From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

Here's @npr.org's Obituary of Alice Wong: www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

"Unwelcomed beings in my sphere," and "disruptive methodologies in my heart," especially: Fuck Right Off.

B.R.F.R.O.

If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...

dana terrace, creator of owl house, speaks out against AI and disney+

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Here's @npr.org's Obituary of Alice Wong: www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

If you have obits you liked better, I encourage you to post them in the replies, I would appreciate it. Here’s one I reposted yesterday where they’re going to do a longer article on her this week. (I’ve reposted many remembrances from others further down my timeline.) asamnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)

Just heard about this huge (49 state) long covid trial using tirzepetide (aka zepbound) one of the newer glp meds. It’s run by researchers at scripps, funded by the eric & wendy schmidt foundation. It looks like it is still enrolling, fully remote participation: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

This totally stemmed from a different conversation, but for some reason I was imagining Frankenstein's creature giving Guillermo del Toro uppies like a cat. 😭🤣💖💖💖💖✨️✨️✨️✨️ #frankenstein #gdt (what's wrong with me LOL)

Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators

Wear a goddamn mask!

What I love most about this story is the NYT’s obliviousness to the fact that in other anglophone cultures the slang for tight male underwear or swimwear is ‘budgie smugglers’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.

Alice Wong and @wkamaubell.bsky.social in conversation www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVg...

Mexico Finally Bans Fishing Of Threatened Atlantic Sharks

Anyway. More science fiction should have young kids learning advanced social sciences and humanities as a marker of futuristic-ness.

Some of y'all won't even wear masks during a literal pandemic, or cough into your elbow, or even wash yo damn hands after you pee; how you gonna distribute food & medicine & help mitigate virulent illness in a hermetically sealed containment space? How you gonna help fix a busted low-gravity toilet?

It's fucking winter virus season. Get vaccinated. Wear masks around groups of other people. If you feel sick stay home! Let's help each other out with this shit, people, jfc.

From masks & wider public health to virtual meeting options, sure is hard to get square with how fully & fundamentally this society has toddler-screamed "NO!" at everything that made things even marginally more accessible in the early days of this pandemic because thinking about it makes them scared

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

Alice Wong and @wkamaubell.bsky.social in conversation www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVg...

I’m heartbroken to hear our warrior Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed. She was so important to me & welcoming of me. This is the great loss of a true fighter. May she rise to power as an ancestor, may we never forget her lessons & continue her work for disability justice.

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

In memory of Alice Wong, the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. May she rest in power sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

This is a wonderful way to grieve: Alice worked tirelessly to raise awareness about why Palestine was a disability justice issue and to raise funds for Gaza.

Can’t stop thinking about Alice Wong today. I couldn’t do any of what I’ve done and hope to do with disability justice in libraries without the foundation she laid, and I suspect that’s true of a lot of people in a lot of different disciplines. I hope she knew what an impact she made.

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.

This is one of the most recent things Alice did. It was, as ever, a clear, trenchant, messy, and powerful exploration of not just her own experiences but also society's expectations around disability.

Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good. Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

"Disabled outrage is necessary and liberatory; it reveals the fissures in society and the consequences of structural oppression. It comes from a place of hurt and injustice. It is resistance against erasure." — @sfdirewolf.bsky.social disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/d...

This is one of the most recent things Alice did. It was, as ever, a clear, trenchant, messy, and powerful exploration of not just her own experiences but also society's expectations around disability.

Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD #ShareGoodNewsToo

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

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...

Oh fuck, ah hell and shit i just found out that we lost @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. i just… ah fuck.

I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Hot damn and hell yes

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/