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MacKenzie Bray

@mackenziebray.bsky.social
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Executive Director of Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project, DrPH student. Focused on harm reduction and COVID. She/her.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't think the 'cult deprogramming' argument works for public figures! If you're a regular person, listening empathically to your anti-vaxx aunt is fine. If you're a public official speaking to millions, though, the message has to be "MAHA is killing kids," not "MAHA has some good points."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
RIP to Filter Mag (@filtermag.bsky.social). We’re losing one of the most important voices in harm reduction journalism. At a time when mis- and disinformation increasingly shape public policy, Filter consistently chose truth-telling. I’ll miss you. #HarmReduction filtermag.org/a-statement-...
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A Statement About Filter
Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Had to blink like 4 times cause I'm not used to reading good news here
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Some harm reduction advocates are annoying" isn't a serious policy analysis or prescription. Everyone wants to get homeless people off the streets. Harm reduction advocates want to get them into shelters and treatment, which works. Their opponents want incarceration, which doesn't.
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
as someone who still masks in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, i can absolutely confirm this is the truth; there's nothin like seeing a reminder of That Time™️ (my mask) to make trauma bubble up into someones behavior. it looks different for everyone—from kindness to cruelty—but it's there.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/07/2026
Athletes like Erling Haaland and Alysa Liu hava captured our hearts because we live in a time of incompetent leaders and toxic masculinity. It is such a refreshing rebuke to see people performing at high levels while having fun and being their full selves.
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My therapist had to reschedule my session so now she doesn't get to hear my thoughts about how if Mary Todd Lincoln had had access to modern psychiatric medicine, she would have been the political Samantha Jones of her time.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Finding this out from @benwinslow.bsky.social feels like the good ol' days of Twitter 🥲
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
How long it takes and how hard it is to undo the damage will depend in large part on the political will of the people elected to do it. If you get hand-wringing caveat peddlers who want to deliberate for years before acting it'll never happen. Plan has to be ready on day one
"Why's it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?" yeah, undoing every single thing he's done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/05/2026
Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.
Text clip from the Harvard Gazette article: 

He continued, “Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it. Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI; that’s at least two months away. … It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/05/2026
finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen
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nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It cannot be overstated how shocking it is to see a community in BOX ELDER COUNTY UTAH get upset like this
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H Dawg @hmilnej.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Distracted boyfriend meme with girl in red dress labelled "Hantavirus", boyfriend labelled "The Public" and girlfriend labelled "Covid-19"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2025
Just haunted, every minute of every day by the knowledge & the inescapable shades of every harm & every death he has enabled. A twinge in his eye, a palpable dread, a drenching of sweat, a creeping, increasing, inescapable horror at the scope of the truth of his actions. I want him a different man.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
RIP Anne Boleyn, you would have loved Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
yeah, if you actually look at the evidence, the attacks on harm reduction in San Francisco don't hold up. Too bad some folks omit the data to make political points www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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S.F. can continue handing out pipes, foil to drug users, judge rules
U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar denied a preliminary injunction by Tenderloin residents, business owners to stop the distribution of drug paraphernalia
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows
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CEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wild to be at a phase where we have to grind government agencies to a halt to save government agencies.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."
Fern Brady wearing a camera helmet on Taskmaster and opening the task, which has a red wax seal, and reading the contents. She has a purple set of coveralls on as well, which is just fun.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 07/03/2026
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of
misinformation fueled his primary loss:
"The truth didn't matter"
The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his
alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.
BY GABBY BIRENBAUM
MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL
REPUBLISH SHARE
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@benwinslow.bsky.social What are the chances that bills sent back to Rules die there? They've got 35 hours left and I don't know how much my blood pressure can take 🫠
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman
Alt: Marie Kondo excitedly saying, "I love mess"
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
this is great news, but it caused enormous stress & wasted huge amounts of time for no reason.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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@postoctobrist on X wrote:
the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Well well well, if it isn’t some more shit that sucks
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Melissa was part of the “Be Here for the Cure” campaign in 1993. She was 21 yo. She’s still here, more than three decades later. Sometimes, when the present makes me sad or scared, I think about the courage that those young people had to stand up and fight — for their lives — against the stigma.
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
this!!! rates of antisocial personality disorder are higher among people with opioid addiction, but THE MAJORITY DO NOT HAVE ASPD, LET ALONE PSYCHOPATHY. RFK's psychopathy may have increased his risk of heroin addiction, but that's his problem, not having had an addiction.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Your periodic reminder that there’s nothing magical about meth for causing dental decay! Stimulants of all varieties dry out the mouth, and *that* causes tooth decay. Lots of other meds do this, too. If a med makes your mouth dry, it can mess with your teeth. To avoid drug-related dental issues:
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
his livelihood depends on people believing this hype...
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
JB Pritzer saying "Trump and his cronies can fuck all the way off" the day after Mamdani wins is very Taylor Swift "by the way, I swear now" energy
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Elizabeth No War or ICE @fenbeast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@marisakabas.bsky.social even scooped them in my feed
Journalist Marisa Kabas’s grim reaper post precedes The Guardian’s announcement of Dick Cheney’s death, as is fitting in oh so many ways
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Darkest Timeline Chelsea @annesurely.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
misspelling Lindsey's name is my favorite detail actually
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
LEGO AQUARIUM LEGO AQUARIUM LEGO AQUARIUM god I want to be a "drop $479 on a Lego set without batting an eyelash" person so bad lmao this is such a vital next step in my ongoing process of assembling a "Lego Victorian Naturalist" bookcase with the crystals and bird and bugs and plants under glass
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Tropical Aquarium 10366 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
Aquarium home decor building set for adults
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The final days at Enron must have been top-tier levels of Office Gossip
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 01/02/2025
#ACAB
nerd: hey fellas, i hear alot of calls for abolishing police. but how will we stay safe?

buff shirtless bald guy on laptop: 
King, police abolition is not about defunding every department instantly. It's about a gradual process o strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community based models of safety, support and prevention. The people who respond to crises in our community should be people who are best equipped to deal with those crisis. 
insanely buff guy on couch with laptop:
Friend I want to echo that last statement and dig down a little further. Crime isn't random. Most off the time, it happens when someone has been unable to meet their basic needs through other means. By shifting money away from police and toward services that actually meet those needs, we'll be able to get to a place where we won't need to rob banks. 

jacked dude in gray tee shirt at a desktop pc: 
Couldn't have said it better myself, King! This is bigger than just police brutality; it's about how the prison industrial complex, the drug war, immigration law and the web of policy, law and culture that forms our criminal justice system has destroyed millions o lives, and torn apart families. Cops don't prevent crime, they cause it, through ongoing violent disruption of our communities.
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MacKenzie Bray @mackenziebray.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An unexpected perk of doing my DrPH while working is seeing people take academic knowledge and move it to the real world. A classmate mentioned she took evidence-based screening questions about intimate partner violence from the readings and implemented them at her practice as a surgeon.
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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"There were forty-seven members in the compassion club, and zero deaths occurred among members during the year that the site operated. Since the site was raided and shut down by Vancouver police, at least two members have reportedly died." The cruelty is the point. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #defundtheVPD
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