Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Please make sure you have your documents with you to identify yourself. Stay safe out there and stay informed.

My fellow dehydrated noodles, Does your head feel mildly fuzzy? Are you tired? Do you feel just DONE? Have you not finished your beverage from this morning? You know the drill. Go get a new beverage and take a sip you dehydrated noodle you!

Great news! My hospital/clinic system is doing universal masking again! Sure, it would be great if they were masking the whole time but whatever, take this as a reminder you can start masking again too!

This reads like they were there at my appointment last week!

In Space no one can hear you yell “Objection!” *finger to ear piece* I’m actually being told by our guest that there is just so much shit up there. The Honorable Judge Link* resides as we take up a full docket of SciFi Television Cases and get a final verdict with REAL SPACE LAW! *Yes that one

"Pastor Glen's gay hockey show" what else do you need? twincitiesgeek.com/2025/12/heat...

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

Sometimes you throw a bunch of stuff in a pan, season it, and then serve it with mashed potatoes on top because baking it in the oven feels like too much work.

This January 21-22 CrystalCon 2026, over two days and six sessions, will explore AI's very real consequences for disabled people and everyone who has to live with the products that companies integrate with it. There's no hype, no "innovation theater," just honest conversations and practical sessions

Time to activate seasonal discourse on the snitc… er “elf” on the shelf.

"Fact-checking." The Trump administration is in a full-fledged war against truth, and don't want any enemy operatives coming in.

Heads up for T&S folks

In Alex Karp’s case, his hair looks the way that it does because he is Black and trying to pass for white, which is to say he does not get the Black hair care his hair needs and has refused to care for his Black hair like it is Black hair. His hair is not shitty. He is shitty.

I get so frustrated with the fact that study after study shows that having a strong social safety net for everyone (UBI, healthcare, modest housing, etc.) costs less than every single one of our current thoroughly broken for-profit systems. But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.

48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.

Everytime I advertise a product being accessible to disabled people. I lose sales because able-bodied people feel like it isn't for them as well. My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.

Just two gals on the couch watching Xena.

A perfect CVSS 10 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 CVE-2025-55182: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components The vuln is in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0: react-server-dom-webpack react-server-dom-parcel react-server-dom-turbopack Upgrade immediately!

I was definitely watching the news this morning yelling, "But that's eugenics! THAT'S LITERALLY EUGENICS!" at the TV.

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

May the monthly AWOO send chills through the cold cold hearts of the ice agents in town. 🪄🔮

Minnesota roll call!

Here's a list of protagonists or major characters who use wheelchairs. Novels/novellas Borderline by Mishell Baker Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor At the Speed of Lies, Cindy Otis By Winged Chair by Kendra Merritt The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan Casting Nasturtiums by Celia Lake

Because I was totally going to compare prices of ERs when I had my allergic reaction to chemo /sarcasm

Check your kid's list for the Flaming Sword of Handsomeus Ronicus.

Have to repost this, it’s the rules

it's not important. that's the answer. it is very very very rarely true, but it's not important.

Also "Oh I see you're wearing a mask. Would you like me to put one on too?" Well you (and goodness knows who else) have already been breathing in this tiny room without one for two and a half hours already today, I'm not sure what difference it's going to make...

It had been a week since my besties and I were at the gym, it was so needed this morning. All hail pool walking!

I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.

It's #blogvent, day 2! I wrote about changing timestamps on your Git commits 👀 cassidoo.co/post/change-...

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

This Humble Bundle has a lot of really good hacking books from No Starch Press, and it supports EFF! Get it!

TL;DR Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.

joann’s murder has made every sewing project feel like a scavenger hunt. can you find any suitable fabric for what you’re doing? good luck!

This means that the northern Kingfield/Lyndale/Whittier neighborhoods in my area need to be carrying whistles because we’re going to be increasingly likely to encounter situations in our own neighborhoods.

"oh right for old people I guess" <turns on audio> "-if you're over 45-"

🗣️. DONT CALL 911 on ICE WE HAVE A SEPARATION ORDINANCE FOR A REASON CALL YOUR NEIGHBORS NOT THE COPS

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Sheri Byrne-Haber’s post “Accessibility and Usability: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button”: buttondown.com/access-abili... Added to my post “Don't Disable Form Controls”: adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont... I disagree with moving focus absent more info. #accessibility #a11y

maybe we shouldn’t even say mutual aid and just start saying this isn’t anything special—this is community. this is actually what being in community means. helping each other, realizing our fates are intertwined. we are building community while the bad guys are trying to tear it down.

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

I tried to explain this to people the other day - a rainbow flag to me as a gay man means, “LGBTQA+ people are welcome and safe here”. No more. No less. And removing them means, “You are not welcome or safe here”. No more. No less.

Hahaha... Yep, that is pretty much how my appts go.

There is something so deeply, deeply Minnesotan about these sorts of posts (which I see every winter). If you're from almost anywhere else and wondering if you're missing something: this person did in fact leave their car running, unlocked, keys in the ignition.

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal: