I made a playlist tonight that perfectly simulates the experience of listening to an IHeartRadio station in your college dining hall circa 2011-12. Enjoy it or do not, I am not a beggar open.spotify.com/playlist/7bO...

We will overturn the Second Amendment in my lifetime

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains

dudes rock

Gordon Shamsy. Just workshopping a bit. “Gordon Shamsy.” I’ll let you know if this turns out to be anything. Anyone got any ideas about Gor

I’m gradually making new friends on this site, which is nice. It’s slower than Twitter but it’s definitely worthwhile in a year this isolating

So happy to see @publichealthguy1.bsky.social get some well deserved media attention

American Canto paperback cover

They should create an anything nice we actually can have

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

we did it bobby

Preview of something coming in 2026: would you like to guess how many total peer-reviewed publications were cited by Member States, stakeholders, or invited experts in the three years of the WHO Pandemic Agreement negotiations?

Robert Reich I love you very much and Go Bears but unfortunately at this very specific moment it is super duper big time between the right and the left

I was thinking about AI bullshit in college then randomly remembered all the 'learning loss' moral panic when some schooling shifted to online and got a bit of psychic whiplash

Periodic reminder that I hate this website and my cherished mutuals, every single one of who is my wife regardless of gender, can find me on ig at beeologist. I will reject you if I don’t know you or you are genetically related to me at any distance

On the island we can meet a cyclops When he sees us he will eat a guy When he asks who stabbed him we'll say "No Man" And he'll yell "Nobody destroyed my eye!"

Does anyone know why Fio smells terrible today

This is true BUT I do think we’re waiting for most of a specific generation of posters on here. Everyone here is slightly too old, for example, to know the origin of “then perish”

We won a fucking pandemic treaty ✊🏻

If single-payer you would see, answer me these questions three

say what you will, but the pharmaceutical industry is clearly deeply committed to the equitable sharing of vaccines and drugs www.ifpma.org/areas-of-wor...

hmm. as a public health professional, i was told we were going to find common ground on non-communicable diseases with the guy who is (checks notes) beefing with tortillas

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Hardly the stuff of being “owned”.....

My "I have not been captured by financial interests" defamation claim is asking questions clearly answered by my defamation claim

99% of American politics discourse and punditry could be addressed by econometrics and at least 60% already has been. Society has progressed past the need for Yglesiases and things of this nature. Here is the best example I've seen in a long time: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

People like to tell me that we don't need an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics because it's been tried before and there were all these reports during Covid and it's like. Well the G20 High-Level Panel website currently links to a list of the best Malaysian casinos. So we do need something

watching a first date go extremely well in Pistachio and honestly struggling not to blush on their behalf

I'm building a team

Just got horrifying news about the conditions where German is being held so I'm sharing the gofundme again. Please share widely and donate if you can gofund.me/575c7a343

There’s a beautiful cat with crinkled ears like Fio’s at the Westville cat cafe and I- what if-

RUPAUL: Lady Bunny is so old that her favorite book is a signed original copy of blank SNATCH GAME GUEST JUDGE FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: Ru, I wrote “The Start of History”

Hyperspecific Baltimore post but the fact that Ekiben has a neighborhood bird fried rice bowl is making me think about a little Acela trip in the next month

The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

I don’t think that every account like this is a bot, because that itself is a blue anon brain disease opinion, but: the funniest way to tip over a fragile state on the brink of ideological civil war would unquestionably be to airdrop leaflets that just say “centrist is a racial slur”

A new study finds moist tropical forests in Australia have flipped from carbon sink to source—the first documented case of its kind. Nearly 50 years of data show tree deaths doubled around 2000, outpacing new growth as climate change and cyclones push rainforest species beyond their limits.

"I don't have an additional $900 lying around…” Millions of middle-class Americans who have ACA health plans are facing soaring premiums in 2026 — and tough coverage choices after the new rates kick in Jan. 1. And it often falls to women to figure out a family's insurance puzzle.”

2024 was the hottest year in modern history. There has never been a better—or more urgent—time for journalists to report on the actions, promises, & misconduct of the industry driving climate change. So today, @gijn.org published the first of our seven-part Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels.

have you heard the gospel of the westville pickleball furry mural

Jerry Jones' favorite Christmas movie is "It's A Great Life" 🤣😂🤣😂

Being nice and normal is an act of rebellion against the government now. They can't stand it. They're the angry guy from the meme

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

pretty good

Airtable is a video game

Pomegranate is French for “potato grenade” but the French don’t want you to know this

Blogging is biphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.

Dispatches from the evidence-in-governance mines: "If anyone else thinks like Vladimir Putin about the future of AI, this is food for thought." Now that's what I call a sentence.

they finally found a use case for agentic AI: spam emails