me, an asthmatic who knows literally everyone is or at any time could become "sensitive groups": we did it, everyone.

AQI is down to 200 and temps are down to 92, time for a dumb mental health walk in a soon-to-be very wet N95.

the Boundary Waters fires may be burning "until snow puts them out" which means air quality issues are going to continue pending weather & intensity of those fires, so yeah, it would be nice to be able to make reasonable decisions about leaving the house for alternative indoor spaces this summer.

one piece of service journalism I would really love right now is how to identify which businesses or public spaces are likely to have good filtration of outside air, based on building type or publicly available records.

This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.

I would like to thank the University of Minnesota for sending out a safety alert about the dangerous air quality *checks notes* at 8:15 a.m. today.

Guy who is sitting in his garage with the car running so he can breathe some fresher air.

the community is accepting donations via etransfer to [email protected] you are supposed to put your full name in the comments so they can issue you a reciept.

pointing out the hypocrisy of people who are lying about what they actually want will never get you anywhere. smugly owning them for the gaps in their logic. it's an exterminationist project, not a rhetorical one

I know this is just how the atmosphere works under weather conditions like what we've got right now, but it's still wild to me that NYC has worse air quality than Minneapolis from...Minnesota and north-of-Minnesota fires.

Before you decide to beak off about “Canada’s smoke,” know that you’re complaining about the ashes of people’s lives. People are losing everything in Canada. I assure you, sending you smoke was the last thing they wanted to do.

just horrifying

unfortunately the Boundary Waters fires are also a great case for restoring intentional low-intensity fire to forests, which many left-leaning white environmentalists have rejected in the name of settler colonial concepts of wilderness. in this essay I--

Wow, amazing opportunity to take a writing workshop with @nkjemisin.bsky.social on world building at NYPL, in person (if you're in NYC) and virtually—for free! Register here: events.leapevents.com/event/writey...

This is what JKR is offering to pay for a lawsuit over. Spread it far and wide.

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

Every time this tech comes around, we make it so no one wants to wear them outside, and that is good and correct and we must keep it up until it fades away yet again. And then th enext time? We do it all over again.

anyway, today's the last day to write a comment about how awful the proposed OMB rules for science funding are! (background: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...) here's the link to comment! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

speaking as a master's student who (foolishly, probably) wants to do a PhD's worth of qualitative research about an unpopular topic, it is a really fucking shitty time in the narrative of institutional scientific progress to be a grad/hopeful grad student.

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too

This is true. Our public health department is legitimately the best at tracing this stuff. Apparently they're known among other state health departments as "Team Diarrhea" (complimentary)

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

I refuse to be scooped by the NYT style section.

I have been working on and off on a Speculative Fiction since 2021 and unfortunately dribbles of news headlines suggest I really have to fucking finish it before reality gets too close to what I'm going for.

I’m especially interested in students who are choosing to write their own papers and artists who are supporting one another and organizing against AI-generated art.

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

So fun to have a "better cook those veggies" outbreak in the middle of "too hot to cook, only wanna eat salads" season.

oh hey look! www.vulture.com/article/litt...

Yeah I talked to Mitch McConnell 20 minutes, at his bed Turned to me and nodded gravely "Peace on Earth," was all he said.

so ICE did a kavanaugh stop and murdered a man www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

MMMMMMM.

What notes What drafts

about to spend the next nine months of my life getting swatted with a newspaper every time I ADHD too hard out of The Zone of What I Can Competently Complete On Time.

you know you're hitting your stride on conceiving your master's thesis when you ask your advisor a question and his response is basically THAT IS A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION, NO.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

You telling me a guy who isn’t into no means no isn’t taking no for an answer?

I appreciate all of you talking about washing your leafy greens, but it just doesn’t remove much cyclospora. Cooking kills them, otherwise we have to just keep them out of the food supply.

More changes are underway for federal student loans with major implications for current and future graduate students. https://to.pbs.org/4eRxrl2

do they make butch parasols, asking for a friend

American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.

really hate that the SEO paradigm when you search for "no mayo" versions of recipes lands you loads of "healthy" and "light" potato salad, when my fundamental problem is that I just don't have any mayo and am too tired to go to the store tonight.

Sometimes sitting still long enough to finish the interesting but difficult theory reading requires eating an obscene number of cherries and really, no complaints.

Friendly reminder—the public comment period on the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) proposed federal grant rule changes closes on 13 July. Visit geosociety.co/OMBActionAlert to read the full breakdown and submit a comment.

who are your favorite trans artists who draw or tattoo bugs?? can be based anywhere. ty for any recommendations!

>>Many of the records in Chicago have not been digitized and are only available in person.<<

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.