One of my first contributions in the new year will be to the Wikimedia Foundation to help support Wikipedia. And then my next contribution will be to my local library.

"is my attention on loving / or is my attention on / who isn't loving me?" @andreagibson.bsky.social

The times are interesting and I make curries

I saw you, and poems came back to me. --Yannis Ritsos

A little drink in a little glass is so romantic to me

need to smoke a book about it, read an orange, a drink a walk and gulp down some thoughts about it

Nikki Giovanni wrote such delicious poems

I want to do a mid part after a decade of side parts and my hair does Not want to

i do find it interesting in a bleak way that silicon valley is basically recapitulating 1920s-style american reactionary politics.

Here are some nice mushrooms

2025 trend: assassination is chic again

killing that ceo…United healthcare is one of the most efficiently evil companies out there. They autoreject prior authorizations for life saving medications and procedures that kill at least thousands of people every year. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a vengeful loved one

Pick a number 1-100 and get a song :)

Really thoughtful read on survivors of childhood sexual assault who don't view punishment as a good resolution. (Content note, some graphic description/discussion of child sexual assault.)

The whole twitter eugenics and euthanasia conversation is so flawed. The onus is on the general public to listen to disabled people, activists and learn disabled history. Not every conversation is about you even as a caretaker

can't stress enough, as someone who has a lot of experience in media, they know what they are doing when they run provocative and/or genuinely dumb takes. they do not deserve your well-intentioned "marketplace of ideas" counterarguments even a little bit! bsky.app/profile/aoc....

This year has felt like half stretching my capacity and a half routinely chewing through the current one to form a new one

Clear night sky and soo many stars

A nonalcoholic drink that does cool potion stuff. Very fun and dramatic

i’m working on a photo project documenting the worlds darkest skies in hopes of bringing awareness to the issue of light pollution. my first stop on this journey was Rapa Nui aka Easter Island. i was granted exclusive permission by the indigenous police to shoot here at night! 🌌🗿

Had a nihari so bad it brought me to tears with disappointment

Another day, another (night) walk

Now that I’ve made a sweet potato pie, I don’t think there’s anything easier. It’s almost too easy for how delectable it is

Probiotics and prebiotics may aid Covid-19 recovery by boosting immunity and reducing inflammation. Early studies show promise, but more research is needed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

israel is the most immoral and evil country in the modern world

Looking for something equivalent to the ThreadReader on Twitter? Here are 3: Has tree view (w/ replies) or unroll view: skyview.social "weaves your Bluesky 🧵 into a single, shareable page" skywriter.blue Takes link to post or hashtags doesn't auto show images in the 🧵 blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/

didn't know #smallpoemsunday was a thing but here's my offering to the poetry gods

Genuinely Islam got this one so right. Like yes we will all die and face the end thankfully

CLEAN THE AIR!!! SwissRe suggest Vax the vulnerable and a healthy lifestyle strategy to address the 2.5-3% excess deaths from cv19. Don't worry, it's mostly just the vulnerable and elderly. Who cares? Everyone should. Cv ages U prematurely and makes everyone vulnerable. Quote:

AI dictates *every* aspect of low-income people's lives. A must-read report by @kevindeliban.bsky.social of @techtonicjustice.bsky.social on how intrusive AI has become, and the urgency to change course. AI is not inevitable. This can be undone. www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

Just two books that took me out of time in the best way, books I read and loved since I stopped posting on Twitter

I know this is not just San Francisco but New York and everywhere, given my cousin who's a resident and is from Lebanon and is very clearly Arab has not able to talk about Lebanon or Palestine and has experienced much more anti-Arab racism than ever this year. theintercept.com/2024/11/19/u...

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains

Video from Operation Olive Branch on insta. No I don’t have a lot of hope the senate will stop this bill, but PLEASE fucking try. This link literally provides you with how to contact your reps, how they voted before, and a script. Bother them as much as you can. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today the U.S. Senate voted against halting weapons shipments to Israel, despite 61% of Americans supporting that. Why? Because dark money group AIPAC has spent over $100 million on political campaigns this year alone. But this speaks to a larger issue 1/7 🧵

Imagine losing 50 to 100 members of your community every day for over a year. How can one grasp the scale of killing and loss of life in Gaza? Beyond the murdered are the injured, missing, amputated, disabled, elderly, children, and pregnant—imagine the unimaginable suffering they endure daily.

unironically getting really into yogurt and candles recently

This Trans Day of Remembrance, the only message I have is: It's not enough to remember us, you need to support us while we're still here.

You can never satisfy fascists, it won’t ever be enough

ANYWAY... Bitch might be gone but archives, darling! I wrote about what Stephen Sondheim did for queer and trans people: how he showed us ourselves in the kindest, most brilliant mirror, and connected us to each other. I published this piece shortly after his death. web.archive.org/web/20230923...

We are worried about this for a few reasons. Pregnant women are at higher risk of severe COVID infection which can be significantly reduced by vaccination. Severe COVID infection in pregnancy also carries risks for the unborn baby, incl miscarriage and stillbirth which also reduced by vaccination

I wrote a chapter on ethical issues in CRISPR and genome editing 🧬 – excited to share with you all soon!

open mic night can be anywhere if you have joy and whimsy in your heart

Writing bangers is a young person's game. You can take care of that while I make soup.

Another day another walk

Article by Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly ( @zalaly.bsky.social ) from Feb 2024: Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores theconversation.com/mounting-res...

There are lots of accounts on here now that have been doing more organized fundraising for Gaza on Twitter than this little shoestring and paperclips thing I have going here- starting with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. Drop em in the comments.

On the road next week, hitting up: -Nashville (Comedy) -Cincy (comics dinner) -Louisville (new tattoo) -Indianapolis (Comedy) -Pittsburgh (Don’t Tell Comedy) If you live in those places come see me: linktr.ee/annamlaughs