For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

ai;dr means "AI; didn't read." (Similar to tl;dr for "too long, didn't read.") I'll be using this a lot.

By @doodlesbycharlie.bsky.social “DURING COVID IS NOW. IT NEVER LEFT!” 😷 #COVIDisNotOVER

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love typical Sydney late summer weather (the humid heat, the balmy nights 😍), but am also enjoying the fact that it's cool enough atm to get started on a fluffy jumper 🧶 #KnitSky

ABOLISH ICE. Get them out of Minnesota. Get them out of every city. If they behave like domestic terrorists then they ARE domestic terrorists. @governorwalz.mn.gov

Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.

Something to remember as you watch this footage is that NSW Police approved the antisemitic National Socialist Network demonstration outside of NSW Parliament House.

This! Read this! We need to protect Medicare in Australia.

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The #SundayShot returns this weekend! Please join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on Sunday morning plus our expert panellists @emmashortis.bsky.social and @marquelawyers.com.au and Dave interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna. It will be good to be back!

If I get six more paid subscribers to my newsletter by the end of the month, it’ll open up some good sponsorship opportunities for me, which would come at a perfect time because my cat Socks is starting chemo for small cell lymphoma next week. theheatherhogan.substack.com/subscribe

The Vagina Museum exists because of voluntary donations. We literally couldn't do it without you. Until the end of the month, donations made to our fundraising campaign to support our running costs are doubled by a kind charitable foundation. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

Mom in the bodega trying real hard to explain to her increasingly furious toddler that when she said he could have “one thing” she meant “a snack,” not the Golden Retriever that’s accompanying his owner.

tired: coal in your stocking wired:

Beautifully said, Ezra. This social media ban for kids and teens is a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction and many kids will be harmed because of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

COVID vs Flu (New York data) New York State Health Commissioner reports: 🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024 🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024) That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu. Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Good heavens, I did not realize how many people wanted Stacy's Bonne Maman jamvent reviews. Talking about, "Is she silent, or is she being silenced?" 😂 Anyhoodle, here's the first five days, and a Socks for scale re: tiny jars. I'll start updating every day again, like last year!

"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I put -ai at the end of every online search, but today I saw a bit of AI anyway. Apparently the movie The Bad Seed contains "severe violence, including ... a scene where a boy's arm is bitten off." I ... did not remember that. (Spoiler: there's no such scene.) Just a reminder that AI makes shit up

I put -ai at the end of every online search, but today I saw a bit of AI anyway. Apparently the movie The Bad Seed contains "severe violence, including ... a scene where a boy's arm is bitten off." I ... did not remember that. (Spoiler: there's no such scene.) Just a reminder that AI makes shit up

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

When your cat takes the family photo.

This is the reporter that Donald Trump called "Piggy." She is Catherine Lucey, currently with Bloomberg. I don't think it is a coincidence that, back in 2018, Lucey was the first reporter to ask Trump about Stormy Daniels. Trump responded with a lie, but, clearly, did not forget the question.

Donald Trump said “quiet piggy” to a female reporter because she dared to ask about the Epstein files, and as bad as that is, the fact that none of her colleagues defended her, is even worse.

'He'? That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post. Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears. #MedSky

Four in five exercise trials of Long COVID don't even mention post-exertional malaise anywhere in the trial registration. Latest for @thesicktimes.org diving into the problems with these trials. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...

If you're over legacy media, I've got great news! You can donate to our non-profit newsroom at @thesicktimes.org to help us keep investigating injustices, challenging powerful institutions, and offering a platform for those affected by the #LongCOVID crisis. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

For those of us who became disabled as a result of the pandemic, Alice was a bright light walking us through the experience. She did so much to show many of us what it meant to see disability as a beautiful part of who we are, not something to resent.

🧵 Most people don't realise there are whole categories of disease transmission they don't have to think about because they've been taken care of by society, e.g. there are laws & inspections & engineering that protect you from diseases that are waterborne (e.g. sewage treatment), bloodborne

🧵 Most people don't realise there are whole categories of disease transmission they don't have to think about because they've been taken care of by society, e.g. there are laws & inspections & engineering that protect you from diseases that are waterborne (e.g. sewage treatment), bloodborne

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Yes, C19 is still a prolific killer… but flu is no rookie at that game either. Almost 6000 preventable deaths is how I read this.

Masks have been an important tool to protect from wildfire smoke or allergy dust since before COVID-19 hit. Mask bans are not only dangerous for people with #LongCOVID but leave everyone more vulnerable to the harmful impacts of air pollution. Read more from @adiehl.bsky.social: bit.ly/3LVDusC

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Does your doctor need more info on Long COVID? Our new webpage features resources made FOR doctors, BY doctors! longcovidjustice.org/providers

Thrilled to be included in Best Australian Science Writing 2025. Edited by Zoe Kean, Tegan Taylor, foreword by Veena Sahajwalla. Including with so many incredible writers.

As others have said, no one is demanding mask mandates in all public places. A reasonable solution is to have mandates in places that clinically vulnerable people cannot avoid. Public transit, healthcare facilities, grocery stores and pharmacies. CLEAN THE AIR in schools and all other buildings.

It pisses me off to no end that Long Covid affects hundreds of millions of people globally and no one I know can name a Long Covid expert or any of the leading labs looking into it. It’s simply not a topic people want to pay any attention to, and I consider that living in fear, or at least denial.

Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F) It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE! Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