Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...

Happy New Year folks!! Start the year off with a submission into Black In Neuro’s first ever special issue. 18 days until the deadline, keep an eye out for the release 📝 ✨ @binmanhattan.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Love it. A must-read from @joho.bsky.social, reminding Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary et al., reminding us that the U.S. is facing several disease outbreaks, so they have a great opportunity to show the rest of us how their way is “better”. We’re waiting…

If you're a Democrat, you're a sucker if you imagine this agency has anything to do with immigration. It is--and aspires to be!--a fascist paramilitary goon squad. You should start saying so and lay the groundwork for starving it of funding when you take power

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

You literally posted this 22 minutes into the new year, you absolute dipshits.

Here’s to 2026

Watch Mamdani get sworn in as mayor! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ZEwi3xB...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

They should invent a year that isn't terrible.

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

"DOJ pushed to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia only after mistaken deportation, judge’s order says"

Barely a month ago, we were reading Tatianna Schlossberg’s essay, her fight for life, while RFK Jr. advanced his quest for public health destruction. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I have never felt a meme so deeply in my bones #MedSky #PharmSky 🧪

Including @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on Ezra Klein, living together, and the problem with “reading lines from the script of a fascist movement eroding basic democratic freedoms and aiming to subordinate whichever large swaths of the country are not simply removed outright”:

Absolutely rick roll’d us all

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... There's been a near 200% increase in reported anti-Muslim hate incidents since the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, including vandalism at Islamic institutions, online abuse and physical intimidations.

Friend in Westchester NY is trying to place a very friendly cat that hangs out in their yard. The cat is good with other cats. Please spread the word. They’ll have to go to aspca if it gets much colder (yes they built a temp shelter plz read the screenshot). #adoptdontshop #Westchester #PeekskillNY

Surely this won’t impact mail-in ballots 🫩

“We have Liz Cheney at home.”

People from the tea party and Freedom Works are behind this astroturf campaign that NPR is amplifying.

The new HBO documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant "beaten to death" by U.S. border agents in 2010. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/critical_incident

Very sad news 😥 Conservation scientist and marine ecologist Emma Johnston has passed away 🧪 theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!

For what it's worth, this is how NYMag introduced Eric Adams on his swearing-in week nymag.com/intelligence... ctrl-f "is he ready" 0 results

🖊️ Good news, DC! You can now get Notary Public services at the MLK Library. Need help with a Power of Attorney, ID copies, or real estate paperwork? Stop by the 2nd floor on the 2nd and 3rd Saturdays of the month, 10 AM–1PM. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pEnGcR

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

What’s with the Tolkien tech bros who seem to have never read the books or watched the movies?

Agami Heron in full breeding splendor at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #herons #nature

Facial recognition? More likely "skin tone determination"

Gift link for all of the 2025 remembrances of people in the NYT Magazine. These mini-portraits are lovingly crafted. Remembering Some of the Artists, Innovators and Thinkers We Lost in the Past Year

#BrigitteBardot was convicted several times for inciting racial hatred in France when she was alive. She does not magically become a good person because she died. How we choose to live determines how we will be remembered when we die. www.npr.org/2025/12/28/1...

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

still not too late to get vaccinated!

It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live

*sigh* Still not “one man.” He was voted for by millions, made a king by SCOTUS, supported by Congress-members of both parties, and coddled by an entire presidential administration.

More news (not good) from NIH The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied. I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.

HBOMAX FINALLY ADDED THE THUMBS DOWN FEATURE, YOU CAN THUMBS DOWN BILL MAHER NOW

Strongly recommend a subscription to / gift of @prisonjournalism.bsky.social Nearly 2 million human beings are incarcerated in the US. They have stories and insights for everyone.

Stereum mushrooms. #fungi #fungifriends #moss