I’m barely on here but in honor of the good old Twitter days I need to celebrate my birthday crew today: @artologica.net @urbanastronyc.bsky.social @flyingtrilobite.com …and am forgetting anyone? Happy Birthday to us!!! 🥳

I am all for saving the planet, but my brain is struggling to accept this as an iced coffee. Two things can be true. 😅

Whew. This is BRAVE. When everyone else is asking what do we do, a reminder there's folks being real brave out here.

“The price tag is also equivalent to a year’s rent for a one-bedroom apartment for 1,177 people, which would constitute roughly 80% of New Orleans’ unhoused population.”

Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow, by Ilya Repin, 1885-86

Not Like Us sitting there waiting like chekov’s gun right now

How long is the football warmup for Kendrick’s show?

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

This is your annual reminder that the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show melted faces.

Nine Colors on White I (rotated), by Ellsworth Kelly, 1953

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

TikTok's algorithm makes it a really valuable resource for connecting with communities you haven't even figured out you want to connect with yet. It can be life-changing, and people dismissing it as a dancing-teenager app are showing their ignorance.

TikTok is gone. Long live TikTok.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

A front page for the ages.

Sorry can't turn up to the atrocity memorial, too busy committing atrocities.

It's nearly time to reveal my Quote Of The Year 🥳 In preparation, here's last year's one: a corker, from The Guardian 🤣

Can confirm

Reading this is so painful. It’s easy to focus on the infuriating disinformation, but we CANNOT ignore the inadequacies & red tape. “To be in a situation of asking for help, and then not receive it is even worse than having asked for it at all”. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

He stees you when you're stleeping.

Life's funny but not like ha-ha funny. More like does this milk smell funny funny or can you pull over I feel funny funny.

Oxford in December fog

UCLA's AI-loving comp lit prof now says of her AI use, "I feel more empowered by this process. I am more of a teacher than I’ve ever been” and that her use of AI--which will include having it literally come up with the fucking assignments-- is “highly pedagogical and highly responsible.”

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Reader, I googlied him

In case you're wondering why disabled people ask you to wear masks: I caught a cold from a sick opposing counsel who opted not to mask in a courtroom. I'm immunosuppressed. Now I have bronchial pneumonia, an ear infection, a sinus infection, and tonsillitis. From a cold.

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

@garbage-anxiety.bsky.social 😉

Feeling tense about the fact the bin day schedule is about to go all over the place.

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What GIF pops up when you type in your name? No big surprise lol

Who doesn't have an anti-healthcare manifesto?

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Who knew I needed self-help affirmations from the Klingons?

Goodnight. 🖼️ Forest, Hwainio.

Coach Gowron Library Book Reviews: A Christmas Carol. A Ferengi businessman is haunted by holiday spirits who attempt to remind him of his honor. Scrooge should have slain the demons who attacked him. 3/5 K’t’inga’s. Glory to Tiny Tim! Also, Librarians are true warriors! Honor them!

@astrospanner.bsky.social god I love Big Jet TV ✈️

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For those on BlueSky unfamiliar with this modern British tradition: During times of high winds, we all jump on YouTube and watch planes trying to land at Heathrow, with excited commentary from the UK's premier plane nerd channel. Currently live here! www.youtube.com/live/egvoBvc...

I get messages even now of get better soon and idk I hope so of course, but it may not be in the cards...The baseline expectation is that an ill patient, even someone with seriously advanced cancer, will recover. It's fascinating (in a kind of morbid way) 2/2

In my research of 17th century letters and diaries one thing that I find striking is for any illness, even minor ailment, they do not take it for granted you'll recover. They might think it's *probable* and at some point consider you out of danger. Today, it's the opposite, it's so striking 1/2

This reflection from @helendecruz.net on the takenforgrantedness of health in our medicalized society is deeply resonant with my experience as a chaplain where I often end up functioning as a source of cognitive dissonance because I embody the fact the global mortality rates are 100%.

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In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law. The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights. This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.