The best part about close captioning is finding out what someone else thinks a guffaw or a sharp sigh or teeth sucking is.

A great example is the team of organizers & Bangladeshi drug manufacturers working to create generic versions of groundbreaking CFTR inhibitors, so that people living worldwide with CF aren’t priced out or excluded from the US patent-controlled version:

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

a CEO is a vibes based position who, upon learning that one woman can make a baby in nine months, reasons that 9 women can make a baby in one month but as a cost saving measure only hires 0.7 women for 29 hours a month to avoid having to pay benefits

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I think this project is going on the shelf. The fabric I have is very thin and very stretchy. A little more advanced than I am capable of. Or have the patience for. I think I might stick to mending, fitting, and MAYBE a thrift flip.

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:

Poodle in the snow

Sometimes I see a really small adult in a tv show and I feel so bad deep down bc I know that’s how I look in a crowd lmao (I’m also afraid in crowds, definitely related)

The Atelier, The Vernal's Murmur #fashionsky

Here's a recycled kingfisher for today's #birbfest. Might be an old drawing, but I still enjoy it 🙂 #BirbFest2026

They invented the deliberate famine as an instrument of state policy

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

There’s this surfer sounding dude in Arizona that I love who just does science and nature stuff (usually lighting rocks on fire with his solar death ray) but I’ve been laughing at this for like ten minutes x: www.instagram.com/reel/DT6QqO6...

my villain form

Good morning Blueskyers. Some photos from yesterday’s #ChepstowMariLwyd Honoured to be a very small part of it, playing music with some great musicians.

Yep the normal-est dog to ever dog. #Poodle #StandardPoodle #TimelineCleanse

this is a CONSUME UR MEDS and a DRINK MORE WATER checkpoint via this cute collage i made

Her books gave me the ick as a new mom, but every one thought I would love them since “I’m a statistician” so she was recommended to me a lot.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

Every word of this.

I will donate, phone bank, and knock on doors for any Democrat who promises to do everything to the Republicans in power that they’re doing to innocent people. Not talk about the price of milk. Not talk about norms. Just want a promise that the these motherfuckers will rot.

🍐 The Herefordshire pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears.. Hereford, [Eng.]Jakeman and Carver, 1876-85.. [Source]

the strawberry boys, for your nerves.

1. call your congresspeople - www.5calls.org 2. donate mutual aid - www.standwithminnesota.org 3. boycott companies that support ice - www.lawfirm4immigrants.com/companies-th... 4. organize locally - support neighbors in hiding, protest, become a legal observer this is all hands on deck 💔🇺🇸

💐Superb exhibition at Palais Galliera (Paris) this morning. More to follow soon.

'1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.'

My shirt is stuck to my tattoo 🤢

My t shirt is stuck to my tattoo 🤢

a pity i can't pin other people's posts anyways, here's a stray cat i took a pic of on another day but waited until #Caturday to post #mobilephotography

Part 194 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd A dwarf Killing a Grasshopper - 1st Century BC - Roman Intaglio Ring, "A bearded dwarf with a long phallus" pinning a grasshopper and stabbing it with a knife

Part 193 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Ivory carving of a shell with fishermen inside. Japan, around 1900

We went to a Shinto shrine today. So peaceful.

Milton Glaser, 1975

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

While waiting for the next @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive here's a look back at my favorite benthic ctenophores they've filmed. Dive 366 Lihou Reef, Coral Sea Marine park on east coast of Australia, Queensland Plateau (sound is a tad loud) #VisioningCoralSea #MarineLife

I’ve been obsessed with this story since I first read it. It’s so emotionally bankrupt. RIP Bob Kane you would have loved Sora

i wouldn't exist if my mom didn't have access to abortion when she was younger and not looking to start a family, setting her life on a path that would lead to choosing to have me later. the difference here is that i have not made the world a measurably worse place in my time on it

Sinners is a movie with the guts to say that no matter what you’re facing be it a gang of vampires or racism, it’s never a bad time to learn how to eat pussy good

Paintings by Nigerian artist Idowu Oluwaseun, 2020s.

I feel like both sides of the Beckham family fight are paying celebrity news type people to try to make me take a side because there is no way anyone feels as much passion as they are displaying organically but it’s also not working on me cause my entire outlook on it is

We go outside, so I can show the police the old plans in context. I look into the hole the workers dug. See the pavement blocks, the sand they laid them on, and below that, rich black dirt. I exclaim "Oh! That's graveyard dirt! I'd know it anywhere! That's well fed dirt, if you know what I mean."

If u never hear from me again it’s bc I put the Wikipedia app where the bsky app sits #wikipedia #iloveyou

Escape into the forest with me 🌲🌲🌲 #ForestFriday #Scape #Forests #Trees #PNW #Stairs #Photography #Solace

Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.