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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 1h
Hey All: Sorry for the delayed reminder; my health has been crap. So, in case you missed it, it's a new quarter again. Do all those quarterly things - new toothbrushes, check fire alarms, whatever.
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Stephanie @stephaniesb.bsky.social · 4h
If you use Libby, there’s an option to opt out of AI books etc. Menu->Settings->Content Controls->AI Contributions. You can opt out of AI text, audio, graphics, and translations.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 16h
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Flu Shot: Activated 💉
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The world’s richest person is bankrolling (and buying) the nation’s most corrupt Senate candidate.
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Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🫂
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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Eiliko, the cute robot AI toy, says "your secrets are safe with me." In reality: 🤖 Stores everything you tell it on Chinese servers 🤖 Literally profiles you 🤖 Can be hijacked to roleplay a dominatrix 🤖 A single remote hacker can own them all www.theverge.com/tech/1010727...
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Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked
Eiliko and its manufacturer, Energize Lab, are seemingly not to be trusted.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Fox News Poll chart with title: "HOW CONCERNED ARE VOTERS ABOUT KEY ISSUES." Corruption in government leads with 88% extremely/very concerned.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🤞🤞🤞
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...
A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
That sucks, and I'm sorry.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🛋️ 👑 broken rn, and I don't know why. Much frustrate.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Vertigo has entered the chat. 😵‍💫
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026
The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!
Page 2. Text reads: "The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!"

Page 3. Text reads "We protect us! Intimidating voters in once community is an attack on all of us, and we answer as one. Vote early, protect the vote, and defend the 2026 election so voters' choices are respected." Graphic reads "Indivisible / Hands Off Our Vote"

Art shows ICE agents stuck behind a big circle with a line through it. One of them is saying "Hmp!"
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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.
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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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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What if we just didn't make fun of what people looked like (or their size, or ability, or hair or clothes or makeup or plastic surgery even or any of that shit) Because actually what matters is what you say and what you do words and actions and their impact on other people
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wow! I've never encountered such draconian measures. When I have been forced to take off a mask (temporarily), I hold my breath. And I wipe my face with alcohol wipes as soon as I get back outdoors/to my car. Whatever I can do to mitigate exposure. Good luck!
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
She'll never know.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university. "$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023." www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
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UW System spends millions on consultants - WORT-FM 89.9
The UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group $51 million between 2019 and 2023, WORT found through an open records request.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Straight up Greek tragedy presidency, if you ask me.
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A Dime Saved @adimesaved.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A budget is not a punishment, and it is not a list of things you can't have. It's simply a way to see where your money goes so you can decide where it should go.  When you know your numbers, saving gets easier, and money stress gets a lot quieter.
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The College Investor @thecollegeinvestor.com · 14/10/2026
More than 130 New York colleges are offering application fee waivers during October and November, per SUNY. Last year, the statewide program saved students and families more than $15 million.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
😣😭
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 13/10/2026
Our Psychologisation infographic is out! By coincidence, The Guardian published an article today reporting that women with autoimmunity are 74% more likely to be told their symptoms are psychological than men. Psychologisation is still a huge problem in medicine. Our article & The Gs 🖇️👇️
Long Covid Advocacy infographic on psychologisation, with pastel boxes, icons, and text on harms, myths, and evidence-based care.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How do you all feel about this? If you have Crohn's, IBS, or another disorder this seems like a horrific idea.
 screenshot of a post by Troydan quoting news coverage from Dexerto.   Troydan's post reads, "Imagine you in the middle of a diarrhea dump but it's a shit clock violation so the doors fly open with a buzzer sound".   The quoted post from Dexerto reads, "New York City is rolling out public toilets that only give you 10 minutes to finish. An announcer warns if time is running out before the door slides open, potentially e..." Below the text are two images: one showing a circular sign with a clock icon that reads "10 minute time limit", and another showing the inside of a public restroom with a toilet.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No, *you're* excited that the CPI-W and SSA COLA get released tomorrow. (Yeah, it me.)
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ask: Does anybody remember how many hours of content were provided in the #CripCampVirtual2020 experience? (How long was each weekly session?)
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Meanwhile, they also encouraged the attendees/viewers to ask for preferences when interacting with other marginalized groups. But not with disabled people. Hence my ire.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
P.S. I support and respect disabled people who prefer person-first language. But this was an abled person asserting that it is most-appropriate to use person-first language with disabled people. +
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Me: watching training video, booing loudly at the assertion that "handicapable" people prefer person-first language. #OwnVoices #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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Don't "baby" me 👍🏻☝🏻🤏🏻 @shellypoison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Acabaram de me chamar a atenção para esse poster que está no museu do holocausto, alertando para os 14 sinais que prevêem a propaganda fascista. Por favor, quem puder, reposte a imagem com alt, tradução, o que puder levar a mensagem mais adiante.
Poster do museu do holocausto em inglês. Para quem quiser procurar, o título é "early warning signs of fascism"
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"what gets you out of bed each morning?" my bladder mostly
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"It might be more accurate to view Long COVID not as a single disease episode but as a long term condition, punctuated by periods of remission and relapse." A BMJ opinion by Charlie Dennis and @nisreenalwan.bsky.social on defining Long COVID "recovery". www.bmj.com/content/393/...
A screen shot of a BMJ print article, reading, "Opinion: Charlie Dennis and NIsreen A. Alwan. 

If you have long covid, how can you tell if you have fully recovered? Six years of evidence and collective lived experience show us that this is not an easy question to answer. Yet if we do not define recovery, we cannot properly count the number of people living with long covid, and its present and future impact on the population’s wellbeing, economic productivity, and health systems.

Long covid remains a substantial global health problem. A recent report estimated that this condition will cost countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) $11bn (£8.3bn; €9.6bn) a year in healthcare costs over the next decade. The projected economic costs are $135bn a year.1

Since the start of the pandemic, clinicians, researchers, and health organisations have devoted substantial effort to defining and measuring long covid. In 2020, one of us (NAA) proposed that long covid be defined largely by what it is not: recovery from acute covid-19.2 This approach was reflected later in the World Health Organization’s definition, which describes long covid (post-covid-19 condition) as a condition following confirmed or probable SARS-CoV2 infection with symptoms that persist for at least two months, and cannot be explained by alternative diagnoses.3

Seven years into this pandemic, however, a critical question remains largely underexplored: what does it mean to be recovered from long covid?

Initially, recovery seems self-evident: a person’s eventual return to their pre-infection health status, albeit months or years later than expected. Yet the lived experiences of people with long covid challenge this assumption. Long covid is characterised by fluctuations, relapses, new symptoms developing, and periods of apparent improvement, all of which make it far harder to distinguish genuine recovery from temporary remission.456

A striking feature of the literature on lo…fails to differentiate between relatively brief symptom remittance and true long term recovery. This lack of precision matters. If we can’t separate people experiencing a temporary remission from those who’ve fully recovered, then public health estimates of disease burden will become unstable and difficult to interpret. It also obscures the lived reality of patients whose health might cycle unpredictably between improvement, the hope of recovery, and the return of symptoms.

Moreover, as we move into an age of research being done in partnership with patients rather than just on them, it is important to examine patients’ perspectives on recovery. Through this lens we can better understand the way changes in a person’s experience of symptoms can affect their sense of self. When people who consider themselves recovered from long covid were asked how long they were symptom-free before reaching that conclusion, their answers ranged from a few weeks to over six months.4 Such variation likely reflects the cumulative experience of relapse and people’s answers may be dependent on the overall duration of their illness: people who had long covid for longer may learn not to trust short periods of improvement and therefore recalibrate what “recovered” means to them.

One response might be to formalise recovery by using a standardised minimum duration of symptom absence. Yet even this approach runs into difficulty when reinfection is considered. Evidence from a patient led survey suggests that a majority of people who thought they had recovered from long covid experienced a return of symptoms after subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infections.10 In such cases, it might be more accurate to view long covid not as a single disease episode but as a long term condition, punctuated by periods of remission and relapse.

This raises important questions. Should we adopt the language of remission rather than recovery, as is common in other chronic conditions? This could improve conceptual clarity, but…
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract and it refused
Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Literary theorist: In text, a lacuna marks a subject of exception. It is not a sign that nothing was happening but that language was insufficient for the task at hand or that the subject was too undecided for the writer to make incisive claims.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ukraine and Russia already blowing up each other's data centres. IRGC and Houthis savaged data centres in UAE and Saudi Arabia. I'd bet Altman and Amodei are too insanely blinkered to comprehend how some domestic or foreign threat could pull an Op Spiderweb against their data infrastructure
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It also makes equal treatment conditional on whether someone “respects rules & contributes to the community.” That move, from freedom as individual rights to freedom as belonging to a community, follows Fascist pattern. Those gravitating around extreme right circles will immediately recognise this
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It argued that real freedom exists only within, and through, the national community and the State. The manifesto defines freedom almost entirely as security, protection from crime and order, rather than as civil or political rights.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh noes! Why won't they just let us sleep?? 😭
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ugh! So sorry you can identify, friend. Hope you find answers/a solution.
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
SU used to buy dog-safe stuffies at yard sales so K-9 could destroy as many as they wanted...economically.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“.. a profound escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing battles with the White House press corps.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🐘🐙💜
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😋😋😋
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One Sick Vet @onesickvet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Me: minding my own business My body: What if you suddenly couldn't breathe at bedtime, tho. [Not anaphylaxis. A lesser histamine fit.]
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
update: now with a community note
Elon Musk ‹ @elonmusk
X.com
To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it
& Readers proposed context il Still gathering ratings
XAl explicitly warns users not to include personal information in prompts, yet credit card photos may contain such information.
Grok Bot's terms state that user data and credentials may be stored in its cloud environment and require human review for financial transactions.
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