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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. #WorldSightDay #WomenInSTEM

A low-angle, close-up portrait of renowned Ghanaian ophthalmologist and public health pioneer Dr. Agatha Aboe. Celebrated for leading the historic medical campaign that made Ghana the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma in 2018, she is captured looking upward and to the left with an optimistic, serene smile. Her black hair is neatly styled with shaved, patterned sides. She wears distinctive semi-translucent, light-blue-framed glasses and bright orange, teardrop-shaped beaded earrings that offer a vibrant color contrast. Her top is a simple, high-collared bright blue shirt. The background features a soft-focus, minimalist golden-yellow architectural column under warm, natural sunlight. The tight composition and uplifting lighting establish an empowering, visionary mood, symbolizing her historical significance as a leading global voice for Women in STEM who now exports eye-health roadmaps to other endemic nations

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fuck the patriarchy. In which I include myself and my assumptions. However bad you think the misogyny is, it is infinitely worse

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is a direct through line from the Me Too blow back to Cornell. Proves Me Too did not go far enough

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The crazy murdering continues

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 30/09/2026

In ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, giredestrant, an ER degrader and full ER antagonist, plus everolimus led to longer progression-free survival than standard endocrine therapy–everolimus; safety was similar. Full phase 3 evERA Breast Cancer trial results: nej.md/47ryfbF

A graph from an Original Article published in the New England Journal of Medicine article titled "Giredestrant plus Everolimus in Advanced Breast Cancer." The graph shows progression-free survival among patients with ESR1-mutated tumors. The trial name, evERA Breast Cancer, is in parentheses after the title. The NEJM identity sits at the bottom.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am hard pressed to come up with a lengthier and more effective way of saying not only have I never been poor but I’ve never spoken to a poor family

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m repeating this because it utterly infuriates the worst people alive: Divestment from the South is racist. Stay mad about it.

A map of the USA showing concentration of Black people by county. Strong concentrations all throughout the Deep South and up into Maryland and Jersey.

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the corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 27/09/2026

I don’t really know why we still allow fraternities on college campuses tbh

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

the world would be a better place if all science students also studied history- and I don’t mean “memorise the list of Presidents/monarchs”, I mean “here is why people have fought and killed each other in the past and how that ended up for everyone”

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@mementomorty.bsky.social Finishing off with loaded cable Russian twists combined with Paloff Press. Best kind of torture

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s been a slow road back but just got 408x8. First time over 400 in decades.

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Lars @larshalbracken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The complicated and perilous situations in which some people live do not lessen their worth or value to society. Rather the situations scream out for support and protection.

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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you deliberately scare or anger your companion animal as a bit or for fun please let me know so I can come kick your ass.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth.

Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex.

Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind.

Meme text reads:
"Medieval Eel Truth:
It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The book of Job is * the oldest book in the Bible * radically feminist (the daughters are named, unheard of when women were property as opposed to people) * timelessly helpful: Job’s friends keep trying to help and make things worse. What he needs is quiet presence in his grief.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apart from the stupidity and arrogance of the US Navy placing its most important base in the whole theater just 140 miles from Iran, why wasn't it properly defended? Why is no one Congress exercising oversight? Why aren't the media asking questions? Why is there no accountability for this blunder?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope everyone is paying attention to Yemen. If the Houthis are able to hold Mokha and significantly impede Bab al-Mandab, this gets really, really bad.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

there are a lot of bad people in politics and power who are evil for a lot of reasons and using drugs in their past isn't one of them

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026

Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.

More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.

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