for mom's day, a request for recommendations: chablis or (not new zealand) sauvignon blanc or something else that drinks clean and clear and mineral, like licking a rock, $25 / bottle range ??

Happy Mother's Day to all the people out there who are not biologically mothers but who are aunts, stepmothers, cousins, and just basically trustworthy advisors and supporters.

Let's say I wanted to watch The Aces vs Sparks during the Intermission of the PWHL playoffs. Well I go onto @wnba.com with my leaguepass NOPE. Ok I have to go to USA, who owns USA, peacock ok I have that.. NOPE... Fubo parted with Universal so no there... Media corps are run by the dumbest techbros

Scariest shit ever was watching my 5th grade classmate stand up in the middle of class and say "I need an aspirin aspirin aspirin aspirin" and collapsing on the floor and finding out he died of meningitis 2 days later.

that’s my arm, hair, and name tag in this photo. And I have to say that the vast majority of people were cool about our masks required policy. The best was how many people came in already wearing masks! I have friends who are chronically ill — some by Covid — and events like this make a difference!

My WW2 vet grandfather literally sat me down at age 8, showed me pictures of the camps, and made me promise to fucking fight anyone who said it hadn't happened after he was gone. On the rare occasions I've had to, I've started with, "Are you callin' my Granddad a liar?!" in his accent.

Graduation tip for female faculty, learned after years of doing this - Linen or cotton, pockets, buttons, to hook your hood. Otherwise it’s strangling you, as you bemoan patriarchy.

Two things can be true and I am begging so many of you to grapple with them: People with dementia have value and are loved, and having dementia is neither a personal failing nor does it render them useless AND Having noticeable dementia means you likely shouldn’t hold important public office

🔬 Elizabeth Kaweesa studies plant-derived compounds that could help combat chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer. On #WorldOvarianCancerDay, her story highlights the power of perseverance, mentorship & cancer research. ➡️ www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/... #WomenInSTEM #CancerResearch #OvarianCancer

Of course they will be ... on the top floor of Nebraska Medicine Omaha campus. The same place they took the Ebola patients. Surprised trump didn't cut CDC funding for infectious disease ... EXCEPT HE DID!!! OVER $12B FOR RESEARCH & GRANTS. So who's paying for their jcpost.com/posts/ec8af0...

This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things.

A former Oklahoma State University student who was strip-searched at the Stillwater City Jail has accepted a $2.55 million settlement to end her federal civil rights lawsuit over the incident. Claire Hosterman was stripped in a holding cell after Stillwater police www.oklahoman.com/story/news/c...

Even the wealthiest Black mothers face a system that pathologizes them—and the discrimination takes a physical toll

UPDATE: Red Line: Customers will experience delays in both directions due to a train with a mechanical problem at Rockville.

May all have a lovely weekend. For many, this weekend may be fraught. Find joy where you can.

Well, some fundamentalist, vandalizing piece of shit managed to remove my self-managed abortion help sticker from this spot. It is time for me to find at least two new ones to replace it.

Folks, Saturday is a PERFECT time to learn about some of the most important but under-radar elections happening this year. West Virginia is Tuesday; Georgia is in two weeks; and a lot else coming up. Explore and share!

I came across a David Attenborough documentary on YouTube that autoplayed after some archive footage from the 60s. The entire thing was AI video. I thought they just lifted his voice from a different documentary. No his voice was AI too. I could tell because he was just freaking wrong. Shit sucks.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

Amazing handmade mini-pancakes from Malia at The Square art show at Farragut West. $10.

Bottom line: the threat to the general public is very low. Washing your hands frequently with soap & water & wearing a mask in public are always good precautions to take if you are concerned about contracting a respiratory virus. The likelihood that this will reach pandemic levels is very low.

Additionally, to our knowledge, those investigating the outbreak have not identified rodents on the MV Hondius. The Hondius is an expedition ship that people can hop on and off of throughout the voyage, so we expected to see quite a few contacts that needed to be monitored for symptom development.

The chief of CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) announced his retirement several months ago. The internal announcement only came out on May 7 because that’s just when the publication schedule allowed. He is an active duty USPHS officer, so retirement must be planned very far in advance.

😮‍💨 lots of rumors to swat down today. 🧵 1/? Ivermectin does not treat hantavirus. There are no known uses of this drug against hantavirus, and, in fact, it may cause more harm than good. Please do not take ivermectin to treat or prevent hantavirus.

This. We are stuck between them wanting us to quit or us making changes to keep (particularly in my roll) trainees supported to do the science that benefits the country.

Sent this to my my kids with the following message: "See? Told you"

I feel this way about PhD programs. Learn how to write grants, do admin work; a kind of rotation throughout the university. The goal is not just to produce better students, but better professional humanists.

BIG news: The proposed border wall through Big Bend National Park is off following months of bipartisan backlash.

I will pay an editorial cartoonist to create this for The Handbasket. email/msg on signal if interested.

Racism as an ideology depends on lies. So racists, especially those who consider themselves to be intellectuals, tend to be very accomplished liars.

Need something to lift your spirits? There’s a PBS documentary filled with interviews of the women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball Team. Basically, “A League of their Own” but in the words of some fabulously wonderful women

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this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

“People think that there’s no slavery anymore,” the judge told Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr., moments before sentencing him to 30 years in prison. “There is, and you were doing it right here in our state.” (Published Sept. 2025)

And I'm blessed with multiple hydrologists/geologists/engineers in my phone, but none of them live here, sooooo if you live in Atlanta and want to come do science in my yard, DMs are open??

I would not hate this, but we have to get out of this semester/quarter. I think for a lot of folks the issue is the end of semester deadline/gradebooks have disappeared.

really peeved me off how some people downplayed the impact of federal charges from doing this work during the surge

happens regularly.

Jane’s thoughts on Ted are worth reading in full. They both had very difficult fathers: people.com/jane-fonda-p...

Wow.

Which is why I saved clippings and downloaded as much as I could from my WaPo work.

Like. Come on. You guys. People are getting paid $3000 a course. THEY ARE THE WORKING CLASS TOO! bsky.app/profile/chan...

The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader's office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said. https://to.pbs.org/4wm5oB5

On KNBA’s Webcast, hear what many Alaskans didn’t know about Kelly Hunt, the Shaktoolik college student who disappeared in January. Mourned on Saturday, she is remembered by longtime teacher Lynda Bekoalok, as one of the community's best and brightest. www.knba.org/newscasts/20...

Kelly Hunt, 19, disappeared in ANC b/n her village in Western AK and her college. Her remains were recently found. She is 4th young person from Shaktoolik, an Inupiaq village of ≈210, to die in past few years. AK Native women are more likely to be raped or murdered than White women. 1 is too many.

Three of six passengers ill from a suspected rodent-transmitted virus have died, and one is in intensive care, WHO says.

Get the Texas Monthly on Monday when they drop a big story on late Baptist leader Paul Pressler, a pedophile who preyed on boys. Pressler's still central to politics: he mentored a young Ted Cruz; Mike Johnson's first big job was leading the Judge Paul Pressler Law School. (Cruz was on the board.)

My love, I’m very sorry, but I’m very small-c conservative when it comes to messing with our hardware. I dislike re-flashing a thing for a “maybe it works” when it works fine now and is highly reliable. I really don’t like futzing with hardware and DIYing software. I just want working tools.

"'It is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow to buy back the land that we essentially traded for the resource, the fish, but it's what we have to do to get things back on track,' Boyd says."

I've long been down on cruises as nasty germ fests but this isn't the pathogen I would have guessed (hantavirus, unclear which one).