How about a happy thread…if you can, show me a photo of a time you were happy, or you captured a moment of joy or beauty. I think we could all use it!

Maybe it's too late but if you'd rather that the evilest, most incompetent president ever to NOT receive the Nobel Peace Prize he covets, please let the Nobel Organization know. They're so scared, they may give it to him to avoid suffering. Just fill out this form www.nobelprize.org/contact

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

I'd love to do a newsletter exchange with folks. What I mean by this is that two writers team up and run a piece from the other newsletter on their own NL. This serves both as an endorsement and a way to expose new writers to different audiences. If you're interested in this, reply here or DM.

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WOKE 2 IS COMING AND EVERYONE IS GETTING GAY MARRIED.

Y'all wanna watch Jeremy put himself to bed?

I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. Then shut up until you have that attorney present. You cannot invoke your right to silence just by being silent. You have to say the words.

When the universe casually drops a rainbow forcefield in your backyard like it’s no big deal.

I can't believe they went in without protective gear. Were they really not aware ICE has been throwing tear gas at protesters? Hopefully being treated like traffic cones or inanimate barricades to stand between ICE and protesters will make them less willing to put themselves on the line

America is under threat but it isn’t dead yet.

This folklore charity is doing good work both in the UK and elsewhere. Folklorists, librarians, and storytellers are part of the good fight.

There wouldn’t be all this effort to gerrymander if it was still hopeless, please remember that!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

LA folks grab your N95s and close your windows. Turn on your air filters if you have them.

This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words. More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

the pendulum is going to swing back so hard that it is going to crash through the living room wall of your maga uncle’s house and black bag him to a reeducation camp where he’s going to adopt they/them pronouns by the time they’re done

Queer students are left holding the line as universities bow to Trump, @nickfulton.bsky.social reports. As colleges across the country shuttered LGBTQIA+ resource centers & other supports, students are stepping up to protect each other.

There will be more rough days ahead. Maybe tomorrow will be one of them. But there are lots of us, and these fascists are bound to lose if we keep showing up. Take heart.

*10/1/2025 noncooperation thread* “The McCarthy Era ended when Americans... finally came together & stood up for the principles in the Constitution.... Those forces have returned. And it is our turn to stand together in defense of our constitutional rights.” (You know Pedro Pascal's with her). 7/

🧵*10/1/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily-ish thread of acts of noncompliance by individuals, communities, & institutions. * #NoKings has 200+ partner orgs, meaning some VAST number of activists+donors+leaders+volunteers are *making* it happen. On 10/18 we get to thank them by being there 😊 LFG!

Actually doing something works!

if you're typing a post and it begins "this may trigger some people but..." put down the phone go outside just no

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

*9/30/2025 noncooperation thread*

"I'd forgotten about Pete Davidson's father. Apparently, so has Pete Davidson." - my friend, Elaine

We should flood military communities with postcards from citizens saying "we're not the enemy, or a training ground, we're the country you took an oath to protect". Some of them must have backbones and moral fiber.

hello friends, can any one please send me $40 to get to the hospital right now? i have $20. it's urgent & as you know, i try to avoid the ambulance 🙏🏽 please? asap 🙏🏽 paypal.me/thelongestroad

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

The first blue in what is now Europe? In @antiquity.ac.uk this morning, there is a new, open access article on "The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe," which looks at the evidence for azurite "on a concave stone artefact from the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany"

Here's a really good site for hosting academic papers without ads, without spamming your and your colleagues' inboxes, and without signing away all manner of rights. Zenodo is operated by a European institution (CERN) and, best of all, is named after an ancient Homer scholar.

I just want to emphasize how great this was because ALL of them looked in the mirror and went “oh wow I look good” yes!! Everyone looks good in eyeliner

Mary Lou McDonald at #Lab25 calling for preparations to start on a referendum on Irish unification (as per the Good Friday Agreement), with the referendum to be held by 2030.

yeah you can't trust the AI generated response at the top of the page anymore. did you know you can also scroll past that down to other results with sources that you can assess for bias and accuracy?

44% of cases that we know of are asymptomatic. Waiting to mask up until you feel sick is too late. Wear a mask in all indoor areas at all times when sharing air with people outside your household.

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

If we want affordable, clean, equitable, and resilient electricity, then we need to be paying attention to State Utility Commissioner elections and appointments, as I said on #WITHpod here: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

Just woke up from a dream where Danny Trejo and Jackie Chan were playing in a buddy adventure movie where they're long-time platonic life partners doing hijinks, but the real arc is they slowly realize no they're gay gay for each other and have been fr pretty normie married the whole entire time.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Republicans have been accusing, centrist, capitalist, reach-across-the-aisle Dems of being radical anarchist terrorists for like 20 years no matter what, so why not just fucking own it. UBI, free childcare, free healthcare including abortion & gender affirming care, car free cities, abolish ICE, etc

Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm barely (sometimes not) making rent. People have been telling me to start a gofundme but I feel weird about that. But I thought maybe if I was contributing something? SOO I started making shitposting shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Some good news from space, as the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission publishes its first synthetic aperture radar images of Earth. This spacecraft has a heckin' big antenna (a dish 12 meters across) for bouncing L- and S-band (25- and 10-cm) radio waves off the surface www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...