Yeah, I am cranky that people need to do things on a schedule in order to get accommodations for their unable to do things on a schedule disability

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

I had prepared to do a dramatic presentation for a final with a friend, but he bailed an hour before the exam. I wrote a poem, memorized, and performed it. (Got an A.) Writing poetry homework on the bus to school or during homeroom when I forgot to do it the night before probably helped with speed.

This works for programming too. Take a walk, do something else, sleep on it, whatever. Your brain keeps working in the background, there have been lots of bits of code that I was stuck on that hours later my brain is like obviously here’s the solution and I am no longer stuck

OMG, PDF, it's been so long since I've read you, how have you been?!?!?!? ...whoever decided this was a useful feature does know that if you have a PDF with machine readable text (which you would need for chatting to "work") you've always been able to keyword search for information, right?

Reading Rainbow was such a great show, excited that there will be more of it.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This Day in Labor History: September 13, 1932. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers led a successful strike of garment workers in Baltimore. This strike was a sign of the growing organizing of the 1930s that would eventually change the world for much of the American working class!!!!

About ten years ago, Texas A&M purchased an LGBTQ+ research collection and immediately wanted to have a library exhibit featuring it to showcase their commitment to diversity initiatives. I think A&M ranked higher on the list of most conservative colleges at the time than it does now

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

Oh man, I remember having an SE. I don't normally name my computers but I called this one "Little Gerb" because it made noises like a gerbil/hamster running on its exercise wheel. (It did not, however, run Windows 95 or MS DOS)

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Reading the list of conditions that qualify you for an updated COVID booster, I think the easiest route for most people without an existing diagnosis will be "physical inactivity" because that's entirely self-attested, with the runner up being "I was a smoker for a few months a few decades ago"

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

Read every fucking word of this thread (note: mentions a trans person’s death by suicide). I’m an ex-journalist who left for different reasons but the tonality of all of this is deeply familiar.

If you kniwingly expose people to Covid at a con, you deserve a lifetime ban from that con, a blacklisting at other cons, and honestly a cat shitting into your open eyeball. file770.com/covid-concer...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

I haven’t done this in NYC but I have totally fast walked and never seen buses that are supposed to come every 20 minutes at any point while walking for 20 minutes along the bus route in a couple other places

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.” Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

Amazing.

It is really staggering how many homeless people there are in the United States. And people have the awful attitudes screenshotted in the thread I’m tweeting without any sense for the crisis that is the combination of low wages + ridiculous housing prices.

I want to know why when I was at a falafel waffle party about 20 years ago and we tried putting the falafel batter in the waffle maker it came out tasting cursed instead of as delicious as we expected

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Usually on Independence Day I eat a medically unsafe number of hotdogs and then, while waiting for the fireworks to start, talk about cool stuff adjacent to the bits of history everyone knows, like how it took six weeks for Britain to even *find out* about the Declaration, and how it was reported

If you care about Medicaid, I need your help. These kids are the best chance we have of saving Medicaid. Families are on the way to DC. We need to cover van rentals and hotel rooms. I will not, I will NOT, waste your money or time. Can you help get this donation link in front of your people?

Groups and activists have been pushing for this for at least a week -- this was not a given. I hate that we had to fight for it but regardless, this is a WIN and big shout out to everyone who has been calling and pushing and organizing around this

I feel if you're going to do this, you should go all in and make cream cheese ice cream instead of using vanilla.

"What movie traumatized you as a child" All of them. It was 1985, there were no non-traumatic movies to watch as a child

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

"Never let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something." - @corybooker.com Cory Booker, D-NJ

Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going… www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Nobody, including Booker, thinks a filibuster is Our Salvation. Cory Booker talking for manymany hours will draw the attn of the inattentive, despairing, & hesitant. It will inspire, inform, & light a fire under some asses. It will have a knock-on effect w/ other electeds—IF WE MAKE NOISE ABOUT IT.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

reposting with alt text because it's hilarious.

New Yorkers, please call your state rep, state senator, and Kathy Hochul and tell them NO MASK BANS. This garbage proposal would kill people. We're on the verge of a measles epidemic and this terrible governor is pushing this? NO. Find your reps here: reps.fyi gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

I’ve never seen Patty Murray this angry. This whole speech is a rebuke of caving. It gets spicy around 8:30 in. youtu.be/Xefx8iV0_zM?...

Chuck Schumer looked Ady Barkan in the eye and said he was going to work really hard to include home care in Build Back Better. He had already signed a deal with Manchin to exclude it. Ma'am, if you decide to run, I'm all in.

This Day in Labor History: March 14, 1882. Textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked off the job. But mostly just the women. The men chose misogyny over class solidarity, a huge problem in our labor history! Let's talk about it!!