On the weird new game from the guy who made #Wordle, which the guardian is being really silly about (and comparing to #TimotheeChalamet???) in a way that infuriates me (or: on the loveliness of making things simply because you would like for them to exist) www.patreon.com/posts/153663...

On the weird new game from the guy who made #Wordle, which the guardian is being really silly about (and comparing to #TimotheeChalamet???) in a way that infuriates me (or: on the loveliness of making things simply because you would like for them to exist) www.patreon.com/posts/153663...

rachel use bluesky to actually keep in touch with people and read interesting thoughts, not to try to chase the dopamine fix you got from being a weird little microinfluencer on twitter challenge

buying this baby cubicle for my kid as soon as he's four months old so he can start practicing make number go up for shareholder, circle back on email, and other crucial life skills

wow @dropout.tv licensing Don't Hug Me I'm Scared somehow inches them even closer to being a streaming service curated especially and calibrated precisely for me, Rachel Feltman, a person who used to think she was unique and had original thoughts

ways in which having a baby is basically turning my life into a #horror movie (complimentary) part one of many: his best friend and only conversation partner is an entity we refer to as "the baby in the mirror"

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I finally got around to making a @bookshop.org affiliate shop full of books from Weirdest Thing and also just books I like! We've got science! We've got history! We've got WLW regency romance! Stay tuned for more nonfiction, plus lots of horror and weirdfic bookshop.org/shop/weirdes...

yesterday was my birthday and I spent most of it soothing a three month old baby who got his first tooth at three weeks and already has a second one so be nice to me

will I be on here more? maybe. I'm also now possibly on threads www.threads.com/@rafeltman

@feltman.bsky.social My friends and I had a Powerpoint Party, and my theme was The Weirdest Thing I learned this week Also my look was full of eyes (earings, necklace, pants and make up) And i hand painted some bubblegum! My favorite podcast, and Kudos to your book hehe

trying to get my pittance NJ unpaid maternity leave stipend but have to first prove I was employed by the temp agency my main gig used to avoid giving me salaried benefits, which now literally doesn't exist and has been swapped for another temp agency that keeps forgetting what state I'm based in

fyi @sabs.bsky.social's perfect and wonderful book is part of the @libro.fm Shop Small Sale libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

when a show is incredibly good except the plot hinges on someone in a BSL-4 lab removing a layer of PPE while examining a specimen

genuinely very excited for this film about how shakers were metal as hell, actually www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

“I came to apologies bc I find apologies quite interesting & bizarre. They’re something that is called cheap talk bc anyone can apologize, whether or not they mean it—it costs them nothing—so you think they’d be meaningless, but they’re really meaningful.”🧪 @feltman.bsky.social

Here's a fun version of this: end-to-end development of a vaccine costs about $3-4B (assuming no incremental benefits in platform tech!). OpenAI's last cap raise came out to $40B. So, for the cost of non-consenually seeing Jason Momoa plow Marilyn Monroe, you could instead fully cure ten diseases.

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline." "We have a gerontocracy." Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧

Jared Kushner and a bunch of Saudi investors owning The Sims obviously isn't the worst thing that's happening right now but I just really didn't have that one on my enshittification bingo card

"You see CDC being torn apart, 2,000 people who are no longer there, years of experience, centers that are being demolished." @drdemetre.bsky.social discusses the dire state of US public health w/ @feltman.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Today on Science Quickly for @sciam.bsky.social: @drdemetre.bsky.social on how the CDC has decayed from a trusted source of health information to "an ideology propaganda machine that’s Orwellian"—and what we can do about it www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Every new thing I learn about Alvin Lucier is cooler than the last. He used his brainwaves to make music in the '60s--and he found a way to keep it up, even after his death. "If anyone was gonna pull off immortality, it was him," his daughter, Amanda Lucier, told me. Enjoy the episode!🧪

Today on @sciam.bsky.social's Science Quickly, our unofficial music correspondent @parshallison.bsky.social tells us how one experimental composer is continuing to make music from beyond the grave www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

maybe the dire wolves were skating bowls too much

Karolina spent years idolizing raw vegan influencers on Instagram. She went to Bali to meet them — and never came home. My deep dive on fruitarianism — a group of wellness influencers who exclusively eat raw fruit — is up on @nymag.com @thecut.com today. www.thecut.com/article/karo...

Got to talk about ~hot historical gossip~ with @annaleen.bsky.social on this week's Weirdest Thing! Also: skate park archaeology www.popsci.com/science/arch...

we are a heartbeat away from someone in a position of medical authority saying that fresh liver smoothies are superior to prenatal vitamins and the best treatment for a maternal fever is a cold plunge

meanwhile, unmanaged fevers during pregnancy are such a concern that they put the fear of god into you about taking HOT BATHS

Really important piece by Roxane Gay: “Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries.” 🎁 link: @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

The always excellent @parshallison.bsky.social unpacks the evidence on pregnancy and tylenol www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

throughout my childhood I had sunday school teachers tell me the rapture would obviously happen before I made it to adulthood, which is something I remember fondly every time I have to, like, pay my taxes

celebrating the high holy days www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG...

FYI this is the last day of Penzey's "release the files" sale, where all spices that start with "R" or "F" are 33% off with the code "files" www.penzeys.com

SecUnit: "Just remember you're not alone here. I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are". Me: FACTS 😅 Network Effect. Book 5 of #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com 🥰 #booksky #books #crochet #craft

Confused by patchwork COVID vaccine guidelines across states? @sciam.bsky.social has a map with the latest info from the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations. We'll keep tracking updates. 📊 @unamandita.bsky.social ✏️ @jaimieseaton.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

I'm teaching a Workshop4Gaza in November about writing alongside the non-human! We're raising funds for The Sameer Project. Come! We'll be reading from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and more. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

i share this mayo clinic video every year because more people need to see and hear how horrific a disease whooping cough is

Did a rare stint on the health desk and wrote about a complication of measles that can lead to a fatal brain disorder years after the infection, underscoring why widespread vaccination is so important. The child that died was too young to be vaccinated when the contracted measles. 🧪

When the narrative that's dominating partisan discourse runs up against facts too glaring to deny, there ensues an awkward interstitial in which the discourse quiets as partisans grasp for a new narrative around which to coalesce. I suspect we'll soon be hearing a lot about how video games are bad.

WSJ has now appended this lengthy editor's note to its original report. It notably contains zero contrition for the initial decision to spread such incendiary misinformation. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

memes and violence and racism and antisemitism all meld together in the acidic stew a ton of young men dip their heads in daily online, and that shit can cook your brain fast

one reason to want real gun control is that we wouldn't have to sit around endlessly going "what does the shooter's use of this obscure meme tell us about his views on society" bc he wouldn't be a shooter bc he wouldn't have a gun. he would just be....some guy. sounds better, right?

I am bravely asking:: defector.com/why-not-have...

don't need "guy at a diner" journalism when my extremely newsmaxed neighbor is back to waking me up with his 1 am ranting for the first time since the election

Always a delight to have @sarahgailey.bsky.social on Weirdest Thing! Tune in to today's (accidentally) all-cloaca episode, featuring seabirds that put Jamie Lee Curtis to shame, monocle-wearing lizards, and a good old fashioned midwestern Snake Panic www.popsci.com/science/miss...

Always a delight to have @sarahgailey.bsky.social on Weirdest Thing! Tune in to today's (accidentally) all-cloaca episode, featuring seabirds that put Jamie Lee Curtis to shame, monocle-wearing lizards, and a good old fashioned midwestern Snake Panic www.popsci.com/science/miss...