I highlighted the most important part of yesterday’s Nature paper. We’re in year six. Can you please stop saying “during the pandemic” and “post-Covid”? You sound dangerously uninformed or just really stupid when you say it.

Maybe I'm just not following the right people, but there's no true posters on this site.

This is not a safe place without locked accounts. ✌🏻

"If we're going to be kin, then we must accept that these relationships come with responsibility." - Patty Krawec, "Becoming Kin: an Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future"

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

I'm for it. Alcohol is poison

Just like the “male loneliness epidemic” the imbalance in men going to college is entirely their own doing. A whole generation has decided to make themselves uneducated and unfuckable because they’re addicted to resentment. Manosphere influencers line their pockets by ensuring they stay that way.

However hard your life is, remember that you have more dignity than the richest man to ever exist, who used a sock puppet to post this about himself.

Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people. I really just can't see past a lot of that.

UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation "Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic. 1/ www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

Thinking of all the disabled folks having a lonely holiday season bc ppl couldn't be bothered with COVID precautions, the space wasn't accessible, funds are tight, you need the time off to recover, ppl are disappointed you're not who you used to be, invitations are simply no longer forthcoming, etc.

I have an incredibly unfun medical appointment tomorrow morning. Send good vibes that it goes easily and without complications

Joe Biden is the president.

In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town

Food sovereignty is the way

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

[my house, 20 years from now, listening to "baby, it's cold outside"] my son: man, this song is real weird me: it used to get cold outside

"Today, southern food serves as an American lingua franca. Like the Black power fist and the magnolia blossom, fried chicken discloses, cornbread suggests, potlikker tells." - a beautiful couple of sentences from John Edge's "The Potlikker Papers: a Food History of the Modern South"

The thing about Oklahoma is yes you will frequently actually see a pair of hawks making lazy circles in the sky AND I FUCKING LOVE IT

I need to delete like at least half the academics I'm following here.

“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said. www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...

Episode 9 of Shogun

women you better lower your standards or else i’m warning you i will become even more pathetic

Big surge ahead.

Breaking news! Mike Hoerger is posting his covid forecasts on Bluesky now! Mike, thanks so much for keeping me safe and covid free.

Masking makes spaces more accessible for the medically vulnerable. It’s amazing to me how many good and decent people know this and just don’t do it. Misinformation, propaganda, the Democratic Party have done a number on our ability to reason our way out of being just to disabled folks.

"The Biden era has normalized illness and demonized mitigations for the sake of 'back to normal' [...] where educated liberals genuinely think it’s okay [...] their kids are constantly ill (to be expected given the immune system-damaging nature of COVID)." www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-pr...

Seeing the high quality masks - respirators - makes me very happy.

I think some people may be missing that part of the point of the anti-vax movement *is* the mass death. It's all of a big eugenics piece, and historically rolls in right after a big ol' pandemic... open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...

My sister two weeks ago: "Me and the kids all skipped the flu shot this year." Why???????? Based on what evidence??????

I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face

As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt. I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India. My father worked for the Pulse Polio program. What is happening?

Jesus fucking Christ. That's the thing about my vaccine denying family! My aunt had polio when she was 4! Now my sister doesn't vaccinate her kids.

Universities Are Failing a Critical COVID Test via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024...

Shoot, it's not just billionaires who believe this! My own father believes this! Every person in your hometown freaked out about outdoor unhoused camps believes this!

An Okla City Police Officer was charged with felony assault by Okla County DA Vicki Behenna stemming from an arrest of a 71-year-old. | Brett Dickerson reports

Songs from my youth that are absolutely still bangers open.spotify.com/track/6fVnRx...

The things you see on marketplace in Oklahoma

Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm. “I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”

Sunrises > sunsets

Yeah, I absolutely call myself a historian

I didn't go on a single date in 2024. Unbelievable

Quit calling us "tribal members." We are tribal CITIZENS.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A little louder for the folks in the back: The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...