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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16h

Our paper about the challenges and opportunities in decentralized clinical trials for #LongCOVID is out! We discuss the regulatory, clinical, & disease-specific challenges we faced in building a clinical trial network for Long COVID. Please read and share with your networks! 🧪

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Frontiers | Facilitators and barriers to decentralized Long COVID platform clinical trials using repurposed drugs

Long COVID is an emerging chronic condition that results in substantial impairments in quality of life, physical function, and ability to maintain gainful em...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13h

An alien civilization from beyond the galaxy meets ancient Pompeii. Do you want to know MOAR about how I did the bonkers worldbuilding in A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD? Here's my tale. You can pre-order the book and get it nice and fresh on Tuesday! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 16h

We are thrilled to bring you 2 new webinars from Denise Lopez- Majano & Kim Moy. "Things We Caregivers Wish We Had Known" w/ Denise on Nov. 1 at 3pm ET. “Being on the Same Team: Strengthening Relationships Through Chronic Illness” w/ Kim on Nov. 15 at 3 pm ET. Registration coming soon!

Two free caregiving webinars on November 1 and 15 at 3 PM ET for National Family Caregivers Month. Dark brown background with cream accents. Text: November 1st 3 om Et “Being on the Same Team: Strengthening Relationships Through Chronic Illness” with
Kim Moy of Caregiver Wisdom. November 15 3 pm Et "Things We Caregivers Wish We Had Known" roundtable discussion facilitated by Denise Lopez-Majano

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 16h

All of this. My and @tnh.nielsenhayden.com’s mobility diminishes with each passing year. The day approaches when we simply won’t go to Worldcons, because the evidence is that Worldcon, for all the admirable things about it (and there are admirable things) is unreformable on this issue.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

Lichtenstein’s entire oeuvre was offensively shallow and profit-motivated from the jump. His original premise of recontextualizing “low art” was done better, earlier, and with way more joyful subversiveness by Marcel Duchamp, AND he lacked the skill to even render the work he supposedly “elevated.”

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Tired 🌈🏴‍☠️✨🔇♿🇵🇸 @flintsponytail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if anyone could help me out with buying a new box of facemasks so I can at least try to avoid the worst of it please, please let me know. I'm so desperate. I can't leave due to my health and nowhere else to go.

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Tired 🌈🏴‍☠️✨🔇♿🇵🇸 @flintsponytail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

tessa used to be my MP back before I developed ME. she always seemed really involved and engaged. good to see that's still the case. I don't live in her constituency anymore but it's nice even to see someone acknowledging ME like this

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026

Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.

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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

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ME Research UK @meresearchuk.bsky.social · 23h

ME Research UK has published articles reflecting on ISLC-PAIS 2026. 1: Highlights from ME Research UK–funded projects (tinyurl.com/246rj47b) 2: Systems thinking, terminology, and negative trials (tinyurl.com/2fw5rt95) 3: What worked well and areas for further consideration. (bit.ly/4dgOAU6)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...

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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS

YouTube video by David M Tuller

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23h

I will say, as an author, you get to a point where you *hate* your book, so seeing a review where someone loves it for the things it does makes you remember that once you loved it too and had fun writing it. It's a nice feeling. I almost miss being in Aleks's stupid head. Almost. It is Aleks.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you’re not familiar with the way industry insiders, political hacks, oddball volunteers and some of the world’s largest media outlets regularly combine on idiotic stunts intentionally constructed to fool the public into believing drivel and bullshit, then “Climategate” is a handy place to begin.

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Lane Hutson Enjoyer @adlemm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Smear attempt on Jack Smith was really telling. They thought they had one coincidence (Smith being in Atl), and coordinated the lie with media to amplify it. Everyone focused on how funny the fail was, but this probably works n creates a conspiracy out of nothing if he hadn't been so incompetent

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acebojangles.bsky.social @acebojangles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A recent analogue to climategate was Clinton email leak during the 2016 election. A bunch of campaign staff emails were stolen and they basically contained nothing damning. People acted like there must be something in them, but there wasn't. If there was, we'd still be hearing about it.

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Rep. Gregory Meeks @meeks.house.gov · 02/10/2026

Capt. Smit Machchhar and those who helped him are heroes. Their bravery in fending off the attacker and safely landing FlyDubai Flight 1073 in Saudi Arabia saved nearly 200 lives and prevented a devastating tragedy. A thorough investigation is needed to ensure this never happens again.

nytimes.com

Who Is Captain Smit Machchhar, the Pilot Hailed as a Hero After FlyDubai Cockpit Stabbing?

Capt. Smit Machchhar suffered stab wounds while fending off an attack from his co-pilot, saving the lives of around 170 people on board, officials said.

