And it got more than an order of magnitude worse… Over 1,000,000 Americans dead. It’s amazing that we’ve just memory holed this.

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

Of course insurers like him. He pretty much singlehandedly turned us all back to in-person work, guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of new disabled people in need of meds, treatment, and insurance plans more detailed than “hold your breath and pray.” Also Zuck’s all in. All you need to know.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

In addition to replacing thermal generation at both plants, the Office of Disaster Recovery and the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority have secured emergency power generation to address service interruptions affecting St. Thomas and St. John residents due to frequent generation shortfalls.

Pope Leo FTW 🙌

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Wait? Are you telling me you aren't registered for WisCon yet? We have panels, community, games, readings, and... hold up! Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed as our Guests of Honor. Let's go! Get your tickets today. wiscon.net

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell The New York Times to stop being heartless and let Rich Quan work at home . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Pervert glasses. Anybody who buys these things should be deeply ashamed and shunned from decent society.

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

“Masking is the easiest way to protect my health and make sure I’m able to still show up for my patients and my family." Danielle, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, who has primary immunodeficiency & #LongCOVID. www.instagram.com/p/DX0CBHWEdD... 👇 www.facebook.com/share/p/1GNj...

“It’s difficult to know why the word ‘airborne’ is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded.”

BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️ NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️

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The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

To OP & all the people (rightfully) decrying this in the replies, you're all wearing masks in public, right??? Because like, you know that's the easiest thing you can do to refuse to participate in RFK Jr's eugenics project, right?? Right???

MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor, the Democratic-backed candidate, has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result expands the court’s liberal majority to 5–2, extending its current ideological balance for years to come.

UW board of regents votes to fire UW president Jay Rothman via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/04/07/u...

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

Nutella photobombing an historic moment.

It’s a short film (under 6 minutes) that captures the experience of living with #LongCovid and its challenges with humor and heart. A good conversation starter for friends and family. ✌🏼😷😎

Winnie hopes you are having a nice #Caturday

Strangely Optimistic (Dir. Nina Storey) now available via FB and soon on YouTube. #LongCovid

ICYMI: UW President Jay Rothman says Regents told him to resign or be fired without clear reasons. @bspears.bsky.social has the backstory.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

@johnquijote.bsky.social Here’s Winnie 😎

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million https://theonion.com/report-decision-not-to-call-film-the-baby-yoda-movie-to-cost-disney-900-million/

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

"When I first met Francesca Hong for Wisconsin in 2022, it was clear that she’s not another cautious, politics-as-usual Democrat waiting for permission to lead."

Science takes ~17 years to reach clinical practice. The science in 2026 is clear: we don’t have another decade to wait on SARS-CoV-2. If you’re doing what you can to avoid (re)infection, your behaviour is 100% aligned with best current available evidence. If you’re not, waiting is ill-advised.

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Imagine getting mad at me online when I’m quite literally beyond beef

Panels Suggestions are open! So, far we have 30 suggestions--we want more! What do you want to hear discussed at WisCon this year? Give us your wild, your feminist, your rage, your joy, and your curiosity! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WisCon #feministconvention

I can explain over and over again till I'm blue in the face that we don't breathe through our hands and we catch respiratory diseases by breathing in infectious aerosols and people will smile and nod and keep washing their hands to prevent COVID & the flu because The Rules say so.

Tax billionaires out of existence.

Late winter in the 414

Exoskeletons! Bionic leg braces! The wrong trousers! Most of us do not want these things. The loss of being bipedal isn’t what grieves us. It’s the fact that abled people just cannot help themselves making exclusionary decisions that DON’T NEED TO BE. Everyone benefits from ramps.

As an aside, when I took this photo I was standing about 30 feet in front of the piragua cart and vendor that 8 years later would be chosen and appear in Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. #DtMF

This hit me so hard because the arts and sciences mingling like this represents the best of humanity, and the best of humanity has been under attack... nothing supremacists despise more than real history presented creatively and memorably

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

"My part was actually really easy,” Athias said. “They just told me where to stand, and they said: ‘Don’t move. Stand here and be one with the grass.’” ...sometimes I too long to be one with the grass.

Jorell is quite rightly being lauded for collaborating with Bad Bunny, and his PUERTO RICO, from @princetonupress.bsky.social, is fantastic, I keep thinking, as I've watched MPLS, of his earlier book THE LETTERED BARRIADA, about PR organizing and educating under occupation in the first half of C20.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

what a shot

Climate injustice made an appearance at the Super Bowl last night. Most don't know that Puerto Rico struggles with reliable electricity due to systemic racism. The government refuses to invest in any real grid improvements, so lights will be kept on at resorts while Puerto Ricans sit in the dark.

Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday. Milwaukee celebrates with a colorful balloon mural honoring the city’s diversity created by Orlando Gonzalez, a local professional balloon designer.