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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

https://bsky.app/profile/craigbrittain.com/post/3lsrtwivr522a

https://bsky.app/profile/robertcruickshank.com/post/3lsqyba3dec2m

Proof of Concept | AT Protocol Handler ~ Chrome extension to open at did urls

Bluesky Thread announcement

Use: - 'at' as the keyword to put in the browser url, press space/tab to activate and then paste url!

Just to clarify this is again just a proof of concept, plus possibly a work in progress, if I think of other ways to enhance it.

Manual install at present, until it gets approved by the chrome webstore, submitted it tonight. So could be awhile before it becomes available.

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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.

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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House

Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

Also helps that most of the website has them blocked explicitly for ragebaiting or responding to ragebait lmfao

https://bsky.app/profile/gxldsociety.bsky.social/post/3lr7mkb4a4s2j

If you want to expand your reach, this seems like a simple way to do it.

Hi, does anyone know a good Bluesky client made for landscape on Android? I don't like using the portrait mode on the official client...