Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Here is a picture of my dog stopping to smell the roses.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

and there, beneath it all, are our lives left to live. with our hearts broken and our grief on our sleeves, our late nights and our music we make. we move, despite ourselves. we shift, inside ourselves. we love. we drift between clouds. we hold space for more of one another. we weep.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

There are still simple things ~

This piece by @dieworkwear.bsky.social is just super thoughtful and full of revelations. Love.

Sure is nice when the good guys win, isn’t it? #4Nations

Can we get this here in Canada please

‘Cat in a sunlit kitchen’ B&W photograph, 35 mm film

Alberta needs to be talking about how the same tactics being used to spread misinformation, bigotry, and censorship down south are in full force here as well: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

This is ethereal

A short and amazing 1970 documentary directed by a black woman about the revolutionary actions of black women hospital workers in Charleston who unionized and went on strike. Very powerful and available to watch on YouTube. I wrote a a few paragraphs about on Letterboxd. boxd.it/8Km4FT

Good to keep on hand ✌🏼

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

If you are testing the waters on Bluesky, connecting with fellow photo and art folks will be crucial for creating a meaningful experience. I'm organizing a list of Photo People to help you get started. Please share this link with your photo friends!

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It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

A selection of photographs from the wet specimen, spirit collection at the British Museum, 2011. This collection contains hundreds of specimens from the last two centuries, including the HMS Challenger expedition.

Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.

remembering how the sun feels, inhaling

David Lynch said it’s cool, actually, to eat the same thing every day bc then you can focus your energy on the important stuff. By this logic, I’m declaring that it’s cool, actually, to have a closet that looks like Doug Funny’s, but with identical black jeans, black sweatshirts, & Godzilla tees.

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

Honestly, given the state of the world, I’m feeling ready to let cephalopods take the reins of the planet. At least they’d be invested in protecting the oceans from climate change, right? 🌿

One thing a fractured ankle makes me wonder about is how I would fare in a climate disaster right now. Climate planning needs many lenses, including a disability justice lens.

Hello #booksky if you’re looking for a #readingchallenge title, may I offer for consideration my own recent book of poetry, A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses, from Turnstone Press? 📖 🖤

Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded

the trees sketch the sky bones reaching sparsely towards that long night their breath paused #naturewriting #naturephotography

More than 300 British HCWs with Long Covid are suing for compensation. “They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound” Healthcare facilities MUST mandate respirators & clean air. Patients & staff are suffering

Sometimes when somebody asks me what’s wrong it’s that I’m afraid I won’t accomplish anything important before I die, and sometimes it’s that the TV volume is on an odd number or the dishes were dirty so I had to use the weird spoon for my cereal and that’s why I just say “nothing” most of the time

Alberta breaks my heart almost every day.

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

snow bunny🐰

Imagine the world if we’d been willing to learn from COVID… What if we’d embraced WFH to slow climate change? What if we’d installed filtration systems in public buildings to reduce the spread of illness? What if we’d demanded disability justice re long COVID? A better world is still possible.

So, this bloot about my paper blew up. Most common reaction: Duh! You need proof that masking in hospitals works? The reality: Yes, many healthcare epidemiologists, including CDC advisors, have advocated for weaker guidance on masking and testing. Read on... 1/🧵 #IDSky #MedSky

One of the things I find most difficult about chronic illness is the loneliness. There’s no spur-of-the-moment meet up with a friend for coffee, no late-night-hang-out with a group grabbing celebratory drinks. Most days, it’s me and my thoughts, trying to stay on top of mundane life skills.

Today, after hearing about the insurance debacle that our premier has decided to unleash on our province (in addition to the numerous other dystopian legislations being put forward) I contemplated starting a series of ‘Letters from an Albertan,’ inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

What a week this has been. I feel sorrow and pain, yet gratitude and joy that life continues. Parenting is the hardest thing I’ve done, and that will likely never change. Hold your loved ones close.

It was such a wonderful surprise to see A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses back on this list this week, so honoured!

I read this poem again when I woke up. It helped.