Stephen Foskey

Meteorology PhD student, OU Master's class of 2022, NC native, for professional tweets follow me @srfoskey_wx, pro-tech, transit, and housing, opinions mine

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I'm not sure how much I'll use it yet, but you can follow me on Bluesky at https://t.co/t6wcNUJo5N

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Why I like DST

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@emonotony @suchnerve @NickOnRipple Then why has life expectancy rebounded post-2021?

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@NickOnRipple @suchnerve What I am curious about is the degree to which this happens in covid versus other illnesses. I have heard speculation that a lot of chronic illness is disease related. But the situations like you describe are still a smallish minority of cases AFAIK

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@NickOnRipple @suchnerve That happens in some cases, but most people have caught covid by this point and don't get sick more often than they used to

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@suchnerve @NickOnRipple I am much happier getting sick once and being lazy at home for a week than I would've been if I'd had to mask for four years

Plus, I do get the covid shot annually and test myself if I feel sick

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@suchnerve @NickOnRipple Aren't most reinfections more minor than the first time around?

Also aren't most infections post-vaccination more minor than in unvaccinated people?

I stopped following covid precautions in most cases in 2022, got covid once, and it just felt like a bad cold

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@NickOnRipple @suchnerve Masks are annoying, and most people have some degree of covid immunity by this point. I'll wear one in a hospital, on a plane in the winter, and a few other cases, but for the most part I'd rather not deal with it

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@emilykmay Maybe I'm the exception, but I left both relationships I've been in because I was unhappy, and I didn't have anyone else to date after

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Only in the USA would you have the two biggest metros in a state, 80 minutes away from each other, with no train service.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

I have been reading some of the major biographies of Theodore Roosevelt lately (our modern imperialist moment drew me to them) and one of the backdrops of that era is the controversy over lynching. I think a lot of people have never really learned the lessons of that history.

[Stephen Foskey @srfoskey]

@phl43 I think it has to do with renewable energy getting cheaper and becoming more widespread, so a technological solution to climate change seems more feasible than in the past

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@ngelfond @2024dion @JupiterKunt Michigan lost seats because they were growing more slowly than the US as a whole, not due to population loss in absolute terms (excluding maybe a decade or two)

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@dilanesper I feel like marrying someone you're not attracted to for the money is still something people a. Are aware of and b. Often look down on

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

if we cut aid programs that save the lives of more than a million human beings every year because 'we can't afford to do that anymore' and then get into another war in the Middle East I'm going to become the Joker

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Operation name trajectory:

1944 — Neptune
1991 — Desert Storm
2001 — Enduring Freedom
2026 — Epic Fury
2030 — Kickass Eagle with Laser Eyes Pew Pew Pew

[tanya @Tanya_Sabrinaaa]

manufacturing consent by changing Raytheon's name to Blood Bath and Beyond

[onionweigher 🧅⚖️ @onionweigher]

well well well

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.