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sarasyrah.bsky.social

@sarasyrah.bsky.social
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Bostonian, geek, digital product person, progressive, introvert. ℹ️ I don’t automatically follow back, so if that bugs you feel free to not follow/unfollow.

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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@boston.gov @mayorwu.boston.gov We love our Zero Waste days but could we do them more often? 45-minute line of cars this time. The team runs things really well — but they’re popular! 🔥
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/06/2026
apparently this World Cup is forging a forever bond between Massachusetts and Scotland
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Robert Orthman @robertorthman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I, for one, welcome our new Scottish overlords in Boston
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/03/2026
Spell like no one is watching.
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City of Boston @boston.gov · 23/02/2026
Live view of Boston, Massachusetts.
A white square.
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Joel Abrams @joelabrams.com · 11/02/2026
For the fifth month running, @us.theconversation.com is the most-read nonprofit news site in America, according to data compiled by @joshuabenton.com of @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/ice-... #journalism
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ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities
From Somalis in Minneapolis to Nepalis in New York City, immigrant communities turn to trusted local news sources. Here's our regular ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We Do Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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We Do Care | NEJM
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Watching WaPo get gutted this week is a good reminder that independent, billionaire-free news media is out there, and it’s GOOD. Find one and support it if you can.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So sad to hear about Catherine O’Hara. She was brilliant. media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
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Schitts Creek Comedy GIF by CBC - Find & Share on GIPHY
Discover & share this Schitts Creek Comedy GIF by CBC with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.
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Boston French Toast Alert System @bostonfrenchtoast.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yes, a bit late perhaps, but we've gone to 5 Slices / Severe. No, won't be a blizzard, but the NWS is now predicting 18-20 for Boston, the very heart of the Greater French Toast Region. And the governor is heading to The Bunker! At least for a 12:30 p.m. press conference. bostonfrenchtoast.com
French Toast Alert for Boston: 5 Slices / Severe
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/01/2026
This Minneapolis ICE shooting video has become a political Rorschach test: Some people see a peaceful protester getting murdered, and other people are fascists
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Fun quiz - test your news knowledge 😊
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In case you were still wondering, it is indeed a horrible idea to have a militant anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist dictating the healthcare policy of an entire country.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18/12/2025
Mark Zuckerberg earned just $1 at Meta in 2024. Elon Musk made $0 at Tesla. They're not alone. A tax law professor explains how the ultrawealthy legally avoid income taxes while their wealth grows by billions annually. buff.ly/updvY1r
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Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 08/12/2025
The editors announce the launch of NEJM Clinician, a new digital publication for clinicians, by clinicians. Read the editorial: nej.md/4roG5vK #MedSky
Editorial 
NEJM Clinician — Finding the Medicine That Matters in an Age of Infinite Evidence 

An illustration of clinicians searching through a tall haystack representing "new medical information."
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Is this rhetorical? Because obviously, yes. 😁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This was fun -- though I'm apparently not very good at it! I got a score of 3192 on today's Chronophoto: 11/3/2025 Round 1: 1000✅ Round 2: 708 Round 3: 396 Round 4: 575 Round 5: 513 www.chronophoto.app/daily.html
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Chronophoto Daily - Guess the Year a Photo Was Taken
The Chronophoto daily. Play 5 rounds once per day. Test your knowledge of pop culture and history and try to guess the year a picture was taken.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I come back to this article again and again. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/o... (🎁 gift link)
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Opinion | Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language’ (Published 2023)
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 23/10/2025
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"A river doesn't argue with rocks, it flows around them" Public health, Science and evidence based medicine much like a river will find a way to keep flowing during this time. Sad it's coming to this, but alternatives are important and needed right now. www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
AWS is down, post hog
A painting of a very large hog.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Everything is bonkers, but this chonky bumble dozed off in my Lantana, so there’s that. #bloomsky #bloomscrolling
A plump bumblebee snoozing on a yellow Lantana flower.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
First dahlia I’ve ever managed to grow. ☺️ #bloomsky #bloomscrolling
A close up of a dahlia in flower. The variety is called “Orange Bloom” — I think it’s more of a dark peach, really.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 12/09/2025
Social media is poisoning everyone’s brains (Not me though)
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Information is a product and you get what you pay for
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Cthulhu Answers @cthulhu.network · 03/09/2025
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I just love the way physicians,nurses, public health experts, scientists, etc, are standing on business defending vaccines and calling out dangerous BS publicly. I see you, keep fighting the good fight. Keep making good trouble.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC list of medical conditions associated w higher risk for severe COVID-19, you need 1 to to qualify for vaccines now: -Cancer (solid or blood cancers) -Cerebrovascular disease (e.g., stroke) -Chronic kidney disease (any stage) -Chronic liver disease (fatty liver, cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis)
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 26/08/2025
Could a structured exercise program after undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improve survival and quality of life? The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research. Access the article for free: nej.md/DrG24 #MedSky #MedEd #Oncology
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/08/2025
Everything Taking Too Long theonion.com/everyth...
Everything Taking Too Long
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 10/08/2025
Buying 17 more books might fix me
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I (only) scored 75% on The Conversation News Quiz! theconversation.com/the-conversa...
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The Conversation U.S. weekly news quiz
Test your knowledge with a weekly quiz drawn from some of our favorite stories.
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Joel Abrams @joelabrams.com · 26/06/2025
So it turns out that a lot of the supposed controversy over 'mercury in #vaccines' comes from folks confusing methylmercury, which is toxic, with ethylmercury, which is not. It's ETHYLMERCURY that was produced by metabolizing the preservative thimerosal.
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A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains
There’s no solid evidence that thimerosal harms children. It was removed from almost all vaccines more than 20 years ago out of an abundance of caution, but RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory comm...
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Somehow missed that the Bunker Hill reenactment is in Gloucester this weekend www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/19/m...
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Is Gloucester ready for Bunker Hill? - The Boston Globe
On Saturday and Sunday, the city’s Stage Fort Park will play host to the mother of all Bunker Hill reenactments.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Good to hear, but such pointless chaos
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#TimelineCleanse Shelburne Farms, VT
A freshly shorn sheep snoozing in the shade of a tree on a sunny day in Vermont
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/06/2025
Spell like no one is watching.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here again are alternative and credible sources for vaccine information and guidance until sanity returns in US Public Health : WHO - www.who.int/teams/immuni... Canada - www.canada.ca/en/public-he... ECDC - www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat... U.K - www.gov.uk/government/p...
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WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tables
WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tables
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Things I don’t want ‘smart’ versions of, part 47
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
technically it's a polyghoul
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Question for the #gardensky tomato pros… I have dozens of volunteers from last year’s plants (Mountain Magic). I know hybrids don’t reseed true to original 🍅 though. Should I let some of these grow, or weed ‘em all out?
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Posting a pic of coffee with 14 hashtags - what’s the goal there
Photo of Office Space manager: stop using hashtags on every word in social media posts, that’d be great
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sarasyrah.bsky.social @sarasyrah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Love this - yes, you can garden in the city and the creativity is contagious 🌱
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 22/05/2025
Doctor here. I want my COVID booster.
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Taka Masao @takamasao.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
People rate AI-generated medical answers as more trustworthy & complete—even when wrong. Low-accuracy LLM outputs were seen as valid and actionable, often indistinguishable from doctors’ advice. Unchecked trust in fluent hallucinations poses serious risks. NEJM AI: ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated by nonexperts. We conducted a study in which a total of 30...
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