Tons of research since 2020 points to Covid causing cognitive decline, affecting memory, attention, and executive function. It’s criminal that schools don’t clean the air and it’s negligent of public health to have led everyone to believe Covid is just a cold when it’s causing so much damage 🧵👇

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

OK now I'm happy to say that he isn't a Catholic and we should stop calling him a Catholic.

Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans? you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.

I missed this half a day ago for my semi-regular period of sleep. But reading this now, I just want to remind everyone that the question was about JKR's "opposition to trans rights" and the answer ... did not mention trans people or trans rights one single time. Not even by implication.

Sex educator note: sex shaming is a neat way to draw attention to an argument but the 'herpes at a kissing booth' trope falls apart when you know how hard it would be to purposely spread HSV1 in a kissing booth versus, say, influenza. Or... Covid in a kindergarten Just say what you mean, Substacker

Holy shit, Missouri! You did it! You beat out Florida and Texas! Today, you ARE America’s Sorrow!

I'm really mad because now I want this. We deserve this. For morale.

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime. Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

"The hot take that AI will transform education is running about 780 papers ahead of the evidence. Why? Marketing. Buzz. FOMO. Yep. Evidence that it does anything unique to help kids? Not much."

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Kennedy's career pre-antivax advocacy was as an environmental attorney, focusing on mercury (his gateway to vaccines). Now he's abandoned that, allowing *actually harmful* mercury to pollute low- income areas, & using fake mercury fears to deny vaccines globally. Full 🧵👇

The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.

This is a really important point. It’s become clear that many of the conservative justices are as terminally Fox-brained as any garden variety red-hatted rube.

It's cool and healthy how the supreme Court is made up of corrupt people who are or are married to conspiracy theorists, aggrieved boomers annoyed at mild changes, and people more obsessed with civility than protecting us from the other two groups.

People at or concerned about #CDC want to be hopeful about the nomination of Erica Schwartz for CDC director. But the fact that she would report to Secretary Kennedy — who disdains the agency & undermines vaccine policy — gives them pause. www.statnews.com/2026/04/18/e...

I keep screaming this Please don’t fall for it California, Uber already fucked us once with Prop 22

I have tried living "in the moment;" I would like to select a different, funner moment

this skeet was so good yesterday that a friend and I had a bet about which American would restate it

Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position

🧵I don't know how many lovely people I have following me from Nelson Whakatū, but if you don't know already, Nelson Pride just kicked off today and there are a whole lot of wonderful events planned and they will be AWESOME, super accepting, gentle and kind. 🌈❤️https://whakatupride.co.nz/pride2026/

Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) chats with @jesscraven101.bsky.social about the California governor's race now that Swalwell is out. youtu.be/o9og1t953r8

I said the other day that the claim that the DoorDash grandma had saved $11,000 from the dumb, pandering “no tax on tips” policy made no sense. Yahoo Finance did the math. wealthofgeeks.com/the-white-ho...

Yep.

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

In other words, the stock market isn’t measuring the health of our democracy or even the health of our economy. It’s measuring the optimism of values-free investors.

Sometimes the most powerful resistance isn't flashy protests or chants of revolution, but doing the hard, unglamous work for our communities against the backdrop of a government that has made pitting people against each other a top agenda.

And also today @thesicktimes.org: @heatherhogan.bsky.social describes two new short films about Long COVID, produced as part of the 2026 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge! thesicktimes.org/2026/04/07/t...

Coastal groundwater is under growing threat. A paper in Nature Water reports an analysis of about 480,000 wells, which shows declining water levels in over 20% of coastal areas, increasing the risk of saltwater intrusion from rising seas. go.nature.com/4cwFIIE 🌊🌍🧪

🧵 I know I have at least a few mutuals in medical professions I love y'all dearly, but Come. On.

“The measure says that in order for a … provider to release records, the entity making the legal demand must include an affidavit declaring that the investigation is not related to punishing providers for performing abortions, transgender care or other services protected under California law…”

Let's give @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social her flowers 💐! She's been nominated as an emerging leader by @inn.org as a luminary in non-profit news. Beyond her incredible reporting/editing on #LongCOVID, Betsy does so much unsung work that makes The Sick Times the force that it is. #INNYs2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

Oh so it's BAD bad

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Violet knows stuff that really should be read. Stay safe people, covid still exists.

The Sick Times is an invaluable resource in a swamp of censorship and disinformation. Betsy and her team deserve all the flowers!! 🌹

If you guys watch anything today, watch the Massive Attack film Boots On The Ground. More than half of the protest images I’ve never seen before. #Photojournalists

I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about. But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.

for people who want to explore more new music but don't know where to start, this weekly radio show of new australian music is a solid entry point

Denmark recommendations on vaccines: yes, love them! Denmark study on Tylenol and autism: garbage, should be retracted. We deserve better.

@bowiesongs.bsky.social "Stunning" an understatement

yeah, i think the AI push is more deranged than past tech pushes in large part because it's just backed by so much more money and governmental support than was the case even in 2009.

A really important critique of the flawed @AnnalsofIM masks vs respirators trial. Good on @bmj_latest for publishing it www.bmj.com/content/393/...

let's put cute stickers on all the things we like and set fire to all the things we don't

*Rod Serling voice* imagine, if you will *David Attenborough voice* that this majestic creature *Jonathan Frakes voice* didn't exist? *Werner Herzog voice* fooled you

logistics are gay we only do warfighting