We appreciate @ashishkjha.bsky.social advocating in @bostonglobe.com for cleaning the air in public schools! Fortunately,
legislators in Massachusetts are trying to pass legislation to fix this growing problem. 👇👇👇www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/metro/comment...
EU: “Pediatric treatment against Long Covid needed for children and adolescents”
Me: "Since there is no treatment, how about we stop reinfecting children and adolescents and everyone?"
www.eunews.it/en/2025/01/0...
in celebration of Tom Holland and Zendaya’s engagement, please enjoy this moment from 2017 when she turned into a literal 😍 emoji and we all knew it was for keeps
I’m trying to eat healthily but there’s still so much cheese in the fridge. And it’s illegal to throw cheese away. Not sure what to do.
I guess I’m going to have to eat the cheese.
Yes. I am now actively eating the cheese.
They’re trying hard to not attribute the bulk of this increase to COVID. At least they mention the word….
insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/d...
Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
This has been true in pharma forever. There’s a reason why a lot of big pharmas have reduced or eliminated their antibiotics and vaccine divisions. Same idea.
the thing with UnitedHealth is that you have to go pretty damn far up the financial hierarchy of this country before you find someone who has not been screwed by health insurance or had a close friend or family member who was
Watercolor painting of a donut with bright green frosting and sprinkles made of oil pastels.
Watercolor painting of a donut with reddish-pink frosting and sprinkles made of oil pastels
I was doing homeschool art class with my kids, showing them how to use watercolors to build the look of 3D with different shades of the same color, and I accidentally made some magic 😂 #watercolor #painting #donut #amateurart
It’s almost night and day. Plenty of SFH in Western MA for <$500K. Basically zero in the greater Boston area. Western Mass and Boston are very different, but both in the bluest state!
Western Mass seems like the sleeper hit here
A photograph of a pond at sunset, with a duck gliding along the water in the foreground. The sun has set, so the sky is colored orange, yellow, and blue/green, with the same colors reflected on the water’s surface. Trees seen as black shadowed objects in the far distance.
Just a lovely photo from earlier in the fall. Spy Pond, Arlington MA, Sept 2024 #arlington #spypond #sunset #photography
We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.
The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.
We may get lucky. I hope so.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...
We’re progressing on plans for spring/summer COVID-safe(r) day camp in Eastern Massachusetts. Possibly a second one for Western Mass. Possible dates: MA spring break week; first 2 weeks of June; last week of August. #summercamp #stillCOVIDing #COVIDsafe
Who could have guessed, that an industry that spends billions to make us crave ultra-processed foods would be worried about GLP-1 drugs that lift the veil and make people crave *not their products*? I could see them lobbying against pharmas that make these drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/m...
A photo of a small white box with a cartoon of a brown bear acting as a chef, with a chef’s apron, tongs in his hand, holding a large plain donut hole. The bakery’s name and logo, Masshole Donuts, in blocky orange and white font on the bottom of the illustration.
A photo of an open white bakery box containing large, colorful donut holes. There are 6 donut holes, each in a divided section of the box. The donuts have frosting in white, cream, teal, green, and brown colors, with small chocolate or fruit decoration on the top of 3 donut holes.
Local donuts! #somerville #massachusetts #donuts
Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use language accordingly. Don’t refer to ‘during the pandemic’ or ‘post-COVID’ or ‘since COVID’. We are still in the thick of it - wave after wave. People are still dying or becoming disabled from Long COVID
Numerous times this week, I’ve learned of news breaking on Bluesky before Twitter. In the past, it’s only ever been Twitter. Bodes well for the future of this site.
Small note: I wish there was a way to segment notifications (people I follow, mentions, etc).
cc @jay.bsky.team
Yay, thank you!
I do hope this gets traction. We tried to get a clean air bill through the MA state legislature, and they let it expire earlier this year
This is like when Skype lost to Zoom during the pandemic
Holiday lights displays are a great way to have COVID-safe(r) festivities. Whether they’re walk-through or drive-through, they offer lots of space and little to no exposure. Links to some displays in New England in replies; add yours, too! #COVIDsafe #stillCOVIDing #Holidays
BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.
