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Covid is airborne. Covid is not mild (ask your neurons & vasculature). And -- Covid is not over 😷 #wekeepussafe #covidcompetentcommunity #makeairbreathableagain #maskup [art credits: Eyvind Earle, "Paradise"; Artur Rosa, "Layers of Impossibility"]

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Quarantegan@quarantegan· 28d

Did you see the bump he's inadvertently given to bell hooks? I still can't stop laughing whenever I think about it, I think she'd find it hilarious.

A post by journalist Arturo Dominguez from July 11th 2026 reads:

"JD Vance wrote a book titled 'Communion'. In doing so, he unintentionally put bell hooks’ book by the same name, written two decades ago, on the New York Times bestseller list. I love it when things backfire for bigots.

Here's where you can get bell hooks’ book."

The post text is followed by a link to the Bookshop.org page for bell hooks's book Communion: The Female Search for Love".

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jul 12

It could be where you are geographically in relation to the migration cycle. Monarchs outside North America don't migrate as far, so if you are outside the US the seasonality would of course be less of a factor. Monarch Watch has more info on non-North-America Monarchs. monarchwatch.org/migration/

Map of North America showing the seasonal migration paths of Monarch butterflies.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jul 12

It's worth getting a hummingbird feeder too, hummingbirds are hilarious -- even when they're being assholes they manage to pull off stellar comedic performance art.

A photograph of two Anna's hummingbirds sitting on a clothesline against a blurred background of blue sky and foliage. The nearer of the two hummingbirds is sticking out its extremely long tongue while the other bird gives it side-eye.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jul 10

A Bluesky post from Mets Chief depicts a comic beneath the words " I believe we are dealing with a Schrödinger's McConnell situation". The comic depicts a large rectangular box with a glass front and a dotted line bisecting the box in two. A sign on the top of the box reads: "Schrödinger's McConnell: Until Observed, He Is Both...". There is a Mitch McConnell figure on each side of the dotted line -- on the left, McConnell has his foot on a lever attached to the stopper on a poison flask, holding one hand in a thumbs-up position, and with a speech bubble that says "Alive, obstructing democracy"; on the right, McConnell is supine on the floor, his eyes X'ed out, fumes and flies rising from his obviously dead body, and with a speech bubble that says "Dead, not doing anything".

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jul 1

Satire of xkcd comic #2347 ("Dependency"), with the body of the infrastructure labeled "internal mechanism", the tips of the infrastructure labeled "eggs", and the support labeled "goose not valued".

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jul 1

A comic from the strip Non Sequitur that is representative of the "simple but wrong vs complex but right" cognitive bias, also known as the argument-from-incredulity fallacy or Mencken's Law. It depicts a single road leading to a two-way divergence with directional signs: the left fork that is short, straight, and goes off the side of a cliff is marked "Simple but Wrong", and the right fork that is long, winding, and steep is marked "Complex but Right" above a bookshelf filled with books. The road is crowded with people, most turning left at "Simple but wrong", and a very few turning right at "Complex but Right", each reading a book as they walk along the mostly empty, winding way.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 28

Still shot from the "¿Porque no los dos?" gif meme -- a young Latin-American girl with dark shoulder-length hair and blunt-cut bangs is shrugging her shoulders as she says "¿Porque no los dos? (Why not both?)"

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 26

It's truly delightful how much joy this is bringing everyone. Goose value has been affirmed.

SoftBank goose, value 71, raises its wings in victory as it stands in front of the Lake of Warm Ooze (algae-filled Reflecting Pool) in our nation's capital, the Lincoln Memorial in the distance. Three shiny lime-green eggs float in the green water. The main text reads: It was the goose that created value. Truth, indeed.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 26

Meme of Morpheus, a bald black man wearing mirrored sunglasses and a serious expression, from the movie The Matrix. Text reads:

What if I told you the goose was not valued.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 24

@edzitron.com

Comic of a middle-aged woman reading out loud from her cell phone, "Companies are telling staff to slow down on AI use because making PDFs into slideshows is using too many tokens"; her husband, with a worried look on his face, is turning the calendar page to the next month only to see a photo Ed Zitron, the Smiling Man.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 24

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A thread of three Bluesky posts by user @pookleblinky.bsky.social from February 2nd 2026.

[Post 1]

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

[Post 2]

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's-

Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it

Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it

Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

[Post 3]

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 17

According to the article there was an invite to one of the retreats in the Epstein files [ paywall-free: archive.is/lvEBj ]

Screenshot of an excerpt from the WIRED article linked in the post, "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society", published June 16th 2026:

"Accounts describe retreats of around 100 participants. The 2026 registration list reviewed by WIRED names 222. Public glimpses are rare. The statistician Andrew Gelman published one of Dialog’s invitations to his blog in 2022, describing its format and a registration fee of more than $16,000. The 2014 retreat drew renewed attention this year when an invitation forwarded to the financier Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in the US Justice Department's release of the Epstein files. A 'Jeff Epstein' appears on an attached list of past participants—but the person is actually the former CFO of Oracle, not the deceased sex trafficker."

