@hironennes.bsky.social 's "The Works of Vermin" is a remarkable book and you should read it if you like anything weird or weird adjacent. Or just remarkable books in general. I have many thoughts and I might try to put them in order at some point, but boy, I am stunned.

tell your friends, enemies, and anyone else in the vicinity who might have two dollars and ninety-nine cents. url-shortener.me/ABSD

NEW PARIS PALOMA

most govies: if you accept a gift more than 20 dollars, HR has to destroy it in front of you and we beat you to death with hammers ICE: IMA CRASH MAH RENTAL

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Antigone went to bury her brother and dared the state to show its true face because she was held to a higher law. I know that there’s safety in believing that if you follow the rules that it will be alright, but why would you want to live in a safety that comes at the destruction of the world?

Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day. ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

My fellowship ends this summer and I doubt I have a path forward in science. I never thought it would go this way.

We have reached the point where telling the truth and filing an affidavit is an incredible act of bravery against an oppressive regime.

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

Fun fact 🙃: the inactivated polio virus vaccine (now by far the most common) does not elicit sterilizing immunity. That means vaccinated people won’t get symptoms, but they can spread it to the unvaccinated- including kids pre-vax and immunocompromised people.

Your last meme saved is your moral philosophy

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

do not take the bait from europeans

Seeing people post about how that $50,000 ICE bonus takes years to get, and share what I noticed: many of these jobs are paying $30-60,000 a year. That’s not nothing but it’s a pretty shit salary to be evil and get spit on every day.

When he was 14, my brother and his friend were playing with toy lightsabers in a playground in our neighborhood. They were filming a video. A cop saw them, called in backup, and surrounded/screamed at them because these kids were a “threat.” And my brother was lucky- we’re white, so he’s alive.

To so many people, this is what the word "America" means. We do not have to let that go away

Said it before and I'll say it again--I have no patience for "X food is gross anyone with taste eats X instead" or its variants. You might think it's lighthearted or funny but you always end up punching someone in the face. And why is

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

Important thread about all the fake videos and disinformation about the invasion of Venezuela.

Okay, by their logic the government of Venezuela is so evil that the US has the right to invade and take it over, but ordinary people who fled that regime and came here have to be locked up and tortured because they’re criminals? Do I have that right? Fuck this admin and everyone supporting it.

"Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception..."

This is the third year I’ve actually tracked my books, so for once I guess I’ll actually share a summary. I don’t have a definite reading goal because I find it influences the books I pick and I don’t like that. I finished this year with 71, higher than last year’s 62. Some favorites:

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Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

Hey hey, RFK How many kids did you kill today?

Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.

AI thrives on processing gigantic datasets to look for layers of patterns and connections. It's capable of fantastic things for drug discovery and cancer research, and yet the whole field is being bamboozled over "make pictures naked" slop

Oh. My. God. I did not realize this article cited “ai” use in science in its reasoning. These tools are incredible, it’s true. AlphaFold is straight up an example of how AI can actually work for us. But even that starts with a scientist with an idea!

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

No Children but it’s me singing to my manuscript

As someone who has lost a beloved mentor to pancreatic cancer, the idea we could be so close to a cure and then lose it is gutting.

The Dispossessed.

It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Hey, hey, RFK How many kids did you kill today?

“Overwhelming” an immune system through too many vaccines is a ridiculous idea. We have millions of immune cells and adaptive responses are by definition specific. AND do you know how many antigens we’re naturally exposed to on a daily basis???

Also, Bill Cassidy owns this and should never be taken seriously again.

The sheer ability of the majority of this ACIP to misinterpret and fail to explain basic scientific data is stunning. The sky is blue and they would say its gold everytime.

From an immunologist perspective, I also worry that fewer doses will not generate the memory B cell response needed for longterm protection. HebB titers can become undetectable, but Bmems are known to respond quickly to challenge and still confer protection.

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!

who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground

Happy men day to the trans dudes, the kind dudes, the dudes who are doing their best, the dudes who love and support their friends, the dudes who kiss the homies goodnight, and zohran mamdani

Setting aside the obvious reality that many people develop medical conditions unrelated to behaviors (eg, type 1 diabetes), 80-90% of our health is shaped by non-medical factors like poverty, housing, education, transportation & access to healthy food. The personal responsibility frame is unhelpful.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Food, healthcare, and shelter are basic human rights (this shouldn’t be “woke”). We should have universal basic income. I want creatives to be able to thrive in the world and not just survive.