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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 BIG COVID-19 NEWS Ontario is funding NOVOVAVAX this year! 💉Non-mRNA vaccine, protein-based 💉For 12 yrs of age & up 💉Limited availability in PHARMACIES ONLY Moderna & Pfizer's mRNA vaccines are still available. ​https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-vaccines#section-2
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 18h
I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very helpful video summary of the MA ballot questions. Vote NO on 3!!! Don’t let rich creeps buy our elections!! Don’t like Democrats? - Fund multiple D candidates to split the vote - Bribe any R candidates beyond 2 to drop out
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
eyyy editors you are literally the only person being paid in the entire submission process! if a reviewer sends you some racist shit like this it is your job to not show this to the author. it is your job to find another reviewer and blacklist this one.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
sciencealert.com
Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Was looking at the Silent Hill Townfall concept art and my jaw dropped. Was back in my hometown tonight so I had to go and take a photo. There are many ways to mock my beloved Coatbridge, but “your home’s so miserable it was used as concept art for a Silent Hill game” is a new one for me
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🏳️‍⚧️Sidian Sonne🏳️‍⚧️ @sidiansonne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please do not eat the Lior cinnamon if you live in one of these states: • Florida • Illinois • New Jersey • New York • Pennslyvania • Texas #recall #CantHaveNiceThings #disabled
usatoday.com
Ground cinnamon sold in 6 states recalled. See affected product
This ground cinnamon product was recalled on Sept. 24, according to the FDA. Here are the states it was sold in and what impacted consumers should do.
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You Mean It's Thursday? @spideythursday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah the Goodbye Lara finale was good but at some point they should’ve alluded to Lara fighting a sharknado during the epilogue. First sharknadobait show in history
Concept art (I guess would be the word for it) of Lara fighting a sharknado
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026
Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid
@wsj.com‬
You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit. @washingtonpost.com‬
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?

We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out:
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lurklethoceris.bsky.social @lurklethoceris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This policy is social murder and antithetic to any universal healthcare system. Elia is not exaggerating about this killing people. It is backed by the scientific literature. For example, there is a study that found ADHD medication reduces all around mortality in individuals with ADHD.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NO, THIS IS TERRIBLE, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO STOCK MY CANDY BOWL WITH, FUCK! also my friends were right, i have a candy taste of an old jewish grandmother forward.com/culture/8520...
forward.com
A candy crisis has cast a pall on upcoming bar and bat mitzvahs
Sunkist Fruit Gems have been discontinued. Can the tradition of throwing fruit-flavored ammunition be replaced?
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it’s really cool that somehow the media environment is so broken that the average legacy newspaper’s primary incentive is to become Kiwifarms
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An AI engineer with round glasses says "we figured out that in order to get the A.I. to make more human-like art, it needs to draw from a set of personal emotional experiences..." He holds up a tablet displaying a program entitled "C-PTSD-GPT" and says "so we gave an A.I. the memory of having divorced parents." He gives it to an engineer with square glases who sees that it has generated art of a sitting childlike figure flanked by two arguing, monstrous dinosaur-like skulls. He comments "Wooooah... this is DARK." Round glasses replies "you think that's good? Wait until you see the one we molested!"
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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 24/09/2026
Good job, government. Your social media bans just taught the kids espionage skills. This is no different than using classified ads in the newspaper to share coded messages.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 22/09/2026
it is september, the month of greatly reduced sales*, personal income tax, and our highest electric bill of the year. if you want to support us continuing to make queer games and can afford it please consider donating via my ko-fi ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko, it would help a lot *happens every year
ko-fi.com
Buy Eniko a Coffee
Become a supporter of Eniko today!
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
all of this is exactly correct, and what i would add is: no person has ever spent 100 hours writing a scientific paper hoping, hoping with all their heart, that potential readers will skip that step to go straight to some mangled summary you didn't even write
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Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Posting this here on the off chance anyone may have a medical lead: today, I had to run some errands in a nearby city. It's finally sort of cold, and the sun felt really nice. When I got to my town, I was feeling very sleepy, had to take an early nap and suffered paralysis. It's not the first time
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Biff @biff234523.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📢💉🇨🇦 Nuvaxovid/Novavax availability update for Canada: A pharmacy bulletin from Alberta Blue Cross confirms that Nuvaxovid will be available in Alberta for the 2026 fall vaccination program! Alberta now joins ON, SK, MB, and BC as provinces that have confirmed the 2026 return of Nuvaxovid.
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
cryptoscammers are spinning up fake accounts about the Tilcayo cat recently described in Bolivia pretending to be animal rescues or zoos with Tilcayos, please ignore them, do not like or RT their posts only one individual is known and all other videos are AI
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.
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Chris @asmarcd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air, and then when they began to contend with the symptoms of the illness that followed, the government that had not hesitated to send them into harm's way was nowhere to be found.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026
They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨update from @biff234523.bsky.social about Novavax/ Nuvaxovid in the USA: "📢💉Where we stand on the Novavax/Nuvaxovid rollout heading into this week: The current message from Sanofi representatives to Healthcare Professionals is that Nuvaxovid will begin..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/20967...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
this is horrifying, unnecessary capitulation by an institution that absolutely knows better than this and both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @governor.ny.gov should be imposing consequences on mount sinai at the state level as a result
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 05/09/2026
i will not do homework for a fucking superhero movie also it's the job of the script writers and director to make sure i'm up to speed and know what's going, not mine
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026
Reminder to Massachusetts that there's an election today and you have like, an hour and a half left to vote
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 29/08/2026
Kitsune Tails is still 35% off on Steam and itch until Monday! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive the year by getting all our games as a bundle for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/199085/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Bundle contents 👇
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:
fda.gov
Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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lurklethoceris.bsky.social @lurklethoceris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Novavax/Nuvaxovid 2026-2027 XFG formulation was approved by the FDA today. This is good news as it is the better vaccine for SARS-CoV-2/covid (It has longer duration, has less side effects, and covers a broader range of variants with each additional dose in a series).
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 27/08/2026
We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/08/2026
Thousands of New Yorkers woke yesterday to devastating news from home. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border has taken hundreds of lives, and the search for those still missing continues.

To our Nepali and Tibetan neighbors:
this city knows what it means to grieve a place you left and still call home. You are not carrying this alone. New York City stands with you.
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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Worried about the midterm elections? Get involved! Join a campaign for a candidate you support. Sign-up with an organization doing great work. Volunteering feels much better than doomscrolling.
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SimplyAJ @simplyaj.com · 23/08/2026
Friendly Reminder: 3DS, Vita and Switch all use a type of flash memory that needs an electrical charge every decade or so to keep the game data from corrupting. TLDR: Boot up all your games and make a save on them to help preserve them into the future!
A 3DS sitting in front of a pile of 3DS Games
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lurklethoceris.bsky.social @lurklethoceris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is National Take Your Cat To The Vet Day 2026.
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