Amanda Finley Digs All the Things

Bad news on the job front. I struck out on every lead that seemed promising.

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Anyway, great preprint if you want to check it out. Those structural biologists and biochemists really know their shit.
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Thanks! One came through.

This is a very sad day for public health and evidence-based science in general.

Not beating the Nazi allegations I see

A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...

Important piece on how we got here.

Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.

Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.

This is fucking disgusting.

This platform & a few others has just been finding ways to violently bully or shame the sex workers who enriched them for as long as I can recall.

Just more modern day plantation owners.

Oh crap. There was a BA.3.2 in California last week.

It's GBW and 'environmental', so presumably from plane waste.

@ryanhisner.bsky.social
Had you heard about it? Did they miss it? It was only 5% of the sample, but very clear.

Meh. Not much good about it. I just hope someone else books. It's a bad time of year to lose housing or electricity.

My pet sitting client for next week cancelled, which is totally fine, but I was counting on that $350.

They left out more pandemics -- and with excess mortality rates way up and 24 million people in the US alone with long COVID, over 400 million globally, we should maybe take action, especially those who aren't now disabled.

4. More pandemics. Seems like a biggie to me.

This is the way. Do this. Long COVID is long -- and you don't want to find out for yourself.

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces depressive-like behaviors by disrupting astrocytic Cx43-mediated gap junction intercellular communication Long COVID has emerged as a global health concern, with depression being one of its most debilitating and poorly understood manifestations. Despite ev…

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

Part 3...

Depression is real and biological in Long Cövid

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks, Dave! Sending to my sleep med doc.

And a good morning fuck you too, Markwayne. I'm disabled because your boy Donnie decided to do his own research on COVID. Yay, bleach!

Well, aren't you a shitty person.

Australian murderer sues for right to Vegemite behind bars Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture".

How very Australian, Dave.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

@davidjoffe64.bsky.social

A Rolex, a gold bar, a trade deal and the ethics of presidential gifts : Consider This from NPR At a recent gathering of Swiss business executives in the White House, the CEO of Rolex presented President Trump with a gold-plated desk clock.The CEO of a precious-metals company presented the presi...

So many things about Trump make more sense if you think of them as creating channels for corruption.

- Settle a lawsuit
- Buy his cryptocurrency
- Donate to his election fund/ballroom/etc.
- Make trade concessions
- Or, just give him a fucking gold bar

They're asking to interview people. Don't be weird. 🙄

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They lost telepathic communication when CPB was axed.

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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Keep in mind that there is a lot of illegitimate traffic here and elsewhere when we’ve had a big win.

Today the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the Senate unanimously and the House with but one down vote.

Texas maps also got thrown out.

Don’t fall for the naysaying.

Holidays can be REALLY hard for people with chronic illness + disabilities.

The pressure to be “festive,” keep traditions alive, and show up for family while managing pain, fatigue, sensory overload, or mobility needs is REAL.

If this is you, please know YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Democratic Women’s Caucus demands release of pregnant immigrants in ICE detention “The inhumane treatment of pregnant women by the administration is shameful,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to ICE leadership.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus is demanding the release of any pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants who are being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and who don’t pose a security risk. #USA 19thnews.org/2025/11/demo...

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.