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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This whole thread up & down. Re: a recent NYT article on why Ebola & other outbreaks keep happening. Some folks seem to think "Ew just tell those Africans to stop cutting down the forests" is a real answer? And they get published in the NYT.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Long but very important thread. Ebola outbreaks will not be ended by "leaving the reservoir alone". Humans interface with nature, including in ways we don't notice. Pretending "if only people in Africa would leave the forests alone we'd all be fine" is pretty patronizing 😳

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It unfortunately does not surprise me that these people exist. What constantly surprises (and horrifies) me is that they think it’s so normal that they will put it in the fucking newspaper.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a Prime Big Deal! You can get the paperback for just $13 (the cheapest it's ever been!). A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who is hunting her. Do you need some monster romance in your life? www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...

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Lily Lys @lilylys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this was very good-would recommend, especially if you’re a fan of Leckie or LeGuin

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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm just making plans to vote in-person at this point and I'm gonna recommend that to others in my life too

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Loving this song and it’s a great time to support a trans artist. youtube.com/watch?v=-hm7...

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The Shed Song

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I feel like even a lot of Dropout fans haven’t watched this, and it’s great!

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here's a free story idea for anyone who's interested: why did a group of "AI safety" experts & effective altruists dump $100K into Marsha Blackburn's gubernatorial campaign fund in one week in late June? 🧵

Table with donation data:
Donor - Employer - Date - Amount
Elizabeth Edwards Appell - Anthropic - 6/23 - $5300
Daniel Ziegler - Anthropic PBC - 6/23 - $10600
Matthew Fisher - Adobe - 6/24 - $10600
Jan Leike - Anthropic - 6/24 - $10600
Tao Lin - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Peter Lofgren - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Chana Messinger - 80,000 Hours - 6/25 - $10600
Brian Chen - Anthropic - 6/27 - $5300
Scott Siskind - Lorien Psychiatry - 6/28 - $5300
Howard Lempel - Secure AI Project - 6/29 - $10600
Eli Lifland - AI Futures Project - 6/29 - $10600

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Excuse me, the point of grand theft auto is to watch an Australian man be tortured by trying to complete the game with the cars set to 9999x speed

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not to mention, Natalie Harp is 35. 35! She is not a child. People are allowed to react to this full adult’s weird christian role-play!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To state the obvious: Republicans will use this as pretext to cut what’s left of the safety net. And Democrats will spend their next administration cleaning up Republicans’ mess. And then get blamed in the midterms for not having a magic wand with which to undo historic damage overnight.

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John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's National Book Lovers Day. The Subtle Art of Folding Space is $2.99 today at all ebook retailers! Unhinged physics! Status reports in the form of egg tarts! Family drama! www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-F... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This book is incredible. Buy it, read it, buy it for someone else.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...

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The first time I fed Sasha she sliced open my hand and bit my leg so hard it bruised. The second time I fed Sasha she hissed and swiped, but

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/07/2026

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

but MAHA is our competition. even when you apply the most sympathetic lens to it -- it is unstrategic and it is aimless; amplifying the most harmful parts of its coalition, while not making movement on any sort of corporate regulation. if people are frustrated about health; heres an alternative.

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Public health only steps up when it knows the outcome?!? What the fuck is she talking about?! And fucking hell, so many studies have been done on autism and vaccines. Millions upon millions of dollars, years of research time, following hundreds of thousands of kids. There’s no connection!

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

@drdebhoury.bsky.social makes a key point here i wish more understood CDC was already spread thin before this term due to big cuts/congressional clawbacks the past four years. and before *that* it was consistently underfunded by congress. now we are seeing the crises compound…

Some 80% of senior leadership positions at the CDC still have no permanent officials appointed, and between 25 and 30% of the CDC's entire staff are gone.
"Those are boots on the ground," Houry said. "When you have Ebola, hantavirus, measles, and throw cyclospora in there - staffers were already spread thin, and now they're spread even more thin."

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Nikki the Goblin GM! @thewiggeddm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My father in law has been detained by ICE 🧊 My mom has been working since Saturday to make sure he is talking to a lawyer. For now, we are waiting for his court date, but in the meantime, if folks would like to donate to help my mom with expenses, that would be helpful.💜 venmo.com/u/Nikki-John...

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A thought from seeing the Discourse about authors being asked to share their drafts to combat AI- if you use any Office software it has saved a bunch of older versions. Other software may do the same thing, I don’t know.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Your kid isn't getting admitted on an athletic scholarship no matter how much you drive her to practice, but it always feels better to have an Other to blame, especially one that isn't real and can't be falsified.

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I had a slow month for reading, but fitting for Pride, all three books were extremely gay.

A graphic with a book wrap up for June. I read three books: Seasons of Glass and Iron, You Won’t Forget Me, and How You Get The Girl.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 01/07/2026

We definitely need a new term for this kind of person, and I propose “prolapsed Catholic.”

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On one hand, I think it's really good that younger queer people have no idea just how bad it was to be growing up queer in the era when Pete Buttigieg was a kid, but good god people, at least listen to people who lived through the era about why it took time for queer kids to accept themselves.

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I seem to have misunderstood- I thought that elections allowed the people to choose who should represent them. I now see that politicians are entitled to have their jobs forever. When they gracefully retire at 90 (or die in office), then we get to “vote” for their chosen successor. Got it!

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

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What USAID did, and the effects of Trump's cuts on lifesaving aid

More than one year since massive foreign aid cuts and the eventual closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Oxfam outlines what USAID did and the ripple effects of losing it.

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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is a very interesting read and I’m curious about the production and testing processes. 1) I have not worked with peptide synthesis myself, but my understanding from colleagues is that it can be very difficult to keep the process clean.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The unique thing they're doing is "fund public health enough to do its job." Other states are trying to do similar things but at the end of the day, it's the state legislature that gets final say on funding it or not.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 31/05/2026

The people cry out for Jarnathan

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“A book is a good book if it is good at what it’s meant to do.” I think that’s a really useful way to think about it. I also think that a big problem we have with art interpretation is that people think “this is not for me” means “this is bad.”

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I have mixed feelings on term limits but I simply do not understand these politicians in their 70s and 80s who clearly can’t do the job anymore but won’t resign and insist on running for reelection.

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Into the Broken Lands deserves more hype. This book is both a great story and one of those novels that makes you consider the foundations on which fantasy stories are written. Highly recommended!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Someone on Threads writes: "The Met Gala feels like real dystopian shit.

People can’t afford groceries or gas. But we’re going to celebrate this event which is nothing more than wealth porn."

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I do think that “what is college actually for, as it currently exists” and “how and why has that changed over time” and “what SHOULD college be for, ideally” are all fascinating questions and it’s too bad that they are totally impossible to contemplate without being stricken with The Madness

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

murderbot day

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immunomaven.bsky.social @immunomaven.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Whenever I see stuff about online controls I think about my middle/high school, where they kept installing internet filters. We always figured out how to bypass them within days.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

all these articles have this framing of the anti-public health backlash stemming from the pro-public health side being too cruel and abusive in their victory, instead reality where anti-health won the war and almost every battle since the beginning of COVID and are feeling their oats

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