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Jun 11

A graph titled "The public health success of the measles vaccine" showing reported number of measles cases in the US from 1942-2023. The graph has case numbers on the Y axis and indicators at 10-year increments on the X axis, with a marker for the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, another for the addition of a recommended second dose in 1989, and the declaration of measles elimination in 2000. The graphed data clearly shows a significant decrease in measles cases after the introduction of vaccines (from ~400k to under 50k over about 5 years), and a flatlining after the addition of the second-dose recommendation in '89.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 30

🎯🎯🎯 #TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #CaliforniaGovernor #midterms #elections #California #technoligarchy

Screenshot of a post by user G.V. from May 30th 2026 reads:

"Almost every piece of coverage of the CA governor’s race is missing so much context it’s hard to know where to begin, and even attempting it just opens the door to hate and vitriol from un- or under-informed people, many of them not Californians. The tl/dr is that Steyer is the least compromised viable candidate in the race. Full stop.

I don’t want to vote for a billionaire; I also REALLY don’t want my state under the control of Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, crypto, TESCREAL, the Network State, the oil/gas industry, Israel, and/or the Kremlin — and plenty of the players on this board are being influenced or directly purchased by more than one of the above. If my choices are (A) a billionaire environmentalist or (B) a puppet of some of the most powerful and psychotic people on Earth, it’s not a hard call. Anyone who thinks the calculus is different is missing the plot."

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 27

A screenshot of a post on an unidentified site by user theconcealedweapon reads:

If you really care about preventing government tyranny, your #1 priority must be making sure criminals have rights.

And that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

If criminals don't have rights, then all the government has to do is find some excuse to label people as criminals, and those people will no longer have rights. It's what literally every tyrannical government in all of history has done.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 16

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Full view of Barry Hunt's Hantavirus ADNV data-tracking dashboard. White and colored text on a black background detailing exposure, illness and death counts; color-coded case location world map; links to sources and information; and a real-time updated log of case data.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 16

From @Texan_Reverend via Mastodon: Want to safely drink through your respirator? Interested in blinging up your mask? Struggling to find a good fit? Just have a masking-related question? Join in this virtual event: Sat. 5/16 at 5:30pm CT (UTC-5) texanalysis.com for info & the Masking Reference Doc

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 12

🎯🎯🎯

A tweet from X/Twitter by user paulypandemic (@we_are_sad) on May 12, 2026:

“If Hanatavirus was airborne, wouldn’t they just say it?”

No because that would mean governments and businesses would be liable for clean indoor air. It will be expensive to implement and people would have power over institutions and corporations.

It’s the COVID playbook again.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 12

So far I have yet to be surprised by anything re the response to the Andes Strain outbreak. Annoyed AF, disdainful, but not surprised. (What's surprising is how densely-packed with experts & knowledgable voices & CC community members #CovidTwitter still is. Sigh, was really hoping for migration.)

Screenshot of a quote-tweet on X/Twitter from Steven Godofsky on May 12th 2026. The original tweet is from Jacqueline Sweet on the same date, and reads:

"Radio New Zealand reports an American citizen who is a 'hantavirus contact case' flew from San Francisco to Tahiti to remote Pitcairn Island on Thursday without telling anyone and has now been quarantined there after authorities became aware she arrived."

Below the text is a screenshot of an article from RNZ News reads:
'"A hantavirus "contact' case has been quarantined in Pitcairn after a short transit in Tahiti over the weekend, French Polynesia's local government says. Arriving from San Francisco, the passenger, described as a US citizen, had briefly transited in Tahiti and Mangareva on 7 May 2026 (local time) 'without neither local authorities nor the French State being informed'. When local authorities became aware of the situation, French Polynesia's government said they held an emergency meeting. 'The person concerned does not present any (hantavirus) symptom and is presently isolated in quarantine in Pitcairn', the government said in a statement on Monday. 'She will not leave Pitcairn Island to transit via French Polynesia as long as she presents a potential risk to others'."

Steven Godofsky's quote-tweet reads:

"Okay so she

1. Got on a cruise ship to St. Helena
2. Took the weekly 5hr flight to Johannesburg
3. Took a daylong connecting flight back to San Francisco
4. Flew to ~8hrs to Tahiti, then 1hr to Mangareva, from SF
5. Took a 2 day boat ride to Pitcairn

WTF forget the virus thing"

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 10

Very much glad to see sense being spoken by experts. From Jospeh Allen @j_g_allen via Xitter: x.com/j_g_allen/st...

