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John Fasullo

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Climate scientist at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research and ATOC at the University of Colorado. staff.cgd.ucar.edu/fasullo/index.ht…

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The UN General Assembly has adopted the “Correct the Map” resolution, endorsing the Equal Earth projection. We should too. (note: Robinson is far gentler than Mercator, but it too is not equal-area) www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-new-w...
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Mapped: The New World Map the UN Just Endorsed
The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The recent cooling of the stratosphere is clearly visible in both the models and the observations (very consistently)" www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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RealClimate: Koonin’s Temperature of the LOL Stratosphere
RealClimate: A new paper undermines totally inaccurate claims in the DOE report. Readers will recall the litany of cherry picks, misrepresentations and evasions in the DOE "Climate Working Group" (CWG...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
p.s. I have no patience for ANYONE serving as a useful idiot in this manner this time around. Be aware that the "block" option will be used liberally. Thanks.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE in settlement negotiated by administration, RWE will give up wind leases off New York, California and Louisiana and receive $1.2 billion in federal funds to invest in oil, gas or nuclear projects. $900 million of that will go to billionaire Trump donor and neighbor Michael Dorrell
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$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ignoring a threat doesn’t make it go away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change
Adam Kalkstein compared administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the constitution
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An interesting aspect of this (to me) is the number of non-experts who jumped on this because of their existing ‘blame scientists first’ priors. These are folks (like me) who had no prior interest/experience in virology but seemingly favored the narrative over the evidence. Muller, Pielke, Lomborg…
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 19/08/2026
Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains why conversation on the topic is so important and how to take this step toward climate action. buff.ly/rEHDzEJ
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Want to do something about climate change? Talk about it - High Country News
If everyone talks more with the people in their lives about climate change and climate impacts, all those conversations add up, helping to mobilize support for climate action.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Judge Jackson said www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows (Gift Article)
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Global warming is one thing, but the Earth is now poised to add in the strongest El Niño event since human measurements began. The next 12 months could be a real stress test: record heat, extreme weather, crop losses, and cascading impacts. In part, a preview of our future.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The US now has a catch and kill energy policy. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Did Trump admin pay German energy company RWE $1.2B to stop building offshore wind farms?
The Trump administration has already paid several other energy companies to drop in-development offshore wind projects.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/08/2026
If you do have confidence, defend that review process. If you don’t, take down every single NASEM report, because somehow the Academies has missed a critical flaw in whats generally regarded, including in Information Quality Act regs, as the gold-standard review process.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump promised to bring down rates. Before the Iran War, markets expected rate cuts of up to 0.75 points this year. The inflationary war flipped the calculus: now they're pricing in two rate HIKES by mid-2027. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno decries "moronic politicians that listened to the words of a megalomaniac"
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is important - Honest Brokers (TM) and their echo chamber will often point to the decreasing global wildfire, but that reflects changing human land use practices. In temperate and boreal forests, climate's role is more clear. See this paper by Cunningham et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of fire radiative power derived from satellite data finds that the frequency of extreme fire events increased 2.2-fold from 2003 to 2023 and that these increases were mostly driven by extreme...
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. Rural voters elect Republicans 2. Republicans destroy services for rural areas, making life worse for their constituents 3. Election time: "Vote GOP to fight transgender elitist illegal alien snooty professors who think they're better 'n you!" 4. Rural voters elect Republicans 5. Rinse, repeat
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In Colorado by 2090 "a snow drought like the one this winter will become the norm -- predicted to happen almost every nine years out of 10 -- not the exception" www.denverpost.com/2026/07/22/c...
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Last winter’s extreme snow drought was a sign of the West’s future, Colorado study finds
Extreme snow droughts like the one that plagued the West this winter will become more frequent — and eventually the norm — across much of the region as climate change fuels warmer temperatures, accord...
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Appointing Wielicki, a former geochemistry instructor and climate science critic, to lead the USGCRP and oversee the National Climate Assessment won’t address the report’s shortcomings theconversation.com/the-national...
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The National Climate Assessment is broken – appointing Matthew Wielicki to lead it won’t help
What communities and businesses really need is information they can act on, with examples of what’s worked elsewhere and why – and what fails.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The bad faith nature of the changes proposed by the administration, which explicitly politicize science, is obvious as its sponsors, only a few years ago, decried the same politicization. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
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White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review (Gift Article)
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2026
Breaking news: The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to experts and a Post analysis.
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Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15/07/2026
"Climate change is making summers in Colorado and the West hotter, fueling more intense heatwaves like the one this past weekend and exacerbating problems like extreme drought and water shortages, according to experts." via @summitdailynews.bsky.social at www.summitdaily.com/news/colorad...
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Record-breaking heatwave adds to ‘compounding extremes’ of climate change in Colorado
Feeling hotter than usual? It’s not just your imagination. Climate change is making summers in Colorado and the West hotter, fueling more intense heatwaves like the one this past weekend and exacerbat...
