I live, literally, in Midtown. At 32* north. All hail light pollution laws. I could see the blush naked-eye.

Key clue here: the word “toxins”. That’s a fake medical term. If you see that word? Someone is trying to sell you on some snake oil nonsense

If you are blessed with halfway clear skies and a latitude north of, like, 40, go look for Aurorae!!

Includes the staggering fact that your average European peasant woman of the era is spending up to 40% of her life between marriage and menopause breastfeeding. No data provided on the number of resulting killing sprees.

If you want to learn a bunch of interesting stuff and also be incredibly grateful to live in an industrialized society, I highly recommend this series by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...

Lots of awesome books alert!

Pretty good books.

Two months late changing the blades on my windshield wipers, and for some reason I can see out the windshield better now that I’ve done it. Amazing how that works.

GIVE. YOUR. FOOD. BANK. MONEY. CASH. MOOLAH.

Democratic elected officials & pundits LOVE to tell voters to put "X, Y, Z" behind them and "move on." This means that they never, ever, ever address X, Y, Z. This is a significant reason the country is where it is. For ex, Obama came in saying "we're not looking back" and man was that wrong.

What is an especially meaningful birthday gift you've received? My wife's birthday is coming up, and I'm having an unusually difficult time brainstorming this year

I meant to run the quick rinse cycle on my dishwasher and instead ran the full wash setting, and didn’t notice until too late. Annoying.

In all seriousness, if you take antidepressants and have a provider you have a good relationship with, discuss this threat with them sooner rather than later.

Among the nearly infinite potential problems here, sending a large fraction of the population into sudden SSRI withdrawal would be..bad

As I understand it, both sides have their whip office monitoring impact of travel delays on head count.

House Schedule - some confusing emails so clarifying: House Rules is expected to meet tonight. I expect they'll keep going until they have a rule. They may wrap up very late. They think they'll have enough members back tomorrow, 11/12, to vote on the CR package.

I have been VERY concerned about this ever since that crackpot was appointed to head the HHS. Millions of Americans depend on SSRIs for their mental health, and these assholes may just decide they're bad because, well, they're crackpot assholes. RFK is a severe threat to public health.

I haven’t shopping at Walmart regularly since I lived in Cleveland, and adding Amazon and Target to my “avoid as much as possible” list makes some things extremely obnoxious to get. It would be nice if Target stopped sucking. (There is no question mark in this post)

Worth noting that with the dismantling of USAID, Musk killed more children than the IDF

I really, really need this day off. Ran errands and now chilling out with the cats for a while before doing some chores.

Good on the UK. Nobody should tell us anything since: -we’re going to leak it to Russia inadvertently or otherwise -we’re going to do murder, violate human rights, war crimes, and/or genocide with it.

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

I see people trying to make a broad statement about how furloughed workers feel about the Democrats caving and I would remind you that there are about 3/4 of a million people furloughed and they're probably not going to be a unified front

Right before finding out which way SCOTUS comes down on the question of starving millions of children? That's the worst, stupidest time to cave. It's really weird that Dem Senators are posting pretending like they don't know that. Sheldon Whitehouse absolutely understood what Jackson, J did. 🧵

My late contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald day - a video about the disaster itself and what happened to the crew’s bodies, by Caitlin Doughty of @ordergooddeath.bsky.social. I was introduced to the Fitz by my sixth grade teacher, who used the song as *the* example of a ballad in the poetry unit.

Retracting my previous WTF post. Thread re the hemp ban in the sedate bill.

Vindicated to discover that the contact lens that’s been bugging me all day did, in fact, have a tear in it

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

New leftist challenge, for a dollar name one lobbying group that isn’t AIPAC

If you voted in Seattle Are you sure it was counted??? Now would be the time to check on that

Avi Loeb really is the Dr. Oz of astronomy now. Impressive CV but full of pseudoscience so no one in the field likes him any more. 🔭

i'm tired of this. "this is how we got trump" doesn't fucking matter anymore because we have him now and the Dems in the Senate are doing fuckall. the question is what are we doing NOW not scolding about some future election (like come on).

“Eds and meds” saved a lot of places coming out of the Great Recession. Rust belt cities like Pittsburgh have completely transformed their economies by leaning into this trend. A funding crisis in health care will be a disaster.

I can’t emphasize enough how much the health care industry is propping up small and midsized towns/cities all over the country. I work in all sorts of places across the west and health care is a top industry in almost every single one. Cutting funding will hit these towns like a brick.

The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.

Catherine my good bitch you guys are the only ones who do not know where the Republicans stand

So....you gonna pay the extra $500 a month in premiums I have to come up with (or I die)?

my anger is not going away in a few weeks. it is insulting for these senators to horsetrade so that ppl retiring or not running until 2030 can vote no while they find just enough yes votes to do what the GOP wants. i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.

When I lived in a cultish community, they often used “unity” as a method to silence those who expressed disagreement or who were victimized by the system. Same dynamic here. One sided “unity.” Unity for me, not for thee.

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AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable. You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.

Censoring sex/gender/sexuality words out of our comics with representative emojis for Facebook/Instagram is just a routine part of the job, but sometimes you have a fresh moment of clarity about just how dumb it truly is. Today's latest linguistic innovation is substituting "foreskin" with 🧦.

this is so funny to me.

do you all have recs for my friend Philip? I haven't read much fantasy fiction these past several years, but I know a lot of you do!

This. It's not actually complicated unless you don't care about antisemitism.

Does AIPAC influence peddle on issues related to the state of Israel? Yes, that is its stated purpose. Does AIPAC secretly run Congress and bear responsibility for votes on other issues? Nope, and if that's your argument you better flesh it out and back it up

I'm a resident of the state that is home to the Mohave people, who speak the Mojave language, which also contains Fort Mohave, the Mojave Desert, and Mohave County...and all the proceeding names are spelled correctly. This has driven me nuts for a very long time.