This bookstore is fucking awesome! Donate if you've got the money! (Also, postcard for only $5!)

Helping with this volunteer-run bookstore has made me lifelong friendships, connected me with multiple intersecting communities within and without the Twin Cities, and scored reporting tips. We're always on the lookout for new volunteers. Email us at volunteering at boneshakerbooks dot com!

BONESHAKER BOOKS IS MOVING! And we need your help! After 14 years the stalwart volunteer-run bookstore @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is moving from Seward to Uptown* and has a fundraiser to get us across town. Perks include prints, totes, and your name on the wall! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Give Boneshaker $150 and we'll put your name on the wall, and also what the heck I'll throw in a free handshake from yours truly! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

putting my name on the wall of Boneshaker let's goooooo

BONESHAKER BOOKS IS MOVING to Lyndale! It's Day TWO of our fundraiser and we're more than 50% of the way to our goal! By the way, any money we raise over our goal will go directly into improvements to the store! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

We are SO CLOSE to $6000! Can YOU be the one to push us over the edge???

The rumors are true: Boneshaker is headed to a new location! We need your help to dig up our bones and move on over to 26th and Lyndale. We're hoping to raise $15,000 total, $6k of that by 10/17. Learn more at bit.ly/boneshakermove and thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!

GET! IN! HERE!!!!!!

Could the Wedge be getting a bookstore? Boneshaker books plans to move from Seward to the old Common Roots building at 708 W 26th Street. They need to raise $6,000 by 10/17 to make it happen. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

$2000 IN AN HOUR! Do you want a cute little bookstore next to a cute little restaurant? There will literally be a door from Boneshaker into Dream State, the new restaurant from the people who brought you Reverie! MORE! MORE!! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

check out the things on offer for donating! Great incentives to donate to a great cause!

NEWS: Boneshaker Books is moving! And we need your help to pull it off! We are looking to raise $15,000 to get us there and set up. $6,000 of that needs to be raised by 10/17. Please share! Radical bookstores forever! @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

After the Hegseth...thing, Trump is back in the White House announcing a Pfizer/Most Favored Nation drug pricing scheme of some kind, where Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is doing some significant sucking up to Trump and the admin.

Your friend Dan is in Wired talking about thirst.

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst. www.wired.com/story/what-d...

Now at Wired - @dsamorod.bsky.social’s Quanta explainer on thirst

Unlike the naysayers in the commentariat I think this is a good idea. Buy a used centrifuge coated with radioactivity on eBay. Drink ethidium bromide. Set up a flow cytometer where your baby's crib used to be. Go crazy buds.

ACIP Vote to recommend requiring a prescription for COVID-19 vaccines fails, vote was 6-6 and chair broke the tie, Kulldorf votes no. Unbelievable it was that close.

ACIP member Retsef Levi just announces that they're proposing a vote on requiring a prescription for getting a COVID-19 vaccine. This was not announced ahead of time. Astonishing, mind-boggling, absolutely contrary to reams of data he himself just heard in this meeting.

One of the new ACIP members, Evelyn Griffin, just said that mRNA vaccines get reverse transcribed into DNA in the body, a phenomenon which is impossible because the protein that does that--reverse transcriptase--does not exist in humans.

At one point Vicky Pebsworth asked what ramifications their votes had because she did not know what ACIP actually does.

The most infuriating thing about these ACIP meetings is that these committee members are talking about all of this--COVID vaccines, hepatitis B, MMRV, etc--like they're the first people to ever think about it.

Another first in my ~20 years of watching ACIP meetings: committee members asking questions to CDC subject-matter experts as if they were attorneys cross-examining witnesses. Asking questions to which they have their own answers ready, no matter how CDC responds.

ACIP is currently listening to a presentation that's basically like "the hep B birth dose works extremely well and countries that don't do it have much higher rates of hep B" and I'm still not confident that they won't vote to change the recommendation

Martin Kulldorff is opening the ACIP meeting by talking about thimerosal, asking if listeners would buy hot dogs with mercury in it.

UK Biobank data is being used here for blatant race pseudoscience by a white supremacist blogger, Jordan Lasker. @ukbiobank.bsky.social this looks to be a clear breach of terms and an unauthorised use the data, no?

Besides this being stupid all by itself have any of these people...been to a university? Faculty and administration are often extremely conservative! The idea that every college professor is a blood spitting leftist just isn't true.

How much of the public space in Minneapolis will be fenced off by 2028 if Frey is reelected?

why would the anti semites at the retired IDF general who led the war until march say this

NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer. Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground. 🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/the-covert-p...

The Large Language Lin Manuel Miranda Machine (LLLMMM)

If the signature is a different style, my client is not a pedophile

@sequencermag.bsky.social is on Ghost! They're a writer-owned publication run by science journalists @goesbykim.bsky.social, @maxlevy.bsky.social, @dsamorod.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com

Reviewing a book is a rare skill and nonfiction writers do not know how to do it. Way easier to just go long on what the reviewer already knows (malice).

my press conference on how alive I am is raising a lot of questions already answered by my press conference

me: I know society has made progress in the last 50 years but it just feels like we’re sliding backwards and no one cares my buddy, the gourmand whaler: the tenderest meat surrounds the blowhole

I'm kind of surprised at this point that US pharmaceutical companies have not started pushing for RFK to go. It cannot be good for business that the nation's lead health regulator is absolutely out of his mind.

Quick someone tell me which ice cream to get at the MN state fair

I have always loved Buffalo's city flag. Lightning!! Lake Erie!! The Main Point lighthouse!!

I'm in the middle of Austerlitz by WG Sebald and it may be one of the best books I've ever read

i won't tolerate swearing from my elected representatives. sending the police to throw my neighbors' every earthly belonging in the garbage because they can't afford a home? not profane

Most elite journalists are ivy leaguers and ivy leaguers are stupid

in south minneapolis there are only three neighborhoods: 1. powderhorn 2. uptown (everything west of powderhorn) 3. seward (everything east of powderhorn)

The effects of insufficient water intake are felt by every cell in the body. So, go have a glass. www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it...

Hey you. You're not thirsty. Your brain just thinks you're thirsty. Your throat isn't dry because it lacks water, your brain did that to cajole you into drinking. And it can turn it off based on an educated guess. My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it...

When will the law cover the rights of cyborgs? New piece on Sequencer, live now: www.sequencermag.com/cyborg-right...

Do cyborgs have rights? When an airline damages a prosthetic, is that bodily harm or property damage? Another fascinating banger from Haley McAllister, up now @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/cyborg-right...

clare evans and quanta, a perfect match, like peanut butter and jelly