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Ginny Maier

@vbmaier.bsky.social
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 8h
Measles doesn't just maim & kill. Measles is expensive & unpleasant w/something like 25% of measles cases requiring hospitalizations. Which is a lot of fucking money & capacity even in a "small" outbreak. I just* dissociated so fucking hard. This all feels so fucking unreal & bizarre. *spiked
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Inpatient morbidity and mortality of measles in the United States
Measles is an extremely contagious, vaccine-preventable infection that was officially declared eradicated in the US in 2000. However, measles outbreaks are increasingly occurring in the US. Measles ca...
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 9h
Hard to say what is scarier, this kinda shit or maybe having to park 1/2 a block further from your house than you want to.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insanity
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Vote as if it is a prayer that we’ll somehow find the compassionate humanity to treat the stranger as Jesus himself. Vote like your neighbors’ lives depend upon it, because they so clearly do.”
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m not sure if even those Americans who are full-on fighting Trump, MAGA and the GOP can fully understand that the rest of the world looks at 37% STILL supporting the most obviously and completely corrupt, moronic and power-mad leader as evidence that the United States can’t ever be trusted again.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to plan mass shootings and nudify our children and help me understand how saying no to the whole damn thing isn’t the immediate reaction.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go Wings!
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just checking in on the Redwi... 😱☠️
7th inning box score for Roc vs Memphis ILB playoff game, Memphis up 15-0
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is little evidence to suggest AI can lead to emissions reductions. A new report by @ketanjoshi.co and a consortium of climate groups has found Nvidia’s indirect emissions have risen by a dramatic 725% since 2020. www.euronews.com/next/2026/09...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the avatar of conservatism, of corporatism, of white christianity—THIS. A man of no positive qualities, a man void of any interests other than consumption and self-glory, a man with zero redeeming characteristics; ignorant, vain, cruel, incompetent, corrupt, foolish, incurious, destructive.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Trying to contain myself this week but "the electrification of information" has sent me INFORMATION WAS ALREADY ELECTRIC. GenAI is taking existing info, making it wrong + 1,000,000x more energy intensive and then BUILDING HUMANITY'S BIGGEST GAS PLANTS that is the OPPOSITE OF ELECTRIFICATION
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.
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ladyvibrato.bsky.social @ladyvibrato.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT faithfully preserves every “like,” “uh,” and verbal stumble in AOC's quotes. Funny how I rarely see that same devotion to the unedited transcript when they quote male politicians.
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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am listening to The Daily on the Endangered Species Act. And it's good. But I need NYT to understand that the ESA isn't JUST FOR ANIMALS. And the ESA does not only protect plants when they form critical habitat for animals. It protects actual endangered plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/p...
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The Trump Administration Defangs the Endangered Species Act
A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I haven't seen any input from the larger climate community on this proposal, which essentially codifies bribes for communities to accept data centers. This just seems like such a terrible idea to me! @petesikora.bsky.social would love to know your thoughts www.news10.com/capitol/data...
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Hochul wants big tech to pay for power at new data centers
Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new Community Investment Framework designed to help New York municipalities secure millions of dollars from artificial intelligence data center developers.
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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Matt Traldi, Greenlight America: "Just a few individuals turning up at hearings can tip the scales in favor of renewables...Five or 10 people can take a project from ​'political suicide' to something that could ​'sail through.'" www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
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How to stick up for renewable energy projects near you
Showing up at local government hearings to support a proposed wind, solar, or battery project could be the most effective climate action you ever take.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One thing I do think a lot of social democratic politicians have basically completely lost through jadedness and cynicism is the ability to speak of values, to the heart, and we live in a time in which that is absolutely desperately needed.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vaccines are one of humanity's greatest inventions. And yet here we are.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An 18-year-old just died of measles encephalitis in Pennsylvania, can we just fucking arrest this man
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Reconnect Rochester Cycling @roccycling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Before the snow flies, ride any of these stretches of road at your leisure and grade its new bike infrastructure. The City of Rochester needs honest feedback on its work. reconnectrochester.org/2026/04/new-... #ROC #RochesterNY
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What other information do you need, really, to vote against Republicans?
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026
Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.
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GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer
The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This happens every time, folks. I wrote this a couple years ago. Too many traffic engineers just do not understand that people can (and do!) change their travel decisions when highway is added or taken away.
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What Will Happen to Traffic in the Wake of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?
People are surprisingly good at adjusting when a road closes.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1845. Women working in the Pittsburgh textile mills met in Market Square to discuss the necessity of fighting to cut their days from 12 to 10 hours without a reduction in pay. The workers struck and a militant confrontation with capital resulted!
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's out of focus, but my husband caught this shot of an Osprey after it lifted out of the water at Montezuma NWR yesterday with one fish in each talon Kind of a flex!
Boss Osprey flying off after a five with one fish in each foot
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pages A2-A3 in just today's D&C, three articles about injuries and deaths due to car crashes in the local area. One a bicyclist, the others elderly people and children. Stories like this day after day. But its ebikes on sidewalks that are the emergency.
Screenshot of D&C printed edition with highlighted headlines. "Bicyclist flown to hospital after accident", "3-vehicle crash involving school bus injures 2", "88-year-old woman dies after 2-vehicle collision"
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm still an NFL-hater, but this is good
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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 09/09/2026
The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday that, for the first time, the Canadian national anthem will be performed at the home season opener this year.
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'O Canada' is a fixture at Sabres games. Now, it's coming to Highmark Stadium
The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday that, for the first time, the Canadian national anthem will be performed at the home season opener this year.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“There are no other public instances of U.S. presidents giving staff employed by the White House large cash payments. Government ethics experts said they were not aware of any other payments of this scale from a superior to a subordinate government worker.”
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Having reported on the climate crisis for 20 years I am here to inform you that warnings we've unleashed something with a >10% of destroying humanity will have less of an impact than you'd expect.
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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredible recovery
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 08/09/2026
weird that the excuse is always “I must comsume this problematic thing bc it’s my hyperfixation” and not “my sense of justice insists I find new media”
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.
DHS encourages “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave with some sort of $3,000 payout, its naked racism.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If a vast swathe of sensible pundits are **directly at odds with public polling** on everything from climate disaster to genocide to fascist thugs burning hotels, it seems likely that tens of thousands of fake accounts telling them they love those things has had an effect, and purposefully so.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I give you : the Potoo
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's the even after you stop using it that gets me. It resets how you see the world.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/09/2026
My lukewarm take on 1.5 stories is that climate is only one of many reasons to phase out fossil fuels, and probably not in the top two reasons for most people. We should do it regardless, to save millions of lives per year from air pollution, reduce exposure to high and volatile fossil prices, and..
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We're told that people walking and biking should wear hi-vis clothing, remove headphones, and never look at your phone. Meanwhile:
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