troy

troy

@troyhills.bsky.social

Covid-conscious, Technologist, Buddhist, Pro-democracy, Concerned about climate change, Animal lover

544 Followers 1,558 Following 8 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 year ago
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Some resources for those in the thick of it.

#CaliforniaFires

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2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say The world just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists said on Friday.

The clock is ticking

www.reuters.com/business/env...

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LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

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One of my favorite photos I've taken - sunset at the beach just outside Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA.

#sunset
#sunsetphoto
#naturephotography
#landscapephotography
#california
#CAstateparks
#photography

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We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.

www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild

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Hi LA County friends, just got a heads up through the wires and don't have a place to write it up so I'll put it here instead - the city of Rosemead is providing free N95s and KN95s to the public which can be picked up at the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce on Muscatel Ave between 12-4pm today...

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Wisdom from his many years.

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Woman Talks About Losing Her Home In LA Fires YouTube video by Yashar Ali

1. Watching Fran, in the video below, talk about her home in Altadena broke me.

The enormity of the loss in the LA area is hard to comprehend and is ongoing as the fires continue to expand and new ones pop up.

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1 year ago

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

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200,000 doses of Novavax JN. 1 COVID-19 vaccine available from Jan. 1 - Focus Taiwan The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Friday announced that it will make 200,000 doses of protein-based vaccine targeting the JN. 1 subvariant of COVID-19 available to the general public fro...

Taiwan: 200,000 doses of Novavax JN. 1 COVID-19 vaccine available from Jan. 1

"The protein-based vaccine provided an alternative for those who previously had an adverse reaction to more common mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."

focustaiwan.tw/society/2024...

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Trump doesn’t believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.

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Vaccines save lives. In fact, they’ve saved more lives than almost any other intervention in history.

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Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

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Source: The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope

Just below Orion's 'belt' you can see the Orion nebula, also called Messier 42.

This nebula is visible to the naked eye. It is 1,344 light-years away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.
The Mayans considered this nebula as a cosmic fire of creation, which is correct.

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Thou Shalt Not Allow Polio to Come Back Holy shit, what the fuck.

The polio vaccine worked so well, humans forgot polio existed — and somehow that’s the problem.

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Not true, he did start SpaceX and its offshoot Starlink.

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“A Lot of Eyerolls”: Tulsi Gabbard Face-Plants With Senate Republicans Things are not looking good for Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence.

“A little shallow.”

“Not well-prepared.”

“Competency deficit.”

“Just not educated.”

Brutal quotes from GOP Senators and staff about how Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely bombing in her interviews with them.

newrepublic.com/post/189373/...

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I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself

Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃

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I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY PRAYER:
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Bluesky Hits 25M Users As Exodus From X Continues The social media platform has added over 10 million users since U.S. Election Day.

Bluesky Hits 25M Users As Exodus From X Continues

“Social media users have been ditching Elon Musk-owned X as the site is seemingly drowning in bots, extreme content, crypto scams, ads, pornography, racism, transphobia and misinformation.”

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Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

It begins

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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A boat being paddled through a huge mass of floating water bottle plastic

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.

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One by one, I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Threads, because I hated the lowlife trolls and their constant lies, the disinformation, and the throttling of pro-democracy content by their corrupt billionaire owners.

I'm so grateful that #Bluesky exists. ❤

Social media is fun again. 🥰

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She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”

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OMG
We are living in SUCH
TUMULTUOUS TIMES
and
Here ya go
The COW jumped over the moon...
(it looks like a cow to me ..yes)

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Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words, this is spot on. Do not obey in advance!

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