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james @cranberrymuffins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Often I’ll remember this xkcd comic and get depressed. We’ve known climate change is real my entire life but spent decades pretending it wasn’t

Comic 2500 from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2500/
“Global Temperature Over My Lifetime”
November 1982
Exxon International report predicts that fossil fuel use will raise global temperatures to about 1°C above their normal levels within 40 years
October 1984
I’m born in Easton, PA
Summer 1991
I learn to ride a bike
Spring 1992
My elementary school celebrates Earth Day and I learn about the greenhouse effect
1993-1996
I get very into Star Wars and Animorphs
Fall 1996
I stand around awkwardly at my first middle school dance
Spring 2002
I get accepted into college
Spring 2006
I somehow graduate despite spending most of my time playing Mario Kart
Summer 2006
I see An Inconvenient Truth in the theater and feel anxious
Fall 2011
I get married
Summer 2012
I read headlines about a global warning “pause” and hope that maybe things aren’t so bad
2013-2021
I read more about climate science and get steadily more alarmed
Spring 2016
I read the 1982 Exxon report
June 2020
Global 60-month average reaches +0.94°C, Easton, PA is 2°C hotter than normal for the fifth year in a row
Today
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2022 (near future)
[Large X within a circle] 1982 Exxon Prediction

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 23h

One of the things King really, really gets and often successfully expresses is that the Larry Crocketts of the world, the dealership owners and real-estate hustlers, the guys who proclaim themselves the biggest fish in small ponds, are a network of darkness mirroring and blending with greater evils.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So excited to unbox my new novel that all I can do is babble "this is great!" And "this is awesome!" LOL

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All dressed up for the costume party! How do you like my beauty mark? *bats eyelashes*

A funny monster fruit face. with cored melon balls for eyes, a peach wedge cut in half, with the upper portion cored out for nostrils, and both the upper and lower half with a fine set of jagged teeth. It has ginormous ears made of lengthwise pair slices. A blueberry below its left eye looks like a big mole.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is #MedicaidMonday and we are back with #FrailAndFurious campaign* updates. We have been busy and we want to make sure we share the wins along the way! Full details: www.meaction.net/post/making-... In the past weeks, MEAction advocates have been making real progress across the country.

Infographic showing ME/CFS and Long COVID medical frailty exemption progress in PA, NC, CA, WI, CO, Alaska, Nevada. White background with frail & Furious campaign and MEAction logos at top. Each update is listed in a text box. Outlines of states to the side.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

liberalcurrents.com

The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No wonder so many Dem consultants are saying "go easy on AI and data centers"

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🎃"I Fear No Man, But That Thing (Moy) -- It Scares Me."🎃 @moyrustang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very awesome that my state can fund money for new highways, an AI data center built in an industrial park yet 17 schools are gonna get closed down to cut down on funds

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JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does data center construction hurt home buyers? "...big tech firms are borrowing huge amounts of cash to plow into data center construction...higher interest rates..." Does every politician who supports data centers hurt Americans who wish to buy a home? www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Why mortgage rates are rising even as Trump demands lower interest rates

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on the Federal Reserve after it hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, but the Fed matters less than broader economic trends when it comes to longe...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is crazy. They are laughing at us.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is a question for all you French-knowers. If I'm signing a book to a reader in French, is it OK to use the tu form in my personalization? Or should I stick with vous? The context would be that I don't really know the reader, but they have asked for me to sign and personalize my book.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MEpedia is going strong-- we just received notice that MEpedia reached 20,000 clicks from Google search in the past 28 days alone! Your support helps important knowledge get in the right hands. Check us out at www.me-pedia.org! #pwME #MEpedia #MECFS

Gold badge showing 20K clicks from Google Search for me-pedia.org in the last 28 days.

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Rick 🇺🇦 @rlmarley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is time that Senators are placed under oath when they present information during a hearing. Make it a criminal offense for them to lie as well as the witness.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manderon Flavuris sez hi. Have some fruit joy.

A friendly action-figure doll in a berry bowl, whose head is a whole mandarin, with the back half left unpeeled for hair, raisins for eyes and a smiling mouth. Its trunk is a large blackberry and its limbs are raspberries. It looks like it’s waving hello to you.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 29/09/2026

my heart hurts. how the fuck are we doing this. 13 years old and he's being deported alone. this is a crime against humanity. stephen miller must pay for his sins

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hazarding the guess that whatever this is is also the thing that happens to most people who focus on a particular Great Figure in grad school

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god, even cats are having to do all sorts of extra labor for the men they live with

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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alan51972.bsky.social @alan51972.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump is warning of a "final battle" against Democrats, who he calls "communists, Marxists, and fascists". He is using OUR taxpayer dollars to fund these ads calling us Democrats "the enemy". This is illegal and unconstitutional, like everything else he does. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

cnn.com

White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We watched CDC staff be ousted or suddenly decide it was time for retirement; provisional employees were fired en masse last year, and in some cases, trainings have been frozen so no one new can fully engage. CDC has been a ghost ship this year. Thanks to Apoorva for her reporting on this.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

San Francisco! Tuesday 10/6! Start the season right at my book launch for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on the park. I'll be talking to @olivasthewriter.bsky.social about tentacles, slime molds, and ancient Pompeii! Come say hi! It's free! greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-1...

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9th Ave: Annalee Newitz with M.M. Olivas

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Mr. Director? Yo, Sir! Can I at least carry a spear? ‘Spoon Carrier #3’ on my credits will get me laughed out of the Guild…”

A character made of mandarin slices in a bowl of berries, with blueberry eyes and a raspberry tongue. On of its mandarin arms is holding the spoon as if it’s a spear.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I guess I need to add that if you post other people's photos without giving them credit and/or getting approval, I will block you.

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lucy Joosibear wants a play date!

A cartoon animal stuffy in a bowl of fruit, made of fruit, its arms spread wide and its tongue lolling. very silly and fun.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel this in corners of my brain that rarely get acknowledged

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense of that is bad and should be discontinued

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 26/09/2026

Note that (as @tkingfisher.com knows) it’s perfectly possible for a book to not “earn out” and still be modestly profitable. Or in some cases, very profitable. I mention it because people are frequently unclear on this point.

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