Press coverage of this has, so far, been bad — a bunch of outlets seem to have googled "what is a generic medication" and then wrote their piece. Yes, most Rx filled in the US = generics, but the ~10% that aren't? A signficant portion of those are life-saving meds with no substitutes.

this rules they made it synonymous with lying

Beautiful results. Just marvelous. So excited we'll have a new mayor.

Anyone have recs for earloop masks that fit larger faces? I usually wear large RespoKare N95s, which fit well, but are a pain to put on/off quickly (& the straps like to break if you do). I'd love one with earloops for less risky situations where I just want to pop a mask on/off quickly a bunch.

I, a healthcare lawyer, run through how to navigate the pharmacy websites to make a COVID vaccine appointment. This video is completely shareable, there's no patreon account, no log in at all, required. It's meant to be a shareable resource for your normie friends www.patreon.com/posts/138393...

Chants of Senaar is 40% off on steam at the mo (~ £10). I reckon it's one of the best videogames I've played.

An industrious neighbor (who is not me) created this remarkable resource that consolidates -all- the candidate answers to -all- the various surveys and questionnaires. Read up. Get informed. Talk to your neighbors. Think. Vote. somerville-candidate-questionnaires-2025.online

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.

This sort of word choice helps reinforce the notion that covid is actually over, and meaningfully hurts us all. But what do I know about public health messaging 🤷

Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.

"Paint me like one of your French disgraced nuclear physicists"

I put 3 floor lamps on the curb hoping someone might find a use for them... I went out to do trash a few hours later, and someone *cut the power cords* off at the bases?? So now they're just straight trash. Are people so desperate for copper they'll take power cords? wtf??

Now that painting is done, Alan has finally come home from his long vacation. It's good to have him back.

Despite the new rules, you *can still* get the covid vaccine if you have anything on this list! That includes depression, ADHD, obesity, smoking, and lots of other things. www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-f...

TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...

After months of slowly painting our porch*, we finally finished yesterday. Which meant that today we could finally put up our new porch frorgs. Alan Ribman will return shortly, too... just as soon as I fix his joints. (*I do NOT recommend exterior painting, especially in the summer 🫠)

Fuck insurance companies.

Finally got my cable organizer organized again, along with far too many cables for e-waste. B/c if a pocket is too full for a new cable to fit, then I don't need it. Why do I have so many USB-*Mini* B cables? Does anyone even use firewire for anything anymore? Who knows! But they're going away. 😅

Really bummed that Jake didn't get the endorsement, but what can you do? Willie would certainly be an improvement over the current mayor, at least. We'll see what happens in September, I guess.

1. I don't want to talk to my computer. 2. I DO NOT WANT MY COMPUTER ALWAYS LISTENING AND RECORDING MY VOICE FOR ANY PURPOSE.

Finally got my office back together after not having access for a week due to installing new windows and related cleanup/painting. Decided to take some time to clean my desks for the first time in years. All of this was taking up desk space and outlets while serving no purpose >.>

Messaging Guidance: Want to help Trump and fascist MAGA implement their latest policy to dehumanize disabled people? Call what they want to do “institutionalization” Want to increase opposition to this attack on basic human freedom? Call it “incarceration” (formal, professional) or “locking up”

I was asked to do some silly Esher videos for Mysterium 2025, so here they are in a big compilation. I even included some bloopers at the end (warning - there are a couple swears in the bloopers). youtu.be/S3rIlXI4e0o

Thread about my flight experience yesterday. I didn’t have the spoons to post about it when it happened. while flying of Rochester airport 7/30, the TSA screening agent took my liquid hydroxyzine medication away. It was larger than the allowed liquid amount but that’s allowable for a med. (1/n)

The fact that Somerville's Neighborhood Councils apparently have significant sway within the city, but are not required to make their votes accessible, is very concerning. But I don't know what to do about it.

Did an impromptu photoshoot while I had the costume out for reasons Iiii don't fit this costume anymore. Need to make a new one some day (ideally out of real linen so it's not so hot) But each year I gain a little more weight, go a little more bald, and look a little more like David Ogden Stiers 😅

😭 variety.com/2025/music/o...

"But this is just about porn games!" Yes, and weird religious fascists regularly mischaracterize queer people and queer art as inherently pornographic, they shouldn't be given an inch because there's no line for them, no cut-off point, they'll never be satisfied. Do you think they'll stop at porn?

Finally finished this "quick" Ytram project I started last spring. First time working with glass paints. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Love that shadow 😍🐸 This will be a prize at Mysterium this year (if UPS cooperates). #StainedGlass #Myst #Riven

If any New England theatre groups are in need of lighting equipment, this seems like a great opportunity (and a piece of Boston history!) (alt text edited to fit the character limit)

A couple posts today about people talking about artists they liked suddenly go pro genAi the answer is do what the Klingons would do. Turn your back on them as their house has no honour and should not be talked of again.

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity

I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive. This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

Between Chants of Sennaar and Tunic, I guess I'm starting to like "decipher the language" exploration games 😅

Well, this season of Wheel of Time certainly made... choices 👀

I don't know what to do with this... What year is it? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The hearing took all of 10m, including our 6m presentation. That was the most anti-climactic thing I've ever experienced 😅 Public comment open for a week. @somervilleyimby.org will share the deets later

It feels very weird that a zoning amendment that *I* wrote is going before the city council tonight. Very nervouscited.

Yet again, the goyische have absolutely no clue how Jewish holidays work, and can't be bothered to find out. 🙃

hey everybody we're quitting adobe forever and instead going to embrace this aesthetic everywhere, as a bonus its output is pretty clearly not genAI trash

I keep hearing people say that we should not panic we will get through this somehow we will get through this, but I must confess at this point I am beginning to lose track of how many catastrophes we are currently trying to get through.

If anyone signed up for NIH's 'All Of Us' program and no longer trusts them with your samples/health info given who is in charge of NIH now, it's pretty easy to withdraw and request samples be destroyed: participant.joinallofus.org/ParticipantP...

The Trump Regime has deleted DOJ guidance to businesses on complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act. 25% of Americans live with a disability. Trump cannot delete the ADA, and he cannot delete disabled Americans. We are not going back to asylums and sanitariums.

Not a penny, to any Senate Democrat or the DSCC, until they replace Surrendering Schumer with someone competent.

the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/i... This is so depressing. I reminds me of Freshman year of college. Several of my friends couldn't wrap their heads around pointers/references. When they went to office hours, the TAs told them, "just change '&'s to '*'s and vice-versa randomly until it works".