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Objective measures of @NCAR_CGD climate science show it to be at the forefront of scientific discovery www.dailycamera.com/2026/07/11/n...
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Amid the administration’s attacks on climate change, NCAR and CU Boulder rank top 10 in the world for climate research
NCAR earned second place globally out of more than 40,000 institutions, with Carbon Brief noting it had some of the most highly cited authors.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 11/07/2026
Alternate headline: "Trump Justifies Money Made as President By Lying About It" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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Trump Justifies $2 Billion Made as President With Inaccurate Claims
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
World's Worst Dealmaker Once Again Fails to Make Deal www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Trump Administration Increasingly Pessimistic of Clinching Iran Nuclear Deal
One senior U.S. official said Iran should vow to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Saturday or will face consequences.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 09/07/2026
Folks skeptical of human-driven warming like to point to a period of somewhat less rapid warming from 1900-1945. In a new analysis at TCB, I dig into the different factors driving it, and find that humans, natural factors, and variability all played an important role: www.theclimatebrink....
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I do like the idea of becoming a climate critic * Last Glacial Maximum: cold, liked the furry animals, too dusty. 3 stars * Holocene: 5 stars, great while it lasted * +2C: went in with low expectations and was still disappointed, one star
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Australia's 2019-20 bushfire season illustrated that MCB, initiated during the El Niño growth phase, might disrupt the Bjerknes feedbacks that normally amplify El Niño conditions, as we show today in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño
Seasonal marine cloud brightening in the southeast Pacific reduces global El Niño impacts on decision-relevant timescales.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/07/2026
Like many, many dynamics in US politics, this only goes one direction. Only one party is held to any moral standards. Only one party is asked to ritually reject its most ideological members. Only one party is held collectively responsible for anything any of its activists say.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“The best solutions to our climate challenges are going to come from a climate literate public,” True! www.climate.us
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 21/06/2026
A 40°C in the forecast for Reading now on Wednesday. Still rather uncertain on the exact magnitude, but 3 consecutive days breaking the previous all-time record for Reading (37.6°C) is possible.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Indeed, the idea that we could achieve global compliance and robust geoengineering governance principles when a handful of bad state actors have stymied a far safer and more efficacious solution (fossil fuel phaseout/clean energy transition) requires a curiously selective sort of optimism.
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NSF NCAR CGD Laboratory @ncar-cgd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Day 1 of the 2026 CESM Workshop brought inspiring talks, awards, working group discussions, and a lively poster session. Congratulations to Charlie Koven and Genevieve Clow on their CESM awards! Missed a session? Watch online: lnkd.in/gNncXvBy
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What NCAR does: Our goal "is to enable support for real-time wildland firefighting as well as pinpoint what parts of the energy distribution network are most likely to be impacted by a high-wind event" www.dailycamera.com/2026/06/12/n...
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Boulder’s NCAR explores ways to provide neighborhood-level wind forecasts
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder are aiming to improve prediction accuracy and detail of damaging winds that fan the flames of wildfires, topple trees onto powerl...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 10/06/2026
Now all done but the synthesis! Thanks to the ~110 scientists and practitioners, not to mention @agu.org and our local volunteers, for a great three days in Montreal!
Attendees of the AGU Chapman conference on updating usable projections of future sea level, on the steps of the Musee Redpath, McGill University.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Another way to do this would be to obey the law as President
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/06/2026
i know no one cares, nothing matters, it’s all blasé to the median voter and pundit, but a sitting AG (even just acting) making these kinds of boldly partisan remarks would have been seen, in the past, as grounds for removal on a bipartisan basis
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Are you telling me that the scientifically-based Have Some Guys From Nebraska Stand Around Doing Nothing strategy is not the cure-all we were led to believe? Shocking.
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Scientists are sounding the alarm about a new rule that would dramatically change how the federal gov't makes grant funding decisions. The rule is extraordinarily sweeping, and could have huge impacts on health and climate research. W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...
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Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back | CNN
Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ...
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Kris Karnauskas @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New paper led by @colorado.edu PhD student Max Elling shows that tropical oceans drive year-to-year malaria variability in Malawi. Soil moisture is the key link and a foundation for early warning systems. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @cires.colorado.edu
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Reminder that the Trump regime is still blowing up suspected “drug boats” — killing 197 people since September. But no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/05/2026
Deniers spent years insisting "you can't get a grant funded unless you call climate change an imminent threat." Turns out that wasn't a critique. It was a roadmap. Every accusation, a confession — and now political appointees (might) get the final say on which research gets funded.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"There’s a 91% chance that at least one of the next five years will shoot past the 1.5 degree threshold and an 86% chance that one of those years will smash the record for Earth’s hottest year set in 2024" apnews.com/article/clim...
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Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says
A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sure but they‘re really stupid questions
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