No more emojis, just gravestone reactions. (These are all from Old Norwichtown Burial Ground in Norwich, Connecticut.)

A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

Hi everyone! I'm reopening the fundraiser for my friend M. Our generosity did successfully get her family through an emergency (a car accident, luckily no one was hurt), but she's in need of help again. If you're able to donate or share, I'd be so grateful.

I'm raising money for @evlovesnyc.bsky.social today. If you have any to spare, they do really good and necessary work in my community: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Imagine if other mainstream artists did this on tour. Imagine if they brought tables to their venues to explain to fans why this is so important. It would change the conversation profoundly. This is important.

The Sabrina Carpenter Fund will now directly support The Transgender Law Center! The fund will support the Legal Info Helpdesk, which responds to more than 2000+ requests annually and the training of 400+ trans leaders through programs like the Disability Project, Black Trans Circles, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️

it remains irreplaceable in many ways. but it takes my breath away the sheer corruption and power-set values that animate the Times

I want to live in a world where we can dance if we want to, but we refuse to leave our friends behind even if they don't dance.

Perfect dish to have on a cold, rainy day: turkey, sweet potato & peanut stew. Page 28 in #AfterTheFeast! I made this yesterday but reheated and garnished it for lunch. We're almost finished eating the turkey! I froze the last 150 grams and will probably okonomiyaki it.

Please read this. I’m a monthly supporter. Please join me. Please share with others. Every share and every dollar help. They need to raise 50K.

Sharing an email from our intake director: As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

unicorn onesie and a fistful of flags and we're good to go

Equal rights for trans people is frankly a low bar. Trans people go through so much. I think they deserve a bonus right, as a treat.

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

#NoKings on Seminary Road in Silver Spring, MD overlooking the Beltway.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Listen, over 300+ people showed up for a No Kings protest in ANGOLA, INDIANA. There is a whole part of Indiana waiting to be activated. We have never been all red. So what are we going to do with that information? I wish I could say. But I have Hope.

Wow Mamdani won’t even say whether every parade has the right to exist

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..." Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey. (And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

More stunning work from @janezwart.bsky.social!

It broke my heart to write this poem, and I would give it back if I could reverse my brother's death or my mom's diagnosis. But it doesn't work like that. So I'm trying to open my hands to the joy of having a poem in @thenation.com. Thank you, Kaveh Akbar, et al. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Middle aged women, they are fucking done with it. Aunt Deb from Friends of the Library is to the left of Zohran

🧵I do my noncooperation threads bc I know most of it gets lost in the news firehose. I know courage is contagious & that we have to en-courage each other. And/but: We're at the stage of the fight where wins are small & often temporary. Each small win matters, &/but it may be like this for years.

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended. A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

Growing recognition of post-acute infection syndromes. An editorial by Prof Anthony Komaroff www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... From the October 2025 AMMES Newsletter #MEcfs #LongCovid

I am going to brag about this, but accidentally rescued and rehomed this cat and now he is going to have a human baby to deal with. He is not ready. But that is how you use Alt text! X

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

You’re telling me a radioactive shrimp fried this rice?

This is important.

We need these kinds of magazines to publish nonfiction. It's a tough time for literary criticism, essays about ideas, creative non-fiction, and I'm thrilled to see Apex is going to take pitches. Support if you can!

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

A lot of suburban moms are swing voters, and this is fucking with them in a way that I don't think most Hot Take Political People even understand. It's not just the expense, it's the way you shop for your cheap staple meal one day and, surprise! Tonight's dinner costs double what it did last week

At last, Endive Bluesky

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

“ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”

I thought I would repost this to highlight again some of the many varied symptoms that can be found in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis/#ChronicFatigueSyndrome Particularly relevant when similarities with the #LongCovid presentation in some people are being missed #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1/

Journalism is dead, long live journalism. You will find your critical mass of scrappy journalist collectives right here. #NewSkies

Well, the Criterion Channel has done it again. I've seen "Klute," "The Parallax View" and "All the President's Men" before -- but not together, in order. And by programming all three Pakula movies together in order, I now see "President's Men" differently. www.criterionchannel.com/alan-j-pakul...

Maron is someone who really embodies that “nice vs kind” distinction, to me. He’s often brusque, even mean. Kind people are mad as hell a lot of the time, at least the ones I know. Nice people continue to blithely scurry over bodies.

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas." This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

my cat when i explain that my retirement plan consists solely of the expectation that i will be transported and reborn into a medieval fantasy game setting like in an isekai anime, with a generous magic system that makes healthcare coverage obsolete

It's raining and I feel lousy, but this bunny pile-on helped me feel 10% better, so here you go.

If you’re looking for an excuse to shuffle I Who Have Never Known Men to the top of you TBR pile:

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt

Laura Numeroff went through all the trouble of writing If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and have it become a best-selling book and cultural touchstone, only for us all to still be in this nonsense of a mess

It’s been a week 😮‍💨! Reminder that creating & making are important as is building & protecting community. Week 61: show me something that brings you JOY 🎉 or that you have #knit to CARE 💕 for others. Surf Wax socks in Coop Knits Socks Yeah! for my bestie, who is visiting tomorrow ☺️🥰. #ShowMeYourKnits

Thanks to Yale's Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social, a leading immunologist and Long COVID investigator, for talking with me yesterday about the recent Keystone Symposium, the debate over viral persistence, and more. Here's our interview: virology.ws/2025/09/26/t...

This ought to be a huge story everywhere. It is imperative that we not normalize sending troops into blue cities on false pretenses. The consequences could be tragic. Journalists must rebut the lies and quote the outraged at the top of their articles and segments. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...