Ingredients Already In Own Body theonion.com/rfk-jr-cooking-show-fe…
RFK Jr. Cooking Show Features Easy Weeknight Meals Using Ingredients Already In Own Body
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 31/07/2026
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Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/07/2026
The Trump administration's upending of years of vaccine advice puts many pediatricians in a quandary. Some are steering patients away from the CDC to other authoritative websites, including their own. n.pr/4x9Eo7e
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Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump's CDC on vaccine advice
The Trump administration's upending of years of vaccine advice puts many pediatricians in a quandary. Some are steering patients away from the CDC to other authoritative websites, including their own.
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Stop calling ICE the Gestapo! ICE is nothing like the Gestapo. Now, let me innumerate all the many ways ICE is exactly like the Gestapo. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 23/07/2026
"At the start of last year, Bekker and her colleagues were ready to put that strategy to the test. The clinical trial for their new mRNA-based HIV vaccine was just on the verge of enrolling its first participants. But the project depended on the same backing that had sustained HIV vaccine research for decades: US government funding. Washington had long supplied roughly 90 percent of the world’s investment in the field. Then President Donald Trump returned to office."
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Now that's a safety sign.
A giant stop sign over a door. The sign reads: stop. Danger. Danger. High magnetic field. If you have anything metal on your person, all metal objects, pens, scissors, watches, credit cards, etc.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 19/07/2026
Seems like there's a new non-transplant pre-transplant Congenital Heart Defect organization every time I turn around. Reminds me of this bit from "Life of Brian." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbog...
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Life of Brian - The People's Front of Judea
YouTube video by layniann
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 06/07/2026
The Founders never called America "God's noble experiment." Their real experiment was something far more remarkable: a government deriving its authority from "We the People," not divine authority, with constitutional protections for every American's freedom of conscience.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
‼️ Dark Age 2.0. ‼️ U.S. researchers outraged at proposed changes to federal grants www.science.org/content/arti... @aau.edu: “These changes risk undermining the predictability, stability, impartiality, and collaboration upon which America’s entire research-and-innovation system depends."
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U.S. researchers outraged at proposed changes to federal grants
White House receives 340,000 comments on rules many fear would politicize science
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 13/07/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Now Democrats just have to figure out how to stop nominating people who have to drop out later.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It is simply beyond the understanding of MAGA mouthpieces that other people exist
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Vox @vox.com · 30/06/2026
A growing form of donation is expanding the organ supply in the US — and testing how medicine protects dying patients. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The organ donation boom complicating the boundary between life and death
A growing form of donation is expanding the organ supply in the US — and testing how medicine protects dying patients.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2026
Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 04/07/2026
Trump will probably never realize the irony (and poetry) in America 250 events being canceled due to climate change-related heat waves.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/07/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/07/2026
My posts most days. I'm sorry.
"Let's not talk aobut politics anymore. I can't bear it"
"Same"
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"THE THING IS THOUGH"
"THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

@emilyscartoons
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/07/2026
Holes xkcd.com/3266/
Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In conjunction with RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine organization, a woman named Andrea Shaw is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. She claims that vaccines caused the death of her 18-month old twins. She was just charged with first degree murder in their deaths.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2026
“I voted for Trump because I was sure RFK Jr.’s health policies would put my son and daughter in the dirt on day one, but lately, I’m starting to worry that my kids might make it to adulthood,” said Sandra Murrow
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MAHA Voter Feels Betrayed   By Continued Survival Of Own Children
DAYTON, OH—Expressing disappointment with what she described as unfulfilled campaign promises, local Make America Healthy Again voter Sandra Murrow told reporters Tuesday that she felt betrayed by the...
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Supreme Court has been dodging cert petitions in vaccine exemption cases for several years now. It granted, vacated, and reversed (GVR’ed) a Second Circuit decision — see below. And now CA2 has responded, saying to the Justices, in effect: if you really want this, you have to come and get it.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 01/07/2026
Think your gig in organ transplantation is rough? Watch this short featuring Clive Owen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnqr...
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BMW Films "Ticker" (Remastered in 4K) S02E02
YouTube video by SecondWind
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"public trust in science and scientists is high...The idea that there’s a pervasive lack of trust is completely unfounded...But trust has dropped in certain groups...politically right-leaning groups" Maybe it's not science/scientists that's to blame... 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/07/2026
It was super interesting to attend the first HHS women's health conference and hear about how more women need to have "natural births," stop vaccinating their kids, etc etc
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 28/06/2026
Open plea to the #OrganDonation and #OrganTransplantation communities: Can we please not do multiple major events simultaneously again? @donatelifeamerica.bsky.social @astinfo.bsky.social @astsconnect.bsky.social #AOPO #TransplantGames #ATCMeeting
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026
This is such a bummer.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 24/06/2026
Kill it with fire. Or at least vaccines.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 24/06/2026
. @amjtransplant.bsky.social mousepad swag I picked up at #ATC2026. Very nice design by @llewellynrose.bsky.social.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/06/2026
And thus South Carolina begins its descent into licentiousness and anarchy scdailygazette.com/2026/06/17/s...
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SC law legalizes pinball for youth, ending decades-old prohibition • SC Daily Gazette
The law was never enforced, but supporters said it caused anxiety for otherwise rule-abiding business owners.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 05/06/2026
Yikes. I know many families start saving for college when their kids are born - but now Fidelity suggests opening retirement accounts for them - so money they can't use for almost seven decades.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 01/06/2026
Machine Learning (via @xkcd.com): xkcd.com/1838/
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 29/05/2026
Many of you filled out this survey, so now you can see the results! Thanks to all of you for stepping up.
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PIDS @pidsociety.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interested in transplant ID? Our next webinar comes up at 1pm ET: 'The Opportunistic Invader,' featuring James Fisher, DO (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine), as presenter and Marian Michaels, MD, MPH (UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh), as attending. Contact us for registration.
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Joseph P. Hillenburg @cobaltjacket.com · 26/05/2026
The answer is easy: Make them event-driven. If a motion sensor (lidar or otherwise) detects an appropriate event, activate the camera. Otherwise, it should be off.
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Skeptical Raptor @skepticalraptor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine showing long-term success Recent developments indicate promising long-term results from clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine targeting pancreatic cancer, a notoriously hard-to-diagnose and treat disease. This individualized vaccine stimulates an immune response…
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine showing long-term success
Recent developments indicate promising long-term results from clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine targeting pancreatic cancer, a notoriously hard-to-diagnose and treat disease. This individualized vaccine stimulates an immune response against cancer cells and may enhance patient outcomes when used in conjunction with surgery and chemotherapy, showing potential in improving recurrence-free survival.
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