I know it’s tempting to throw up our hands at “those antivaxxers!” and give up, but measles is airborne so it’s an “all of us who breathe” problem. You (yes, you) wearing a well-fitting mask in public can do something to help protect yourself and others. (Link for the screenshot in the next post.)

If you're free this afternoon in #Oakland, come out and protect children and families at school pickup.

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I like this view of the supernatural. Partly because we often develop myths and superstitions because we don't know the scientific WHY a result happens, but pattern match to prevent a similar bad thing in the future.

How do you know if you should leave an organizing group or collaboration you are part of? Morgan Bassichis and I talk this through in this video, and you can watch the whole episode on youtube or listen wherever you get podcasts.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.

Delighted to say my comment got published! 👇 There was a lot of critiques I considered about this study, but the problem is that if we critique an individual study, future studies can just avoid that particular critique. So I tried to take a different approach 🧵

I don't know @lpkindred.bsky.social personally, but I've heard his name countless times in the SFF circles I run in because of his many good works. That's what happens when you do good: you leave ripples that grow into waves of goodness for others. I donated here to say thanks. I hope you will, too.

In this role, I'll create training materials for students interested in pursuing a career in ocean conservation, and help make this world a little more accessible to passionate people who want to help but don't know how.

I vividly remember learning about the Holocaust over many years of my childhood and seeing Holocaust survivors in-person speak to us and I honestly don't know what other lesson I was supposed to take away from years of exposure to info about genocide. Zionism totally twists the meaning.

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

You want the lawyer who would be the first person the most aggressive, competent, hardass prosecutor in your local or federal prosecutors' office would call for their kid getting arrested, because that's gonna be the person with the best record in making that prosecutor cry in court.

Goals many of us should aspire to!

I do feel like celebrities would generally enjoy following me because I have literally no goals or ambition other than to be mildly strange with them

A very useful and timely thread from a very, very, very good defense attorney

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_... Crassus, the guy from whose name crass comes from, ran a private fire department and booming real estate business. His men would set your home on fire, then offer you decreasing offers to buy it and put it out as it burned to the ground. Don't sell, it's ashes.

Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku? Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful. Altman: Goku will power our data centers. Interviewer: yeah

How is nurse practitioner no longer professional? I have always gone to the medical center in my community and my primary care person has always been a nurse practitioner!! I’ve rarely gotten a doctor because that is scarce in tribal communities, but my NP has always done amazing work.

honestly, hiring erin was worth every cent and more. it's such a relief to know everything i put on paper was true (and she caught lots of the inevitable mistakes that pile up over tens of thousands of words)!

20 million chickens dead. Twenty. Million. "The USDA said it didn’t investigate whether airborne spread played a role in the outbreak." ...if anyone needs me, I'm looking for a nice void to scream into

pretty much I have some non-negotiables (such as trans rights) but my number one issue in the next D primary is “will you actually fight back” if any moderates are on the fight side of the fight/don’t fight axis now would be a good time to demonstrate it

It is such a joy to share this trial with the Long COVID community! We know the second 500 will be tougher to recruit & we'd love your help to finish enrollment quickly with as much diversity as possible longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

Absolutely not: with Mastodon, the subpoena goes to the instance admin, who is way more likely to be a random person with no clue about how they can fight a subpoena for their subscriber information and no money to do it with even if they want to.

Links That Burn is still working! Given how many Web 1.0 sites are listed, there's a decent chance that most of the links work right now. linksthatburn.com/en/

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Oh, word?

It's sad to feel excited about a politician showing basic decency to those most marginalised but it also shows how bad the state of mainstream politics is and how nothing less than radical change is enough I explore this here reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...

Read @natania.bsky.social's books! They take stories you think you know and put great twists on them! My TBR pile currently includes book #2 in both of these series. 📖📚

I don’t usually comment on a lot of Gaza stuff opting for 🇵🇸🍉 b/c it’s always entirely overwhelming for 1 person… but the weather there has been nothing short of horrendous & folks are showcasing that over and over. I link a lot of Gaza accounts sporadically, but please help anyone in anyway you can.

Would you like to learn about how vaccines protect the aging brain from dementia? I'll be doing this free webinar on the topic with Anthony Levinson & @miramcmaster.bsky.social . Free, fun, and fact-based. I would love to see you there.

But the most APT observation of dual state theory is that those who are living in the normal state can check out completely to what is happening in the dual state B/c they assume the laws of the normal state apply to those living under the prerogative state so it will all sort itself out

An honest, heartwarming, and full of laughs tribute to Alice Wong by @thrasherxy.bsky.social. "giving pleasure, joy, affirmation and care to people you only meet once—or who you might never meet all, such as all the Palestinians Alice cared for these last two years—is the very meaning of love."

if you're looking for a very, very very worthy cause to donate to, this one is it!! scarleteen has been around since /i/ was a queer teenager seeking more comprehensive sex ed than school could ever (or would ever) give me

Music shared because it's a badass anthem about how much rape culture sucks.

Alice Wong's family & friends have invited Alice's "friends, community, & her many fans to contribute to Alice's GoFundMe to continue the legacy of her work." If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting Alice's ongoing work. www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...

this is a rich (ha) text but I'm especially losing my mind at "she seeks to force residents of Seattle to pay for “free” child care and other goodies" like man, a person thought up that sentence and allowed it to leave their brain? and other people allowed it to go to print?

Here's what I wish people understood: Trump supporters in poorer areas are generally the wealthy people in those areas -- the people who have kept their neighbors poor.

I find it so interesting all the people who are replying to you with variations of "so what? It doesn't say anything about Schumer; it's just his name". If you saw your dad's name in these files, wouldn't you immediately be on the phone to him wanting an explanation???

Teddy Ruxpin will see you in Valhalla brother! "Without too much prodding, the AI toys discussed topics that a parent might be uncomfortable with, ranging from religious questions to the glory of dying in battle as a warrior in Norse mythology."

Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation

And that's always the way, right? If speaking out usually paid material dividends, everyone would do it. But in fact, it usually earns punishment. Personally and professionally. That is a big part of what makes it brave.

People who bring up flu deaths in response to COVID advocates are misinformed, and have decided that roughly 50k annual US deaths are the cost of business. What's silly about this is that COVID mitigations also kill off the flu. I know this because we literally killed a strain of the flu.

Guys, I don’t care if you are in the Pete Buttigieg fan club. He’s not going to be president without significant support from people of color, especially Black people, and being Republican light isn’t going to cut it. Argue with someone that knows less about the subject.

so this is a "years long medical mystery: at least partly solved?" kind of thread the diagnosis is not actually uncommon (and in fact it's a fairly common comorbidity of stuff I'm already dealing with : EDS / POTS / MCAS) #NEISvoid

We held a Volunteer Info Session today for people wanting to volunteer for Renegade Research! Resources below include the volunteer session recording and slideshow, past recordings and research presentations, volunteer application, newsletter signup, published research, YouTube channel, more 🧵 1/

500 enrollees in *less than two weeks*! So many clinical trials would take months, or even years, to enroll this number of people. This is what happens when you plan a trial that meets participants where they are, is not overly onerous, and tests something people think is worth trying.

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #publichealth @cellpress.bsky.social The ability of a virus to infect a cell is partly determined by host factors required for the viral life cycle. However, not every cell of a given type is equally susceptible to infection.

Just heard about this huge (49 state) long covid trial using tirzepetide (aka zepbound) one of the newer glp meds. It’s run by researchers at scripps, funded by the eric & wendy schmidt foundation. It looks like it is still enrolling, fully remote participation: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...