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muddling through pandemia in an N99 fledgling doctor of philosophy, sufferer of puppy fever, exhausted scientifically literate layperson southern/central ME

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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
need someone to write an essay about how ‘colors’ suddenly became ‘colorways’
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
oh dear, my 10-year-old upstairs neighbor seems to have taken up the trumpet
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
bathroom interaction with colleague yesterday: colleague: how’s it going? me: i’m hanging in there! colleague: you got a cold? me: no i actually haven’t been sick in six and a half years because of this amazing technology
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my very leftist therapist this morning: ‘i don’t know if you even know how far left i am’
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
explaining to my toddler that we pay a lot of money for health insurance which pays for our healthcare, but also we have to pay the doctor for healthcare until we pay enough money for the health insurance to start paying for our healthcare but even then we still pay the doctor
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cannot stop thinking about the sheep dog demo i witnessed at the common ground fair yesterday
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
72 mg ferrous bisglycinate chelate every other day while also trying to add additional iron into my diet! (lentils, beans, dark chocolate, heme iron)
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
got my ferritin up to 57 from a 10 in four months AMA
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
duncan sheik wrote some of the most beautiful music i’ve ever heard in my life, what an enormous loss of a creative luminary
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...
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Airport air sampling captures COVID, influenza viruses
Researchers say air monitoring complements wastewater testing in detecting respiratory pathogens from diverse populations, including asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2026
Breaking News: Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who traded pop stardom for Broadway as the composer of “Spring Awakening,” has died at 56.
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this may be a hot take, but why are people naming their dogs ‘potato’
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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morgan 🍁 @morgan.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
DAVID MORALES, THE NEXT MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
thinking that week 2 of my first-year STS writing course is going to be called ‘in defense of writing and thinking’ because that’s where we are in the year of our lord 2026; what are your favorite pieces on the value of writing and thinking in the age of AI?
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
livingwithcovidmuseum.com
livingwithcovidmuseum.com
Living with COVID Museum
A living evidence and education project about COVID, Long COVID, prevention, history, and misinformation. Every reviewed Museum claim carries its evidence strength and its limits.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...
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Gossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason Arday
Or, the anatomy of a pile-on
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
since moving to maine last week each morning i awake and ask myself: where am i going to swim and where am i going to consume ice cream today?
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
after some research, i’d like to officially come out as pro-daylight saving
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
Former ME CD02 candidate Paige Loud, a social worker and citizen of the Cherokee Nation is putting her hat in the ring for the US Senate race in Maine: www.threads.com/@loudforsena...
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Paige Loud (@loudforsenate) on Threads
The strongest candidate to defeat Susan Collins is one who can keep the conversation focused on the future rather than on defending the past. I am a social worker whose career has been dedicated to se...
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
hates to see my dissertation coming
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The argument, always, is not over whether rape happens. Everyone knows that it happens all the time. The argument is over whether rape is morally serious. A lot of people do not think that it is, and they would be more honest if they said so.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let’s please steer the conversation back to my Nazi tattoo. by Graham Platner
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/05/2026
Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/M5gaYm
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
nooo omg please take very good care of yourself!!
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
TAKE ME BACK TO THE BLIZZARD
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 18/06/2026
The Tartan Army has been the most delightful addition to June in Providence this year
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b. supp @valhallabackgirl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Patricia from Widow’s Bay might be my favorite character ever committed to celluloid. Kate O’Flynn is incredible.
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today at @thesicktimes.org: We republished a great piece by @whoevenreads.bsky.social about bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness! thesicktimes.org/2026/06/05/i...
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Indie bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026 - The Sick Times
The trajectory of COVID-19 awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future...
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Less: ChatGPT More: Researching amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Edinburgh during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost.
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
hot sun protection and iron-maxxing summer
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
therapist: ‘you probably don’t want me weeping at your graduation’ me: ‘uh, you’d be incorrect’
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
everyone in higher ed
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
undergrad house party blasting iris from the third floor with all the windows open
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
my tiktok feed is now serving me videos of dogs in doctoral regalia
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
OpenAI is being sued by the family of a 19-yo student who overdosed after ChatGPT wrongly advised him to consume a deadly mix of substances. The lawsuit seeks to halt access to "ChatGPT Health," a health "support" product that outside experts have found grave flaws in: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
OpenAI is being sued over the death of 19-year-old Sam Nelson, who died of an overdose after ChatGPT recommended a deadly mix of drugs.
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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wonder how many people will panic they’ve been exposed to hantavirus when whatever they have is actually one of the many other diseases we’ve decided are not worth doing anything about even tho they’re far more likely. “What a relief, you actually have the brain-,blood vessel-&heart-damaging one!”
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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Publ*c health’s main job has become to tell people “don’t panic” and “trust us” without doing much to make those things possible and it’s really sad. But they won’t do better because too many people put saving face (and “the economy”) over saving lives.
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
mandatory NSF survey upon completion of my PhD lol
U.S. National Science Foundation
WHERE DISCOVERIES BEGIN
COVID19MODULE
COVC_FOLLOW

SED
Survey of Earned Doctorates

Previously, you said: "The pandemic affected my research."
How was your research affected as a result of the coronavirus pandemic?
Select Yes or No for each
Yes
No
As a result of the pandemic, I had limited or no access to resources I needed (e.g., lab, data, hardware, software, archives, human subjects, collaborators, or advisers).
I had to make changes to my research plan (e.g., goals, topic, focus, approach, scope) as a result of the pandemic.
The pandemic disrupted my research in other ways.
Please specify:
6 years trying to get PhD/survive amidst institutional climate that increasingly refused to acknowledge mass death & disabling event
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
can someone please help me to diagnose the vocal affect shared between alison roman and anne helen petersen
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ALSO BEGGING THESE FUCKERS TO RECOGNIZE THAT CHRONIC DISEASE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!!!!
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
it’s like, mind-bogglingly cruel and illogical
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
on today’s episode of make it make sense, why the fuck do you have to pay more taxes if you’re single than if you’re married!!!!!
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🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
‘everything about our therapeutic relationship is different from any other relationship i’ve ever had’ - my therapist
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