IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Cat 😺 won the Bird Lottery

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

For Liam.

This of course explains much about the minimisation and normalisation of covid harms:

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Thank you to all the amazing people who've reached out. I'm eager to share your stories and show that SNAP is, at it's core, about the human right to food.

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

is this in the new Borderlands game, I haven't played it

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

This is one of my favourite pieces of food writing: thewalrus.ca/garlic-in-a-...

It’s honestly pretty heartbreaking to hear a parade of health care professionals plead with the ACIP not to make their jobs harder

this is a really amazing and necessary series on the loss of jobs in some fields, to AI

Uhhhh if you know someone on Depo Provera shots, tell them there's a lawsuit for brain and spinal tumors. What the fuck. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I recently returned to my Animal Crossing island. I missed it, and there are still some unfinished things I would like to do. Collections, fruit, to stop the flowers from overtaking my entire island. 🏝️ I still need: -Cherries 🍒 -Peaches 🍑 - Pears 🍐 Also back on my quest to grow blue roses.

I hope you all read this from me.

To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement. However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read. I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here. I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social

Waterproof makeup was made for this! 🏳️‍🌈💙🦈✨️

Shocking for people who haven't been paying attention to disability as a main target of this administration, I suppose, but evil either way.

Update on Novavax COVID vaccine availability from a New York Times reporter: they haven’t been shipped out yet but the supplier plans to ship next week.

This is a subject that interests me. Especially when you extend the trope from James Sunderland to Ethan Winters to Alan Wake, because the Wake marriage seems to break this trope but really it gives us a spectrum of Sad Men and how they relate to women with James at the bottom and Alan at the top.

We’re bringing back measles, mumps, and polio but at least you’ll also have an annoying little know-it-all in your pocket uploading the data from your smart toothbrush to the cloud

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

I, a healthcare lawyer, run through how to navigate the pharmacy websites to make a COVID vaccine appointment. This video is completely shareable, there's no patreon account, no log in at all, required. It's meant to be a shareable resource for your normie friends www.patreon.com/posts/138393...

These words by Justice Sotomayor will forever be etched in the history of this country.

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Look at this little friend, making sure to get good purchase when snacking.

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

SOME GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

once again tapping the sign

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

RFK RFK how many kids did you kill today???? #ImpeachTheQuack #standupforscience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

I think science fiction is currently reimagining itself both in terms of its writers and its audience, and we're already seeing it be far *less* cis-white-dude coded in terms of both. But it's a long-term progression and fantasy, its sister genre, is further along and reaping the benefits.

I see a discussion re: whether science fiction as a lit genre is dying. My thought about that is no BUT there are two important factors to consider: One, it was/is heavily cis-white-dude coded and that group buys fewer books now; Two, SF thrives with optimism about the future, and, well.

This chaos is very much the point. They want to completely degrade faith in the medical establishment and make it so difficult and complicated to get vaccinated that you just give up. DO NOT GIVE UP Don’t give them the ability to say “well no one’s getting the vaccine anyway.”

Important to understand this is not necessarily permanent. What I’ve seen is that some places like CVS are saying they’re waiting for further clarification from the govt. Also check to see if you are able to cross state lines. I live in NY but have gotten every one of my covid shots in NJ

this is one of those things a lot of people don’t think about but fr if you happen to be writing something for, let’s say, an at risk community and you yourself are an at risk person, pretty please, clean your links.

I’ve been fortunate enough to do a lot insane things in my life, but getting to tell Junichi Masuda how much Pokemon means to me, holding the same cartridge that started it all for me, is never going to be topped.

I am a bestselling author with my books in print in over 100 countries and 7 languages. Writing is still not my only income source.

About 10% of foster kids go to college, but many arrive with only a bag of clothes. So a California non-profit started "Dec My Dorm," raising more than $40,000 to help 140 LA-based students. Now they're aiming at the other 49 states. #college @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities: Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications Investigator Program - not accepting applications

An update from us here at PBS 💙

happy international cat day!!

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

had some kids over for a playdate and one of them, not sure who, made some kind of lego summoning circle