C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears Mask requirements are returning to health care settings across parts of the Bay Area, as health officials brace for the annual surge in respiratory illnesses — including COVID, influenza and RSV.

“Respiratory viruses can cause serious illness, particularly in vulnerable groups such as infants, older adults, pregnant individuals & those with weakened immune systems…” Wish they also understood & conveyed that COVID is a *vascular* disease & *everyone’s* vulnerable to it.

Turning HIV’s power against itself may help target hidden virus – another step towards a cure Researchers used selected molecules to make human cells less tolerant of damage, so that reactivating hidden HIV becomes a clear trigger for cell death. While making cells more vulnerable to dying may...

Scientists develop a way to ‘flush out’ the HIV reservoir - key to finding a cure.
Note: lab studies only, early days.

Popular dog treats recalled for Salmonella; health officials warn infections could spread to humans The treats were distributed and sold in the Midwest, according to the Food and Drug Administration

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/p...

doomscroll break

The former GOP congressman Joe Walsh— a Tea Party Republican— says this & people uncritically believe him? Sweetheart! You are Frankenstein and must face your monster— it is the pile of corpses you disinterred to stitch together and made sparkle on the worlds stage!!! Recuse yourself, sideshow man!!

Inspired by wistful pangs of nostalgia-- hexes and spells and wards abound www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1747...

Honoring the plurality of scientific inquiry throughout the ages; from herbalism and basic astronomical observations like phases of the moon to geology, Nestled in the center is a crystal encasing synthesized mRNA to get a body ready for the fight! www.etsy.com/listing/1818...

Well, well, well...if it isn't the endlessly dismissed Left being proven 100% correct about someone for the one billionth time.

SARS-CoV-2 infection: resistance is futile

“SARS-CoV-2 starts unlocking cellular immunity before it even enters the cell.”

Important new study shows the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, which allows the virus to enter cells, also acts to potently suppress immune defences.

Honoring the plurality of scientific inquiry throughout the ages; from herbalism and basic astronomical observations like phases of the moon to geology, Nestled in the center is a crystal encasing synthesized mRNA to get a body ready for the fight! www.etsy.com/listing/1818...

A pile of black coffin-shaped stickers with white outlines and cursive white text reading “Mask it or Casket,” each flanked by small white skull icons.

Stickers for spooky season 👻 www.etsy.com/listing/1818...

A bold black-and-white design featuring two illustrated hands with long nails and small tattoos on the fingers and wrists. The left hand points downward with crossed fingers, and the right hand points upward in a similar pose. Between them, the text reads in a distressed all-caps font: “MISFORTUNE AND GRIEF WILL FIND ANY BIKE THIEF.”

Hex a bike thief with this one simple trick www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1747...

A black-and-white illustration featuring two stylized hands with long, pointed nails crossing at the wrists to form an “X” shape against a black background. Each hand has a small gear tattoo on the palm. The letters “LU GG” appear on the left and “LY FE” on the right, together spelling “LUGG LYFE.”

Steel Is Real www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1747...

Inspired by wistful pangs of nostalgia-- hexes and spells and wards abound www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1747...

Peugeot beater bike on Berkeley coastal park hill. Berkeley in background. Red and black bartape. Pirate flag near shifter levers. Deep red frame with orange to yellow gradient stripes on seat tube w/ lion emblem. Sticker on downtube says “always be bothered but give no fucks”

safer pentagram front mount luggage rack has all 5 corners dulled and not spikey. Excellent bungee cord utility.

yeah no this is a shitpost hahaha This is actually my bike in image 1, and this is the pentagram luggage rack I didn't have $666 to throw down on but was mighty tempted to buy once upon a time

Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic’s Law of Similarity and Law of Contagion. An introduction.

⚡️Podcast | Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic’s Law of Similarity and Law of Contagion.

The ability of Disinfolklorists like MAGA or Russia to convince us, using Disinfolklore, of the complete opposite of what is true calls for explanation…

www.disinfolklore.net/p/jurisprude...

higher mid-level red bicycle racing frame from the 70’s/80’s beater bike covered in stickers with a Very Sharp pentagram welded steel front luggage rack

Deer antler shaped drop bars… though they curl up so I guess they can’t really be drops

rate my setup. bars coming in the mail

(six hours in) ok i give up. who's Ulysses

Werther’s crying about what now?

Twitter account @Kate_Jones1234 bio reads: Anti-Vaxxer (All vaccines, not just the Covid vax) Pro-Russia Pro-Palestine. Joined May 2022 Followed by Jay Bhattacharya

@Kate_Jones1234 tweets on October 6th, 2025: Dorit Reiss = Jewish Paul Offit = Jewish Peter Hotez = Jewish Peter Marks = Jewish Rochelle Walensky = Jewish Scott Gottlieb = Jewish Albert Bourla = Jewish Just saying. 3:35 PM • Oct 6, 2025 • 30 Views

Followers you know tab shows Jay Bhattacharya is confirmed follower of this account

Why is the NIH director following this account?

h/t @/CyFi10 on twitter

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

nice 😂

A comparison chart titled “NVIDIA vs Big Pharma” showing NVIDIA’s $4.6 trillion market capitalization as a tall green bar on the left, contrasted with a shorter multi-colored bar on the right representing the combined $4.2 trillion market cap of major pharmaceutical companies. The Big Pharma stack includes logos of Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Novartis, Roche, AstraZeneca, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Amgen, Pfizer, Gilead, Sanofi, Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, Zoetis, CSL, Alnylam, UCB, Teva, and Bayer. The image header notes it’s from the “biotech community on Reddit.”

lol lmao

Sending love to all under occupation in Portland tonight

Broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) inhibit viral entry across multiple virus families Synthetic carbohydrate receptors prevent viral infections by binding to conserved enveloped virus glycans on viral surfaces.

kewl www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

What if we built a LiveJournal-like system on ATproto?

Long-form posts but in a feed, based on who you were connected to. Picking up the ball from Leaflet and similar tools but riding on the Bluesky social graph and resting heavily on updates from your friends. Throw in RSS for good measure.

My tweet 9/12/2020 *sigh* livejournal was so good until it wasn't

I’m favorable to it

C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́ on X: "It’s now been 1,254 days since this Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya spent 3 days forecasting herd immunity in “6 months”. The then future date set for possible herd immunity was 1,049 days ago. The three would rack up an incalculable body count 4 years since. https://t.co/7btv2WMssj" / X It’s now been 1,254 days since this Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya spent 3 days forecasting herd immunity in “6 months”. The then future date set for possible herd immunity was 1,049 days ago. The three would rack up an incalculable body count 4 years since. https://t.co/7btv2WMssj

This has been an ongoing series of retweets in which I calculate just how off their predictions were. See the retweets going quite a few years back here x.com/amorvincitom...

On 8/2/22 Martin Kulldorff tweeted, “Too bad we got herd thinking before herd immunity.”

It’s now been 1,825 days since this Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya spent 3 days forecasting herd immunity in “6 months”. 

The then future date set for possible herd immunity was 1,620 days ago.

Lastly, 1,158 days since Martin posted this 👇