Blood is on your hands legitimizing this absolute lunatic. The best scientific minds in this country are BEGGING media and politicians to stop this catastrophe.

I’m never been much of a manga or graphic novel reader (some/occasional - hi Heartstopper!) but just hasn’t much been a draw for me (see what I did there). But grazing at our fav bookstore today I was absolutely compelled to buy this gorgeous doorstop. Thinks it’s gonna be my 2026 chapter-a-day read

I was already pursuing an MPH as a means to jump tracks from my pointless/boring tech job, but hadn’t settled into a focus/interest. Then I happened to read this (for fun, not part of my studies) and I was immediately like “this is it - I’m going to be an environmental epidemiologist”

I already lost (won) Whammageddon, twice in the same day, and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet

*chef’s kiss*

This. Related - we're not in this boat because scientists/researchers all failed to be better/effective at communicating science to "normies." (iirc the fabulous Ed Yong also recently discussed/wrote along these lines but can't find)

Welp soooo many things are legit genuinely terrible presently, but here's a nice damn thing: my first published article out of my postdoc position - and it's alllllll DEI and intersectionality and environmental exposures - oh my! journals.lww.com/environepide...

After my sobering, gut-punch reminder this week of what happens in my fam-of-origin when I as a queer, gender non-conforming person accidentally or on purpose express any joy, sorrow, concern, or anxiety that is in any way tainted by queer, anti-racist, pro-trans or other progressive notions...

One of my fav reads of last year, part of now one of my favorite universes/cast of characters, and also happened to beam into my brain just when it could do the absolute most to uplift and soothe my queer ass soul (i.e. the days after the election).

Tonight! 9pm central! Tune in as I play some excellent dance music! I'm going to play some jungle music tonight, new and classics. 9pm central! twitch.tv/devericmn

Still haven't muscle-memoried that when I first see reference to anything "MTG" on the skyline it isn't Magic the Gathering

really sucks that they got the epstein drive while we got the epstein crimes

A quick and beautiful turn out/response to an ICE raid in St. Paul MN this morning.

I do appreciate the ungentle reminder (as I was clearly slipping in some of my impressions) that functionally and family-dynamics undercurrent-wise, 25 years has certainly not passed at all since I came out to my mom.

In news surprising no elder queers: as a 50 yo gay with a record span of years in which I’ve kept myself so narrowly dialed-in to keep most authentic bits of me safe and away from my fam-of-origin just to have a “we can talk about dogs tho I guess” relationship, I let my guard down and stepped in it

Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.

unsettling nepobaby that absolutely no one wants to be naked around: “millennials have killed public everyday nudity”

Some good auroras never fail to bring to mind the scene from Maximum Overdrive, a fav flick from my childhood. Stay away from your vehicles, power tools and certainly big rigs with your psycho clown demon faces the rest of the night, folks. Just in case.

Burning “still”

reposting full version with attribution info (apologies for and axing prior post)

Alt text for the image Also, is it happening here? check Aurorawatch.ca and you can watch the webcam if you can't see it yourself.

Adding my “holy shit” to the MSP northern lights skyline tonight. We live a mile or so from downtown Minneapolis, and I just got home and walked out the back and looked east:

I love surfacing into bsky for the first time in a minute in the middle of a brief moment of nicetime vs the usual unrelenting un-nicetime. (I know, this doesn't fix or make ICE or any of the rest of the unrelenting awful stop, but it's 30 sec of "jesus well there are some rational ppl out there").

goddamn I <3 my researcher work/life but hoo-boy this week I'm feeling T. Swift's lyric "you're only as hot as your last hit baby": last week 1 paper finally accepted for pub & another drafted, this week feeling like a failure struggling to make the current analysis mechanics work or even make sense

*whispers * awoo

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Look I have loved Tolkien for ages too but I learned a long time ago that if you are talking about the Silmarillion you are losing

Been a minute since I’ve been in the O’Shaughnessy at St. Kate’s, and I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to have been here tonight for an event with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also ran into a little bird named @makeherway.bsky.social who I haven’t seen in a hot minute either!

Finally chilly enough and had an excuse to go out tonight to catch up with a friend to have a chance to wear this ridiculously awesome thrift store find from this past summer. Srsly check these epaulettes and embroidered/beaded coat-of-arms situations!

Thanks for your quick action/photos & reporting this @fivesixzero.bsky.social. Cool cool, cool cool cool cool.

Mpls turned OUT today for #nokings. My only regret: that I didn’t get a better pic of the very good boy wearing a NO KING, YES KONG sign

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The C and D lines are also a few blocks south away!

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

why isn't granularify a word though

Come on my vibrant Fringe-Festy MSP neighbors and friends - let’s bring Portland levels of absurdist performance art protest to these ICE fucks. Let’s fucking go!

guarantee anyone (and by that I mean dudes obvs) throwing shade at T.Swift for "Wood" is also first to chime in with "Nice...." anytime 69 makes an appearance and has so many mixtapes/playlists full of cockrock faves that are nothing but packed-with-eye-roll-inducing-corny-innuendos fuck songs.

we seem to have deprived them entirely of the footage they were obviously hoping for

In the building I'm working late in on an all-women's campus, there's a guy who walking around unironically with Hardy-Boys x REO speedwagon hair wearing an ill-fitting 70's era black plether/vinyl short sleeved belted jumpsuit/romper and I feel like someone's punking me or that I'm in danger

It's an iron law of history: if a bunch of people try to convince you that the professors, queers, and immigrants are the "real" threat, buy a fucking gun, because authoritarianism is on the horizon. Every time.

As a newish Swiftie (since the Eras tour), I can confirm that converts are the absolute worst. Also happy Life of a Showgirl day to all who celebrate.

Get you a neighbor like me who runs around in the dense jungle of a backyard in the dark w/a head lamp or iphone light at 10:00 at night yelling and chasing one of her dogs who is chasing/trying to murder a [fill in the blank urban wildlife that this night happens to be a possum] instead of peeing

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Minnesota wyd 🧐

I like how the BBC news update at the top of the hour just casually dropped in mention about discovery of a "rogue planet" gobbling up space gas and floating "freely through the cosmos on its own" without any mention of whether it's on its way to put us out of our misery or what

Never not worth reading a @dieworkwear.bsky.social thread thru to the end.

Homeless….homeless…..home…less….i don’t know, let’s bulldoze their tents???

Hell yeah