This is a WIN for science. RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people on Signal group chats with their names replaced by a grab bag of emojis can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." -🦆🦋🥸👶🦃🤘🥫🫟

#OtD 15 Mar 1908 "Women anarchists have become the terror of world's police," ran a headline of the Rochester, NY Sunday paper denouncing anarchist women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8699...

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

Reposting for the reading list!

Truly a perfect news alert

I can't unsee it now. Bob is the brain worm.

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

I guess this is one of those "grabbed the spray deodorant instead of the dry shampoo" kinds of days. Con crash + antibiotics for a skin infection + some kind of sinus thing = severe brain lag.

I missed out on this due to Intercon crunch, but I'm sure the dick whistles will *ahem* rise again.

After spending a significant number of hours with Warhammer 40k video essays on in the background while prepping for Intercon thanks to @rufflejax.bsky.social, I now really, really want to see @iwriteok.bsky.social do one. Mostly out of curiousity to see what parts of the lore get the spotlight.

It's more disturbing to think that Epstein's clique was 200 guys and there are many other cliques like it. There's no final Big Bad. There are only conditions that make all those Medium Bads more dangerous.

a lot of Logistics Guys just don't think a handful of cranky book nerd ladies can be kicking their ass this hard at logistics and like, sorry, but we are. 🤣

::slides up with historical special interest:: The Luddites were pro-workers rights and anti-industrialization's theft of wages & downgrading of craftmanship. Not anti-tech. I wonder why it's been turned into an insult. I WONDER.

Okay, this did make me cackle out loud.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

This story is a RIDE and if you needed some hope or inspiration today, well, here you go. 💕

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

I wish people understood how much unseen labor goes into every visible ounce of activism and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known

i honestly believe that this idea that you have to subject yourself to every shocking horrifying image as part of "the fight" mostly manifests in people who are doing absolutely nothing to "fight" other than post on social media because i never see it amongst people who are getting things done

TFW the sneaky-overreach signs start showing up (executive dysfunction, junk food cravings, headaches, messed up sleep) but you've already committed to too many things to stop and living from urgency to urgency. 🫠🫠🫠 Somehow I need to get my brain back under me for Intercon if I want to have any fun.

Me: Is it too heterosexual to buy the George Kittle commemorative soap as a Valentine's Day present, even if it's kind of a gag gift? Also me: Is there anything straight about encouraging your spouse to think about a dude in tight gold pants in the shower?

I used to think the idea of the sin eater was fascinating and wanted to explore it in RP, mostly around ideas of sacrifice, magical thinking, clean/dirty... but after years of being out as trans and basically becoming a social scapegoat for a culture war, I am no longer interested in it as fiction.

Because we can't have nice things.

Tired: be ungovernable Wired: be too annoying to infiltrate

NSA Brad in the whistle chat this morning, exhaling slowly & wondering if he can drink before noon.

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In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists." I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone. This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."

So Chili did this the whole second half of the game. @misc-mercury.bsky.social had the observation that Chili is clearly a Patriots supporter through commiseration over chasing birds and failing to catch them.

Feel like there has been a lot of “conspiracy theorists were right” but what actually happened was victims were and that’s much harder to accept for most people

Never underestimate a bunch of sufficiently motivated nerds.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Hey remember back when Russian dash cam videos were everywhere and it was a big sign that the state had basically collapsed and people had to record everything to be safe? Yeah, well guess what that's us now. Buy dash cams for MPLS. www.amazon.com/registries/g...

I hate it when all I catch of discourse is a vaguepost rebuttal to an argument I've never seen anyone make. What the hell do you mean people are saying that their mutual aid efforts are better or more important than being boots on the ground? Who actually believes this? Argh.

the only way to stop a bad guy with a torment nexus is with a good guy with a torment nexus

this is an excellent thread, courtney rules

Things I hope I never take for granted again: Temperatures above 32F Clean wool socks Picking up some paying work Let's fucking G O.

"Anarchy in Minneapolis!" (disparaging) vs. "Anarchy in Minneapolis!" (laudatory)

Things are changing very quickly. But after this, a community meeting was called and between in person and online, 900 PEOPLE showed up.

Between in-person and online, 900 people in my city signed up for a Know Your Rights/ICE Watch training that was only called a few hours before. It's a glimmer of hope and I'll take it.

Last summer at an AFL-CIO event I met several organizers from the newly unionized Kennedy Center. Things weren't great then, but still better than losing your job to a presidential shitfit. Thinking of them today.

I'll be honest, even though a lot of people find it performative and cringe, I kinda like the bird art. At least, the bird art that's made by humans and not AI.

Practicing being cool and calm. Look how much I’m not screaming

It's both validating and painful to read posts to the effect of "why haven't you been screaming about this injustice the whole time?" when you WERE screaming about it, and had to stop because nobody around you was listening and you were burning yourself out. There is no joy in being right too early.

This should go viral. Because it's only gotten worse.

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

I want to thank @marisakabas.bsky.social for all she has done to move the Overton window on calling Tom Homan a bitch, and doing it often. Because those who know will never be able to hear his name without thinking it.