If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!

UK: COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations. "A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation" Source: archive.md/nyvSp

Absolutely brilliant!

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Data from Finland paints a scary picture of what SARS-COV-2 is doing.

For Anthony Bourdain day, I suggest this excellent essay. #bourdainday TW:suicidal ideation westtradereview.com/springprevie...

The national security implications of DOGE was something @profsaunders.bsky.social and I worried about from the start www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... and our worries should grow given how entrenched Musk’s people are in the systems.

This is depressing. Everyone needs an update.

Great job, Violet! yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

Stand up, fight back! #dtsj #50501

Waiting for the amazing Roxane Gay at #awp2025.

So now @GavinNewsom like Trump is demanding in person work, while we have covid, bird flu, measles, TB and a whole bunch of increasing illnesses. What ever could go wrong with this policy? They really want us dead, don't they? So much for workers. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Should I follow you? I mostly read and respond rather than create posts. If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!

Most Americans have no idea how critical #NOAA is to the entire world. They have satellites to monitor and forecast weather, crops, oceans, pollution. They do critical research, especially in ocean systems. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Apparently, the US opened a concentration camp in Gitmo. Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza. Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury. This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.

Great movie based on the amazing book!

Dear world, I apologize for what the USA has been doing and for what hell is to come. Remember that most of us (65% of eligible voters) did not vote for this. I hear Mother Nature crying out.

Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.

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Caturday is almost over and I think I want to spend the rest of the year in bed with this guy. Actually maybe the next 4 years...

Omg y'all. Had flight issues & ended up w/ me and hubby 2 rows apart in middle seats. Granted, short flight 1h but the guy with the aisle saw both me & DH wore same masks, so he offered to swap...aisle for middle! Generosity or not wanting to sit by masker, don't care! HAPPY!

Our newest paper on #CorsiRosenthalBox es. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Gr8 prolonged performance at 9 hrs/day & 7 days/week for $70. Degradation of CADR over study, but still well above $250-$600 HEPA units for particles in size range of respiratory aerosols. Never been rocket science, folks.

In the before times, I never knew anyone who got sick and kept coughing for months. Now, almost everyone I know gets a nasty cough that lasts 2-3 months. Hint: if you coughed while reading this...<mirror>

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

Before I go to bed, happy #Caturday.

Played video games with my kids the last few days. Man, I used to rule at Asteroids, Galaga, Centipede...Trying to learn new games...I'm laughing at how stunningly BAD I am.

Are we doing #caturday here? I hope so. Here's Loki.

seeing the amazing Eddie Izzard in SF and staying free of #covid, thank you very much.

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Got my #Novavax today! Thanks to #costco for offering this option. #wearamask too!

Is anyone else getting that August 6th PDB sort of feeling?

Here's my review of "The Loneliness Files" by the amazing Athena Dixon.

“His living room is the moving pictures on TV, with flashes of falling soldiers and their rifles buried in the soil.” Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé reads his poem "My Grandfather is a House," which is featured in our Fall 2023 edition. Listen to him read here: buff.ly/3tfv3PE

September 2023: largest heat anomaly on record October 2023: hold my beer

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New post: concern about Pirola, why the @sfdirewolf.bsky.social censorship raises serious questions, my New Zealand covid project, robot dogs with flamethrowers, the 10-minute phone call that hacked MGM Grand, social engineering Anonymous, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

Any academics here still masking in class? I start back next week and wonder how many students will join me. Masking is a DEI issue. I wish universities kept masks on in classrooms.

I'm trying to rebuild my Twitter list. I'd love recommendations for whom to follow, including Covid researchers/ MDs, scientists, author/editors, literary journals, journalists, so socialists/lefty peeps.