In light of the Ebolavirus outbreak news, I might as well mention it has airborne transmission and that this NPR article gives a solid explanation on how Ebolavirus will kill you: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

CIA Under Fire For Arming Group Of Rowdy 7-Year-Olds https://theonion.com/cia-under-fire-for-arming-group-of-rowdy-7-year-olds/

Ah well next year's crop will surely be a bumper one, what with all this water available for farming, and fertilizer too, not to mention the abundance of cheap gasoline

its my bday and we're going through a tough time financially. if you could spare anything via ko-fi (ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko) that'd help my anxiety a lot or you can get all 4 of our games in a $19 bundle on itch (itch.io/s/186063/eni...) including award winning gay foxgirl SMB3-like kitsune tails

I am feeling sickly today and I could use medicine and food to help combat this

The extreme PROTEIN trend in all ur food is not caving to MAHA bs (although the aggressive marketing might be) but instead has to do with the trade war collapse of soy export, so tons of dirt cheap soy protein is being funneled through us food manufacture

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Tapping the sign: if you're worried about the hypothetical viral outbreak, just resume taking precautions against the confirmed viral outbreak and enjoy yourself some lower stress levels (Along with considerably better odds of not developing new-onset EM, POTS or MCAS, or a gazillion other things)

Ordered groceries for fifty dollars today

Summary of the press held by the @who.int today. Was very helpful 🙄

This is correct. This is aerosol transmission of a pathogen that requires a relatively high dose to be inhaled to trigger infection. i.e., being near the sick person's highly concentrated aerosol plume for some time OR being in poor vent'd space where concentration built up.

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Washing your hands is not sufficient to prevent hantavirus, which is from rodent poo, but it doesn't die when that dries and becomes ambient dust and you can breathe it in. This is a subtweet but seems important to know as a general fyi. You can almost always breathe things in.

I have decided to share live thoughts on the new long covid paper as I read since it is easier than doing a write up at the end. Paper linked here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

It's a new month, with a little bit left from last month. I certainly have a lot of needs, food, medicine, medical supplies, bills. I have a roof over head but nothing substantial left for the rest of my necessities. 0/1600 🙏 ko-fi.com/jebwrench

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

Almost there,but still very needful before the weekend. Running out of time. 800/1000 🙏 ko-fi.com/jebwrench

Your voice really matters right now. If you would like show your support, join us in requesting that Wizards and Hasbro voluntarily recognize our union by signing our petition at cwa.org/uwotcletter

Taking away ADHD treatment from individuals with ADHD is social murder. There is plenty of literature to support this (for example pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

I hope I’m not snitch tagging the wonderful @omarsakr.bsky.social into more controversy by sharing his excellent poem on this topic, ‘Bluey in the Genocide’.

Desperation approaches

Remember this every time a Reasonable Democrat says we should be onboard with legal/technical measures to stop minors from accessing adult content Once you create a category of Bannable Speech, you've created a tool for the powerful to ban any speech they want; just put it in the Bannable category.

Last boost for tonight. Approaching desperate.

20 out of 80 children forced into rhabdo in February at this Texas charter school because the (straight cis) adults in the room think ball games you play with your friends are better with organ failure

This. N95’s can save lives from wildfire smoke. The scientific evidence of the damage caused by Particulate matter is clear and terrifying.

The need for money is getting more significant as bills are coming due quickly. A lot of money has already gone to medical needs. 200/1000 🙏 ko-fi.com/jebwrench

I really hate posting these kinds of begposts, but this has gotten more critical since I posted it. I currently have -7$ until next month, and I need to feed three people with that. #mutualaidrequest

📢 The FY2027 budget is a proposal. Congress writes the final number. Tell your reps to reject the 19% USDA cut and $602M NIFA research cut. Basic science infrastructure is not a line item to cut. It's what keeps the emergencies from happening. house.gov/representatives

I am very late on posting this but I do need money to get through the month. Taking into account the prior help I've received, I need about 1000 dollars to get through. 0/1000 🙏 ko-fi.com/jebwrench

Shocking story: Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

bumping. can we get further in asap?

Last boost for tonight

US army keeps trying to get on Twitch to recruit vulnerable people. Last time it was an esports channel in 2020 that failed so hard it resorted to banning people for talking about war crimes & now they are trying again with a US Navy vtuber It's all attempts at manipulation, always has been

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

"It's just a tool." We regulate the hell out of tools. Have you ever tried to buy a circular saw without a guard?

Sanofi is now the market authorization holder for Novavax 💉 in Canada & is working to ensure Canadians have access to it this fall Fingers crossed provincial govt's will make this option available for those who want it shorturl.at/TFcSL

Seems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Consider helping me buy food

Just called my House rep and Senator to oppose this. Uyterhoeven's office says she's a no but trying to push amendments, Senate office said the Senate already voted on a version without age verification. Dunno if the Senate version, or Uyterhoeven's amendments, push the bill out of horror territory.

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

MASSACHUSETTS FOLKS! the state house is voting on a bill that bans cell phone use in the classroom, but also has an age verification bill attached to it! call your state reps and tell them no! age verification is not about safety at all. www.wcvb.com/article/mass...

hate to do this again but our accountants hit us with a bunch of fees that we can't absorb right now, so i'm forced to do this again 🙃 ko-fi.com/sharkhugseni...