New from @latimes.com: “Yet new COVID infections are producing new #LongCovid patients. People who were healthy and active just a few months ago are still arriving at USC’s clinic with cardiovascular and cognitive problems that have upended their lives.”

Current and former QA folks everywhere stand up and salute

This is the best video about Covid that has ever been made www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqWx...

Chef's kiss: "I would love to see an AI do my job. I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of." www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

This is the best video about Covid that has ever been made www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqWx...

A few postcards from Wellington Pride today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥰

This is like ending access to booster shots "because no one was getting them" - when in reality no one was finding out about boosters because CDC gave up on comms, or told *why* they should get a booster to avoid disability/death, and antivax disinfo made boosters seem pointless, onerous, or bad.

Not now, mysterious large steel cylinder suddenly emerging from the ground in Japan! www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

We've been watching the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka a lot lately. And at a certain point, I came to realize that Wonka and Jigsaw from Saw are basically the same guy. So I decided to write a tribute to my favorite slasher film, and the only one I can show my kids without looking like a bad parent.

holy shit you guys

I just realized I joined YouTube on March 14, 2006 (👀) so I uploaded my favorite video from the Wellington Pride Hīkoi last year to mark the anniversary: youtu.be/GI_ARdAGOHo

To understand Wellington you have to understand how deeply and profoundly the whole city fucking loves the central library Reopening today after a near-decade of earthquake repair/strengthening

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

"[Trump officials] designated antifa, short for anti-fascist, a domestic terrorist group, even though the president did not have the lawful authority to do so. Antifa is also not an organization... [it's] akin to designating Marxism or feminism as a terror group." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sorry, it's Pip and Pablo's hospital now 🥰 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

OH MY GOD THEY'RE DOING PANDEMIC LEVELS FOR FUEL www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

wait ok i am starting to get it

Time to button up, poops don't lie: poops.nz #Covid #MaskUp

The truth is out—I love my neighbourhood!🚶‍♀️

New still from the Rurucam 🤣

PSA for my cat friends.

Thanks for the shout-out, @violetblue.bsky.social! "Threat Model: Covid," an invaluable resource for Covid-related news, free every Thursday. www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

😍😻 the most delightful orbit

The next time someone comes at me with “well you only got long covid because you were already uNhEaLthY” I am going to thwack them over the head with this research.

youtube.com/watch?v=BXUU... @eedapod.bsky.social

The researchers also note that 25% of active-duty US Marines developed Long Covid "after mostly mild or asymptomatic infection." Trivia: it got referred to as the "Spanish Flu" b/c only Spain talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic: Western wartime censorship prevented discussion of the disease.

ECONOMY: SHAMBLES OIL: $300 PER BARREL COUNTRY: ON FIRE REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-

I don't mean to talk out of turn about what Wellington "needs" but...

Don't ever take this site or anything it publishes seriously. It is actively looking to hire people who hate Starfleet Academy to write about it. As of 8 pm on 10.3.2026, this is live on LinkedIn. Ask me again why I think the anti-SFA sentiment is manufactured. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

Can anyone point me to a resource on how sign "Long COVID" in American Sign Language? I've seen various ways from spelling it out, to using the sign for "Coronavirus" or "COVID-19" followed by "Long" or "Stay". I'm curious if there is any official guidance/recommendations. Many thanks 🙏

The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony: arstechnica.com/science/2026...

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1! LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

In this week's #Cybersecurity roundup: -new White House Cyber Strategy: deregulate, attack, use lots of AI -beware misleading Proton-FBI headlines (there are so many) -Chornobyl's computer rebuild -DEF CON vs. authoritarianism -interactive XKCD -much more! Link: www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

Signal boostin'

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Hey I have some good news! I finally found an apartment, YAY! I started a small fundraiser because I need to move quickly to avoid doubling up on rent as much as possible. Details on everything here, with more to come: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou...

There's more? "Court documents released to the Rotorua Daily Post show in one offence he ran into Farmers Rotorua wearing a Spider-Man mask and gloves, with plastic bags on his feet, and filled a bag with fragrance packs before escaping in a waiting getaway car." www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...

Apparently this got resurrected and retweeted recently, which made me remember it exists. Please enjoy

Facts ⬇️

Sex Week at Vic Uni coincides with Pride and the beginning of the trimester so the entire country is pregnant now, and according to the student 'zine quiz I must now burst into flames

Hey I have some good news! I finally found an apartment, YAY! I started a small fundraiser because I need to move quickly to avoid doubling up on rent as much as possible. Details on everything here, with more to come: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou...

#DEFCON34 's theme is ‘Agency’. We’re focusing on self-determination in our use of tech.Charting our own course and helping others do the same. Let’s move our valuable attention to tech that supports our agency. Let’s find the places we can help & choose to act. defcon.org/html/defcon-...

Send Jello strength. Last time I saw him he was onstage singing "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off"

It's tūī Tuesday!