We need 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. Fuck those fuckers and their eugenics

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 15h ago

Want to know MMR vaccination rates for kindergarten classrooms in your county? Use this @washingtonpost.com tool (gift article):

But these days? Someone takes medication that improves their blood sugar, reduces inflammation, and supports their immune system? Watch people sneer at them as if the weight loss that goes along with that is some kind of stolen valor. Like taking meds means they didn't Atone For Being Fat.

people in the us 🤝 guys on aircraft carriers in the strait

Pru@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 20h ago

If all goes well we'll be able to eat food again in two years.

I agree with pretty much the entire thread and will add that if you have lipedema or lymphedema, a low dose of one of these drugs can be a game changer like w other (wildly underdiagnosed, poorly understood, often estrogen-related and vilified) hormone/metabolic disorders.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6mo ago

Oh the complicated feelings I have about this. (Not @ Bethany, I have talked about this with Bethany before, and I think this thread captures a lot of the issues.) Part of the complexity is that everyone's biology is different & so these drugs are doing VERY different things for different folks.

single best scene in hbo's JOHN ADAMS is the face paul giamatti makes when john adams realizes he's won the presidency

The Cat acted disinterested when I first offered this toy but last night I found it under my bed 😂

The Octopus Gallery@octopusgallery.bsky.social · 4d ago

Does your cat need a new toy? The combo of wool roving and catnip seems to really be a hit with cats. Pay what you want on Ko-fi, where the base rate covers my costs. ko-fi.com/s/7099678a8a

He's back in the ICU with "low blood pressure" now, and frankly, this is looking like it might be it. Please, friends, if you or someone you know has a safe, comfortable, loving landing zone for his two cats, please please *please* speak up ASAP.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 5d ago

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

I'm girls

✧𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧@altaudge.bsky.social · 21h ago

girls be like “i know a spot” and then take you here

I love that everybody longingly wishes Zohran could be mayor of their city or in the White House, but trust me, there are many more Zohran’s out there in every community all over the US. So stop daydreaming and start organizing to defeat billionaire backed candidates in elections.

Wishing a very bad afternoon to Neutrogena’s crisis PR rep

Hammermime@hammermime.bsky.social · 19h ago

I didn't know this happened and also neutrogena count your days

My teenage boy got his shot, HPV can cause head and neck cancers in men! Make sure your teens get updated on HPV and meningitis vaccines, those are the ages to get em. #MedSky 🩺

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 22h ago

Amazing news! People vaccinated against HPV have a 92% lower risk of a type of head and neck cancer (oropharngeal cancer) caused by HPV. These cancers—which affect the throat, tonsils, base of the tongue—have been increasing in recent decades. www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...

Of all the things that won’t happen, this won’t happen the most.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 21h ago

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

The free market, completely deregulated and guided by rational self-interest

Chron.com@chron.com · yesterday

Concerns are high over an infection spread.

Oh god that transcript of testimony is painful to read and I'm only halfway through

404 Media@404media.co · 21h ago

NEW: An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” He literally prompted ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion."

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Matt G. ♾️@artistsince05.bsky.social · 23h ago

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation-

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

ysph.yale.edu

Extremely tangential but I saw a commercial earlier and thought it should be illegal to advertise tech or software, even with disclaimers, with "sequences shortened and simulated" like. No. Show how long it actually takes, not how long you think will make me buy.

Timothy@landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 2d ago

I’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what

I don't know why everyone is talking about GLP-1s tonight but may I suggest reading about dolphins instead.

Touch and Flow - Orion Magazine

The sensual fluidity of dolphins

orionmagazine.org

Finally a machine that helps me remember to look at interesting things taking place in my line of vision

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

What. www.biometricupdate.com/202608/meta-...

Pricing out school supplies for the Lakota reservation while I wait to hear what numbers/volumes they need. I'll be picking a family to help soon too. If anyone wants to help us kit out some kids living under difficult impoverished conditions, it's easy peasy: agaishanlife.com/agsl-giving/

Do your gums ever bothe your around your menstrual cycle? YOU might have “menstruation gingivitis”! www.huffpost.com/entry/period...

Apparently Your Period Affects Your Gums. Here's How.

It's not just your skin and mood that can change with your menstrual cycle.

huffpost.com

They’ve already been using the shock gloves on children.

Alex Zucker@alexzucker.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Bellevue Police Department, in Nebraska, has been using electric-shock gloves for three and a half years. “Road patrol officers check out the gloves before their shifts, and all school resource officers have a pair assigned to them.” nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Sagittarius: A sudden flash of bright white light will illuminate the sky overhead as a drone snaps a picture of you looking unbelievably stupid. You're like "buhhh?" It's so funny. You aren't even reacting to anything yet either, that's just your normal face.

everyone pointing out the ads, no one pointing out that the text the ads are obscuring is bullshit

HEALTH@health.band · 3d ago

Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up

I finally got all the supplies to make NFC tags to automate a bunch of dumb stuff I always forget to do because it has multiple steps and I have the attention span of a gnat! Unfortunately I didn't write down all but one of the things I want to make into NFC tags!

Once you get used to it, discomfort* rocks. You can feel your brain making new connections! *-the actual discomfort of trying new stuff you won’t always like, not the forced discomfort of making yourself be around people who feel a false power in making you feel like shit

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?