whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

Full house

Bunny status report: He still chomk

science fiction ᵇᵃᶜᵏᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ⬇️

Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true

I admittedly do not have the energy nor the will to dive into the legal “justification” in this decision, but it’s indicative of a deep social rot that the justification in these decisions is anything besides “schools have the right to enforce policies to create a safe learning environment.”

Bonus shot

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations. I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.

the woods are lovely, dark and deep and filled with toilets

Great job, everyone, we did it again

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

substance use is not my area of public health but I can all but guarantee that if cannabis products had been legalized and regulated federally, like alcohol products are, we would not be having this problem on this scale.

today’s THC products are absurdly strong and badly need to be regulated to reduce population harms. but re-criminalizing THC when this regime is violating civil rights wholesale/building a new network of prison labor camps should set off alarm bells for anyone familiar with prisons and jim crow

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

thank you NPR for asking a variety of experts.

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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I’m the strongest!! Are you even listening?

just found out that my undergrad biostatistics professor’s dog (who was also the, ahem, lab manager for the class) died. rest well, Dr. Isa, PhDog, you had a distinguished career making sure things didn’t get too out of hand with our analyses in R.

god this is getting me fired up and I wish I had any spare time + energy these days so I could put together a syllabus for a hypothetical class I want to teach on patient zero narratives, stereotypes and stigma, and the role of popular media in helping or hindering public health.

The naming of AIDS is one of those things that at first blush seems like “you couldn’t have been ANY more specific?” and then you look at what more specific names were being considered when the condition first came to public prominence and go “jfc thank you for keeping it general and vague.”

the “COVID is airborne AIDS” thing deeply annoys me both because it’s just wrong but also because on some level, yeah, okay, certain presentations of long COVID can absolutely be *an* acquired syndrome characterized by immunodeficiency. But that’s not what AIDS is. AIDS is a *specific* condition.

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

if you restrict basically basically all literature written in the past 50 years to one class called “Contemporary Literature” and then not let students take it until their senior year of high school, you doing them an immense disservice and are going to make them hate reading.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

<reading my own posts> “this guy gets it”

im going worm mode

I absolutely think more Dem messaging needs to hammer home the effects Trump’s Medicaid cuts will have on the most vulnerable people and systems in the country , but – and this is crucial – they can do that without calling naked fascism a “distraction.”

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

The human brain was optimized for: • Gossip in tribes of 150 • Tracking berries vs. poison berries • Running from tigers Now we use it to argue online with strangers about macroeconomic policy. Evolution’s patch notes are a mess.

Hairless dingus

of all the “you must have been born on or before X date to do Y” signs, this one at the blood donation center freaks me out the most. 2009??? There are 16-year-olds born in 2009????

Rest in power, Assata Shakur. "A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living I believe in birth I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port."

I think this is sweet, albeit in an odd way. If you love a place and the fact that your family member died there doesn’t change that, why not have a hypothetical send-off meal there? [image with alt text]

Human had a baked potato for early dinner which means delicious sour cream for me!!

Welp. I’ve been called before the committee. Again.

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Gen Z Hamlet: she suffer on my slings and arrows until I outrageous fortune Horatio: shut the fuck up, Gen Z Hamlet

Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry." buff.ly/VCY9EP0

“Why aren’t young people having sex/drinking/driving as much as they used to?” is an interesting sociological question that deserves study by trained academics who can conduct interviews and gather data in a consensual & respectful way. Boris Johnson writing in a tabloid is none of those things.

most, if not all, “I’m for vaccines but kids shouldn’t get so many at once/shouldn’t get combination vaccines/should have vaccines spaced out” nonsense pseudoscience BS goes back to Andy Wakefield, a man who I cannot describe my preferred fate for lest I be banned from this website.

Again, pointless, ridiculous change, but it’s got an obvious counter: “You’re saying my [insert age of under-4-year-old] child now has to get two needle sticks instead of one? Are you kidding? Do you know how hard it is to get them to stay still and calm enough for one?”

Good thread. I would add that even with these recommendations, kids under 4 not covered by VFC can still get measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox) vaccines. The recommendation is now MMR+V (2 shots) instead of MMRV (1 shot). Pointless, annoying change but vaccines still here (for now).

Not for nothing, Tylenol has long been the *only* pain medicine thought of as "safe" for pregnant people. Tylenol is what they offered me for procedures that would usually be managed with anesthesia and opiates. This is a politics that devalues women, & their pain, trafficking in harm.