one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

They need to arrest the guy who did this before Noem just whisks him out of the state.

"The reasons for untimely death in disability communities are so common that the term 'pre-existing condition' is the written equivalent of a shoulder shrug to the grim reaper’s face in the public narrative. We are expected to die." Revisiting this excellent piece from @jloeppky.com today.

It's going to cost a fortune (and take an entire week with a team of cleaners) to get our sick home back in working order. We can pay them to do the work, but it's coming out of the money for my medical travel. Can you help me replace it? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou... #MutualAid #GFM

No one *licensed* anyone to make CSAM of their kids, and the tech company that provides both the production technology and the distribution system should be prosecuted out of existence.

CDC researchers estimated that COVID-19 caused 33 million illnesses and 100,800 deaths in the US from October 2023 to September 2024. Adults 65 and older made up 18% of the population but over 80% of deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It is my birthday time in 2.5 weeks, if you would like to help me with life survival things or send me small joyful things you can do that cash.app/$grrlintersect venmo.com/u/grrlinters... www.paypal.me/dgrrl39 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

It's going to cost a fortune (and take an entire week with a team of cleaners) to get our sick home back in working order. We can pay them to do the work, but it's coming out of the money for my medical travel. Can you help me replace it? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou... #MutualAid #GFM

Also the easiest way to help your community is to mask in public. If you have an angry reaction to that you need to sit with yourself and examine why you don't want the most vulnerable populations in your area protected.

Recent piece published w/ @thesicktimes.org arguing that “Long COVID advocacy is inadequate without sex workers, who have a long legacy of catalyzing consent education and facilitating disease prevention,” using the experiences of Black trans disabled Sex Workers. thesicktimes.org/2026/01/06/l...

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

My dad died of Parkinson's. If you've seen neurodegeneration up close, you understand why prevention matters. COVID has been linked to increased neurological risk, including Parkinson-like syndromes. Some viruses are known to cause long-term neurodegeneration. fortune.com/well/2024/01...

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals. I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.

Fuck Hilton. Stand with the Minneapolis hotel owner!

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Sex workers have been ringing the alarm on internet privacy, government surveillance and banking censorship for so long my ears hurt.

corporate media and centrist pundits are largely ignoring the drop in crime because their focus on crime during and after the George Floyd protests was about racism 🤷🏾‍♀️

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

There's no such thing as super flu. But unfortunately, there is such a thing as immune system damage from repeat COVID infections, which can make you more susceptible & less able to fight off the flu, as well as other serious illnesses. #MaskUp with a good mask & protect yourself & others.

“Cuteification” of language, writes @sesmith.lol, “reflects the larger societal trend of capitulation, in which people have convinced themselves that it’s necessary to compromise to win over the fence-sitters”

And then we lost the Republic when you and your fellow representatives refused to impeach and convict every single elected official who incited or abetted this insurrection.

This argument should also be used by trans people.

Can you help us offset the cost of our sick house remediation? I had my husband send the cleaning service the deposit to get our home deep cleaned, but the money came out of the account that pays for my trips to the Dysautonomia Clinic in NYC. So I'm fundraising. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou...

COVID-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds. "Between 2022 and 2024, COVID-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows" gizmodo.com/covid-19-is-...

Impossible to overstate this.

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

And Stanford is trying to squeeze $329,000 of restitution out of the students, some of whom are couch surfing and sleeping in cars, to bankroll their ✨building renovation✨ when Stanford’s facilities director has testified that the damage was UNDER $10K. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WHATWG, the organization in charge of maintaining the living standard for implementing HTML (of which the alt attribute and the text it contains are a part) explains the most important thing to know about alt text and how to approach writing it. "... it is not meant to supplement the image."

It's also part of why I know I should be putting my alt text educational stuff on a separate website. Because I don't need people to follow me but I do want them to know how to do alt text properly. But here's a thorough thread on doing alt text for screenshots of social media posts, with examples.

demoted to what? he's still an astronaut. he'll always have been an astronaut. you can't take that away.

To be clear I am not immune to this! I have fallen into this trap! It is soooooo easy to get swept up in the wave of mass public outrage without taking a moment to stop and analyze what is happening But if we are going to be Very Online then we have to try and do this, for ourselves and each other.

We are all in a state of constant panic and terror. It’s important to take a second when you see something online that triggers you to ask yourself “am it really triggered or am I just experiencing nonstop psychic damage from the world and my brain sees this as an outlet for my fear and rage.”

PSA: It’s not too late to get your flu shot, as the record-breaking flu season will continue for several months. While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!

Got our estimate for house cleaning... It's more than we paid for our last vehicle. I knew it was going to be expensive, but not THIS high. I may need to fundraise.

If you're a 55-64 year old who is retired due to health issues who is struggling to get SNAP work requirement exemptions, please get in touch for a @motherjones.com piece. My email is [email protected]. I can potentially use first name only.

If any media outlets want to discuss the changes to the childhood vaccination schedule posted by HHS my DMs are open and I have opinions. Thomas A. Nguyen, DO Children's Physicians, Inc Associate Professor of Pediatrics OU-HCOM www.hhs.gov/childhood-im...

I believe this stems from the belief that people especially kids need to get sick naturally to fend off. The worst of the disease. Completely forgetting that people die in cases like this. It's a willingness to not care about people dying

It’s a part of a continuum. Back at the first of the pandemic, the government basically claimed COVID was harmless for kids; five years later, it surpassed asthma as the number one chronic illness in children.

The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.

I, for one, ask what their defense of the CSAM generator and the platform which hosts it, says about their conception of free speech, who/what is entitled to it, and what this says about our culture in general. "Doing something" can be looking at the meaning of the thing and telling everyone.

This thread I put together a few weeks ago is especially relevant today. De-recommending routine childhood vaccines which have proven benefit, when the overwhelming evidence shows their benefits for a particular population is the definition of an anti-science and anti-health approach.

“Vaccines prevent infections that may have poor outcomes for children who do not have access to good healthcare.” I still don’t get why Danish children’s access to “good healthcare” means they have to be subjected to these infections in the first place. 🤷

Been there, done that, more times than I can count.

Im gonna correct you on this. Theres a reason fascists went after trans people. The dirty secret is that a lot of queer people (nowhere near a plurality even, but enough) are not comfortable with trans people. The fascists know it too. Dont assume all queers understand trans issues.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

When people attack you and then when you push back, chide you for “being defensive”. Um, that’s what people do when they’re attacked. You can’t slap a person and then blame the pain they experience on them because they have nerve endings in their face. It was your hand. Not their nerves.

I've been listening to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson for a few weeks now, and I'm not even halfway through. Does it get better? I'm not seeing any sci-fi elements yet, and the casual racism is a turn-off.

Universal Basic Income when???