Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Well yeah, that’s what happens when you drink milk with cow shit in it. Honestly, these people!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/... If you weirdos don’t stop eating mummies istg

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

not if I digest it first is the true key to our success as humans

The same people who tell me I can’t ever be British because of my name are saying a guy named Nowak is British, but just for a few days while they hold riots

Just a reminder: The Guardian entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI a little while back, so any time you see an article like this from them, you can immediately dismiss it as not credible journalism but just Sam Altman getting his money’s worth.

A lot of what people associate with normal aging at age 40, sore backs and shoulders and waking up wrong and fucking up your neck all day and such, is simply due to having angered a powerful witch. Simply try not to anger a powerful witch, or if you have, offer her some cash or a nice gift.

Well this looks delightful.

Duchamp's Fountain is easily the most successful ragebait in history. You'd think it was made yesterday from how Twitter users groan about it. It's been 109 years.

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

If you missed my earlier reviews in my ‘listen to all REM’s studio albums’ project. The first (very short) two are here: bsky.app/profile/kirs...

It’s time for REM’s 5th album in my ongoing ‘listen to all REM’s studio albums’ project. Document came out in 1987 and contains eleven songs at 39 minutes. God, they were just hammering those early albums out, weren’t they! They put out an album a year for the first 6 years. Impressive stuff.

Seen this a couple of times in relation to the UK news and I think it's potentially dangerous to share in this context. The START algorithm is designed for multiple casualty scenarios where you need to concentrate on saving as many lives as possible. NOT just one casualty.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Thank you. Please never forget that fascists and bigots are liars. Never accept anything they say at face value.

This is still an all timer from her tbh

Narrarively, I'm pulling for Junteenth.

Happy Pride to the city of Boise.

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Josephine Baker showing the world the absolute best way of being when you're 67 years old

Shoutout to some excellent German psychologists working on #LongCovid - check out the link for who they are

I need abled people to recognize the following pattern: 1. these "symptoms" aren't a disease 2. patient advocacy 3. ok they're a disease, but it's super rare 4. patient awareness campaigns, more diagnosis

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

If you are commissioning an artist, and want a specific pose, don't run to genAI to try and make it for you. Draw a stick person. Stick person poses are beloved among all artists. We can see exactly what you want. Do not fear sending the stick person. The stick person is magical.

That Wired piece deserves a good fisking. I'm happy to give it a go, but I fear I might be here until the end of time, given just how many things there are to address. It's pretty much every sentence, and it's a LOOONNNNNGGG piece! But @longcovidadvoc.com has summarised some of the key points:

Just seen the Nowak footage, police arrive finding him face down behind a car, he immediately and repeatedly tells them he's been stabbed. He's not and hasn't been threatening them in any way from the point they arrive and appears to very obviously be in medical distress.

my whole relation to police was shaped by years of watching them (and EMTs!) act like barbarians around my epileptic mother, whom they mistook for using drugs, because they thought it was appropriate to treat someone who uses drugs in that way

This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. ~ Langston Hughes

Big birbs! Island giganticism is so cool.

Lol oh dear. Lawyers love it when companies put this sort of shit in writing. Five stars.

You don’t have to have Long Covid to be harmed by Wired’s article suggesting patients have been cured with mind body therapies Patients with chronic illness endure this gaslighting all the time The barriers to care are endless These are real, serious illnesses that need real, tangible treatment

At first I thought I would buy the fanciest steak in the store. Then I thought a little more and realized what I’d actually do is buy the biggest bag of pizza rolls they stock and live one day as if consequences did not exist

A late night mellow listen to The Caution Horses by Cowboy Junkies and it suddenly struck me that I’ve been listening to this album for 36 years. It’s one of those rare albums that both perfectly encapsulates a particular time - in this case, my foundation course year - while remaining eternal.

#mecfs #LongCovid #pwME #chronicillness #spoonie

we were talking about this this AM and my husband was like, so, you want to give 'the people' 50% of all of our collective stolen IP? are you also going to give us 50% of what plumbers earn next year? no? then this is just nationalizing theft

this review has ended me

This is the thing that really narks me about all of this. Recovery stories are *vital*. Knowing why someone got better and someone else didn't is just so potentially useful. That's why weaponising them against those who remain ill is so... cruel. 😒

Long Covid Reframed As Fight-Or-Flight Loop By People In Ignore-And-Deny Loop

I know this is a joke, but there's some cool pigment chemistry, history & etymology in 'raw umber' & 'burnt umber'. Let's learn about it! 'Umber' is a member of a natural family of pigments called ochre, in the same family as 'sienna'. What they have in common: iron & manganese oxide compounds.

It appears the government won't be satisfied until it has hounded trans people out of society altogether. The Government are choosing every moment and mechanism they can to demonstrate they don't care about their lives. We have to draw the line. Reject the framework.

Sure looks like the DOGE boys tried to kill a whistleblower.

If you demand a phone number but your web form won’t accept either of my phone numbers, then I promise you that I’ll just abandon my cart and you’ll lose a sale.

Seeing “you may not use facilities of your affirmed gender” in black and white really has me feeling an abject dread in my heart

🧵OF KEY CONCERNS We've now read Alan Levinovitz's WIRED piece on Long Covid. Our concern isn't that it discusses psychological theories. Our concern is that it repeatedly conflates criticism of evidence with creating a "climate of fear". Those are not the same thing. /1

Positive thinking can’t cure disability. You can’t “try harder” to be better. You aren’t “failing” because you got sick. People who believe they will never become disabled or that they will “try harder” than us are denying reality. Disability can and does come for almost everyone.

I'm not surprised. Brains who don't get any new things to do will start finding things to gnaw on, and these things tend to be anxieties and fears--and the Other is a ready made scapegoat for said fears

Of course the one aspect of the US system the UK would import would be a heavily-politicised Supreme Court that unilaterally decides that decades-old rights codified in law actually aren't, and that what the law actually says is minorities aren't human.

The biggest roll back of disability rights in a generation - under a Labour government. Did you vote for this Starmeroids? www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Once legal protections are no longer sacrosanct for one group, it makes it far easier to remove them from others. Many of the judges in today’s Supreme Court ruling were involved with the FWS decision. My heart and solidarity go out to the disabled community. 😢