Extremely good thread of advice for getting through an airport, from someone who works there every day. 🧵✈

This is extremely cool science. mRNA vaccines that train the immune system not to react to allergens.

Whenever I see one of these vans, I imagine them delivering emergency batteries for TV remotes that have stopped working. A small, perhaps, but invaluable service.

The foolish idea that the course of your life is already set, and that it's too late to start on a new path, is only true if you live like it's true. Your 30s are a perfect time to create your life anew and start working toward the realization of new goals and dreams. So are your 40s and your 50s.

WILLIAM BLAKE: I, the venerated William Blake, have written the finest verse about a tiger anyone will ever conceive. NAEL: hold my juice

“Here’s Steely Dan’s masterpiece, ‘Aja.’”

Five years ago today, I found out that someone I dearly loved had died of long covid. It tore me apart, and I’ve tried to reassemble myself in a way that she would think of as a better version of me.

One of the Myst novels involved a world with a slave caste who were formally ignored by the ruling caste they served. When the ruling caste encountered visitors to that world, they plainly asked them “Can I see you?” because they didn’t know whether to even mentally acknowledge their presence.

The phrase “we’re cooked” is catchy, but I find most expressions of despair pretty irksome. People fought back in Auschwitz. That’s the bar. That’s where the line is, in terms of when it’s time to give up. Absolutely never. & if you think 2025 is the worst year in history, you need to study history.

It's so obvious that it probably goes without saying, but any argument about gender norms should understand this fundamental truth: Some people need there to be a clear hard line between being a man and being a woman, because they want to clearly understand who they can be sexist toward.

I’m afraid of Americans I’m afraid of the world I’m afraid I can’t help it I’m afraid I can’t

it’s too easy to mistake intensity for intelligence

#FungiFriends (I’d love to know what type of mushroom this is)

𖥧𖤣 tiny habitat 𖤣𖥧

One of the best comics ever. I’ve been a fan of Dani for years.

We’ve clearly got a very nice mycelium in my yard.

Update on "Who Goes Nazi" "MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness."

current ruler of peanut rock...aka Majestic Magpie Fancypants🤣 #birds

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

“I don’t know how many more examples we need before people understand. Submit to him and you’ll be remembered as weak. Resist him and you may get bruised, but you’ll come out stronger.”

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this You are Not Immune to Propaganda pin. Literally no one in this world is immune to propaganda. Not a single person. Anyone who thinks that propaganda doesn't affect them is not as smart as they believe they are. Except for me, of course. collabs.shop/s1pnvp

If there’s one thing that definitely works it’s mandating culture from the top down. And if you don’t believe that, well, I’m ordering you to

#aurora corona in Southern Manitoba….iPhone video

Creating things really is the antidote to so many problems.

Incredible how many people don’t understand that their longing for the past isn’t actually about the world as it was; it’s about the fact that they were a child.

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

I was in Portland today. Didn’t see much sign of war and chaos although I did see a canoe that didn’t look very securely tied to the top of a Subaru but then I looked closer and it was fine.

Has there *ever* been a more blatant Bond-villain setup?

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Hey there! Just trying out my new black leather strap for my bass. Trust me. It’s there.

republican/maga mindset requires: • deep lack of curiosity (if you say it, i believe it) • narrow lens (show only what i want to see) • everything is sports (us vs. them) • problems are because of you, never me • mad=happy. being angry is their last remaining joy anyway, portland is "war ravaged"

Well, make it two guitars I want to get my hands on that were only sold in 1985.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

i wrote about the loss of randomness from music-listening and TV-watching www.patreon.com/posts/139812...

lol the production quality of this review is insane www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7I...

This is a failure to design for security, not a “bug.” I know how this kind of vulnerability happens. An experienced developer will instinctively prevent it. I found and fixed a problem like this *before* I was trained in data security. Neon and everyone involved with them should never be trusted.

The Trump/RFK autism claim makes perfect sense once you remember that MAGA is always about turning the clock back. The claim isn't "Tylenol causes autism," it's "pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism"... Because the real goal here is to revive the 1950s tradition of blaming autism on women.

[logging on every day] man what

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

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Jefferson TARDIS

Here’s the fantastic 1200-watt backup battery I’ve mentioned before, with a solar recharging panel, on sale for $500 at @meh.com for the next few hours. I use one of these to keep my fridge running when the power goes out. I personally highly recommend it.

Technologically advance a band: Man AND Astro-man!

Healing is so nonlinear. Physical and emotional healing both happen when the body is ready. This heart surgery has taught me that. We really can't rush any of this work. It happens in its own time.

This reminds me of a gloriously unhinged ad for a 1995 Pontiac Grand Am that went viral ages ago.

Unpacking the vaccine brand names: Pfizer: COMIRNATY CO = covid MIRNA = mRNA TY = maybe to sound like “community” Moderna: mNEXSPIKE m = mRNA NEX = ?! SPIKE = the “spike proteins” that train the immune system Novavax: Nuvaxovid Nu = new (the meaning of “nova”) Vax = vaccine Ovid = the Roman poet

Got my covid (Pfizer) and flu shots at CVS today here in NJ. Covered by insurance; no qualifying questions asked.

Back in the day, Alan’s weekly NYPD Blue recaps were sustenance for me. If you love TV, he’s your pal.