no I don’t want the sparkly little icon to bot-splain to me how to write an e-mail, leave me tf alone

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

@apnews.com Dr @kprather.bsky.social, whom you quote in this article, writes that it’s Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social who is blocking effective resolution of the toxic air pollution about you write about. Why don’t you mention this? bsky.app/profile/kpra... apnews.com/article/tiju...

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence. Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

The “What Would Putin Do?” theory of the American presidency remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

The distraction I didn’t know I needed - thanks @benfeist.bsky.social !

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

A Kyiv school declared a week of mourning after 12-year-old student Oleksandra Polishchuk was killed in a Russian strike. She died at home during the attack, while her mother was hospitalized in critical condition.

Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to: 1. Quit baking; or 2. Use an inferior recipe; or 3. Import cake instead of making it

Pull the *cord*, not chord, @thr.com …

I’m wondering if this comment is meant to be ironic. Of what use is high-visibility clothing when drivers aren’t even looking up from their phones? 🤔

@nytimes.com So I just opened today’s NYT and found that you’re killing NYT For Kids. The most important question is the one your ‘We Have News’ piece doesn’t answer. Why? You tell us how important it is, and my kid loves it, but you don’t tell us why you’re walking away. Why?

A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book. It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life. (Published Sept. 2022)

Preventing heart disease, my recommendations gift link wapo.st/4ofjsZ8

If you know anyone with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (#EDMD) or want to support research on this disease, a patient family we have been working with for many years has started a new foundation, cureEDMD, to raise awareness for this devastating disease: www.cureedmd.org Please share widely!

ElectroCity is available to run on Flashpoint for Windows at flashpointarchive.org

As much as I appreciate ProPublica doing a review of the prompts here…. taking a step back, all this code is doing is uploading a file to an LLM and asking it to do “magic”. This isn’t groundbreaking technical work, it’s a farce attempting to look smart.

I share this particularly with @euromaidanpress.bsky.social, so that you can be reminded to add ALT text to all of the pictures you share here, particularly those of fallen soldiers so that you can label them with their names and we can know who is who.

Did you know Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images? Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a great day to help you get that set up. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting." #GAAD #GAAD2025

As we prepare to share all our great "Star Wars" memes for "May The Fourth," we can be reminded of Bluesky's setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

My op-ed in print @nytimes.com today on science of aging gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

If you want to understand how cells function, you have to work out what proteins interact with — and where https://go.nature.com/3RmUUy0

The moral of the story is this: do not experiment on yourself by snorting airborne viruses into your brain. Stay in the control group.

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology are launching the Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage, which aims to promote community-engaged practices in archaeological and heritage studies. myumi.ch/rA1WZ

The antiviral Ensitrelvir, already approved in Japan 🇯🇵 and Singapore 🇸🇬 , reduced the risk of confirmed Covid infection by 67% in a double-blind placebo control trial Take 💊 within 72hrs of a household member developing symptoms news.virginia.edu/content/new-...

TIL that Ukraine has chip fabs.

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

Dominantly inherited myopathies and #musculardystrophy affect various skeletal muscle functions, from structural components to protein homeostasis. Andrew Findlay reviews their complex and diverse mechanisms, as it is crucial for developing effective therapies. 🧪Read more: bit.ly/4fNXJme

Discover how protein clusters in cells could lead to treatments for Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, revealing the molecular and physical rules behind their formation.

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

The long-term, multi-system complications after Covid hospitalization among ~64,000 cases and 310,000 matched controls. Excess of Type 2 diabetes, kidney, lung and neurological disorders. Replicates prior work by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I love the smell of dimethyl sulfide in the morning. (For those keeping score at home, dimethyl sulfide can be produced by aquatic bacteria, decomposing algae, and phytoplankton.) Interesting discovery!

Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment www.nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢 www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

Member of the European Astronaut Reserve, John McFall has been cleared to become the first person with a physical disability to take part in a mission to the International Space Station. 👨‍🚀🛰️ Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Several red state AGs including mine are suing to dismantle 504s in schools. Please, call your reps and AGs to demand they let all children learn in public schools. The end goal is to delete all special education services. All accommodations.

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

After American airspace was closed on 9/11, over 230 flights with 30,000 passengers and crew were diverted to Canadian airports. Transport Canada received thousands of calls from members of the public offering to help the stranded passengers. Thinking about that today, for no particular reason.

A reminder that humans are capable of great acts of wonder when we work together & embrace knowledge. An international team of astronomers has discovered swarms of cold comets circling 74 nearby stars -- and got clear pictures of these "exocomet belts." 🧪🔭 www.iac.es/en/outreach/...

Photos that didn't make the wire: Dexter, Michigan celebrates its bicentennial. June 22, 2024

Is this a town from the Old West? No, it's Dexter, Michigan in 1870. I find it amazing how much old Dexter looks like a town from an old Western. If you like this photo, please consider retweeting it to share the love. #PureMichigan #Photography #Dexter #OldWest

Excellent advice for those who mentor, including parents of teenagers

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...