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My favorite part of this article, in addition to the interesting new research on beneficial microbes (of course! of course!), is the picture that makes the gut microvilli look like hot dogs at a rave. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

A lot of men ignore or downplay efforts like these as useless virtue signaling, because things like infant care are largely invisible to them. (I've hidden a lot of comments today, all from men, yes). Breastmilk/baby supplies matter immensely, and these women can see that the need exists.

Also, @seanhollister.bsky.social has been hanging out with the Whistle Coven, and wrote a piece about it! The opening line is "Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause." Our chaos field has been immortalized. (This should be a gift link!!!)

the only literary race I’m running is trying to get all these damn books outta my head before the icy hand of Death takes me to that big kayaking spot in the sky

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Yeah, good luck with that. 😹

We could be housing homeless people, providing healthcare, funding our schools, protecting our environment… no let’s make more concentration camps for brown people. I hate this.

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

BREAKING NEWS: New LEGO otters!! I’ve always loved otters, and LEGO has a special place in my heart, so this is great news. The LEGO Ideas set 21366: Floating Sea Otters has been revealed, and reactions are mixed. But the most important thing is that LEGO sends me one ASAP. Please?"

It is 8 a.m. on Monday in Minnesota. The more you know, right? Eat! Hydrate! Moisturize! Take your meds! Why am I yelling at you?! Sorry about that! Anyway. Hang in there, folks. This occupation sucks, but you rock. Fuck ICE.

DEMAND YOUR CITY COUNCIL KEEP US SAFE FROM ICE! Use our automatic email forms to call on your local City Council to pass a strong separation ordinance from federal immigration enforcement and a resolution calling on Gov. Walz to enact an eviction moratorium! Link in the replies!

Nothing new from the hospital. More waiting. More limbo. Reminder: no stream today. I don’t have it in me to be entertaining right now.

And they decided to blame it on trans people for talking about how difficult it was to have your HRT ripped away.

This goes for me as well. 😸

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this female peregrine falcon shake The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨 This video is NOT in slow motion! Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶

Olympic hockey teams are being felled by norovirus, you say? Never a good sign when I get to post this good sign.

IT'S HAPPENING: Great Horned Owlette season is upon us! Several weeks earlier than last year, not one but TWO owlettes have been documented AND verified. By me. 10 minutes ago. Let's goooo!!! And observe from a safe respectful distance! Alt status: IT'S A SUPERB OWL MIRACLE! 🪶 🐣

This is the faultline in our society. The Constitution is flawed but what's good about it essentially operates on the assumption of good faith. Even the checks and balance mechanisms require it. Republicans have been bad far longer, but in the 90s they abandoned it entirely and we suffer to this day

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Hi all, there are a lot of things to be said about the chaos, kidnapping and murder, that is happening in the state I live in right now. I want to highlight some things I have personally seen in the last month or so out on the streets in Minneapolis. 🧵

It's a war on creativity, which can be made formulaic, commodified, deployed for propaganda, used for evil ends, but ultimately contains within it an unpredictability, a core of unriggability, that fascism hates and capitalism seeks to subdue.

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

Another addition to the website to help us built *systems* and not just have me trying to do everything alone: If you'd like to adopt a rent that you can either *cover immediately* and fundraise for, or just pay outright, please fill out this form and we will contact you via Signal.

Let's get some #SuperbOwl content going with a great question: When did owls become the /superb/ night-time hunters that we see today? They're seemingly built around a nocturnal predator lifestyle: stealthy, agile flight; giant light-gathering eyes; superior auditory precision.

The Luminary Loppet and the "ICE Out for Good" vigil in Minneapolis converged as a way for artists and attendees alike to honor "victims of ICE" Saturday.

For anyone who used the pronoun labeler, you may or may not have noticed that it imploded and is now gone. The new one I'm seeing shared around the most is @pronounpicker.ripperoni.com

Before the charity stream began, content creators from @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social weren't sure what number to aim for — maybe $30,000 or $50,000. Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.

Talked with a friend yesterday who was down from Minneapolis for a few days and she emphasized the huge amount of unseen, unglamorous work and security behind the scenes, which all activists know is what enables the visible work. She's part of an amazing network. Minneapolis is the best of us.

Slop purveyor: my machine lets me produce 6,000 gallons of hot dogshit per day. How do you think you can possibly compete with that? Literally any creative person: by not producing 6,000 gallons a day of hot dogshit, mostly

Since Valentine's Day is approaching, I'm reposting some of my past Valentine's comics.

Well, they took Fred off sedation and the vent briefly to assess his brain activity, and he *seemed* to respond? His eyes tracked and he was able to squeeze his son’s hand so…? Back to waiting. It’s hopeful, but we don’t know the extent of the damage. Again, we wait. Heading back home today.

Daily trauma recovery looks like managing our time & money; talking back to cognitive distortions w/ patience & realism; taking time to stretch, move, rest, & care for our body; feeding & hydrating ourselves appropriately; & responding to "symptoms" w/ care & grace, not judgment.

Things to do this weekend besides watching football: -help out in your community - manage your mind goblins - build a wizard tower out of books - nap for 1,000 years - investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff - investigate pie

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly? That’s what talent is like.

There are people on this platform who are very smug about how they got off the X to "escape the Nazis and transphobes even though it cost them business" who are still quite happy to make compromises to keep writing and reading on substack.

This is an important read. I don't want to take anything away from it. However: It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

Still nothing, limbo. Slept awful. Hotel coffee is never strong enough, ugh.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Well, nothing will (hopefully) happen until Sunday. FIL is stable but on life support. His other kids are flying in tonight, but they won’t make the call to take him off support until Sunday at the earliest. Just…in limbo now. Waiting.

There's a couple on Instagram where I think the husband is NT and the wife is AuDHD, and they recently did a video where she said, "I can either work or take care of myself, but I can't do both," and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

Meanwhile...

ONLY EIGHT LEFT ?!?!?!?!

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PURE

It feels ludicrous that on top of everything else, mundane tragedies still go on. My FIL had a heart attack Wednesday night. It’s unlikely he’ll regain consciousness. I’m…fuck. Just…fuck.

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.