We found a link between SARS-CoV-2 reinfection & #longCOVID, & a post-pandemic rise in thrombotic events across all populations, regardless of vaccination or prior infection. Findings support continued COVID diagnosis in suspected cases & mask use by healthcare workers treating respiratory patients

As always, movement repression moves with awful and perfect timing. It’s important during these periods that we dont become victims and that we carry the tools to succeed it. When disinfo strikes with perfect timing, we recommend the zine we wrote with several defense groups. tinyurl.com/pwarzines

I’m not a fan of tyranny. I don’t like restrictions on free speech. But if I have to have tyranny, I want the type of tyranny where we silence people for publicly asserting that others are fundamentally inferior to them & should therefore not receive equal rights & protections under the law.

Product Marketing professors from the past twenty years would like a word…

I think the word people keep missing here is “openly.” Sure, the US has always been corrupt & mostly broken, but we at least hid it. It’s the difference btwn when being addicted to coke but still in the office at 7am every morning w/ your shirts pressed vs when you roll in at noon like a slob

I love when white women think they know better than Black women when Black women have consistently been the architects of the fall of every powerful white supremacist movement in American history - far more effective than any man or woman of another race.

Endlessly fascinating to see folks’ response to things like this. What we *know* from sociology & psychology is that you don’t fix problems exacerbated by powerful people by pissing them off more *while they still have power” You do it one of two ways: 1) Take their power 2) change their mind

My friend just put out a new single! Everyone should listen to it. I mean it. open.spotify.com/track/2xI4Dj...

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

Hello any friends with an iPhone who are getting the new iphone - if you don’t need that upgrade n money or trade-in money, I have a dear friend in Brazil who’s been without his own phone for months. Any help you can provide would be amazing!

Either we trust that the people we are connected to strongly will make the moral decisions that make the most sense for them in the current context, or we police the behaviour of everyone and trust nobody.

Yeah, are you gonna fight for me or are you gonna say nice things to me and then turn your eyes when I’m getting hurt?

"You are seen and you are loved" without the promise of safety or protection is a meaningless, hollow gesture. We need people to embody "You will be safe, and you will be protected." We need people to actually do something and stand up for trans rights. When all we want is to be able to exist.

Im torn. I can give you a bunch of examples where educators have failed to provide appropriate love. trust, empathy, care, or humility to students & therefore damaged their learning experiences. I think education’s got to step it up bc lately there are times it’s failed big time to live up to this

Silence can be much more than self-censorship. It can be strategic engagement. I’m pretty sure this is a white person who is saying this.

While I understand the perspective, I’d like to introduce a complicating framing to this binary narrative: You can *absolutely* have intimacy in casual sex. It’s not even a question. You can have a deep connection with someone you’ve met once! Intimacy & connection ≠ partner & LTR

True but also not true. There’s an experts crisis in politics which assigns value to people who just got lucky, and also there’s been a real shift in predictability since 2012. This also ignores(?) the significant power of money in politics & how it moderates media & the information diet of most.

Nature does not do binaries. Anyone who tells you biology is simple is wrong phys.org/news/2025-09...

The problem of Democratic messaging is a problem of a tent that is forced to be far bigger than is feasible for coherent messaging to exist. There are irreconcilable policy differences at the heart of many of the disagreements inside the party and pretending this isn’t the case helps nobody.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Weird ableism flex but ok

And also, only having two viable parties is bad. Get involved with @fairvote.bsky.social and @rankthevoteusa.bsky.social to bring ranked choice voting everywhere in the USA! (Also FairVote, why are you using ADP WFN? I promise you’re getting fleeced. Call me.)

I have a list of companies I’d like to work for, and it’s pretty short: @roost.tools was just added to the list.

After catching up with and then finishing in real-time the first Book of @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One, my life has been consumed by @naddpod.bsky.social. I don’t listen to any other podcasts, I don’t watch TV anymore. I just listen to the Band of Boobs.

Y’all boycott Disney but keep your newsletter on Substack, who continues to feed the Nazis with capital and attention.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

If you want to do age verification correctly then you do it on device in a Secure Enclave like on iPhones and Macs and your site effectively asks the machine for an attestation that the user is older than X, not their actual age or birthdate.

Things I want to build for #ATproto but i need mentors/coaches: 1. A PR on the main Bluesky app that adds auto-generated alt text for review whenever you add an image 2. Fully-managed PDS hosting that enables both third-party PDS hosting & individual PDS hosting & the seamless move between the two

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally

We are going to win

Why would they when they still think being fat is an “epidemic”

Bluesky was never as safe space, there are no safe spaces on the Internet

Question for everyone: Are nonbinary people and trans men in the gender minority in STEM? Because if so, then how the fuck does a feed called #WomenInSTEM or #WomenInTech provide inspo for us?

I just want @parismarx.com to explain exactly how he’s going to keep age verification laws from disproportionately being weaponized against queer, disabled, and marginalized youth, as they have always been? Tell me how many queer kids he’s willing to have die bc they can’t find community

I would really love a solid set of scientific research from prestigious institutions to get access to the enforcement patterns of Bluesky so we could have good empirical data on this instead of why people say is happening anecdotally

Yeah and this is also the same with mastodon

This needs to be repeated again and again: When they say "how is what [the right is] doing to you genocide?" They aren't confused about the definition of genocide. They're asking, "how is genociding trans people bad?" Conservatives aren't confused. They're just evil.

This is such a take from a man who has no idea what happens when someone who is not a white man disagrees with him publicly

If you're uncomfortable with Bluesky owning (and being able to delete) your data but don't want to go the whole way to self-hosted/another service, you should: 1) Register identity recovery keys, which will allow you to point your current identity to a new PDS 2) Backup your PDS periodically

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

And I’m trying to say this with as much love as I can but no I am not impressed by the wave of celebrities who now understand the problem, but who say on their asses and called a lot of people “not playing the game” when we called them on this shit post 2020

It’s a fucking trap, when the right will try to kill you for it and the left will yell at you, what are you gonna choose? We should ignore it and focus on actual fucking harm, like the draft bill to give Trump murder power

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

First, I beg any headline writers who might follow me to stop using "We" headlines. It will be good for my blood pressure, and my neighbors won't have to listen to me yelling: WE WERE NOT TRYING TO DO ANY SUCH THING. Second ...

I just don’t know how folks can ask “Are you in the gender minority in STEM” and then promote hashtags like #WomenInSTEM and #WomenInTech when that completely erases all of the brilliant and talented people in STEM, like me, who exist #BeyondTheBinary. Just say “Are you a woman in STEM or Tech”

@blackamazon.bsky.social is one of the best fucking people in this world and one of my friends. Donate to help support a brilliant fat Black woman journalist and scholar doing critical work. gofund.me/8739cc723

think before posting? neh. posting takes that are incorrect or uninformed? yeh.

Actually I do love it

This part

The only reason the Republicans are winning with this fucking Charlie Kirk bill which does nothing, not even naming a post office in his honor, is because everyone on the left is getting so mad at Democrats for it.