"[H5N1] has become a fast-changing global pathogen, spreading thru birds, repeatedly testing the biological boundaries of mammals & producing more genetic variation than at any time in its history." H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. (Or 50% survival rate if you're a glass-half-full type. 🙃)

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

She does this sly smile and slow blink as the train pulls away. Incredible.

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

NEW: DOGE is far from dead, contrary to recent reporting. Instead, its operatives have “burrowed into” federal agencies “like ticks.” Here’s what the DOGE crew is up to now: From @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

I vibehacked a fun little sight reader app that runs in browser. Works with MIDI in Chrome; you play and if you get all the notes right you go to the next level of complexity. It doesn't save any data to a server, it just is. ftrain.github.io/sightreading/ (Source at github.com/ftrain/sight...)

sorry this is so funny deaths due to car crashes <--------> deaths due to being hit on the head and your teeth turning into little piano keys

More tea, sir? 😜 #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🦑

"There are about 500,000 service dogs currently in the US...used by people w/ mobility & sensory limitations, psychiatric disabilities like PTSD or panic disorder, autism & neurodevelopmental conditions, diabetes, epilepsy, & severe allergies." We need MORE of this research, not less!

"What I think people don’t recognize is how incredibly influential the US taxpayer 💵 is to conservation. I’ve been proud to be an American for this reason: We have, for so long, been a steward for conservation. & now, practically overnight, that’s been shut off. It’s really almost soul-crushing."

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males & females." GIFT LINK 🎁

Nothing says fighting mass incarceration and standing up for the working class like having the LAPD use Palantir for racist predictve policing....and getting massive corporations to fund it.

I am begging reporters to heed @jessicacalarco.com's warning here. There is too much equivocation even in articles that highlight RFK Jr's anti-vaccine zealotry. These articles juxtapose a claim he offers, with "other experts say." It is a pernicious tic of mainstream journalism and has to stop.

Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar • This is my first #MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery: paresthesia (hand 1) 2016. The idea came to me while doing a meditation technique to dissect the tingling sensations in my body to make them less overwhelming. #SciArt

More reporting: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

The most powerful storm I have personally ever witnessed. This beast near Etowah, OK produced two separate sets of twin tornadoes, followed by an EF3 tornado, and then a 1.25 mile-wide tornado that hit Shawnee, OK... all in the span of one hour. #photography #ArtAdventCalendar

What are we going to do about the millions of people who are not recovering nor dying after an acute infection event? Will we continue to pretend they don't exist? #LongCovid #MECFS #LymeDisease #PANS etc, etc 🙄

This thread is fire 🔥

The Trump Administration is gutting America’s science engine, wiping out thousands of grants in cancer, aging, engineering and more. Our district’s world-class researchers feel these cuts every single day.

Everything in our nativity was done to real people in Chicagoland. After Hannity put our church on his show, some people said that it was "sacrilege," but the real sacrilege is what is done to our immigrant neighbors and siblings by ICE. That's what profanes the image of God.

Autism: I need exact timelines ADHD: Time does not exist AuDHD: I know the timeline, forget the timeline, panic about the timeline (Dr Kojo Sarfo)

I'm telling you folks, get your Hepatitis vaccines while you still can! I recently got mine for a second time because my titers were low. Even if you've been vaxxed before, get your titers checked and get vaxxed again if needed.

Y'all, get your Hep vax while you still CAN.

Couldn't agree more. The biology of sex/gender is complex, nuanced -- a spectrum, NOT a binary. These anti trans folks deny science. If u capitulate to anti trans forces, you not only sacrifice trans folks, u help advance anti science that brings down vaccines, pandemic preparedness, etc.

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for

Their own phones full of apps weren't enough. Need more virtual slot machines, every moment of every waking hour. (Plus in the middle of the night when they wake up and check their phones.)

I cannot explain why conversations like this, between people like this, with priorities and goals like this just fills me with something that feels so dead. Watching people pursue such hollow, meaningless, loveless, empty goals.

and now more kids have long covid than asthma—and the number of people disabled by covid is only going to keep increasing, even if deaths aren’t quite as prominent anymore, because we’re letting infectious disease run rampant.

FOLKS, don't post video, esp. disturbing video, WITHOUT: Dates/times Specific location Source Credit This video: Isn't related to Somalis Shows Nov. 25, 2025 Shows St. Paul Posted by "Feznander" & Minnesota 50501‬ Posting misinfo + mislabelled video isn't news or community-minded. CALL IT OUT!

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

Sending all my love to NOLA.

Remember the militarized raid on a Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night where agents rappelled from helicopters and zip-tied sobbing children? It has resulted in ZERO criminal charges two months later. The cruelty, chaos, and fear are the point.

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

"And there's no video footage of the incident because the raccoon, which county officials named 'Rocky,' came in 'through the ceiling' and 'took the cameras down with him,' county staff said."

They should roll with this like David Lynch did. Make a new season where the crew members are demons.

The Sick Times is out here doing top grade research and reporting on topics other publications won’t touch. As someone with long COVID, their work is INCREDIBLY important to me. Please boost or donate, if you can.

The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams

Everything is gender

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"

and when capitalism convinces you that you end at the boundaries of your body, you stop caring that the invisible things you exhale, can change someone else’s life, because air we share is also a flow connected to uncountable others.

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar "Scottish Blackface" Sheep thread painting - hand embroidery artwork. #AnimalArtTuesday #WildlifeArt #EmbroideryArt

Public health: "We must do something about all this disinformation out there" Also public health: "Here's a bar of soap to handwash your way out of COVID"

Here we go day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar "Robin on lilac and white" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork #Birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery

On #WorldAIDSDay, we got a snapshot of data from NYC, which is a bellwether for the epidemic. All progress has stalled and HIV rates have increased. This is in the midst of funding cuts, poor data gathering, and no govt leadership. The fight goes on

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

it's december & that means #ArtAdventCalendar, a tradition started by my friend @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca . i shall endeavour to have all fish, but for now here's an oldie as a placeholder: "Humbug Pool" because around here it's also winter steelhead season