COVID vaccines have been one of the greatest public health breakthroughs of the century, saving millions of lives and containing untold agony. And the worst people alive have profited grotesquely from insisting the exact opposite is true.

i'm driving through guatemala on a rented motorbike, taking in the view of majestic green landscape, when an unexpectedly familiar smell hits me. the subway Fresh Bread(TM) Odor induces a massive cascading brain hemorrhage, killing me instantly

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration. It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.

We’re officially in the Lame Duck phase of Trump’s presidency with over three years left on the clock

the small language model arrived

Nice interview with Uniflora on @post-trash.bsky.social - excited to see them Friday (and my first time at Color Club!):

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I hope I am remembered as "critic, philosopher, essayist" instead of as "man who boarded overnight flight with hornets' nest in CPAP machine"

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This is how you write a headline when you wanna make "murder is way way way down, never been downer" sound very scary. Editorial tips for brownshirt journalism from the trib. Unsubscribe! Do not pay for this, it is not journalism!

When you get that 30+ notification bc @braiine-cell.bsky.social was catching up on some favs

Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security

Gentrifying the “masturbator spot” on the bus

GIVE COPS MORE MONEY TO SHOOT THE SNOW OFF THE SIDEWALKS

Jalen Hurts turns it over twice on one play, the Eagles fan reaction is classic

Grayson Allen commits the most egregious travel in NBA history (h/t @ianrea.bsky.social)

Even as a Millennial TurboLiberal for whom this website is made I have to admit I get pretty tired of reading about one trillion problems I neither understand nor can solve. "THOUSANDS of octopi are dying off the coast of Madagascar" alright I'm not in charge of that. That's not my job.

THE PERSON WHO INVENTED GREEK YOGURT: Do you like it? It’s supposed to taste like that by the way. That was on purpose.

Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.

one of the most important pieces of software in biology is NIHImage/ImageJ/FIJ which is free, coded in Java, and looks like some kind of weird 4X game that 10 people play

Dreamed I got a chastising message at work that said, “You should know the names of all the Muppets,” and someone stuck up for me, saying, “I don’t think this one has a name,” and they attached a picture of like a white Gonzo with no eyes

Long story short, I’ll be spending almost 7k more next year for health insurance because of Trump and Trump Republicans.

Hey, so, I've been fired. Now that I'm unemployed like the other half of Bluesky, if anyone knows of work for a writer, reporter, or nonprofit grants manager, I'd be much obliged. You all know where to find me.

My residential neighbors did a mostly great job shoveling after this storm, but the strip mall with a gym, post office, swimming pool school, and restaurants nearby is completely uncleared more than 24 hours after the snow stopped. #PlowTheSidewalks

tbh i stopped playing DND because i hate 5e so much. finally someone who understands the beauty of 4e

"yeah, bring everyone. yeah, the whole group. it's fine, it's fine. we'll squeeze in"

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

"you know turkey is bad because people only cook it twice a year" you do NOT speak for smoker-owning americans, SIR

it is happening again theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Insane in-arena entertainment in Atlanta. They asked a lady to name as many phone apps as she could in 24 seconds and she just rattled off names of restaurants. Then they showed a video of nikeil Alexander Walker doing the same thing and the first apps he said were messages, notes and “settings”

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

When I turned that off, the tabs "Updates, Promotions, Social, InBox" were deleted by default. The tabs that existed BEFORE Gemini. #rage

LFGGGGGG!

a few of my favorite snowy owl shots from yesterday in Chicago #birds 🪶

one time i was on the bus & a guy was playing music on his phone but like, all 90s hip hop and at perfect conversational volume. i saw some folks bopping heads a lil bit. it was the best bus ride ever. a curated experience. he took it upon himself to DJ the commute and we were better for it

A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.

woke 2

You think we can talk about ending the hostile military occupation of our cities yet or

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

you gotta hand it to him - another remarkable bit of statesmanship from our Nazi pedophile billionaire president

woke 2 sends its regards

I guess "modern American masculinity is a neotenous emotional state where the culture permits, and even cultivates, juvenile developmental qualities into adulthood" is just a fancy way of saying "everyone is twelve now"

i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today

People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke

im publishing an amazon affiliate listicle titled "the 25 best gifts for coffee lovers in 2025" and making sure it includes all the heavy hitters: -folgers -k-cups -mug with 'fluent in sarcasm' written on the side