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she/her Tuberculosis treatment and testing should not be a luxury #TimeFor5

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I also deserve it. Send me some
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
cruel that there are 4 available but you can't use them all
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
4% of people who live with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa develop tuberculosis (TB) each year - and it remains a major cause of death. TB preventive treatment reduced the risk of developing active TB by 61% in people starting HIV treatment. www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
aidsmap.com
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another kicker: silicosis also makes people more vulnerable to tuberculosis, and we've seen a rise in TB cases among stonecutters. You can install safeguards and PPE, but when it's 80 degrees in the shop, you're not going to want to wear a hot respirator. Banning the material is the right move.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
raglan refers to that diagonal seam going from the armpit to the neck, instead of armpit to shoulder
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so cool!!
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know this is not what you were suggesting, but it does hint at a possible universe where Linda Holmes can pitch 100 mph
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rip to a legend 🧍‍♂️🕳
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the literary cannon is when my thumb slips and I tell somebody I'm reading a boom
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
how about "getting juiced up"
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember when "don't mess with texas" was created for an anti-littering campaign? We can do it again
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Broad City
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
especially not with those gloves
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HBCU bands really are built different. Getting that quality of sound while high stepping is _not_ easy.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just told my boyfriend and he said "baby gaga" and I had to lie down because his joke was so much better
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
more like Stefani germamomma
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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 09/09/2026
This is why we're demanding @gilead.com make #lenacapavir available, #2Shots$40Everywhere: justtreatment.org/news/2026/9/...
justtreatment.org
Gilead’s price blocks UK access to groundbreaking HIV prevention tool — Just Treatment
Joint statement from ACT UP London, Just Treatment and The Love Tank on UK access to lenacapavir.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The ghost of Al Capone is rubbing his hands together and calling all his boys on the Detroit-Windsor funnel
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If @gilead.com made Lenacapavir available in every country, including Brazil, where this article is based, the fight wouldn't be so hard. But as long as we let corporations like Gilead monopolize publicly funded innovations, the virus will always have the upper hand. #PeopleOverProfits
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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.
Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece.  In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance.  The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom.  The piece is edged in a wavy border.  You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet.  Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets.  The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face.  She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green.  Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos."Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game.  The screen has a black background.  The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left.  the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails.  Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds.  The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat:  red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category."Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground.  He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer.  The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky  is above.  The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry.  Most of these were painted.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'd love to read an English translation of this poem!
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
tbf I did that for calc 3 because my credits didn't transfer, so I figured I might as well do that homework before my other classes ramped up
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
is this an ides of march joke?
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My helmet saved my life when I collided with another bicyclist. Fractured elbow, stitches in the leg, and broken glasses, but no concussion. Helmets are worth it! What's also worth it is that I was on a dedicated bike path, not a car-plagued stroad.
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Partners In Health @pih.org · 26/08/2026
“2,000 babies have been born at the MCOE since it opened in February, and all of them will have access to vaccination.” - @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=swwakmR1jgw
youtube.com
The Great Thing about Infectious Disease
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
why you gotta be so prescient tho
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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 26/08/2026
NOW today is the daaaayyy! Less than 6 hours until the deadline. Call your members of Congress! In Massachusetts, we're still looking to get @neal.house.gov, @trahan.house.gov, @repauchincloss.bsky.social, and @whipkclark.bsky.social, so if you're in MA district 1, 3, 4, or 5, that's you!
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@gilead.com your refusal to sell #lenacapavir at any price to @doctorswithoutborders.org is wrong and costs lives!! We need #2Shots$40Everywhere now!!! #tbfighter @tbfighters.org
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
bring back Television Without Pity forums
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TAG - Treatment Action Group @treatmentactiongroup.org · 17/08/2026
We're hosting a FREE movie screening of "How to Survive a Plague" next month. Following the screening, panelists from different movements will share their ideologies and perspectives on community organizing. 🔗 www.treatmentactiongroup.org/htsap_moving...
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
broke: speed cameras should be illegal woke: cars should be illegal
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I would step into the first 30 minutes for sure
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
working a tech startup got me nostalgic for the men in STEM academia who actually wanted my career to succeed
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
But we can help them make better choices! Join @doctorswithborders.org and @tbfighters.org in calling on @gilead.com to make lenacapavir available in all low- and middle-income countries for less than $40 per person per year! #2Shots$40Everywhere #peopleoverprofits #tbfighter
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In addition, four middle-income countries excluded from the deal actually hosted clinical trials for lenacapavir and paved the way for its approval and sale. Those countries are Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil.
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In fact, @gilead.com only signed voluntary licensing agreements with 6 generic manufacturers, and these voluntary licenses exclude almost 40% of countries, including dozens of middle-income countries where HIV is on the rise.
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that forthcoming generics will make #lenacapavir available and affordable everywhere.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
it's always a little pile of wet stuff sitting on something. I gotta be a ballerina or my Pico de gallo is going to fall off the bruschetta
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@gilead.com we are still waiting for #2Shots$40Everywhere!! #lenacapavir #gileadsciences #tbfighter @tbfighters.org
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I will never get over the richest man in the world taking medicine away from the poorest people in the world.
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We continue to lose countless visionaries in countries including Brazil, Mexico, and Peru because @gilead.com refuses to license Lenacapavir there. Gilead, step up and make LEN available to everybody, everywhere! #2Shots$40Everywhere
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
bmj.com
Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy
Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...
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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 12/08/2026
Hey @gilead.com, any news on #2Shots$40Everywhere yet? Or are you still doing your best to screw over "everyone, everywhere"?
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
looking at my server list and it's just nerdfighters and book clubs. there be women
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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Pharmaceutical company @gilead.com is denying access to lenacapavir in four countries that held clinical trials for the drug: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. These places paved the way for this life-saving medication’s approval, and now they can’t get it!! Outrageous 😡
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
they named a course in SSX tricky "pipe dream" so I just assumed it was about snowboarding
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
they are right, and your only option is to double down and commit to the bit
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
it does make it funnier if you replace every mention of Claude with "Kurt Vonnegut's butthole". "I ran it through Kurt Vonnegut's butthole." "Kurt Vonnegut's butthole told me..." "Kurt Vonnegut's butthole is really good at churning out lots of content"
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
was this written by Jarrod? blink twice if he's behind you
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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'd like a reese's peanut butter cone
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