Important thread on Twitter about how Trump's elimination of USAID and leaving the WHO is hampering the response to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda by @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :

Important thread on Twitter about how Trump's elimination of USAID and leaving the WHO is hampering the response to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda by @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :

If you see this, post a Star Trek. (Yes, that's Padma Lakshmi!)

This is nuts!

My biological age is 6 years older than it was at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. What gives?!?

This sculpture is by the artist Julian Hoke Harris and is titled "Keeping Away Death." It is located on the former Fulton County Health and Wellness building in Atlanta, GA.

Taylor Swift is the BillyJoel of our time. I will not be elaborating further.

If - god forbid - I ever need open heart surgery I don't want RFK Jr in the same state as me, let alone in the operating room.

@jtkantor.bsky.social Could you play “My Love Mine All Mine” by Mitski for my daughter and her girlfriend who are at the game tonight?

@soapboxsoftware.bsky.social Amazing app, this has been just what I have been looking for! One question: am I missing where to change the text size on the MacOS version? The default text is quite small.

R.E.M.

Just in case you’ve never read Vineland, here’s a little taste.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Three surprising benefits of HPV vaccines we didn’t anticipate when they were approved: 1. They protect against FIVE types of cancer 2. They are creating herd immunity 3. They last a long time. “We have people who are 20, 30, 40 years old who are seeing protection from the HPV vaccine.”

Since I posted this he’s made like 4 shots, I’m taking credit.

Derrick White’s phone number revealed:

Incredible bumper sticker. I have no affiliation, but it's for sale here: www.smileworldwide.biz/product/preo...

The Celtics are like the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead: when they are good they are very good indeed, but when they are bad they are HORRID. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44650/...

Great call for your campaign in the state with the second-highest median age in the country, sir.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Happy International Day of Immunology!

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

The US contribution to the WHO in 2024 was $751 million. This was 0.01% of the federal budget that year. In the grand scheme it was nothing to the US to contribute that much money, and everything to the WHO to receive it.

Instead of relying on a count of the alleged shooter's likes and reposts, you can just browse his profile here. Seems like a pretty typical Bluesky poster. Nothing he reposted from any of the listed accounts in the skeet going around is a call for political violence. web.archive.org/web/20260426...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

More US soldiers died of the flu in World War I than due to battle. This is an idiotic policy by someone with no knowledge of military history.

Imagine the top national body of your chosen religion making an infographic telling you how wrong you are.

Joe Walsh was at the Sphere and really impressed with Phish's take on Walk Away last night:

Extremely gross that OpenAI named this after Rosalind Franklin, who (just like the thousands of scientists whose work went into training this and other AI models) never received proper credit for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Given this Geese fake viral marketing news, I decided I needed to get out ahead of this story before it hit the news: one time in 1995 I hung fliers for the jam band Percy Hill in exchange for free admission to their show, a $10 value. I apologize for not disclosing this relationship at the time.

Social Media moving from What Your Friends Are Doing to What Hot Rich Strangers Are Doing has ruined society, basically

This must hit so hard if you’re incredibly stupid.

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Now hold on a minute, I'm the most illiterate dumb fuck alive, and I also have the disease from Memento, let's hear them out.

"'Watch out for Buford!' is what they keep on telling me But to me, he's just another crooked lawman from Tennessee" youtu.be/HWKkqbZDWUQ?...

An important point about research funding is that GOP Congresspeople are NOT in lockstep with Trump on this. They were successfully lobbied to keep NIH funding intact for FY26 and likely can be persuaded again. So don’t assume your phone calls and emails are pointless if you have GOP reps!

“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”

This guy's main motivation for 20+ years seems to have been trolling mainstream liberals. Forgive me if I don't find his recent turn to the left completely convincing. (Yes, I would still vote for him over Susan Collins if I lived in Maine.)

Imagine telling everyone on the internet you're soft as hell while believing it makes you look tough.

Leaving aside whether this is a good law or not, I am once again begging elected Democrats to learn that different social media sites have different vibes and to post accordingly. This stuff is probably fire on Facebook but you have to be an idiot to think this is what Bluesky users want to see.

RIP Tracy Kidder. “Mountains Beyond Mountains” was a life-changing book for me. Paul Farmer’s story — so beautifully told by Kidder — smacked the Gen X cynicism out of me and taught me that better things are possible if people care enough and work hard as hell. All the wrong people keep dying.

Fascinating Jerry Garcia quote in Cameron Crowe's memoir "The Uncool":

A huge part of it for me is the incessant advertising of gambling both alongside and during sporting events, and the potential for a corrupting influence on the competition.

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Congratulations to the Dartmouth Big Green on their first-ever ECAC Hockey Championship!

You: watching March Madness at work. Me: watching the ECAC hockey semifinals at work. We are not the same.

This guy: