remember when I tried to get an HPV shot and my OBGYN told me no because “that’s a shot for hoes!” turns out you can just go to the grocery store and get one at the pharmacy HPV vaccines are approved for women up to age 45 in the USA & significantly reduce the risk of cervical cancer!

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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

Good morning! No visible sunrise today, so I decided to focus on the waves for today’s #OceanDevotion. Times are fraught, so I really hope you’ll allow yourselves 3 minutes to just breathe. Need more time? Please visit my YouTube channel—link in bio.

Asking my sleep paralysis demon if he remembers me taking my thyroid pill before I hit snooze

@oldenoughtosay.com I need to know if you've made this recipe with 5 heads of garlic for...reasons www.alisoneroman.com/recipes/cara...

My comforter is ~10yo and looked SO SAD when I took it out of its cover that I literally ordered an inexpensive replacement on the spot. I washed the old one anyway, and when I took it out of the dryer it was SoFluffyImGoingToDie.gif so I dunno maybe take this as a sign to wash your bedding?

it feels unhinged to come on here and post about, like, the funny thing that happened while I was doing laundry, but I can't doomscroll anymore today ok? so just like, let the record show, etc.

Reminding myself (again) and anyone else who needs to hear it: You don't have to bear witness to every atrocity just to stay informed Shielding yourself from some of that psychic damage is not a lack of caring Doomscrolling offers illusory control but real despair

Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

I'm seeing a lot of posts to call your reps but little on actually how. 5calls.org is a great site where you can put in your zip code and get numbers for your house representative and two senators. You also can get a script if you're like me and stumble over your thoughts.

General reminder that if you mute the current US president's surname on here, you will miss absolutely zero important news. Even right now. But your timeline will do way less stacking damage to your mental health.

Cosigned. I've had it muted more or less since I've had an account here and never once missed hearing about the latest idiocy. It helps to dial the volume down though.

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At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round. This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!

There may be snow on the ground but today we are closer to the sun than any other day! Here in the northern hemisphere it may be cold and dark, but remember, light and warmth are always closer than they appear

sorry did I just wake up to the US invading Venezuela? wtf

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?

There are now just 4 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan. I teach you: 🌿how to draw plants 🧠how creative activity improves mental health I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

So the ENTIRE apology thing comes down to deflecting responsibility from the actual human who chose to create sexualized images of children. And we do this A LOT with LLMs. "AI is racist!" No. The choice to create or use software that says racist things is racist. The software has no beliefs

I’m glad people recognize this as a problem. I want folks to recognize it when it’s folks talking about women of color in all spaces. And stop giggling but off because this isn’t just about snarky bullshit it’s about demanding WOC be surveilled for everythjng

"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

I need my uterus and ovaries for reasons but at the moment I'm considering yeeting them into a bonfire

Appreciate this article noting that the instrument here (played by Sarah Goldstone) is something called an Omnichord and it's the most baller 1980s thing I've ever seen

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

Some good things happened in 2025. Some highlights! 1. Huntington's disease has a treatment. 🧪2. FDA approval of antiviral drug Lenacapavir to prevent HIV 3. Brazil reduces deforestation by 32% 4. Columbia declares that the Amazon is off limits 5. India increases its tiger & lion population

Love this New Year's Eve poem by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social "Let me listen to the rain's one note and hear a beginner's song." Rain, New Year's Eve, published in Good Bones, 2017 bookshop.org/p/books/good...

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.

On this day in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which made no attempt to free enslaved Black people in non-rebelling states.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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2026: May we each receive what we deserve. 💜🕯️✨

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find. Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

I did not keep up with my ibuprofen doses today 🥴 ow

What felt like a small accomplishment at the time feels bigger today as I reflect on 2025. I finally had enough space and plans to stay long enough to move my Grammie's and PopPop's 1970s Conn Theatrette electric organ out of storage. Happy New Year, friends. 💜🕯️✨

I haven't changed my bedding in an uncomfortable amount of time, but I stripped it earlier, washed my mattress topper and comforter (in the dryer rn), and I'm putting fresh flannel sheets on tonight. Treat please

Can’t see what could go wrong with the chatbot that tells people to kill themselves also pushing DraftKings

Skill issue of the highest order. My skyline has people talking about sports constantly, every sport you can imagine. I got multiple darts people. I got a fuckin dog sledding person, and not just for the Iditarod. Skill issue.

There’s a 15 minute video displaying on the monument Mentioned: The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Artificial Intelligence, Lewis & Clark, the Moon Landing Not mentioned: slavery, the emancipation proclamation, the civil war

If you, too, have chosen to be a couch gremlin tonight, may I recommend starting WHEN HARRY MET SALLY at 10:30pm?

It would be so cool if Fairbanks would get like just a little bit warmer, thanks so much.

We don't need a New You in this New Year, we just need you. You in your fullness, you in all your messy beauty, you with all your creative joy and honest heartbreak. You. You are the only you we'll ever have, and we are not us without you.