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10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 91 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-04
He’s still technically alive so we’re gathered here again for serious owls, unserious health officials, a helpful PSA, a howler monkey, cat-on-cat violence, British humo(u)r, and movie & TV nostalgia. Enjoy.
Your weekly owl
Ah, the ‘90s, those innocent years when anti-government X Files fans and donors to anti-empathy Pat Robertson were not yet weaponized by foreign elements (Australian or otherwise), intent on setting us at war with ourselves:
x Having to debunk the JFK assassination conspiracy theories every five or ten years is tedious, but at least it's benign, not a matter of dead children. #MMR #antivaxxer #CDC #RFKJr #TheXFiles #UFOs #conspiracytheories #4Chan #AlexJones #DumberthanIthought #Brainworm @tssuppository.bsky.social — Charles Dorman (@charlesdorman.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T00:55:39.130Z
The 1998 study paper that fraudulently asserted in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet that vaccines cause autism was led by physician Andrew Wakefield. The paper has since been fully retracted, and Wakefield stripped of his medical license. The results are not replicable. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
As for why parents would actively put their children in danger, the MMR vaccine is given in the age range when autism becomes apparent. Vaccination of healthy children leads them to withdraw — same with pets. The distrustful reaction could be expected to be greater in an autistic child, making a previously unnoticed pathology quite evident, even to the most obtuse parent. It’s the fallacy ad hoc ergo propter hoc. Do parents who notice the autism first, before getting their child vaccinated, conclude that autism causes vaccinations?
The children’s POV:
Grammar PSA:
Another from the How Is This Even Possible Department — a different politician from last time:
x @LePapillonBlu2 MayaWe are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳 — Ms. Kevin (@kkalmes31.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T16:27:24.514Z
A few good reads
x Today’s #reads: •One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad •There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill •South to America by Imani Perry •How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter — Jamie Howard (@jamieformissouri.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T18:44:19.016Z
x The British police do not like trump...... — The DarcBird (@thedarcbird.bsky.social) 2025-08-30T04:18:15.821Z
x BIGGEST GOLF CHEATSJudge Smails from CADDYSHACK vs Bond supervillain Goldfinger vs Donald TrumpWait for it... — Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T21:20:16.233Z
Aside from the assertion by the Howler Monkey from the Hollow during a SotU address, what else did the GOP say the Dems were hysterical about?
x Just leaving this right here — Shawn Harris (@shawnforcongress.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T19:19:20.313Z
Oh yeah, right. I forgot.
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Gen. Harris for GA-14! ⭐
Look away, swizzle.
x Always remember where you came from.(larskongo | Imgur) — Charles Dorman (@charlesdorman.bsky.social) 2025-09-01T10:28:05.794Z
Happy ending: She removed it in one day.
Silver lining: We now know Trump followers respond to peer pressure.
x We fucking told you. pic.twitter.com/YIcFVzHF0C — Tim Hannan (@TimHannan) August 7, 2025
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It’s…!
Note to self: Send on Mother’s Day
x Apparently kids not listening to their parents is universal pic.twitter.com/OKGvBSctEp — nature is wholesome 🍁 (@paawwesome) August 30, 2025
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