I need help finding mentors for @balakunua.bsky.social
If you have access to English or German-speaking communities, please invite them to spend a couple of hours a week helping Ukrainians learn languages.
All they need to do is register balakun.org.
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Please please please record and release these for those of us who can't get to London for the shows! This sounds fantastic and something I wish more artists with 30-40+ year careers would do!

something you can do in your daily life to take just an ounce of this outstanding burden off of each others backs is to wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces. health is wealth is ever more literal. the wiggle room to become sick(er) is vanishing. why wouldn’t you, at this point?

I thought good MAGA was boycotting the NFL anyway?

I hope the major donors pull out now. There's no point, even when they win elections what do Dems deliver? Nothing.

I wish I could share your "optimism" but this is the biggest own-goal the democrats could have imagined. What was the point of all this? Some nebulous pinky swear from a party who's promises aren't worth the toilet paper they're written on?

Schumer Always Chickens Out. Dems just won massive victories and he caves?? What does Trump have on him? @democrats.org are about to lose a generation of support for caving. The party is useless.

Less than a week after an overwhelming election victory showing the American public is sick of this, you cave. This is shameful. I hope you understand this vote proves the democrats are a worthless party and aren't deserving of support.

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

The way the red alarms keep blaring and people keep digging their heads into the sand is really upsetting. Not sure how to turn the tide when even most previously cautious people want to hear nothing about this.

His true enthusiasm and passion is so refreshing! Definitely the hype man we need.

I really, truly hope that over the next week the Dems get their shit together, all get on the same page, and just keep repeating that American families are starving to protect the Epstein client list. Over, and over, and over again. Every interview, every broadcast. Starving people to protect pedos.

I hope someone puts the physical on sale soon, want to reward them for doing it right-- a majority rarity on the Switch 2. But can't quite part with $70 for a triple dip. (Even if the first dip was a $10 BB DOTD when the game was a disaster)

Saw that post about the high profile guy complaining about people fighting for greater masking uptake. Once again: the MASKS are not the problem; the virus-laden AIR that we are forced to breathe is the problem. The masks are at the moment just about the only reachable protection against the BAD AIR

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No-paywall version of the Rolling Stone article on Long Covid.

archive.ph/nZPpy?s=09

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"’We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.’ That's a direct quote from a new peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025). https://www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S2773-0654(25)00146-4/fulltext The authors argue that while SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are biologically different, they share disturbing parallels: • Persistent immune dysfunction (T-cell exhaustion, reduced recovery) • Tissue reservoirs that keep the body inflamed • Accelerated biological aging and vascular damage • Neurocognitive decline eerily similar to HIV-associated brain injury • A possible rise in infections and cancers once held in check by healthy immunity Their conclusion: ‘Downplaying the long-term immunological and neurological consequences of reinfection is a public-health error on par with minimizing HIV in the early 1980s.’ It's not ‘Airborne AIDS’ — but it is an airborne virus that can chip away at the immune system with every exposure. Prevention still matters. Masks, ventilation, filtration, and vaccination still matter. You don't need to panic. You just need to pay attention. Dr Sean Mullen • Salamon et al., AJPM Focus (2025). Open Access.”

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

“Downplaying the long-term immunological and neurological consequences of reinfection is a public-health error on par with minimizing HIV in the early 1980s.”

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

My cat's absolute favorite toy...

I've enjoyed the past Sonic karting games but the demo at least just felt kind of soulless to me, it's hard to explain. I'm sure I'll end up picking it up on sale, but I wish I had a better initial impression.

At least the Commander in Chief is setting the fitness bar high.

Really impressed how well she held it all together. Not sure if it was genuine, shock, or a bit of both, but there's no way I could have been that gracious to fate in that moment. Definite BB legend, had hoped for her to win, but definitely played a great game.

YouTube video by Lucky Tran Violet Affleck's Fiery UN Speech On COVID and Clean Air

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

Inflation hitting everyone...

Ah, it was the ValueTales series.. www.goodreads.com/series/10004...

I had a series of children's books about historical figures (they were somewhat common but the name isn't coming to me now) and he was one of them. That said, he was one of the few I don't remember learning about beyond that one book. So no, in general, we don't.

The local ABC affiliate did an amazing job putting about 4 edits into one sentence....

✨ Did you know Long COVID can impact every part of the body?

The Lancet documented 203 symptoms across 10 body systems, and the average patient reported 56 different symptoms across 9 systems.

The WGA issues statement on ABC’s decision to pull #JimmyKimmelLive