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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A year gone from CDC. Still angry and sad. Doing good work now locally is good in many ways, and I really love the programs I’m working on. But there’s still a giant hole where important, science-based public health used to be.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Agreed!!! We were standing right near there too!
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Vincent by Don McLean. I weep whenever I hear that. They played it during the Van Gogh immersive experience and I was sobbing n public😭
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/02/2026
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/01/2026
Last week we lost a public health legend: William Foege, former CDC director and leader in smallpox eradication. In a 2009 speech to CDC staff he said "the bottom line is not fame or even science, or brilliance, or money, or publications, but how we treat other people.” apnews.com/article/will...
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
SAME! Also Lower Decks is the absolute best love letter to Trek and it’s become my fave!
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@mhdksafa for the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either (from 2023)
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
of course it is! 🫠🫠🫠
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
You look great!! Hope it helps 💜
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 05/01/2026
Some parts of public health are complicated. But "Should fewer kids die of preventable disease?" is not a trick question.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It has been a fucking terrible year (I’ve now worked more months at my new job than I did at CDC in ‘25 and I’m not happy about it) and I love gallows humor - but that’s not it. But I’m also the buzzkill who hates the worm jokes bc it stigmatizes neurocysticercosis.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I DID! Thank you for sharing.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I am the biggest evangelist for pelvic floor PT!!!! Changed my life years after my kid was born. Literally would not be standing without it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Your work matters so much. I completely understand the disorientation…I worked at CDC for more than 25 years. The world is upside down.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I don’t know how much more my heart can break over CDC. This is not the place I spent more than 25 years of my life. I am so sad and angry on behalf of my colleagues who are left, trying to fight the good fight.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Yes! Add a little red onion and goat cheese too. So good.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Same. I am so fucking angry.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Best of luck to you!!! Hope it helps and the recovery is manageable 🧡
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I saw this VG last year at the Poets and Lovers exhibit in London. It was breathtaking. One of my faves. And this makes it SO MUCH STAR TREK FUN. 10/10 would put on my wall.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Klingon Bird-of-Prey spaceship from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in The Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent van Gogh.
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Mark Poloncarz @markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If you or a loved one are in need of fresh food, you can text FINDFRESH to 898211 to receive information on help and food near you. This is a service of Erie County and 211 Western New York.
If you or a loved one are in need of fresh food, you can text FINDFRESH to 898211 to receive information on help and food near you.  

This is a service of Erie County, NY and 211 Western New York.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social TAKE NOTES. Say this on repeat, 24/7. Put it in ads, social media. Stop legitimizing this garbage.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 31/10/2025
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
NO. This is a choice. Frame it as an evil policy decision that will hurt millions.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Please donate to your local food bank if you are able. They will be feeling immense strain in the absence of SNAP benefits (and still in the setting of SNAP cuts of the OBBBA).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Some other things that could/should be the president's priority: -Soaring health care premiums for marketplace enrollees -Reduction of SNAP benefits due to the OBBBA --> rising food insecurity -Government workers' ability to make ends meet amid the Republicans' inability to keep the government open
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Same! How’d I miss this? This IS good.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I can’t even hear that damn dong anymore! Ugh it’s just too sad.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🤣🤣 Sorry I missed that! I can tell you it’s a damn miracle drug. Was having 30+ hot flashes a day; now usually under 10. That’s still too many but I can sleep for more than 20 mins at a time now. Some gyoza sounds amazing tho rn.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
it’s still TOO SOON for me to rewatch.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My kid is on estrogen to regulate; I’m on estrogen blockers bc of triple positive cancer. It’s a thrill a minute over here 🤣🤣🤣
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“ Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
AWESOME!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the number of us who would be dead … me included. oh wait maybe that’s the point.
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alt_m @mbeq.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
really would love a reimbursement for the $40 sign I made in Canva!
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sen. Murray is exactly right: "Trump is gleefully using the shutdown as a pretext to hurt students .... No one is forcing Donald Trump to fire the people who make sure students with disabilities can get a good education — he just wants to." wapo.st/4nY78vK
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With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department
The administration is looking to shed workers and transfer some operations to other departments as it seeks to close the Education Department
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/10/2025
You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 17/10/2025
I’m a reasonably successful person. I have great friends, I am so close to my adult children. I am married to my best friend. I get to do cool things. I love my job. Making these choices is a big part of my happiness.
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please, practice kindness.
Next Thursday, October 23, I am speaking at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center’s 55th Anniversary Gala. We hope to raise some money to help them help our neighbors, and I’m going to share my story, which I hope inspires someone to take the first step on their...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/10/2025
One child going hungry in America is one too many – this used to be a value we could all agree upon. The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans need to do their damn job and start delivering for the American people. Enough is enough.
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