One of these days, I’d like to read an apocalypse story where all the doomsday preppers die because all they have are bullets and dried food that they don’t know how to cook, while the people who survive are the women who have life skills and a community they can rely on.

“It starts with a safe virus that has been altered to contain a specially designed sequence of DNA. This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Look it's really important that we do, but it breaks my heart that I had to spell out that autism isn't an epidemic, and that it's a horrific statement for anyone but particularly people with such power to make.

A reminder to follow journalists, today and every day. If you say you're going to have disability representation in an article on a disability topic, interview a disabled person, not a non-disabled parent. Their perspectives don't count as disability representation.

SLATE: 'Nagging Pain | They had a mysterious, sometimes debilitating condition. At special “boot camps,” they were promised a cure. They experienced something much different.' “They set up unrealistic expectations and took a patient-blaming approach,” Stiles said slate.com/technology/2...

I recently found out that my lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is 37 percent, and I’m ashamed to admit my first thought was, “at least I wouldn’t have to convince my doctors that breast cancer is a real illness.” (Please do not interpret this as me making light of breast cancer.)

Living in a city can be surreal, in the sense that there’s the bar traffic on Saturday/Sunday nights AND there are also possums, raccoons and skunks.

Jimmy Kimmel has got to be the most milquetoast, non-offensive comedian around, and his words on Charlie Kirk were about the least offensive thing you could say about the guy, while still staying within reality. What world are we living in now?

I’m not a fan of Kirk, and I’m also not a fan of what happened to him. I just wish that we would actually do something about it. We are the only nation that has this magnitude of gun violence.

The principal at my son’s school just gave birth, which I was aware of, but what I didn’t realize was that she had TRIPLETS. I could barely handle one newborn. The thought of three is enough to break out into a cold sweat, just on her behalf.

A Phase 2 clinical trial found that twice-daily use of a common allergy spray, called azelastunr, reduced the risk of a COVID infection by more than 50 percent. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In hindsight, eating two banh mi after three days of being unable to keep solid food down was a rather bold move. We’ll see if it pays off or not.

I’ve started getting acupuncture, and if nothing else, I am getting some epic naps out of it. It’s basically a Pavlovian response at this point: I feel the needles go in and I pass out. Who knew turning yourself into a human pincushion could be so relaxing?

The most unrealistic part of Superman was when a billionaire was held accountable for the bad things he did.

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It turns out asking a nephrologist about their beefs with cardiology is enough to out you as a @glaucomflecken.bsky.social fan

There is a guy on TikTok who turns awful Tinder conversations into songs, and I regret to inform you these songs are way more catchy than they should be. If you hear me singing 🎶 SAY POTATO 🎶 please know this song is to blame. (Also, you’re welcome.) www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6MgysMQ/

As much as I want to talk to the best experts for all my stories, it often comes down to who is available. This is doubly true when I’m on a tight deadline.

Buy something once from an online store, receive daily emails from them from now until eternity

Life gets a lot better once you stopped engaging with bad faith actors.

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and I’m kind of hoping that will be Angela Paxton.

Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.

I’ve been dealing with a stomach bug these past few days, which means my heart is saying ‘feeeeeed meeee,’ and my stomach is saying ‘hell no.’ It takes a lot for me to not want to eat.

I’m looking to speak with people about their use of metformin for treating COVID. This includes taking metformin during an active infection, or to treat Long COVID. If this sounds like you, please email me at [email protected]

It’s that time of the year when I spend all my money on Rainier cherries, and I’m not even mad about it.

I’m pretty sure my cats can’t count, but I’m still worried that if I give them unequal amounts of treats, they will smother me in my sleep.

I’m working on an article about migraines right now, and I’m pretty sure I’ve cursed myself in the process, as these past two weeks have been much worse than usual, with regards to my own migraines.

The fun thing about having a chronic illness and getting older is that the two of them make each other worse.

The events of today are a real counter-argument to the myth that women are too emotional to be leaders.

“We are all going to die” is an attitude that is going to take us back to the days when a third of kids died before their fifth birthday, and adults dropped dead of heart attacks in their 50s.

My son loves his rainbow nails

To all those people saying a smart-phone is a “luxury”: Have you ever tried going 48 hours without a cellphone? It’s almost impossible. Our entire society is set up on the assumption everyone has a personal smartphone.

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

I was supposed to attend a conference this weekend, but had to withdraw due to illness. It was the right decision, but I’m still sad. I miss the days when I had a body I could rely on, and the ability to be a full-time professional.

By now you've probably heard that 🪱 intends to limit Covid vaccine recommendations. Here's what limited recommendations means for you. Tl;dr: lots more hoops to jump through. Thanks to @laurelbristow.bsky.social for this summary

She had medical conditions that increased her risk for cancer and she got punched for a living, and yet they completely dismissed her pain. What is it about being a woman that cause doctors to completely dismiss everything as hysteria?

SNAP makes money! It keeps people from starving! It has literally no downsides! 85% of the country supports it for that obvious reason!

"He’s a 56-year-old media lifer with two writing degrees trying to automate his own freelance job, using A.I. to maintain an impossible human workload of low-paid gigs." This is what happens when you pay freelancers ten cents a word and they need to pay their bills.

Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Uptake is low, so let’s make sure even fewer people get the vaccine” is not the argument they think it is.

The majority of people have a precondition that puts them at higher risk…but this is still one additional hoop that people have to jump through, that reduces the likelihood they will get their booster. Plus: what about healthy people who live with vulnerable people?

The FDA has finally approved Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, but in doing so has placed restrictions on it that its two competitors in the U.S. market do not face. www.statnews.com/2025/05/17/f...

Thank goodness. The mRNA vaccines give me bad fevers, which means taking at least a full day off work, while the Novavax does not.

🧵The largest plantation in the South burned down this week. And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”? It’s giving cognitive dissonance. Because let’s be real...

Science explains why orange cats are orange. Now they just need to figure out where the one brain cell has gone.

Interesting turn of events: RFK Jr is a believer in long COVID. Of course, given his full-throated embrace of pseudoscience, the recommendations that will come out of his office to treat long COVID are unlikely to be evidence based.

Every member of Congress should be required to live on SNAP benefits for one month. Let’s see them survive 31 days on $291 without calling their donors.

Quite disheartening to return from 10 days working with some of the most important and relevant #MECFS and #LongCOVID researchers in the world and to read this drivel being allowed through from @bmj_latest. Let's be unambiguous about this: BMJ has www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

Those seven-year olds need to stop mooching off the system and get a job, amirite? (THIS IS SARCASM, THIS SHOULD NOT INFORM ANY POLICY. EVER.)