so many things in this world are bleak and depressing but my God when you think about HIV/AIDS research I just want to cry it was a death sentence for so long people lost so much whole generations of queer elders were lost now we have basically a vaccine

Let Adobe know DIRECTLY how you feel about AI and subscription-based models!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Somebody on here said the entire republican agenda can be summed up as "we want to abuse children and we want you to pay for it" The more I see and the more I think about it, that sounds pretty damn accurate

In addition to this, I am also keen to get a wide canvas of demographic experiences, especially from trans/non-binary disabled folks and disabled POC for this and broader accessibility reporting, so please reach out if this describes you! DMs open, but other contact details are in my bio.

And these guardrails, are they in the room with us right now?

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

People really need to understand the networked Stochastic violence machine The far right has been building over the last 20 years is directly tied to the federal government and it is working in lock step with them to target anyone they need to discredit and terrorize with violence.

I wrote about this moment. You can skip to the end if you just want a list of ways to help. If you want, you can also read about the time I almost died, was in ICU, and a nurse was my light in the darkness www.moryan.com/the-crack-in... 💚

Anyway, that is a very long set up for this NYT article on the food writer Yewande Komolafe, whose work I have followed throughout the years, and how her body has been profoundly changed and how she needs to think about the new matches and mismatches between that and her environment for her tasks.

I'm a humanities professor who teaches user experience design. My book project traces how disease maps have shaped--and are shaped *by*--society. A chicken-and-egg of technological advances. There's so much cool space for the intersections of humans and technology

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Translation: If you're a woman, you'd better enjoy being constantly pregnant and relish cleaning up after all those children you bear. It's piss, vomit, and shit all the way down.

if you are in the path of this big ass storm PLEASE make sure you know where your furnace and water heater vent outside your home. if they vent at or near ground level, you need to make sure those vents don't get blocked by snow or ice

ok its time for the serious comfort reads now *pulls out curse of chalion by lois mcmaster bujold like john wick pulling out an AK-47*

My PhD and I hate AI. Get that ugly copilot button out of Microsoft Word, you cowards.

murder

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL work here: ice.0x0.boo It's a tracker for the number of blocks. They're averaging about 200/minute right now. 🤣

People need to take into their head that computing as we understand It is going to go away in the very near future because the goal for most of the AI crowd is to make it so you cannot own your own computing power. You have to use their clouds. Making the creation of a peoples Internet a necessity

Art and writing is a form of protest. It is a form of empowerment. It is part of being human. That is why you write when the world is on fire.

I tried to put this off, but I am again out midwifin and stranded because I cannot afford a ride home and will miss several days of work if I can't raise at least $250 immediately. Because of processing times ko-fi is the best place.

If “the GOP’s biggest donor ever built an international child porn machine” is a little too on the nose for you, let me propose that we are on history’s nose.

It's just so frustrating that after the biggest global pandemic in a decades, we just decided fuck it, every year let's let thousands of people die and thousands more get long term debilitating health issues instead of just fucking masking.

My biggest accomplishments in 2025 were receiving a Beinecke Library Fellow at Yale University and writing a short nonfiction book in 6 weeks.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

YESSS I spent half this semester writing a monograph chapter about how bacteria vs. germ theory showed up in data visualizations of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.

Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking. #art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair

This should also be trivially easy. You just start with something like food. "RFK Jr. wants to tell you what you can and can't eat." "MAHA wants to make it illegal for you to buy tylenol." "MAHA wants to outlaw everything you like." MAHA is probably one of the most vulnerable parts of the right.

To everyone who's Christmas looks like just hanging around the house, not really doing anything "festive", for whatever reason whether it be due to not celebrating or disability or illness or ptsd related things? You're valid, and your Christmas is not sad. It's relaxing and cozy.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

I am still in job-searching hell. If you have any leads in remote work in writing, editing, marketing, publishing, or adjacent, I would be grateful. You would not egret pointing me in the right way

I just called. Did you?

I'm proud to have an (adequately written) interlude included in this collection.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Racism. The answer is racism.

Every month I pick a theme of something to try to make each day to learn. Two months ago it was data visualization, using examples I admire, in order to tell stories about numbers that matter. This is my minimalist homage to Poppy Field, to which it owes everything, and I’ll link it below.

As a teacher of undergraduate writing--writing workshops also teach young people how to respectfully give and gracefully receive criticism on work that means something to them, an invaluable skill in any line of work.

MSU published this lovely article about my current book project and work as a Beinecke Library Fellow at Yale University this summer: “My work promotes human flourishing. How can we make good decisions? How can we empower people to get the right information?” cal.msu.edu/news/experie...

I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

look disability accommodations at work or school include things like elevators, legible font choices, and screen-reader friendly design that makes applications easy to navigate quickly. your life is a lot easier even if you don't need these accommodations, and they help everyone work better.

This makes my blood boil. The government is abandoning people with AIDS YET AGAIN.

Stock photos and decorations exist for a reason, people!