everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

in a few days, EBT will be cut even further to prevent anyone needing assistance from buying literally candy/soda among other things so like, all you comfy folks with enough $ for every new game, vacations, cars, concerts, treats are gonna step in and help out, right? right?

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.

my grandma’s rural AI doctor diagnosed her with missing fingers

Starting the new year with a renewed hatred for all things Gen AI. So I drew a knight slaying a dragon, can you spot all the hints that the monster is AI? 🌞

I’m going to start (inconsistently) posting over here again. Hoping to switch over permanently soon, but The Other Place has a hold on me. Hi. Sausages are back.

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

In a December 16 email to Mother Jones, at which time South Carolina already had more than 100 cases, a spokesperson from HHS downplayed the threat of measles. Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

The kids are not alright. They need the adults to do the right thing. They need us to acknowledge the very real threat of Long Covid, and start taking steps to mitigate the risk. We urgently need to adopt mandatory masking in healthcare, paid time off & clean air in public spaces:

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Please take a couple of minutes to read this piece. It's important. "We have ignored the perspectives, stories & voices of disabled people for so long that their actual needs, feelings and experiences are hardly acknowledged."

The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.

Measles is airborne like COVID and a lot more contagious. But because we've had 5 years of COVID minimization and airborne denial we're not dealing with it.

Saw a Chicago-based bakery chain selling cannoli-cream-filled pączki today and I just love America so much.

The jerk store called. They voted 11-3 to unionize! Everyone welcome Jerks Local 217

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

When did the American Dream become "watching someone else suffer more"?

Measles cases nearly double in Ontario over last 2 weeks, far surpassing last decade's total 18 unimmunized children hospitalized as a result of recent outbreak

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

I'm bad at asking for help, but with focusing on Ron being in the hospital he hasn't been able to work and I'm not streaming while taking care of him. Doing the writing/tutoring gigs here and there, but it's not a lot. This is my ko-fi. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. ko-fi.com/mothergamer

Measles confirmed in Kentucky and New Jersey now. Kentucky: www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a “miniaturist” when I grew up. I thought it was a job. My mother told me that it wasn’t, that it was more of a hobby. BUT LO AND BEHOLD

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask. If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask. If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask. If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask. My ultimate guide to respirators:

wake up honey new hog just dropped

An opportunity to post my favorite map

Peltier's imprisonment has symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans across the country who believe in his innocence.

I suspect much of my creativity is just inflammation.

Folks I finished my Visualised steps data today.! I turned my step count over the past 20 days into a tube map. I’m genuinely so proud of the outcome.

Daily sausages are still happening on my art alt. The horrors persist, but you can head over there for an endless number of little buddies drinking coffee and having treats.

Everyone needs to check out Tales of Kenzera: Zau, it's awesome and $20 or on PS+ Extra 💜🎮 For fans of: Hollow Knight Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Guacamelee 1 + 2 Ori & the Blind Forest

Oh.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

We got there! Together, we raised over $564,000 for @translifeline.bsky.social. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights and all are deserving of equality and love. To everyone who was a part of this, from myself, @goberthicks.bsky.social, and all of us here at Tolarian Community College: THANK YOU. 💙💜🤍

i see their vision. just need to grill before inserting

Last year we raised $60k in our first 24 hours... ...this year we raised $100,000 in just 9 hours! This community is standing together to show our love for our trans friends, our trans family. 🏳️‍⚧️ You can donate at give.translifeline.org/tolarian Let's make some Magic! 💙🩷🤍

20 ml of insulin was used to develop this photo, which is the equivalent of 2 vials and roughly the amount that I need to live for 30 days. the cost of 2 vials of insulin is $660.

Oh my God, this whole piece is 🔥 "The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’ [Its] aesthetic project is to flood the zone...to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."