we know about fluoridated water because it’s found in natural springs and sometimes people living near specific springs had nicer teeth and we used science to make everyone’s water as good as the special spring water by putting exactly the right amount of natural magic rocks in it

Can we stop debating the “worth” of other people? Whenever we debate a person’s value, we lend credibility to the idea that some people are “less than”. Expendable. Worthless. Fascism preys on that notion. We need to agree that everyone is worth protecting. No one should get left behind.

Please can we have a bluesky 🌊 of reposts. Last day to try to get 3,000 signatures to help keep everyone safer in healthcare. Especially Cancer patients and elderly. Please sign our petition below 🙏

Thanks to everyone who’s supported or shared this today — you’re helping make cleaner air a reality. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer. If you’ve been thinking about donating, now’s a great time. Even £1 makes a difference. #SmallDonationsThursday #CleanAirForKids #HealthySchool

As a historian, I can confirm she’s 100% right. And I know most of my colleagues understand this, but don’t want to believe it. In 5-10 years they’ll be writing books about it.🥴 “Objectivity” as the “view from nowhere” is a helluva drug.

Revenue at Duolingo in 2024 was up 41% on 23 to $748M. Net income was up by 451% for same period and yet they're firing workers. We've long been at "insatiable greed" point of late stage capitalism. People may feel helpless but there's a very easy way to kick companies like this. Delete their apps.

Burley Oaks Primary is where this begins. If 1 in 5 of our 5,300 followers donates £1, we raise £1,000—enough to bring clean air to six classrooms. £7 each? We hit our goal and show why every school deserves this. #SmallDonationThursday #CleanAirForKids justgiving.com/campaign/cle...

3 week update since arriving in Ireland- we're getting keys to our townhouse today! We are super lucky to find a rental that would allow us to bring our cat. We've been living in a wonderful airbnb that has a massive blooming cherry tree, but we're ready to get settled. Happy Bealtaine!

First two weeks of immigrating to Ireland and so far so good. Food is wonderful, locals are kind, and my sourdough starter survived the journey. We were approved for a rental that allows cats! Very happy to be rebuilding our life after so many years of anticipating for this adventure

to introduce myself here on BlueSky. My book 'Wild Embrace' is a celebration of nature in Ireland. In it I hone in on a selection of habitats & wild animals; explore symbiosis in nature; and examine how we interact with our environment, through ancient beliefs, folklore & more recent cultural frames

Trump, RFK Jr & Dr Oz want to convince people that chronic illness is avoidable. That a “healthy lifestyle” will ensure you never become disabled. They want to blame the sick so they can eliminate them. Don’t fall for it. Disability isn’t a choice or a moral failing. It can happen to anyone.

The alleged harms of school closures are overstated in comparison to the harms of COVID. There’s learning loss, but the connection to reopening policies isn’t that strong. There’s mental health stuff, but suicides and ER visits dropped during closures. Death and disability tho are tangible.

I know I am only a humble speech pathologist, but for the professional record I reject everything that RFK says or will say about autism, and it’s important to recognize what he’s really saying is that to be neurodiverse is worse than to be dead

Authoritarian states happen step by step, then all at once. But you couldn't get to this point from a healthy, functional state. Black folks, Indigenous people, etc have been trying to tell you **based on our lived experience** that "regular" US politics & overt fascism are siblings, maybe twins.

We did mention we had news? We've just acquired all of the Sheanadh Gharráin woods east of the Bhoth Loiscthe River in the Connemara Gaeltacht. 35 acres of rainforest awesomeness are now protected, plus 47 acres of space for them to stretch into !

Going to be careful about how I word this, for obvious reasons: If anyone tries to take you, someone you know, or even just in front of you to a secondary location, DO NOT go. DO NOT let it happen. You/they may not come back. This is always true, but especially now.

I moved to Ireland yesterday. Officially obsessed with magpies

Our cat Tessie has been checked-in for her flight to Germany. We'll meet her in Ireland, on Thursday. I can't believe this is happening! We're doing it!!

if articles like this tells me anything, it’s the continued need for work like @thesicktimes.bsky.social produces

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Are there any news podcasts that aren’t just liberal white dudes with a mic? A leftist lens that won’t scare a liberal, but won’t be Occupy Democrats type shit, that delivers the latest political news?

