Started a Melt the ICE hat, then realized I had a book (Norwegian Handknits by Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel) with a pattern for Nisse hats, so this is kind of an amalgamation of the two. 🧶 Thanks to @jeremiahgenest.bsky.social for modeling

I love The Possession, it's an amazing movie. But I also think a remake is a bad idea. One can hit all the same themes without doing a 'remake' www.joblo.com/possession-m...

There has been some discourse about performativity among people who don't appreciate the importance of aesthetics in social movements.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

Bill Bragg continuing to demonstrate why I've listened to him for 4 decades youtu.be/IKOW2ZikGW8?...

“The masks aren’t normal. Americans don’t like them. The fact that California’s attempt to ban them is in dicey legal territory is a strong indicator that things have gone seriously sideways.”

Katherine Eban is one of my favorite reporters. But then i’m a sucker for someone who makes such a big part of their reporting my industry

2025 was a great year for horror fiction and 2026 is shaping up to top it! The 🧵 below lists my most anticipated books by authors of horror & weird lit, but MANY more are coming out this year! @emilyhughes.bsky.social maintains the master list at readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Mentorship as Missing Infrastructure in Quality Culture The gap between quality-as-imagined and quality-as-done doesn't emerge from inadequate procedures or insufficient training budgets. It emerges from a fundamental failure to transfer the reasoning, judgment, and adaptive capacity that expert…

The Hidden Contamination Hazards: What the Catalent Warning Letter Reveals About Systemic Aseptic Processing Failures The November 2025 FDA Warning Letter to Catalent Indiana, LLC reads like an autopsy report—a detailed dissection of how contamination hazards aren't discovered but rather…

FDA PreCheck and the Geography of Regulatory Trust On August 7, 2025, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced a program that, on its surface, appears to be a straightforward effort to strengthen domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing. The FDA PreCheck initiative promises "regulatory predictability"…

Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday! Born in 1892, Tolkien paved the way for modern fantasy literature and his creativity continues to inspire the minds of many to this day. ✨ 📸 | Tolkien, Bournemouth, July 1965 Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 7, fol. 75r (c) Tolkien Trust, 2015

And if you're interested in discovering more about #Shropshire folklore check out @g0blinegg.bsky.social. Additionally, if contemporary folk horror based around the Stiperstones is your kind of thing Amy's 'Best of Men' is a real treat www.buzzsprout.com/411730/episo...

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Art acquisitions can say a lot about a person, but what can they say about an institution, where such decisions are often influenced by trustees and big-money donors? A great deal, it turns out. buff.ly/qqWtHao

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

Tacrolimus, which helps prevent rejection of transplanted organs, only works if the dose is calibrated within a very narrow range. Any amount outside that window can be dangerous. But not all generic versions of the drug may meet that standard.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

The Arctic moon hangs overhead; The wide white silence lies below. A starveling pine stands lone and gaunt, Black-penciled on the snow. Weird as the moan of sobbing winds, A lone long call floats up from the trail; & the naked soul of the frozen North Trembles in that wail. Lew Sarett #BookwormSat

'Yellow Eye O Yellow Eye Yellow as the yellow Moon. Out of the Black Hole of the North The Ice Age is flying! The Moon is flying low- The Moon looms, hunting her Hare- The Moon drops down, big with frost And hungry as the end of the world.' 'The Snowy Owl', Ted Hughes #BookwormSat

I’m having trouble not seeing this as more satanic panic abcnews.go.com/US/modern-da...

FYI: All classic episodes of BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS are streaming on Shudder! Not sure where to start? We've got you covered.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A 2025 Retrospective for Investigations of a Dog If the history of pharmaceutical quality management were written as a geological timeline, 2025 would hopefully mark the end of the Holocene of Compliance—a long, stable epoch where "following the procedure" was sufficient to ensure survival—and the…

The Taxonomy of Clean: Why Confusing Microbial Control, Aseptic, and Sterile is Wrecking Your Contamination Control Strategy If I had a dollar for every time I sat in a risk assessment workshop and heard someone use "aseptic" and "sterile" interchangeably, I could probably fund my own private…

Pseudo Science Bingo Card For years, I've half-joked about keeping a bingo card handy whenever I attend a training session, watch a business presentation, or sit through yet another organizational development initiative. It's a game that writes itself: every Myers-Briggs mention, every invocation…

Equipment Lifecycle Management in the Eyes of the FDA The October 2025 Warning Letter to Apotex Inc. is fascinating not because it reveals anything novel about FDA expectations, but because it exposes the chasm between what we know we should do and what we actually allow to happen on our watch.…

So they traveled business class? Seriously this is the last thing I am worried about at the fda. I was just thrilled they showed up.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines, but the U.S. has held off amid political and economic opposition. Read our full investigation:

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

Horrified to see this tragic news of multiple people shot at my alma mater Brown University. Prayers for everyone harmed in this heinous attack. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

I feel deeply betrayed by my senator @warren.senate.gov

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

Sure. Start here: www.vice.com/en/article/e... then here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o... here: www.transparentsletter.com academic study: citap.pubpub.org/pub/cosl/rel... letter from MA-based LGBTQ orgs delivered to Warren last month: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

❗Join us for a collection showing with some of the LMEC’s oldest city maps❗ This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 12 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions. Drop in any time between 2:00PM - 4:00PM. No reservation is required.

Our longest episode ever on the theater at the FDA and why we should be very skeptical that antivaxx disinformation doctors suddenly “discovered” the vaccine killed 10 kids. @wendyorent.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

For my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com, I wrote about this week's ACIP meeting-- yes, the CDC panel's terrible hep B vaccine decision, but the simple strategy RFK's handpicked members are using to sow confusion and distrust in vaccines. (🎁 link)

THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right. Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying. “That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”