let the gourd times roll

So much sneezing and coughing on my 3 hour flight today. Straight into hands, too. 🤢 I'm masking, using Profi nasal spray, and following an H1/H2 histamine protocol to reduce my chance of COVID and other respiratory infections.

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

And for every Stephen King and Margaret Atwood who get banned, there are thousands of authors whose names you don’t know, whose messages are important, and whose livelihoods are at stake.

We are in, and have been in, a freedom to read crisis. The good news is that most Americans are against this. All of us need to fight back.

good news we cured using "lol" as punctuation; bad news it's not much better lmao

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Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

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Also, birds are migrating again tonight. East coast migrants are getting a good tail wind thanks to those hurricanes out over the ocean. #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

Lights out for the birds please!

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by rights this should end the careers of everyone involved

The USDA says the precooked pasta products sold at Trader Joe's and Walmart could be connected to a nationwide listeria outbreak that has killed four people.

Sinéad is coming to Philly to live near found family and community! I know we're all passing around the same $20 at this point, but can we help cover some of these moving expenses?

it’s time 🧛

long covid doesn't make you a fascist

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The editor and nearly all reporters at the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion, and Juneau Empire announced their resignations after corporate management deleted content from a story about Charlie Kirk in response to a complaint from a Republican state lawmaker. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

This whole section really.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Hey can #UglyDogs please stop getting sick / being dealt worsening chronic conditions please, thank you

Does anyone have a rec for a "dumb" battery-powered doorbell? I do not want or need it to record video or do anything else. I just want a button people press that makes a gentle noise I can hear inside my house.

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doctors won't tell you this, but vitamin B actually stands for bánh mi. you need to have one every so often, or you turn evil

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

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“Do we need a cure for autism?” As an autistic person who has been reporting on the community for the last eightish years, I certainly have an opinion. I just don’t think it matters in the face of so much misinformation.

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With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

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When people think about national parks, they often think about the most famous ones, but there is much more to the nation’s park system than just the 63 places formally designated as national parks. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/46qXwmU

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

I recently spoke at a neighborhood association meeting about native plants in the city. Going to meetings like this can reach audiences that aren't following scientists on social or reading up on their own. If you wanna take any bits/pieces of what I said to them, handouts & slides in the thread.

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Someone has managed to drop a Palestinian flag at the very top of the Spire. Fair fucks. Gonna be comical watching Dublin City council trying to figure out how to get that down :) #Speirgorm

For context. The spire is 120 metres tall. Some mad bastards done a serious job here. And the weekend all the Americans are in town for their stupid football game. Maith thú whoever you are. #Speirgorm

Hey, if you have spoons, could you take a quick second and just think of someone you adore on this app and then @ them with some love? Also, repost this so other folks see it. Or just copy and paste the text, I don’t care. This isn’t about me! Just love on some folks. I would appreciate it!

You literally don't need ICE. It doesn't do border control. It was created post 9-11.

This is not Louvre worthy and is correct. Alt text is an accessibility feature. You don’t get to time and place disability and they were not rude.

A large percentage of trauma recovery is learning how to treat yourself like a child (positive), instead of treating yourself like a child (negative)

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

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A basic point, but the reason you go after flawed actors like Comey is to habituate people to the abuse of prosecutorial authority, so that when more serious figures are targeted the abuse of authority feels routine.

Cuomo could never.