A quote tweet from Joseph Allen @j_g_allen from May 9th 2026 reads:

"Earlier today I spoke with the doctor on the ship and he confirmed something. CDC messaging continues to say "prolonged, close contact" but that contradicts: 1) what's in the literature, and 2) what's happening on this ship.

--> the doc told me a few who got infected/died DID have direct contact w/ very sick patient while treating them, but 3 who tested positive did NOT have direct physical or close contact - only shared time in a few spaces on the ship where people congregate (dining, lecture area)"

The tweet quoted, also by Jospeh Allen, posted May 8th 2026 reads:

"'close, prolonged contact' doesn't strike me as correct"

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 8

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A screenshot of a Substack Note by Jim Pattiz of More Than Just Parks reads:

"Yes, losing 1.4 million acres of our land is absolutely devastating. But the implications here are much worse. The system Burgum used to unlock these lands for the state of Alaska could be used elsewhere without Congress."

Below the text is a link to a More Than Just Parks article entitled "Trump Administration Transfers 1.4 Million Acres of Public Land to Alaska", below a photo of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and President Donald Trump standing in the White House Oval Office in front of a map of Alaska.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· May 2

Variation on the XKCD 2347 graphic of software building on each other, showing very unstable tower representing the tech and internet ecosystem, featuring sharks biting undewater cables, unpaid opensource developers, AWS, Cloudflare, AI, Microsoft, left-pad, v8, WASM, and all well on its way to collapse.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Apr 27

#AltText version 🩷

An excerpt from a 404 Media article from April 27 2026 article entitled "Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious" reads:

“The AI research community is extremely insular in a lot of ways,” Jager said. “For example, none of these guys know anything about the biological origins of words like ‘agency’ and ‘intelligence’ that they use all the time. They have absolutely frighteningly no clue. And I'm talking about Geoffrey Hinton and top people, Turing Prize winners and Nobel Prize winners that are absolutely marvelously clueless about both the conceptual history of these terms, where they came from in their own history of AI, and that they're used in a very weird way right now. And I'm always very surprised that there is so little interest. I guess it's just a high pressure environment and they go ahead developing things they don't have time to read.”

Emily Bender, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, told me that Lerchner might have been told that he’s replicating old work, or that he should at least cite it, if he had gone through a normal peer-review process.

“Much of what's happening in this research space right now is you get these paper-shaped objects coming out of the corporate labs,” but that do not go through a proper scientific paper publishing process.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Apr 21

🎯 @garrykasparov.bsky.social via Substack

A Substack note by Garry Kasparov from April 21 2026 reads:

Russia has reindustrialized and retrofitted its society for perpetual war. They are teaching children to hate, to die for the motherland, and also how to kill with modern weapons. Only total defeat will destroy this virus, and it begins with victory for Ukraine.

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Apr 19

A request: Can folks on the Left PLEASE stop stanning Andrew Yang? Because that this point, that goes beyond misguided and into the realm of the embarrassing. Just... no.

A post on Xitter by Andrew Yang from April 17 2026 reads:

"It's clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let's make that happen ASAP."

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Apr 12

Spot-on Substack post from @andrawatkins.bsky.social Most folks are completely clueless re the extent of the coordinated smear campaign against @katieporterca.bsky.social by crypto + AI industries, especially by members of the Network State cabal. The Left needs to wake up to its disinfo problem.

Screenshot of a Substack Note by Andra Watkins from 4/12/2026 that reads:

Want to see how much the United States hates women in one note?

Eric Swalwell: “But where’s the proof? I haven’t seen enough proof! This feels like a coordinated attack to torch this poor man’s career! We need more proof!”

Katie Porter: “I can’t vote for her. I heard she is terrible to her staff. I mean, someone said that, I think online somewhere maybe? Anyway, I heard she’s mean and difficult, so it must be true.”

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Apr 3

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

A green and very round cartoon frog sits in the middle of the image against a blue background. The frog is smiling as it moves something across what looks like a Ouija board. Above the frog are large black block letters that read "FUCK CHATGPT. I'M ASKING GHOSTS."

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Mar 12

My resident nerd's response when I updated him as to the outcome:

Calligraphic script above a watercolor painting of cherry blossoms reads:

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
-SSBroski

Quarantegan@quarantegan· Feb 2

New 𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 event added: @publichealthaction.bsky.social & @airsupportproject.bsky.social present: #LongCOVID & Honoring #BlackHistoryMonth Thursday Feb. 5th 12P EST / 5P GMT A focused discussion led by Long COVID advocate @chimsween20.bsky.social, founder of The Black Long COVID Experience.