so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

At @bblitarts.bsky.social International Poetry Film Festival where I’ve just seen the amazing documentary, Elise Paschen: In Her Own Words. Bravo, @nicolepowers.bsky.social. And thank you Elise Paschen. It's beautifully shot; great audience reaction. It was a standing-room-only event. #Poetry

Random question: Why don't UK electricians use toners to find electrical cables hidden in walls and ceilings? I've spoken to 3 who don't possess one.

Don't read the book first, it'll spoil the movie.

If you're in LA, you can catch my short film at the Poetry Film Fest at Beyond Baroque on Sat, April 25. poetryfilmfestival.org

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Agreed! Probably way cheaper than blimps! bsky.app/profile/rapb...

Can this be a solution?

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Found out this morning that I'd scored a hat trick. A 3rd laurel for my short film. So grateful to the incredible Elise Paschen for allowing me to share her powerful story.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Groups like @cleanairclub.bsky.social & AIR NY (not on Bluesky) help make music, art, & cultural spaces/events COVID safe, sometimes down to figuring out what systems a venue needs. With the right setup, it's possible to make the stage rather safe for singers to unmask for unimpeded audio quality.

Feel so privileged to have met and photographed Rev. Jackson over a period of several days at the 2017 Rainbow PUSH Convention in Chicago. The RP community he built was such a powerful force for good, and it was incredible to see it in acton.

This is extraordinary. I will miss Colbert so much, but he is going out blazing.

@safedavid3.bsky.social David, we last spoke here when you were posting about asbestos. I wonder if you could advise on something else.... bsky.app/profile/safe...

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Anyone who isn’t masking & using air purifiers in classrooms is a child killer.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

The influence of Lisa Ritchie on national infection control continues to risk Clinically Vulnerable lives. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social she MUST go! #Flu #SackRitchie

New study via Science Direct: "Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Which are you? You have to accept everything on the list. You can't pick and choose. Every time you get Covid you're passing that on to others and increase the surge. Some of those you infect will get long Covid and some may die.

"When all students are wearing N95 respirators, the infection risk could be reduced by 96 %..." The solution to prevention has been there all along. Public health and infection control don't like it, so it is ignored.

Universities and schools need to care about health and safety as the priority over attendance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Masking used to be normalized in high risk healthcare settings like oncology, transplant and NICU. Now patients have to fight for the most basic of precautions. They’re forced to risk covid to receive life saving care. We need mandatory masking in hospitals. Now.

This is outstanding, and hugely important. The culture of impunity in IPAC can literally kill you, because your life is less important than the hurt feelings of some asshat who memorized a bunch of misinformation about aerosols in medical school and hasn't learned anything since.

UK British Occupational Hygiene Society clarifies that surgical masks are not PPE, and following IPAC guidelines does NOT fulfill an employer’s legal duty to provide respiratory protection. “The report reinforces that employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act and COSHH to

shh-uk.org/protecting-h... Report available here. H/t to a dedicated legally trained colleague for this info!

For no particular reason, I'll just leave this here....

Loving this conversation between @jamiepeck666.bsky.social & @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on the #SuicideGirl To Public Leftist Pipeline, of which I'm a part of, and what it means to be in an artist in the age of AI. www.patreon.com/posts/suicid...

So Google's AI is so smart, it wouldn't let me submit a review using the term "⚽️🐓" when writing a review for a plumber, in which I was required to explain exactly what the plumber had done. 🤣🤦‍♀️

The Crüe with a side of sweet n' spicy Dolly — all for a good cause. youtu.be/U3Xw6Sm3lQY?...

For the past year, I've been working on a doc about acclaimed #Osage poet Elise Paschen, daughter of NYC Ballet prima ballerina Maria Tallchief. I'm looking for reviewers to provide quotes. If you're interested and would like to see an advance screener, please let me know. #Poetry #Ballet #Film

Happy for days when I can stop and smell the roses, or in this case a peony.

La La L-La L-La L-La... youtu.be/Adf8pxpJBHM?...

Hello @richardiiisociety.bsky.social Been thinking about joining the Richard III society—especially since my sister used to park on his grave. Feel the loss of a premium parking spot in the town center— very handy for shopping—should qualify us for free membership. It was quite a sacrifice. TY

When didgently doing your job as a fact-checker means you have to Google "Can Zelensky play piano with his penis?" and you realize it's actually a thing. 🤣🤣🤣

When didgently doing your job as a fact-checker means you have to Google "Can Zelensky play piano with his penis?" and you realize it's actually a thing. 🤣🤣🤣

Every Trump news story makes sense when you preface the words "Donald Trump" with "Russian asset." It's long been known that this is the case. Now we even know his codename: ‘Krasnov’. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request. Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting.

Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren’t compromised. It should take a couple weeks.

We figured, what’s the fun in just telling them there’s nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause. We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act.

We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee. Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it’s just such a mess around here, you know.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

Birds Not Predominantly Airborne Says Health Minister