I’m late getting to it, but I enjoyed Kara Swisher’s Burn Book more than any nonfiction I’ve read in quite some time (and I read about 125 books a year.) it’s like if Dorothy Parker wrote about Silicon Valley.

I want one!

"Appropriate questions to patients might be: 'What's challenging you the most about your diabetes?” or “What's bothering you the most at the moment?'" #diabetes #EASD2025 www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Bill Cassidy behaved today as he should have behaved during RFK Jr.’s confirmation. The problem is that now he can’t unring the bell. His actions in confirming Kennedy and convincing others to do so has already caused irreparable damage to science and public health in the United States.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

“Stay in tune with your body and fall in love with your diabetes, and it’ll love you back 💛✨” Absolutely not. I’ll carry on being a petty bitch for the rest of my life and continue holding a grudge against my immune system and using dark humour as a coping mechanism, thank you very much xo

My husband and I are becoming HOMOs in our old age - Happiness Of Missing Out.

Which is great, but I know someone who is over 65 and got told at a Seattle area Walgreens today that she needed a prescription. Hopefully there’s some planned effort to communicate to pharmacies.

Absolutely true of PH and of ALL chronic conditions. It should not even need to be a point of discussion (but alas, is.)

make a Beaker origin story you COWARDS (signed, a tall awkward beanpole with no chin and red hair)

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.

9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.

More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs

Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

The New Yorker…

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

Hey, an animated version of Weston Wei's delightful cover of my forthcoming novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space. Off-kilter physics! A deadly family! A decision no one should have to make. Also, a lot of food. Coming April 7, 2006. Preorder now! torpublishinggroup.com/the-subtle-a...

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

I saw a post that was talking about how we have to get back into communities and be social again, and I agree! I also think more people committing to masking again would help a lot of us feel more welcome and ready to do that.

Still haven't seen the Peanuts musical on Apple TV+, but it has this gorgeous song, written by Ben Folds, sung by Jayd Deroché. "When We Were Light" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcR...

#tbt 1

While I shared with a few close friends my experience in a cardiac ward during COVID (not even my husband could visit), Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, although he had a very different condition than mine, describes the experience far better than I could ever dream of doing. Highly recommended.

#Booksky #Readersky #Books #Reading

For me, chronic illness is about listening to my body. I woke feeling lethargic and dizzy. I made sure to stop and lie down and just breathe. There were other things I wanted to do today, but the best thing I can do is be kind to myself. #chronicillness

Husband and I drove up to Leavenworth yesterday and did the short hike from Lake Wenatchee up to Hidden Lake.

I wish there was a Trump voter I could slap every time I walk out of the grocery store.

OK, some skating fan please post the debut of Yuma’s Turandot long program on this site so we don’t have to go to the bad place to watch it. Please?

I second this.

The right thing to say when someone is having hypoglycemia is "Here is some juice" not, "You took too much insulin". The second statement being completely fucking irrelevant.

We are so desperate to forget that this pandemic ever happened, that we keep forgetting that this pandemic is still happening.

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

I need this sticker for myself

Adding to my to-do list:

Flashback: One of our favorites from 2019!

Gossip news of the day, ranked by Phil: Could not care less if Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry had dinner. Doesn’t really matter to me but happy for them both: Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson being a couple. Matters very much to me: Canadian skater Paul Poirier got engaged!

Every day for me!

Toronto friends and fellow science nerds, I'll be speaking about diabetes research in Canada since the time of Banting at the Toronto Reference Library on August 21 at 1 p.m. Registration is open now! www.eventbrite.ca/e/canadas-on...

Very sad news. Reminder to me That it’s been way too long since I listened to her Live at Carnegie Hall album. Also saw her as The Witch in Into the Woods in its national tour.

Accurate:

I dreamed last night that we were all trapped in a sequel to the musical Chicago where Roxie and Velma are the POTUS and VP, Billy Flynn’s Attorney General, Matron “Mama” Morton is running the FBI, and Mary Sunshine’s been banned from women’s sports.

Penn suit claims drugmakers have inflated insulin prices for decades

Hey if you have #diabetes and are interested in #globalhealth, come to our meeting this Saturday - we'd love to have you! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Breakfast of D champions...