It’s 2025 and professional code tools have “reduced hallucinations” as a serious , legitimate bullet point in their marketing.

🎵 The wheels on the bus go, “What-the-fuck” 🎵

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

The new lavender scare. "The Department of Homeland Security has eliminated policies preventing the investigation of individuals or groups solely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity." www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

Having had just a little bit of interaction with other countries' postal systems I can say with confidence that — even under deJoy — USPS gives excellent service for what it costs us and we honestly should shovel more money at it

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

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This week we remember the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans who were sent to detention camps across the country during WWII, based solely on their heritage. History shows that locking up people in massive camps will not make us safer—no matter what the Trump administration claims.

New mask ban legislation is on the move in Maryland: https://www.stopmaskbans.com/#action-map

Did you know that (according to the 1431 trial record) Joan of Arc was not initially sentence to death as long as she did not relapse (return to wearing men's clothing)? It was only when she did that she was deemed a heretic and burned. Patron saint of "Death Before Detransition" 1/11

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Feels like one of the biggest problem of our time is that we’re so well connected digitally, but feel more disconnected than ever, and we have access to more and more information but are less and less well informed.

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS #STARTREK #SISKO197

Today is the Day of Remembrance, the 83rd anniversary of the forced removal of 120,000 people of Japanese descent to American concentration camps. American soldiers physically tortured and murdered Japanese Americans in these camps. Their money, homes, businesses, and wealth were stolen.

Covid still exists. Covid is still dangerous. If you’re going to protests unmasked, your high-risk and disabled allies are in danger. Not just from cops. Not just from Nazis. But from you.

Good morning Don’t forget to breath

So, doll, is this your first apocalypse?

Is it bad to randomly fire hundreds of people with high security clearance who are responsible for producing, transporting, and dismantling nuclear weapons, providing the Navy with nuclear reactors for submarines, and responding to nuclear incidents around the world?

again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded

Ok infosec folks, make of y'all (unfairly) whined about Director Jen Easterly's leadership. Bridget Bean just caved on election security. I want to hear some outage and see some action. www.cisa.gov/about/leader...

Not my hell, not my snowball

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

I'm not sure who is covering the attacks/overall domestic threat but want to make sure this doesn't get missed: one day before, an NZ healthcare worker was sent a threatening letter (from a group w/connections to attackers) about providing gender-affirming care: bsky.app/profile/mike...

So glad that Costco has Novavax. 💉 I’ve gotten it the last 2 years, and it doesn’t knock me out for a couple days like Pfizer did. Also a PSA reminder for others: You do not have to be a Costco member to use Costco pharmacy which includes their vaccines!

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

For EPA + other layoffs, here are folks that are working on that right now: bsky.app/profile/laur... Me and the rest of C&EN's policy team are also keeping an eye out for other news coming out of FDA, EPA, etc (with lots of help from the rest of the newsroom.)

It's OK to celebrate wins and acknowledge victories even as you push for more. It's, in fact, necessary

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Updated with breaking news: RFK confirmation, bird flu in US veterinarians (more cow-human spread), and Louisiana stops mass vaccination/bans vax promotion: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-... Also: US #LongCovid disability info removed, post-infection immunity is only 5% and more you need to know.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Sources at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are saying that Musk, DOGE, and Trump's actions are already hurting ability of the United States to maintain a functioning public weather service. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Posted about how I can't eat wheat due to Celiac & got replies like "Did you just GIVE UP? And quit eating wheat?" Like, yea? I started avoiding bees when I found out I had a bee allergy. I don't approach bears randomly either. That's how I'm still alive. By avoiding things that are dangerous to me.

The reason Trump et al are so good and so fast at dismantling the govt is because people forget a lot of shit comes from the govt. Take 4h and farmer education in general. That's govt assistance. Crop insurance? that's the govt. US farmers are subsidized in a way developing country farmers aren't

For example: the data in your favorite weather app comes from the govt. Sure that private company who makes the app might add some extra data and analyze it slightly different but the foundation comes from taxpayer money.

TBH lot of people are on public assistance and don't even realize it, because it's not explicitly framed as govt assistance.

If you have asthma, smoke cigs/nicotine, are immune compromised, etc. you're also eligible for the pneumococcal vac

Canada better get damn serious about fighting right-wing fascism because what's happening here in the US can happen there too. I guarantee, any country, anyone thinking they're doing enough, you're not.

saw @maddow.msnbc.com talk about this on her show tonight. the tldr is some alabama utility customers used to get a discount bc of a federal grant that’s now gone, plus their bank accts have been *debited* 😬 … schadenfreude aside, dems EVERYWHERE should be talking about this. easy messaging win.

I think the thing is miss the most on Bluesky, from a functional perspective, is a “bookmark” button so I can save things for later reference with a minimum of effort

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)