This is extremely bad. In the past, the Congo would have leaned heavily on USAID. That's no longer possible. "...Just 1,740 people in three health zones of Kasai province have been vaccinated as of Sept. 21. The Bulape zone alone has a population of more than 212,000."

gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now

People with mild ME/Long Covid & people who have recovered, please start advocating for the most severe instead of mildwashing the disease & using your story to sell your personal projects while feeding the media narrative of “individual overcoming” 🙏

Happy #SixOnSaturday sky-folk, hope you all have a great weekend 🌱📷 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Gardening

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

When the backyard neighbour's birthday party #bouncycastle matches your flowers and makes your garden statue of Sappho look like Rapunzel seeking her prince 😆😊 #photography #mygarden #bloomscrolling #flowers #photographersofbluesky

Both Sinclair and Nexstar caved. There’s a lesson here for would-be leaders, including university presidents.

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

The trouble with the people whining about "the male loneliness epidemic" is they reject every possible solution to it other than "submit to fascism"

Echinacea 'moodz peace' with a peacock butterfly 🌱🦋📷 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #GardenersWorld #UKGardening #BugSky

One of my mentors (in college, the phenomenal critic Richard Eder) had had polio as a kid and was like, disabled for the rest of his life as a result.

feeling this again today

A Red Admiral butterfly on dahlia 'Fire and Ice' this evening 🌱🦋📷 #Bloomscrolling #InsectThursday #BugSky #Inverts #nature #UKWildlife

@theonion.com saw this one on Facebook.

Ice plant, delosperma lehmannii, with a half opened flower, which are a fairly nondescript yellow dandelion-y affair and not really as interesting as the weird glaucous angular foliage. 🌱🌵🪴📷 #Bloomscrolling #Succulents #PlantSky #Gardening

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Do people not get this is why Ivanka Trump continues to get a pass to decent society in this world? Or why people who aren’t conventionally beautiful or “young looking” have trouble breaking through in politics? Or even areas of work and activism that have nothing to do with a public face?

Sigh. No it doesn’t and this continues to be weird eugenist garbage that Nazis LOVE. You cannot judge someone’s morality by how they look and it enforces very dangerous stereotypes in both directions to do so. Stop this shit.

I know this 4 months old, but bears reposting and reminding. We're dealing with a pro-death, Eugenics movement. I say that without hyperbole. Just trust the evidence of your eyes and ears. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is currently at the top of the New York Times app when I open it up. It is very good to see such a clear headline that this ignores scientific evidence. But to have this level of misinformation streaming out of the highest office of the land is a public health threat that is hard to overstate.

More shrimp sold at Kroger stores recalled for possible radioactive contamination trib.al/xbALJFQ

“compassion fatigue” = the new way to describe abandoning the trans community

If you’re a person with disabilities, and especially if you have autism, please try and save some spoons for tomorrow. Be gentle with yourself. Take breaks. Rest and recharge. Whatever big announcement RFK Jr & Trump have planned will no doubt harm our community… so let’s look out for one another.

“The AI companies will receive a percentage of the savings the program generates.” “Savings”

seriously. especially while a mass-disabling pandemic continues to rage on because most people have been placated into assuming the danger is over, even though it’s assuredly not *precisely because* not enough people are taking effective precautions (like masking and purifying the air) anymore.

Some of the ppl that need community the most have the biggest barriers to finding and accessing it. Maybe folks saying this stuff can be part of building communities that intentionally include disabled folks, poor folks, caretakers, elderly folks, queer ppl, etc.

How is long Covid going today? Well, just added vanilla to the list of food allergies, which is now over 60 foods I used to eat daily. Don’t get long covid.

Dovefoot cranesbill 🌱📷 #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReporr #UKWildflowers

An Arizona man is facing felony charges for threatening to shoot up a gay bar to avenge Charlie Kirk. He was convinced the shooter had "transgender ideology." Fortunately, he was stopped, but this is on the media for running with the erroneous WSJ reporting. www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/p...

YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

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Wow. The Disney adults are going woke.

OK I subscribe to Wired and a bunch of other things and right now will subscribe to Verge and 404. And will add a plea for ProPublica.

Generalized joint hypermobility, and especially extreme joint hypermobility, greatly increase the risk of Long Covid: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...

Tonight I learned that you can in fact put too much butter on popcorn. I mean, it takes a lot of butter but you can actually do it

In my one fox business appearance, Kennedy tried to “gotcha” me by saying cars kill people and we don’t ban them … I responded as you might expect (license, liability, etc) and she changed the subject.

People cancelling Disney+ & Hulu? You’ve got options: 1️⃣ Library card = FREE movies & shows on Kanopy & Hoopla 2️⃣ PBS Passport for $5/month 3️⃣ Free/cheap live TV → Pluto, Tubi, Freevee, Roku Channel + antenna for locals There’s always another way. 📺✨

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

Who owns @propublica.org ? NO ONE. We don’t have corporate owners, advertisers or shareholders pulling the strings. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our only obligation is to the truth. This model only works because readers choose to fund it. Today, your $ will be doubled.

Fundamentally, the reason I avoid Covid is because all - all - of the elements of my life that bring me joy and fulfillment rest on my cardiovascular fitness and / or my cognition. I'm not going to risk a virus wrecking that, as I've seen happen to way too many people I know.

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

As a journalist, I’m hearing some of my colleagues make mistakes when talking about trans folks. The Trans Journalists Association put together this guide & style book.

Trans people just want the right to exist safely as their true selves, like everyone else. But they’ve become easy scapegoats for the GOP, who vilify them and threaten to criminalize their very existence. It's straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Fuschia 🌱📷 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #GardenersWorld #UKGardening #FlowerFeed

Seems very timely "What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been." —  Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...

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Ferocactus latispinus, devils-tongue cactus 🌱🌵🪴📷 #Succulents #PlantSky #MacroPhotography