This is so true. In the US, creative professionals who don’t have a spouse with medical insurance have to charge a rate that will pay the several hundred dollars a month (at least!) they need for health insurance. Most of the rest of the world don’t need to do that.

Vaccines are a gift to all mankind.

The Irresistible Lure of Rearranging the Furniture

It’s day 110 of the ICE occupation of MN. Today’s record breaking warmth in the Twin Cities, paired with trusted patrollers, meant that many kids who have been in hiding were able to go to the park playgrounds for the first time in months. Abolish ICE (so kids can return to their childhoods!)

These 20 Democrats joined the GOP yesterday in voting to gut due process convictions and say that people should be deported for crimes they have not even been convicted of.

"You tell me that it's a cruel world, and we're all just running around in circles. I know that. I've been on this Earth just as many days as you. When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything."

One of the deepest cultural sociopathies in the US is the belief that public goods and resources should be the cheapest, worst version of things, rather than shining examples.

EDS conference April 9-10 feat. Fraser Henderson, Clair Francomano, Anne Maitland, Steven Smith, Chip Norris and more! There’s an online option, registration’s free, and several of the talks look like they might be relevant to complex chronic illness broadly even if you don’t have EDS specifically!

They only have size small left but I think they deserve some love regardless so if you're feeling Greek food in San Diego www.jksgreekcafe.com

It is…bothering me that all of the Lindy West think pieces seem to acknowledge that her husband now uses they/them pronouns but since she uses he/him in the book they will do so also for consistency.” Like. No. Stop that.

the only thing i have to say about the lindy west of it all is that there are like very beautiful stories of polyamory that don’t get a fraction of the attention they should or that west did—n you should read em! a fave of mine from last year: entwined by alex alberto. xoxo, yr local polyamorist

Why is Harry Dempsey writing that Shinkansen passenger numbers are "dwindling"? They are at their peak, on a par with the pre-corona peak. Wikipedia has numbers by line, but its "sum" column is unlinked for 2028 and linked for 2024, creating a fictional decline. www.ft.com/content/aaac...

78-degree temperature swing since Monday in Minneapolis (-2 then, 76 now)

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

New bio info has been added to my website. Andreaformaine.com.

Spotify pays Rogan at least a quarter of a billion a year to push some of the most vile conspiracy theories about minorities from the fringe into public consciousness. Seriously, today is a great day to cancel your subscription.

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, pulled out of a sprawling surveillance network run by Flock Safety. The company waited months to remove its cameras installed around town, only doing so when the city finally covered them with plastic bags.

This man can’t win one election in Minnesota but apparently I won three offices simultaneously 😂

He's gonna go full Fetterman.

This is gold.

My hope for every piece of art is that people engage with it for what it is and not with what they want or expect it to be

She's literally right there Please stop supporting nazi tattoos man

CoolCoolCool

Look if you can’t handle me at my working when I should be cleaning then you don’t deserve me at my cleaning when I should be working

the thing i keep coming back to whenever “bluesky isnt quite there yet” discourse hits the timeline is at least on here my viral posts arent generating revenue for an artisanal and on-demand child sexual assault image generator

Libraries have this problem, too. “Well, libraries are welcoming to EVERYONE!” Hi, I’d like to introduce you to Melvil Dewey. “He was a long time ago.” We still use his system today and most have no intention of updating it. Did you know phrenology has a Dewey number?

Shoutout to everyone who writes their own shit. You rock.

I’ve had this debate in class with STEM students before. They NEED to believe that eugenics and scientific racism etc are things of the past and are ‘pseudosciences’ because ‘science is objective’ and the ‘scientific method defends from bias.’ It’s a dangerous way to think.

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

Lifeboats To Be Removed From Cruise Ships Because They Remind People Of Titanic Sinking

AT THE SAME TIME. I *DO* think it's the place of EVERYONE within movement to push back with forceful language when folks advocate that our movements or society as a whole adopt antisemitic positions and attitudes. We should push back regardless of who it is that makes those arguments.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

Surprise! guess who is writing more Supernatural! and guess who is writing her favorite disaster angel!!!!! (it's me and I'm back w/ Pasquale on art!!!) Cas my love 😭❤️ Out June 2026!!

And it shows, Sports Illustrated today did a mock draft in which they predicted that Seattle would draft the guy they drafted 4 years ago and who was their best player in the Super Bowl they just won

Shout out to my Costco cashier with the All Cats Are Beautiful sticker on their water bottle. You're a real one, AJ

Bari Weiss gets paid a whole lot of money to be stupid enough to have you put her name and face to this but the people doing it are named Ellison

Farmer here. Lots of smoke & mirrors going on. Fertilizer prices were already up for most of 2025 bc of the trade war. Then the farm lobby realized nobody feels bad for them. So now they're trying this, as another angle to scare the public into giving them free money.

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

The FCC is waiving a rule that bars a single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households. Nexstar and Tegna combined would cover ~60%. Reminder that Nexstar's CEO has praised Trump and quickly pulled Jimmy Kimmel off its stations last fall. See how this works?

A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism

A reporter-free newsroom isn't a newsroom, it's (at best) a content aggregator.

👋 Science communicator here. One mistake I keep seeing is academics taking the sole L for the decrease in trust. While yes some experts engaged in poor messaging at the start of COVID, the major influence is the large amounts of money being invested into attacking science for political gain.

I don't buy into the machismo of pros humble bragging: "Look at me, I worked all night, all weekend, etc." I refuse to sacrifice my physical & mental health. I don't care who you are, you will have to pay for that self-abuse eventually. A TON of folks in the industry have repetetive stress injuries.

Need masks??

What's going on with ACIP? After a series of bold tweets from the former co-chair, I caught up with a former member. Upshot: ACIP still exists; the 13 members who weren't appointed properly are gone; and officials are looking new members, this source said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I was already reeling from the secret Jesus twin brother / move to Japan one-two combo, and then it ends with "According to the store's owner, the store was opened to create a place where tourists can spend money" a wild ride on wikipedia dot org

Anyway, buy my books. I have read them!