Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA—

'The long COVID figure for those at the lowest income levels was a staggering 50%, versus a 29% average for all adults and 22% for those at the highest income levels.' Class had tremendous influence on who got COVID in the first place, and now it's long-term outcomes. Best health care in the world!

just got an email from Skims debuting their bra with molded nipples & I say fuck that. Let's buy bras with molded hollows where the nipples should be, just absolute abyssal chasms right in the middle of each bra cup

a late update on my reapers, the harvest was bountiful

Had noticed the British Library site wouldn’t load so I went over and sure enough they are the subject of a massive cyberattack. “Catastrophic,” a librarian I know there said. Site may be down for days or even weeks, he thought.

I used to think people stopped believing in vaccines because they never saw--and could not imagine--the awful diseases that they wiped out. All the great vaccine success stories were in their past. Then maybe the greatest success of all time happened right in front of them and it only got worse

A year of reporting, and maybe the scariest story I’ve ever worked on—the cyber-stalker targeting Asian Americans www.theverge.com/c/features/2...

This is TERRIFYING and again please note that while many white professors were getting Washington Post threads and philanthropic support , they and the groups that supposedly advocate Said almost NOTHING about their Asian and Black colleagues being attacked

If you’re wondering how those that aren’t masking during an ongoing pandemic are *really* doing. 👇 Alt Text for photo in post: A photo showing hundreds of filled prescriptions waiting to be picked up behind a pharmacy counter.

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada. “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou. Read more:

Cheese posting will continue until morale improves

omg 😂 look what Library & Archives Canada did the public service doesn't always have a sense of humour but when it does, it's kind of the best

This Scholastic controversy just made me realize that using "diverse" just to mean non-white or non-straight is the way it goes now, another special category to be put into. Diversity has to include everything or else it isn't diverse. Otherwise, it's just a new way to say black or queer or whatever

This is so real. I’ve reported on this over the years in many forms. Coral reef scientists. Conservationists caring for endlings. Public health workers in the pandemic. Journalists covering all the above. The people bearing witness are not okay.

Trick or treating in Illinois

the Atlantic just going full fash with it huh

Good.

From today's Nature paper -- even by this conservative estimate, at least 200M are predicted to have Long Covid over the next 10 years

ketchup diagram

Take a break from social media challenge but I'm back 20 minutes later

inside you are two wolves one spends too much time online the other spends too much time online you are spending too much time online

Folks, look, Scholastic is only a billion-dollar juggernaut that dominates the children’s book industry. What are they supposed to do about fascist book banning and censorship in the face of 11 racists sending angry emails? Whatever they want because they literally can? C’mon. Be reasonable.

“Your network is unstable.” Bitch so am I. Doesn’t mean I get to stop working.

The algorithm doing its thing 💀

The post-9/11-style generalized Islamophobia and bloodlust coming from people I thought I respected this week has been unbelievably shocking and jarring.

Thirty-three years after the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in red lipstick and other cosmetics by linking it to cancer, California has become the first state to ban the chemical in food.

where we're going, we won't need eyes to see

my friend told me he didn't really get Equalizer 3 because there's some "confusing parts" only to find the whole movie is set in Sicily and Denzel is speaking Italian throughout 💀

“do not fall for US propaganda!” hey quick question are u still wearing a mask when u go out in public?

Properly memorializing their deaths would mean recognizing that people are still dying. My *doctor* told me this summer that nobody dies of covid anymore and I had to inform her that my friend's dad had passed just a couple of months prior

I think Bluesky should bring back away messages and the ability to use obnoxious text colors and fonts.

lol. lmao

mood

out of curiosity, i looked up the free app rankings in the Google Play Store to see how Twitter is doing. Tiktok is #4 Instagram #6 Snapchat #9 Facebook #14 Threads #19 Twitter... #84 never seen it that low before

You call me a lowbie yet all 15 of my followers are willing to kill for me at the drop of a hat. Can you say the same of yours? There are levels to this.

Happy start of the spooky szn

If anyone had suggested in 2019 we could ERADICATE B/Yamagata flu, most experts would have laughed. Imagine what might have happened if government skimmed a little off defense budgets and paid everyone to stay home 6 weeks in early 2020. We might have eradicated Covid AND most cold and viruses.

another wedsday upon us

it’s true that bluesky is not yet the place where news breaks, but I also think Twitter is no longer the place where news breaks. the blue check situation has made it basically impossible to follow developing news.

mr lover loves all of you and wants you to protect yourself and others by masking!!! (he is not wearing a mask bc hes at home inside and is also a cat)