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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃

@mikell.bsky.social
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Boston-based robotics nerd whose opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the cringe. It’s pronounced “Michael”.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1h
At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”
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🌈🏴‍☠️ McKy 🧄🥣 #RebuildingEra 💖🐊💖 @trbocrab.bsky.social · 10h
Hey all- if you're a regular somewhere, and you are happy with an employee of that establishment, express that to their manager or boss. People tend to only talk to higher ups when they have something negative to say. Spread the positivity with intention please 🙏 if for no other reason then for me
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 2h
stop drinking the poop milk you guys
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12h
"Start with under-eye concealer because you look like a panda, if pandas were chronically furious. Moisturize first; if you don't, the concealer will settle into your wrinkles, and you'll look like a lizard. There are so many animals you must now work to avoid resembling." buff.ly/1z3JtIe
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How to Apply “No-Makeup” Makeup: A Guide for Mature Women
“Confronting the brutal truth of your skin at this age will be frightening, but you are a middle-aged woman and lately, you seem to delight in brutal truth t...
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13h
Yarvin is basically one hop from the tech billionaires shaping US policy, and has been praised by VP Vance
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 12h
Indeed
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14h
All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
There is much to unpack here but also this dude was not recognizable to me as Jeff Bezos without the post text
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h
The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
In conclusion, fuck RFK Jr
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
But vaccines don’t cause Dravet. They can increase certain risks, but sometimes the risk/benefit calculus still comes out on the side of vaccinating (as it does for us) Knowledge is power and we should screen for mutations, not stop vaccinating kids.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
But some Dravet kids have incredibly severe seizures that land them in the ICU, intubated and in a medically induced coma because the seizure won’t stop I fully support those parents stopping vaccines
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
He still usually has seizures after Covid shots It’s still worth it to me because i prefer predictable seizures to unpredictable infections AND seizures
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
Like to be perfectly clear my son is fully vaccinated but after he had a bunch of big seizures after his first MMR we made sure he never got one while ill, never got more than one at a time, and we take other precautions to manage the seizure risk with every shot
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 13h
Genuinely what I think this points to is screening for this mutation (and there are a few others that have similar immuneresponse triggers) earlier in infancy because this can be a legitimate reason to forego vaccination, or at least to do it with readiness for possible seizures
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
I totally get how people tried to connect dots before the genetics were understood, and since epilepsy and autism are frequently comorbid - esp for Dravet kids - I get it. I so get it. But there is very clearly a correlation with a very specific genetic mutation. Not Tylenol or vaccines or whatnot
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
However there are plenty of kids with Dravet Syndrome (the worst case pathology of this mutation) who never had vaccines and still have an epileptic encephalopathy, or in our case a kid who was fine with his vaccines but had his first seizure a month later
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
This led for a long time to people reasoning, understandably, that “I had a healthy baby, and then they had their first vaccines and they had a seizure and were never the same after”
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
If you haven’t heard me get on my soapbox about this We do a lot to protect newborns from infection, so these days, most babies’ first major immune system challenge is their four month vaccines Babies with a pathogenic SCN1A mutation often have their first seizure at this time
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 14h
gavin newsom's ex wife btw
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
My son has this mutation and has seizures with any major inflammatory response, whether it’s caused by a vaccine or an infection It’s not the vaccines
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
Friendly reminder that the majority of confirmed “vaccine injury” cases involving encephalopathy were found to be in children who, in retrospect, have SCN1A gene mutation, which can cause epileptic encephalopathies. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Vaccines, Encephalopathies, and Mutations
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15h
I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
Ugghhh I tried to get my tween into Myst and they’re just like “but idk what to do!” and I tried to explain how that was the point and they went back to Roblox. I am jealous of your cooler kids.
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DiscoPriest 🌱 @discopriest.bsky.social · 15h
The more cider you drink, the righter you will get. Not many people know that.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
🫡
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
GOVERNMENT our GOVERNMENT What if edit feature but only for a max of like 20 characters
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
For a depressing time, chat with a promising college senior or recent grad on a student visa about their job prospects. I am devastated about and for the amazing talented people our insists on toying with and shutting out.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h
so important. just the other day, I made myself a fried egg sandwich. with ketchup. as god intended.
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rstevens 👻💨 @rstevens.bsky.social · 15h
please repost this to help raise breakfast sandwich awareness
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20h
perfect frame
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h
“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18h
It has long been recognized that millions of women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders. In a new #ScienceReview, researchers synthesize recent advances in understanding these conditions. scim.ag/3TFlxTo
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Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain
For decades, we have known that women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual migraines, fibromyalgia...
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 22h
Picard management tip: Be the team coach for your crew, not their loving parent, nor their drill sergeant.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today is International Women in Robotics Day. Instead of just wishing a woman robotics a happy day, consider paying her more, ensuring she’s set up for promotion, or inviting her to speak on a technical topic rather than her experience as a woman in a male dominated field!
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Don’t release the Epstein files”
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 03/10/2026
Your ability to use self-presentation to control how you are perceived is MASSIVE, don’t waste it!
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“fuck Margaret thatcher forever lol”
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I’m team Harry and Meghan”
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Can corgis inherit the throne?”
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is not accidental at all.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Let’s return the Elgin marbles”
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is amazing, i hate it
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/10/2026
first trip back to NY since the communist sharia takeover. witnessed people at intersections obeying strange lights (light of islam?); drinking dark brown arabic beverage combined with milk (symbolic of race mixing); delving beneath the earth to be willingly devoured by great metal serpents
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bless you
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