Given what’s about to go down at the #ACIP sham meeting this week, this article is a must read and actual science.

I have to specify that I’m an accounting type of bookkeeper, not a librarian/bookseller, because I am asked where I store the books, how is it possible to sell them remotely, do I have to bring them with me, etc. pretty regularly.

The Sick Times: 'The future of Medicaid is “really scary” for people with Long COVID' Written by Laura Weiss thesicktimes.org/2025/12/02/t...

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

Missed that my conversation about the evangelical religious persecution complex with @bernybelvedere.bsky.social went live. We recorded this before the University of Oklahoma situation, but a lot of our conversation is pretty relevant. Give it a listen and deffo subscribe to @theunpopulist.net!

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Palm oil production got a lot of backlash for deforestation and human rights abuses. It's cleaned up its act, but not entirely. Enter the startups, creating pricey synthetic palm oil alternatives in a lab. Do we need them? New from @andrewrosenblum.bsky.social: ambrook.com/offrange/sus...

That’s bullshit

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am, as always, thankful for Gaming

Happy Thanksgiving, America!

Charité University Hospital in Berlin reports that CAR-T-cell therapy has sent people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis into remission. They lose autoantibodies and symptoms disappear. Researchers call it something totally new. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Come visit us! Sunday: Astoria Bookshop with coffee + apple cider to keep you warm on yr Shop Small Astoria crawl Dec 6th: Holiday pop-up at Diamond Dogs, bar open early! Dec 13th: Dave's Lesbian Bar's queer holiday market We'll have 2026 Slingshot planners, new + used books, merch, & more!

ISO: SOUND RECORDIST in LA willing to mask up on december 7th to assist in a documentary! unsure on further deets, am boosting for a pal—email for all the info + please pass around #LASky (if that is a thing lol)

Extremely good news: A print subscription for The Onion is very on sale today. You'll get your first copy by Christmas. It's $75 for a year's worth of newspapers shipped to your real-life mailbox each month. Get one for yourself, your friends, your family, or your enemies. membership.theonion.com

The “America First” crowd was right about foreigners taking american jobs, at least as far as the job of “right wing propagandist” is concerned. If I were conservative I might do a little soul searching about being so easily manipulated but I’m sure we’ll find out why it’s really the left’s fault

A waking death A century before Long Covid, encephalitis lethargica left survivors frozen in time-living reminders of what happens when a pandemic ends but its patients remain Long Covid..ME/CFS.. medicine still struggles to explain By Ming Yang healthchecksonhistory.substack.com/p/a-waking-d...

bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital

MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs

I’m watching John Wolfe play a tactical RPG called Demonschool & I’ve seldom seen a game that’s more @secretsleepoversociety.com coded. Super cool aesthetic, funny writing, spooky adjacent but not scary.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

I have no idea how this translates to actual book sales for me (no one told me this was happening) but if you want every Night Vale book we've ever written, they're all in here for basically no money

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

The alleged leftists celebrating the news that outspoken Covid realists have died in the last few days are truly disgusting to me. These are not comrades. These ppl will kill us & laugh about it in the mentions afterwards. You cannot be aggressively anti-mask & also a leftist. You just can’t.

All right, I’m going to make coffee, but I will leave you with this: one of the most radical acts of resistance both to fascism and to Covid right now is to wear a mask. Build communities around wearing masks, etc. Get vaccinated do what you can to protect yourselves and others in your life.

spare a thought for the poor souls who spent years working towards getting an invite to sex pest island only to have it cruelly snatched away

"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."

"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives" "Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

I’m devastated by this loss, and also profoundly grateful that I got to witness her work, her thought, and her example. She deepend how I understand disabled solidarity—what it demands, what it makes possible, and how much responsibility we owe to one another.

Alice moved through the world with a kind of political generosity that made people bolder. She noticed people. She uplifted new voices. She reached out with intention. She gave disabled folks permission to be angry, joyful, complicated, imaginative—to exist beyond the flattened roles we’re assigned.

Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

Exactly! If Democrats need to focus on affordability, just ... focus on affordability. Don't constantly give lectures about how other people with the exact same job as you need to do it differently.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

Dems should promise not only to prosecute the Trump family for enriching themselves at the expense of the country but also to use the tools of government to seize the wealth they’ve illegally accrued during his presidential terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

Jesus Christ.

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

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*porky pig voice* that fella's an epheb-pheb, uh an epheb-pheb... uhhh a child molester.

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.