I’m curious how many folks had some part of this furniture set when they were little? My sister & I had twin beds with canopies, dresser & mirror, & nightstands. I was surprised to learn there was more to the set; I’ve never figured out how many pieces there are or what the collection is named.

Welp. For the first time in my …22 years as a chronic pain patient, a pharmacy shorted me a scheduled Rx. Not a partial fill, a telling me I had the full amount but if you counted, I was 25% shy. And Walgreens’ response? Basically “too bad, sucks to be you.” They screwed up, I get to suffer.

this is not merely about abortion, this is a blank check for right wingers to murder anyone they dislike

Then there’s North Carolina: “Advocates warn the [bill’s] language implies that anyone could use lethal force against a woman seeking an abortion or a physician involved in performing one. Concerns also extend to families who use in vitro fertilization and women with IUDs.” Party of life, eh? 🙄🙄🙄

Their eugenic project continues. 😐 (TLDR: HUD will no longer defend the ESA part of the Fair Housing Act.) 1/4 dredf.org/huds-esa-pol...

We just learned last week that Kat was never truly indicted. The grand jury in Chicago returned a no true bill. Prosecutors then had to tell anyone who didn't want an indictment to leave and cajole someone in the hallway until they returned an indictment. Please, go to jury duty and raise hell.

🤦🏼‍♀️ Repatriating people with ebolavirus disease is not going to cause outbreaks in America. The streets will not run red with blood, no matter how many times people look in a mirror & quote a Richard Preston novel. Please see 2014-16, where the only person who died in the USA was a noncitizen visitor.

“Marco Rubio said the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) were leading the response to Ebola, adding the WHO had been "a little late to identify" the outbreak.” The. Fucking. Gall. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can YOU name the director of a bioethics center I’m thinking of right now? 😂 IYKYK

“New Hampshire’s premier crematorium” is an odd thing to see advertised on a highway billboard. And now I have SO many questions. 🤔

Gostin should know better. Hope Perrymsn gets a lawyer & sues, even if it’s after she’s released. The legal precedent (Ebola, Kaci Hickox) already exists. Also hope that lawyer knows the fed govt has to financially compensate her for every forced day. #hantavirus www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

Are we going to take bets on who lands the job, folks? 😈

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

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Meanwhile, I’d suggest students at Texas A&M—especially those who intend to pursue graduate degrees in the humanities or social sciences—start working to transfer to institutes of higher education outside of Texas. Might be a good time to poach faculty, too, if you can convince your uni to hire.

*taps mic* I think this works? I’m supposed to be more social, more HIRE ME, more boggy, more 2013 me… …but instead I’m going to fuck off to Iceland for a bit. I’ll try that other stuff later. Or something.

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Happy book birthday, @jonathanmoreno.bsky.social! It was a pleasure and an honor to have a small hand in bringing Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order to print. For those of you interested in bioethics, esp bioethics & history, this is a must-read.

Whenever I hear [person] wants "to inform the public so that society as a whole can participate in drawing ethical lines, rather than leaving profound decisions to a small group of bioethics experts," I look around & wonder if that person has really paid attention to society as a whole, lately.

That was fast. The FCC chair admits Colbert was fired to appease Trump. “Brendan Carr told Fox News that networks will "run into issues like [Stephen] Colbert" if they don't check bias and continue to "run a partisan circus."” (All because Behr criticized T-Diddy.) ew.com/fcc-chair-br...

And it certainly looks like Stewart expects to be next. deadline.com/2025/07/the-...

But no, no, I’m sure this isn’t at all related. apnews.com/article/colb...

I see CBS/Paramount has decided to kowtow to dictators. youtu.be/AuqEZx6TmfI?...

I see CBS/Paramount has decided to kowtow to dictators. youtu.be/AuqEZx6TmfI?...

Ryan is right. Most of the time, the classroom is either asking questions because they don’t understand the reading, or looking blankly at the teacher because they didn’t do the reading. Even if you put instructions for a Molotov in the middle of your syllabus, most students would miss it.

idk how you’d frame it, that’s for the pros, but i think there’s probably an avenue for “you’re not my fucking father” messaging for dems next year, because this is incredibly weird and unpleasant and inappropriate

Propaganda is the thing this administration does best and they don’t even do it well

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

You know, every time I dip back into CRISPR, I am reminded that Charpentier and Doudna received a Nobel prize and Feng Zhang didn’t, and I just SMILE. (I'll post what I'm working on when it's done - it's a video about KJ Muldoon.)

Now that the new Superman is upon us, don't forget to remind folks (repeatedly, if your family is anything like mine) that not only was Superman an immigrant, he was a refugee who illegally crossed borders to end up in the United States.

When you discover your favorite game world designer (@keith-baker.com) referencing your favorite author (@stevenbrust.bsky.social), you decide you are having a very good day and you shut the internet down. (AKA go back to Hero Forge to build a Silver Flame ranger.) keith-baker.com/tag/silver-f...

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social ICYMI,.. www.instagram.com/reel/DHW4ZuW... It’ll be released late July. In case you need an animatronic shark jumping out of the…ground/fake water/your living room floor. You know.

You know, historically, you just assumed every company was problematic (no ethical consumption under capitalism). This? This is a lot more Bayer and Boss in 1930s Germany,… Socks, vases, snow globes, ornaments, bed sheets, Instant Pots, rice cookers,…

Correlation is not causation, yet two things are true: 1.Today a judge ruled that NIH grant terminations were illegal and discriminatory, and 2. Today was Pitbull theme week in the Carlson Lab Music League. Only one conclusion is possible. Thank you Mr. 305 for saving the NIH 🙏

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Pardon me for the fandom, but oh geez. I argued from the first time I heard it that Taylor Swift’s Midnights was a breakup album, but I didn’t put together til tonight that New Year’s Day talks about wanting all his midnights… 🤦🏼‍♀️

Hmm, Regeneron is acquiring most of 23andMe's assets at bankruptcy auction. "The acquisition, valued at $256 million, includes 23andMe’s Personal Genome Service, Total Health and Research Services, Biobank, and associated assets." And of course, they want to continue the DNA edu-tainment services.

It’s my birthday and I’ll graduate if I want to, I’ll graduate if I want to…

i really really hate how many people on the left are responding to good advice on dealing with ICE with "so they don't abide by the law anyway" ignore people who tell you not to take basic safety precautions like knowing your rights. those people aren't your friends

2. If knowing your rights didn't make a difference, they wouldn't be threatening and arresting people who told folks their rights. 3. Don't make it easier for ICE and harder for your lawyer to get you out. As we've seen with Mohsen Mohdawi, lawyers CAN fight even this system.

For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law: 1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.

@walkerbragman.bsky.social nailed it

Here's some background on all the misinformation about COVID, vaccines, and public health that Vinay Prasad, the new head of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research, has spread:

This is bad news. Vinay Prasad has consistently spread misinformation about COVID and vaccines. Dangerously he will now significant power to regulate vaccines and gene therapies.

I think trying to finish my MPH is slowly breaking me. I just woke up from a nap where @ggronvall.bsky.social and I were crocheting viruses and using clamp beads to explain, with illustration, how you could examine a virus and tell it was man-made and why COVID-19 wasn’t a lab leak bioweapon.

We’re cooked

People seem to have a problem understanding what reasonable expectation for privacy is. Here's the deal: public social media? You don't have any.The end.