2-4% chance of a tornado, 10% chance of 2"+ hail here in WA. While the odds are low, just seeing these potential risks show up is unsettling. Not a lot of basements out here for shelter.

The pandemic didn't end, your care and concern for others did

I just keep going back to AOC’s statement: anyone born from 1980 on has never known a functional government with a healthy oppositional party. The hope that Republicans will “come around” is a generational divide, and after the last 10 years, a delusion.

This is getting soooo silly. The video I made in Nov 2023 applies even more now!

100% Right now is truly a fantastic time to declutter and post your excess loot on the locally Buy Nothing page. Share, share, share! And if you need something, ask your neighbors. buynothingproject.org

My guest article in @healthydebate.bsky.social looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk. If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up. Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously

She's been right for years. Over and over and over. If you want to understand the hell we're in, get to reading. Or listening. However you process information.

When they started claiming that children don't get infected, or are not infectious, I posted that they wanted to use them as "vectors" in a community-transmission plan that would endanger the lives of all, and children would eventually pay the price. Sars2 is a biohazard. Nobody's protecting them.

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan: www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

Moving to Ireland in less than a month. I wonder if our nest egg will survive another month of this administration I know this is a problem of extreme privilege, how lucky are we to even HAVE a nest egg to shrink in this economy. Uargh

Playing with my Q-less crossword dice this morning and I feel concerned about how I solved it. Troll Lust Nob Pit Time for a reroll

This. If masking everywhere is too much, start with hospitals, doctor’s offices, and elder care facilities. It’s a small thing to help make these places safer for immunocompromised people like me.

Can we please get PHYSICIANS to pay attention to this? I swear, if I hear one more pediatrician say that it's fine for kids to get COVID over and over ad infinitum, I am going to lose my mind. No one is siding with parents who want to protect their kids from COVID and we're getting demonized.

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...

I honestly don’t hate the picture of all the Chicago cops protecting Tesla because showing a bunch of armed agents of the state openly enforcing Elons will is revealing the truth of our situation much more clearly than anything protestors could show

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

This article was written almost two years ago. Despite C19 still being the largest cause of infectious disease deaths in children age 5-19 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿nothing in schools has changed. Data: James Neill, Consultant Data Analyst, Safe Air Schools @jneill.bsky.social 🔗 archive.is/2023.08.11-1...

Elon tweeted my essential daily medication into shortage and I haven’t shut up about it since. Y’all wanna resist? Learn to PERSIST. For some of us it, there is not so much of a choice when the other option is certain physical deterioration— don’t wait til that’s the position you’re in.

Thompson stressed the importance of preventing COVID-19. The disease continues to spread, kill, and disable, particularly in marginalized communities, which often have higher COVID-19 rates and less access to care. “I want less people hurt. I want less people damaged. I want less people infected”

I’ve been very stubborn in my life but I’ve never been “ignore going on six years of peer reviewed C19 research” stubborn.

Took our cat to her pre-flight vet appointment and the vet was wearing a proper mask! Which means this is the first healthcare professional I've seen in over a year who cared about disease transmission.. And it was the pet doctor.

Brutal.

This morning I went to John Lewis Middle School to watch a class taught by Brian Greene. 4 days a week he teaches botany. On Fridays, he teaches the kids how to cook using plants they’ve grown in the school’s gardens.

Three days after going to the doctor's office to verify prescription doses and I now have crusty eyes and a sore throat. My mask was glued to my face but also I was in a very small room with coughing people for 40 minutes, waiting for a blood draw. UARGH Plus life test is running. Wish me luck

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gift article for anyone who’s seen this piece, by whatever title, go around. it’s just so boring that @nytimes.com would publish… this and not literally anything from @thesicktimes.bsky.social— they’re doing the job every day orders of magnitude better than wallace-wells was able to publish here.

I’m participating in the Economic Boycott on Friday Feb 28th. I hope it’s possible to join us. We have the power to push back.