“I wear a mask because I know too much about the damage COVID and Long COVID do to our immune system and organs. Not wearing a mask would be intentionally inflicting harm on myself and others.”— Patrick Cote, co-host of @punchuppod.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DZbPZNQETi...

Free data analytics tip for 'ya: When someone asks for your help, as a data analyst, in interpreting data, the answer is almost never "create a dashboard." (I mean, sometimes, if your design is really good and they are domain experts, it's appropriate/helpful. So not never. Just *almost* never.)

Do you think Medusa could stay underwater forever if she used her hair like little snake snorkels? My guess is that each hair snake would probably have its own little respiratory system and it wouldn’t be enough to oxygenate a full Medusa, but this is an important conversation to have

If you are into unpasteurized milk I will just assume that you think drinking fecal bacteria is somehow good for you.

If you say "since the pandemic" or "since covid," and the next word is not "started" (or a synonym), I will not be reading or listening to the rest of your sentence. You have marked yourself as a credulous mark for propaganda, and I am not likely to gain anything from your "insights."

Does anyone have a health tracker they trust, privacy-wise, that gives real numbers and lets you set a custom activity goal (ideal: it raises and drops it based on your sleep or HRV or something)? For sleep I want something like apnea/SPO2 drop detection, and I want to know how often I woke up.

I met with my psych today and went off about how badly politics is stressing me out, which led to him going off about how badly politics is stressing him out, and I am empowered by the knowledge that while he can’t make my stress better, I can make both of our stress worse.

AMERICA’S MEATHEART!!!!

Knives I make when I just need to make something. I guess I'll just start piling them up

Do you ever think about how some mayors have power over more people than some governors? Weird.

A dedication to Pratt:

I’m glad some Dem Senators are looking to block CMS’s (dare I say, unwise) WISeR model in traditional Medicare, through which there is new prior auth implemented with AI. My book Coverage Denied helps explain why it’s bad policy: www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den... www.healthcaredive.com/news/senate-...

Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

watching pillion, and boy does hollywood like putting alex skarsgard into skin-tight suit/armor

Honestly, a lot of the anti-bike-lane bullshit would disappear if half the idiots whining about bikes just got on a bike, flew down a slight grade on a sunny, windless spring day.

LB: That also frees you from ever having to buy the Gay-Hater Chicken again. (You already did not have to buy the Gay-Hater Chicken. I have genuine nostalgia for that flavor of chicken and the mustard sauce—it was what I ate most Friday nights in college—but I manage without, and so can you.)

marinate your chicken for frying in pickle juice for a couple hours and revel in the tastiness

Whomever came up with the idea of "oh your item is shipped as soon as we print a label, doesn't matter that it's under the mail cart and has been for a week tee hee we shipped it" deserves to find their clothing filled with stoats. So many stoats.

Well that's definitely one way to solve bisexual invisibility

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

NEW: The American Postal Workers Union is “deeply alarmed” about the new USPS rule carrying out Trump's attack on mail-in voting. The union says it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needs to comply with Trump’s orders.

In case you suspect chronically ill people just lie around and think about how much we don’t want to get better: half the time we bloody FORGET we’re sick.

I like to make doll furniture by leaving full-size furniture in a rock tumbler for six months.

"Is there a way to make Utah go blue? How do we find out?"

Nearly 1/3 of disabled voters face barriers to casting their ballots. President Trump's executive order attacking mail-in voting threatens one of the few accessible ways to participate in our democracy for millions of disabled voters. We're suing to block the executive order.

I specifically requested no more metaphors

OK, I gave in and got myself a low-step-through ebike, because I want the joy of riding sooner than I think I can fix my hip flexibility. Pals, she's so pretty 😍 She'll get a name, but we're still getting to know each other.

We are so honored to have @thesicktimes.org republish our article on bookstores with masking and other covid mitigation measures! Subscribe to Who Even Reads and The Sick Times for more content like this! 📚💙

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

so many things about this world only make sense once you understand that the overwhelming majority of men just hate women.

No joke, my therapist suggested I refuse to use AI for religious reasons "No one will believe I'm Catholic 😂," I responded, but to be fair, a lot of Leo's reasoning overlaps my own. Can we find a High Pagan of some kind to make a similar proclamation?

I need you to know this man has never done pot in his life. He is, in fact, just Like This

I owe an apology to George Washington University Libraries. I gave a job talk there, many years ago, that was not well-received — the subject was something wildly unfair like "the future of academic libraries," for *not* a Dean or Department Head position. (This is background, not the apology yet.)

And they’re considering moving to ranked choice voting, which would make it take even longer.

It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

"Maybe we shouldn't pay to register our Subaru, George, in New York": a thing I said. A thing I added: "Her head gasket is going to go soon, and that costs more to fix than her trade-in value." This was silly of me.

Commenting "this is grotesque" on every post in my linkedin feed

I think the backlash is worsened because the product is shit. If all these datacenters were resulting in world peace and the end of cancer folks would be more forgiving but instead they are providing the absolute worst customer service and eliminating jobs in the process.

I recommend anyone who doesn't understand the backlash to datacenters go spend 24 hours standing outside of xAI's facility in Memphis. No earplugs. No masks. Just you and the air that Elon provides. Also remember: He said they would build a water treatment facility but they aren't.

Another thing I’ve heard folks doing is joining a professional org where you can buy health insurance as part of that group. I think the AHA allows for this but I don’t know anyone who actually gets their health insurance this way (plz let me know if you do!)

If you share images of what to do during a weather-related emergency, share that advice with blind and low-vision users, too. Add alt text. The alt text should include the text in the image, rather than just a vague description, so people aren't missing out on vital information.

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There is not an alternative vision coming from above. The politicians and the bosses do not have a big idea about how to make things better, beyond time-traveling to 1999 (for Dems) or 1899 (for the GOP). That vision must be ours and it must be built brick by brick and imposed on them.

*laughs in University* www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Rainbow capitalism actually is a good thing but it's as a warning light, not as actual social progress; when the rainbow capitalism stops, it's a sign that capital doesn't feel that paying lip service to queers' humanity is currently advantageous

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

If you have a fire extinguisher with a plastic handle, check to make sure it's not part of this 2018 recall.

I miss when everyone wore masks when they were feeling sick or just because it's common courtesy

In the same way the Times went back through Jayson Blair’s reporting to identify falsehoods after his fabrication came to light, they should go back through Bari’s old columns and find out how much she was lying about.