Happy polio vaccine announcement anniversary. "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" remains one of the hardest remarks of all time. Kind of quote every child should be taught

we don’t have a lot of rules in my house about what you’re allowed to read/watch/buy etc. but one rule that has been established after my wife finally caved following the cigar pic was “in this house we do not buy anything that would give jkr more money.”

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

It’s been a decade and I’m still salty #TheK2 wasn’t a noona bodyguard romance. What a waste of chemistry and the whole umbrella water sprinkler system fight scene. Why am I thinking about this #kdrama instead of work? *waves hands at the state of the world around us* my brain is broken

“Paint me like one of your French cats.”

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

World’s sexiest raccoon right here

There be fucking dragons 🐉 ! This #cdrama is so off the wall insane - I’m loving every single second.

Side #kdrama note: I may not survive Cha Eun Woo’s military service - it’s not even been a year and I miss him! Who knows what there will be to come back to - waving at state of the world (plus I just found out there’s a tax scandal!) bsky.app/profile/itsm...

"A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate. Researchers have built the first refrigerant-free system to reach sub-zero temperatures, a breakthrough that could reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=239651

#cdrama where Huo Ming Hao is giving his best puppy dog eyes should not be stressing me out this much. By ep4 of #TheUncloudedSoul we’ve had an almost genocide. FL very nearly gets herself killed at least twice per ep. HMH’s décolletage is not nearly deep enough to distract me

I’ve made posts with requests like this before (reply with your own knowledge/tips) and it was generally ignored. I hope some of you will add to it this time. One tip I read recently (in wired, actually) is that a secondary option to masks to avoid AI facial recognition: sunglasses

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

A THREAD Other instances in history where western nations overthrew leaders, to protecting oil/mineral interests, block socialism or nationalism, whilst maintaining geopolitical influence. In every instance, democracy was secondary. List is incomplete. 1/

I saw a vertical #cdrama where the protagonist has spent years manipulating the emperor to fall in love with her (her true mission). He’s suspicious, selfish, and egotistical. Once she succeeds, she peaces out and returns to her time, leaving him grieving 10/10 no notes. I loved that for her

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Sigh. I am going to assume this person values lives within and outside of the US equally and was trying to make a point about misinformed assessment by the commentariat of the T’s regime death toll abroad. Framing this in terms of who’s right and who’s wrong dehumanises those killed in these strikes

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

I thoroughly enjoyed this very sex positive vertical #cdrama. youtu.be/RDkdShowr0E?... Also these YouTube titles are getting more incendiary by the day

Queer Palestinian singer Bashar Murad for Vogue Japan, wearing "Intifada Obi" with embroideries by Gazan women, supported by a collective that preserve Palestinian embroidery in kimono designs. My favorite songs of him are "Maskhara" and "Antenne". Just listened to them today. 📷: Hiroshi Asakura

I was doing a count of American presidents mentally unfit for office just in the last century (stroke, Alzheimer’s, age related cognitive declines) the number is alarmingly high. Is this high prevalence uniquely American?

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities coexistence.global

Me, from chaps 01-12, chuckling away at the humour in the novel Offering Salted Fish to the Master aka #WhenDestinyBringsTheDemon Me, chap 13 😵‍💫 or literally oh my f** god! I wasn’t expecting the novel to have an even more horrific back story for the Sima clan that needed censoring in the #cdrama

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Apropos of www.lifeisasacredtext.com/gazarepentan...

📊 The scale of the problem is staggering: • 47+ shipments of Canadian parts to Israeli arms firms (Oct 2023–Jul 2025) • 421,070 bullets exported to Israel, incl. 175,000 in April 2025 alone • 391 shipments of weapons/components in < 2 years. 3/6

If you saw a woman being sexually harassed on the train, would you know how to help? If you witnessed transphobia at a coffee shop, would you step in? Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you 5 concrete, practical ways you can safely intervene and be an ally! Sign up: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

this is sexual assault and it has been sexual assault the whole time including when its done to trans people

Also he’s the definition of a honey trap Oh so sweet 🍯 #cdrama #ABOdesire

I’m adding stupid-cute as category tag to #cdramas for now. It’s self explanatory

“What is needed now is for the world to impose sanctions, to intervene—for the billions who witness this genocide to have the spine of a single Palestinian man”

So I’ve looked into proton VPN. It mostly works fine but ideally I want my elected representatives to not embrace mass censorship

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

This brings us back full circle to that stupid post about teaching leftist men how to get laid. Which is, don’t be a dick. Treat women like they are real human beings not someone who owes you sex. And chances are you’ll find someone compatible if you start a real hobby bsky.app/profile/mugr...

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

We don’t talk about this enough because we’re struggling with the present day hellscape due to us being permanently online But in the before times, like before smart phones, some of us succumbed to reading aloud anything and everything - road signs to shampoo bottles bsky.app/profile/amut...

Happiness is reading a book under a Japanese tree lilac on a perfect summer’s day The perfumed air, the warm breeze, the dappling shadow of the leaves..

Part of the fun of reading cnovels is reading the translator comments. Sometimes it’s explanations of memes and context for literary references. And sometimes it’s the translator and editor getting increasingly hysterical at the author’s flowery descriptions of the god tier beauty of her leading man

I know who to blame for me hunting down the cnovel for this yesterday and devouring it in one go. The romance is sweet and horny - perfect for a youth drama. Minimal angst - never has that dreaded mid story separation been handled so well. I can only hope the #cdrama honours the novel’s vibe

3 and that’s because I’ve never damaged a book. I have terminated friendships over those who treat books badly. Bet if this was a longer list that’d still be my score. At my age, I have done a LOT of things with books 🫣

This should be a required #cdrama category at MyDramaList As useful if not more than the overall rating and reviews

Oooh. This looks like fun. First two episodes dropped today.

Seconded - definitely worth a read

This 2008 song by Shahzad Roy - Laga Reh* is ever pertinent. Only now with global relevance *English translation paktarane.blogspot.com/2009/02/laga...

When the US troops cross the border this is what will be awaiting them: “Look on my 🦝 works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

My primary motivation for starting #AMomentButForever. She’s convinced he’s a good, decent guy. Instead he’s the classic green tea ML who’s anything but. He has no idea to handle the fact that she wants nothing from him, and only wants to support him whole heartedly. bsky.app/profile/ping...

Do people remember how the manic pixie dreamgirl was everywhere for a while in American media? What’s the right term in #kdramas when the FL is simultaneously a klutz, bad at her job, sloppily dressed, overly blunt, and yet irresistible? Along the lines of FL in #ThePotatoLab