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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚

@healthywv.bsky.social
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Academic, counselor, mom 😷💉physical activity advocate 🏃‍♀️ opinions and views are my own. Here to say nice things to strangers.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good thing to ask yourself is why the military seems to consider long covid a big problem, and yet people are encouraged to accept endless infections with the thing that causes it (and makes it more likely that you’ll get it, every time.)
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Exercise Scientist: Drink what’s in the cup, you need to hydrate!
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes, I think working class and vulnerable kids would rather their teachers and their caregivers be alive. This data only goes through May 2022, so undoubtedly the global number of orphaned and bereaved children is much higher than 10.5 million today. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Based on Global Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates
This study assesses estimates of new orphanhood based on excess deaths to provide a comprehensive measure of the COVID-19 pandemic’s long-term impact on orphanhood and caregiver loss.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My colleagues have been far too cautious to embrace the Leopards Eating Faces Health Action movement, for reasons I cannot understand
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#tdih 1946 WWII vet Maceo Snipes was murdered after casting vote in Georgia Democratic Primary. He was shot by KKK. He walked 3 miles with his mother to hospital, white doctor delayed treatment 6 hrs & refused needed blood transfusion. Snipes died. 💔 See ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mu...
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July 18, 1946: Murder of Maceo Snipes
WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was murdered after casting his vote in the Georgia Democratic Primary.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Philando Castile often paid for the lunches of students who couldn’t afford them or had debt. After his murder, his mother, Valerie Castile, donated money to wipe out lunch debt and was part of getting Governor Tim Walz to implement free school lunch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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How Philando Castile’s mother helped pioneer Tim Walz’s free school lunch program
Harris’s running mate is lauded for bringing free meals to students in Minnesota, but it’s little known that Valerie Castile’s work – inspired by her son – helped drive legislation
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
James Baldwin would like a word on this moment #America250
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Gonna have to start a separate reading list just for Women’s Rage! So many great recommendations here, thank you.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Good morning team. Community is the counter to fascism.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It’s the enshittification. We pay more for products and services that are not as good as they used to be. It’s infuriating.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I just realized - one year ago today I officially dropped 251 pounds of dead weight. The last year has been so hard, but I am in such a better place now and feeling hopeful once again about the future. Love to all going through #divorce. Hang in there, it can get better!❤️‍🩹
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“The real enemy of my people is right here.” #tdih 1967 Muhammad Ali & many leading African American male athletes held a solidarity press conference in Cleveland after Ali announced his refusal to serve in the U.S. military in Vietnam. 🧵 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/muhammad-ali-summit/
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June 4, 1967: Muhammad Ali Summit
African American athletes gathered to support Muhammed Ali’s refusal to serve in Vietnam.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The finale of Good Omens was a great way to start off June! 🌈#HappyPrideYa’ll 🌈
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The money was always there for the good things.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026
Virginia should just proceed with the map anyway tbqh 🤷🏾‍♀️ reinstate the map their damn selves
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...
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Power, democracy, and clarity
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Without starting a fight, may I just say that if you deeply and profoundly understand the need for human contact as a result of Covid, you might consider doing something to help the people still at high risk from Covid access it, instead of acting in ways that excludes and isolates them.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I hate the speech too. And I hate even more that it doesn’t seem to make any difference and they all use AI anyway.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This sounds exactly like something that would happen (probably is happening) at my Uni.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Could?! ARE!
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Reporting is typically slow, so this number will go up. At this time last year, reported deaths were 134, and rose to 293 over time.
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Madeline Miller @madelinemiller.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It’s Long Covid Awareness Day, and my sixth anniversary of being sick from it. My first impulse for commemorating this was to set all the meds and treatments I’ve tried to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire, or Tom Lehrer’s The Elements (which uses I Am the Very Model of A Modern Major General).
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is hilarious and terrifying for how accurate it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBV...
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MAHAspital - SNL
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I am the only person who 😷s in my workplace and this is 💯 accurate
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is amazing and so much better because of the accent. I could listen to him say “shitty” all day.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Personally, I don't think babies should die if we can take steps to prevent viral transmission before they have a chance to get vaccinated. Like wearing a mask. Or improving indoor air quality. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/bab...
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Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The first of the crocuses (croci?) are up! #BloomScrolling
A few small patches of purple crocus flowers are shown against grass that is mostly brown and strewn with leaves.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My #COVID contribution post to the void: I sit on the Employee Wellness Committee (EWC) at my institution. We surveyed employees during summer 2020 regarding stress and health, and then again in fall 2022, during which I added a section about COVID using the Household Pulse survey questions.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence." archive.is/qBbZJ#select...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The only reason computer feedback makes any sense to anyone in schools is because of the need to respond to austerity: teachers tend to have too many students, too many classes, too many non-teaching responsibilities.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#tdih 1851 Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped from slavery in Norfolk, became first person arrested in Mass. under horrific Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A group of abolitionists freed Minkins from U.S. Marshals in Boston & helped him escape to Canada. Read⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sh...
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Feb. 15, 1851: Shadrach Minkins Arrested by U.S. Marshals Under Fugitive Slave Act
U.S. Marshals arrested Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped from slavery in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Finished @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s Freedom Ship today, and there is no way anyone can read about the history of abolition and the Fugitive Slave Act and not draw parallels to what is happening today. Next up reading for #BlackHistoryMonth:
The front cover of the book “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic” by Manisha Sinha is shown.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Excited to get started with the first of my #BlackHistoryMonth reading!
The books “Black Leopard Red Wolf” by Marlon James and “Freedom Ship” by Marcus Rediker are shown.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Me being introduced to Gangstagrass Love a woke banjo
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a woman in a red dress stands in front of a microphone with her mouth open and #agt written on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a red dress stands in front of a microphone with her mouth open and #agt written on the bottom
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I live in a very conservative area of Virginia. I do not regret to tell you #WeAreGoingToWin, as there was way more supportive honking and waving than there was opposition.
An outdoor scene of protesters on a snowy sidewalk at a major city intersection.
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
During undergrad: Murder in America (led to opposition to the death penalty) Social Problems (led to adding sociology as a second major) Appalachian Studies (Introduced me to one of my favorite novels, The Unquiet Earth) Spanish Literature (Led me to Gabriel Garcia Marquez!) Social Psychology
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My favorite scene from all of Schitts Creek. What a loss. youtu.be/jVojhvifruk?...
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Schitt's Creek - Moira's Commercial
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Yep
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Birdie, PhD, MA 🦚 @healthywv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I said something today about my class not probably being on our campus at the start of the pandemic and they were like, “yeah, no. We were in 7th grade.” I died. I’m still there on the floor of that classroom. Dead.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 25/01/2026
Ooof
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