I am CRACKING UP at these “curses.” (TBH they’re pretty good!) “I wish you eat rice mixed with stones, drink soup mixed with mosquitoes, cover yourself with a quilt in summer and a cool quilt in winter..." #AmReading

So. While I was on vacation in Taiwan, I received this exceedingly entitled email from "a fan" that I have just responded to. I think she'll regret emailing me, but I hope she reads my reply. I will post my (very lengthy) reply in this thread. #romancelandia #archaeology

Donald Trump is about to have me indicted on bogus charges. Here’s why I’m still glad I got him elected in 2016. by James Comey

Anyway, scientists should get the fuck over being whiny little wretches who are scared of female bodies, because menstrual stem cells appear to be industrial printers compared to bone stem cell little desktop printers and you don’t have to drill into bones to get them. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

The thing that people forget to remember about the Baberaham Lincoln statue is its sculptor.

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

Again, it is insane to me how evening news has become a RW mouthpiece over the last few years. Both network and local (and no it’s not a Sinclair or Nextstar station) kept saying how “the president is finalizing a deal on TikTok.” … what so it’s fucking state media now? WTF are we doing, people.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

it literally this. 😕 bsky.app/profile/sloa...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

"Above the fold" and "below the fold" applied to print journalism long before it applied to web layouts for online media. For decades, the best practices surrounding conveying information to the masses has hinged on the well known fact that most people don't pay attention for long.

Also yes because while the link between HPV and cervical cancer is clear, and the vaccine has a 100- yes, 100 percent- prevention rate for cervical cancer, it’s also becoming known that HPV is also linked to throat, anal, and penile cancers! GET JABBED

"Everything's A-OK" = the aquatic version of the "Everything's fine" meme. This adorable, perfectly timed photo of a fish hiding in the mouth of a bigger predator (from which he'd later escape) won Gabe Jensen 1st Place, Underwater category, 2024 CUPOTY. #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin #Wildlife

@mariannedenton.bsky.social do you know of anyone that could use this?

OMG THE BUNNY AND THE MOON. I have never NEVER wanted one of those ~specially sofas more 😻😻😻 🐇 🌕 🥮 www.instagram.com/reel/DMxcoYR...?

Vessel in the Shape of a Wild Boar https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.42

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Vibrant colour projected onto a 2,600 year-old wall panel offers a glimpse of the past lived in glorious technicolour! From the North Palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq), where the walls were decorated with brightly painted reliefs. 🎥 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

FWIW, "Keep serving my interests or the Antichrist might show up" does seem like something the Antichrist would say.

Started my post op comfort #cdrama rewatch of #TheBloodOfYouth Wonder how many more times I’ll be doing this 🫠 (I watched it during my previous surgery recovery too ☠️) youtu.be/IjZ5K0b8BFo Such a fun feel good fantasy ~wuxia buddy romp. You can watch it on YouTube for free (& other places).

YES this is such a misunderstood dynamic and it drives me crazy

as a frame, "it's a fascist attack" not only tells us what's happening, it also explains why they're talking about it like they are. it makes legible not just their actions, but their explanations. it eats their frame.

Our fabulous cover artist shared our book on her web site -- it's so pretty!! We highly recommend her; the work is excellent, the process very smooth, and she is an absolute joy to work with. www.artbykarri.com/cover-mercur...

I'm wishing @isobelcarr.com a peaceful transition from this world, and am in awe of the friends who are caring for her through this last phase of her life. Her GoFundMe is nearly met - gofund.me/514cc87e4 May we all have friends like this.

These are the facts.

HOLD UP. This is some reckless bullsh*t. Immigrants were shot and killed. Immigrants. Not ICE officers.

So they stole it

Me: 😩😭 why is everything so ow?! Also me: hasn’t taken any pain meds in nearly 10 hours. 😅🫠 and this is why I put each dose in my calendar.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

😿 the PBS World channel disappeared a few weeks ago. (I only have an antenna for TV. Hopefully they don’t remove more PBS channels - Create is basically the only one that is worth watching at any given time.)

lol was going through some person’s thrift flip reels then she *removed* the pockets from a dress and I immediately noped out 😹☠️

When you are in a situation where you are pushed to consistently communicate and consider the needs and feelings of another adult on an intimate level, it primes you for doing it in other social and professional circles.

this is great AND I feel like there is so much more—like groundwater access, flooding, energy infrastructure, or wildfire smoke i always thought MN would be better than TX in the summer, but i would prefer 100 degrees and breathable air rather than cooler with smoke nowhere is safe. just safer.

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

😻😻😻 this person is SO FREAKING TALENTED! www.instagram.com/reel/DO-lfyK... Even my toxic trait of “I can make that too” doesn’t kick in cuz … yeah I definitely *can’t* make that.

This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🙈🙈🙈 whoever plugged “斤 (jīn; catty)” into the machine put “kilograms” instead. So we’ve got these honking supposedly like 24 lb newborn human infants all the time. ☠️☠️☠️☠️

It’s 3+ AM Why Am I Still Awake: The Limecello Story Volume eleventy hundred

… oh 😐 "No matter how difficult the road ahead is, as long as we know that there are relatives waiting for us in the distance, we can move forward bravely and persevere to the end." ☠️☠️☠️

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

btw: THIS is where your "ethically sourced sage" comes from at your local "spiritual" shop, people! You should not be buying white sage. *Ever*. It should be gifted or self-grown. It is one of the most ILLEGALLY POACHED AND SOLD medicines. And when poached, it becomes sick too. Don't buy it.

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

I gotta combat the DEAD POETS SOCIETY love out here. I wrote this at @slantmagazine.com when it turned 25. www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-...