For the vast majority of human history we had almost no protection from infectious disease. 50% of children died before their 5th bday. We are living in an age of wonders and this sack of putrescence is going to drag us back into that nightmare.

I'm not one to run to analogies of the fall of Rome, but the President hosting a gladiatorial game on the WH lawn while the world burns makes it hard to avoid.

Anyone who has any analysis of the history of medicine and its relationship to race and weight and other marginalized bodies knows this is a reasonable thing to comment on. Medicine is SUPER QUICK to lionize drugs that affect body size. Like, I am old enough to remember Fen-Phen.

The Tapestry of Fate by @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social is sooooo good (maybe her best yet???) And also that ending...I'm not sure how I'll survive until the next book comes out. Curse her love of a good cliffhanger!

Modern medicine causes real harm to people and must be improved. Modern medicine and health care is better than it has ever been in the history of humankind and millions, if not billions, of people are alive today because of it. These are not mutually exclusive ideas.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Our culture is completely unable to hold certain kinds of men to any sort of standard. Having a N*z* tattoo should be disqualifying! Why is this even a discussion?

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Hey, so I bet we could all use a distraction. So, I was at a work event today that had lunch and there was a bunch of leftovers. I was offered some BBQ meatballs to take home, which I did in a ziplock bag.

It's a weird time to be the person at work in change of our strategic plan.

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The stupidest people alive are in power and we are all absolutely up a creek.

Immediate Kronsteen Rosette, yeah? @killjamesbond.bsky.social

Andrew W. K. and Neda Ulaby both went to my tiny high school.

Thank you for the nutritional advice, Mr. convicted rapist

Does Drake Maye have permission to be out so late on a school night?

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

In The Return, which is otherwise excellent, Penelope is weaving and tearing out her father's burial shroud on a wide rigid heddle loom, which didn't exist until the 20th century.

Sources for this article include "anon faculty member" and "some college students".

Days since last Atlantic-induced migraine: 0

We should eliminate cattle farming.

the plan otherwise is running another candidate. running another candidate is a plan. maine has ranked choice primaries 8 months from now. running a good candidate with no nazi tattoos is a plan. you don’t have to do this. there are 6 posts under this one & they’re all “you don’t have to do this.”

Ffs

Yeah, I don't think it's censorious to say that a nazi tattoo is disqualifying for a US senator. It doesn't matter what the circumstances were when he got it, he's chosen every day since not to walk in to literally any tattoo shop and have it covered up.

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

You know, a small minority using structural advantages to temporarily stall the progress of an overwhelming number of people - significantly harming them in the process - and ultimately perishing without changing the long term outcome is not a *bad* metaphor for conservatives...

It's my favorite/most terrifying day of the month! open.spotify.com/show/7JirL3U... @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...

Ozzy and Hulk Hogan dying at the same time is really giving me Mystic/Skeksis vibes.

I mean, kinda depends on the plane, Tim!

Bicolored sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens) on a purple coneflower in my garden. Look at those pollen pants!

I'm not an expert, but from what I've learned from @sarahtaber.bsky.social a lot of farm work requires a ton of dexterity and practiced and experienced skilled labor; machines just can't do it and this imaginary workforce on Medicaid won't have the skills.

Remember how DT is civilly responsible for sexual assault.

I understand why in a system predicated on unlimited growth (capitalism) a declining population is bad. Buy can someone explain what is inherently bad about it?

As much as I love @fivefourpod.bsky.social I really hate that at this rate they will never run out of cases.

let the catastrophizing begin!

It can be hard to be in the world right now, so here are some pictures of bee butts hanging out of Penstemon.

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One of the things about Cuomo (and Trump) that hurts the most is the reminder that, for a lot of people, women just don't matter. Assaulting women is not disqualifying because our lives are less important than the price of eggs or whatever.

WTF is this nonsense.

100% The only reasonable critique of "email jobs" is that in a world based on human thriving we would be using technology to reduce the total amount of time any of us have to work while collectively increasing resources. Capitalism demands that everyone work even if there isn't work that needs doing

Garden friends