Public health, reproductive justice, big nerd about tv as health education. Fighting depression and anxiety with cats, bunnies, and raccoons. And being clever never got me very far. she/her
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I love the first image with the AI art surrounded by paint tubes and art supplies. I baked a box cake with artificial raspberry flavoring, I will style it with a flour barrel, brown farm eggs, pats of churned butter, a jar of honey and fresh raspberries. (And my cake is still better than AI)
You know what, I’m still pissed. You can have some data. There’s a problem here, and we’re not it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
Imagine thinking Labor Day of all days -- as one of the highest editorial positions at a premiere publisher -- was the day to announce use of AI in art was "unavoidable" to your audience of primarily artists and other creatives. Talk about completely disrespectful and out of touch.
Wowa! We printed 200+ “How to Report Ice” zines & got them in 41 Little Free Libraries in Takoma, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, Capitol Hill, H St, & Trinidad! If you see any tag us & let us know! Print (in linktree above), fold, & get some in a little library near you 🤗
Morning mountain walk with Ian, Fletcher and Oscar
Someone just drove past my apartment playing "Sixteen Tons" at top volume. Happy Labor Day.
Will Santino. #comics #art #cartoon
A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).
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House LHHC bill is out. Lots of hits to HHS, but the top line number for NIH is 1% decrease, mostly due to cuts ARPA-H. This seems like a huge rejection of the president's budget request.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
It’s always best to be safe if you can. My regular rabbit vet is in New Orleans and will call you back after hours for potential emergencies, and meet you at the clinic if needed. But I’ve never known any other vet do that.
Argh, I’m so sorry. I know the vet school has closed occasionally, but they’re usually open for emergencies on holidays. I’ve had to drive there in the middle of the night with a rabbit a couple times. I hope Parish is feeling better soon.
I keep staring at "Bone-petite," and ultimately I've decided that it's not a joke, because jokes are funny.
Yep. As one study eg found… “most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Was that at the vet school? I’ve never had them quote that much for animals I’ve had to leave overnight.
I was always so happy to see him in something, he was one of those actors that made me exclaim “oh him, I love him!” the first time he’d appear onscreen.
We have no idea if it’s effective, but we do know it doesn’t cost as much as the things that are actually effective.
Woo hoo! Peen health! ✊
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
today is a good day to repost this
We get them a pool every year, because it’s so hot, but they haven’t gone in it as much this year. I’d thrown food in there so they got in.
I was very proud of him. He was swimming around, hoovering up all the food.
🎶baby there’s a shark in the water🎶
Public health being in the spotlight for the past few years has been a nightmare fr. We like to do all our work backstage
One of the asylum hotels is, in fact, at the end of my street and it's fine? It's on my way to the pub and like it's a hotel where people who deserve better are being housed? The only issue is how they deserve better.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
"the threat of homelessness is most acute not in the poorest regions of the country, but in the richest, fastest-growing ones. In places like these, a low-wage job is homelessness waiting to happen." There's no housing in Marin for those who earn less than $65K, which is more than most workers earn.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
#Hepatitis D recognised as a #carcinogen. Too long neglected... but with better monitoring & treatment becoming available we need to raise awareness & commit resources. We can also act by preventing #HBV because #vaccineswork. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016... @who.int #NoHep #MedSky 🧪
The two leaders held talks after attending the key session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathering in the port city of Tianjin, where discussions focused on regional stability, bilateral trade and energy cooperation.
Then you aren't a musician and, unless all of those things change, you never will be and you will never create art with music.
Happy Labor Day to my parents’ cat Percy, who is working very hard to find the cricket he lost here ten minutes ago.
Rudy Giuliani rolling up to get his Medal o' Freedom
This, I and many many others would say, is the pile of fuel to our current garbage fire
It’s also a problem here because kids don’t go to the schools closest to them. Charters, and magnet schools before them, have kids being bussed across town. New Orleans has all charters and kids in the same family may not end up at the same school.
Prove they work? *gestures around*
Can’t wait till the whole world is running on free energy while we are still praying to the god of coal.
BLUESKY IS NOT IMPORTANT AND IT MATTERS SO LITTLE THAT I WILL KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE SOME NOBODY ON THAT NOTHING PLATFORM CALLED ME A POOPYHEAD ONCE. IT IS SHRIVELING INTO IRRELEVANCE, NOT THAT I CARE AT ALL, YOU UNDERSTAND, DO YOU WANT TO SEE SIX-MONTH-OLD SCREENSHOTS?
Also even the bathroom stuff now has majority approval for the pro-trans side (in the US at least). If you actually bother to make an effort to frame the issues, you have no need to sacrifice any groups for the sake of electability. And if you don't make that effort, you can't win regardless.
People rightly point out that this school aerial shot looks like there are no viable walking paths. I have seen similar suburban mega schools — chosen for cheap land, parent control, etc — that do at least have sidewalks and bike paths.
Raffles liked to listen to music while I brushed him at night. He liked rock music with women playing guitar and/or bass, and he liked it loud enough that he could feel it through his bed. My mom would say I had it too loud for him, but he really did like feeling the vibrations.
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Someone wants to go to the skate park…
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
Worth it only for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to get possession of the medal.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Eastern Parkway always feels like the heartbeat of New York during the West Indian Day Parade — the food, the flags, the dancehall and soca. Caribbean culture makes this city great 🇹🇹🇭🇹🇧🇧🇩🇲🇱🇨🇯🇲🇻🇨🇬🇩🇬🇾
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
Substack is now forcing writers to allow Apple iOS subscriptions—which raises prices, delays payment, and moves control of customer lists from the writer to Apple. Move your publication off Substack while you still have full access to your paid list. mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - who collectively served under both Republican & Democratic administrations - came together to write this piece raising alarm about how RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
No suckers this year. Jamie Raskin is giving kids copies of the Constitution at the Kensington Labor Day Parade. “It’s got the Impeachment Clause in there!”
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Currently in Berlin remembering what a place where fascism was defeated feels like
I present... Smol Paul's brain scan. How is it possible that EVEN IN 2D he is this much himself?!
Great news from Rwanda! 🇷🇼 When young people have access to the information and services they need, they can make informed decisions about their bodies and their futures. https://gu.tt/4g0cwLC
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Multiple convictions in incidents months apart, and he pleaded guilty, presumably to avoid felony charges. This is a pattern of behavior and a year of probation plus counseling is not taking domestic violence seriously. This is actually the "family values" that the GOP supports.
It is though. It is a staple restaurant food invented in Britain by Bangladeshi immigrants for the British palate and is part of British life.
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Wow, what an amazing evening! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our SOLD OUT show at L.A.’s Fabulous Forum! You made my hometown show really special, and I’ll never forget it.
It’s really crystallized that sensation of being right while hoping to be wrong and then getting the completely hollow victory that your and your brilliant colleagues’ unheeded warnings were reified. Isn’t the world sick of panic/neglect cycles? I am.
Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it.
tomorrow is September all of the sudden which feels unjust
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
Good decision. I've always found the evidence for the idea that we need chickenpox to circulate to boost immunity to shingles quite weak. (And in reality, what's happened in UK is that people who can afford the vaccine get it anyway.)
These acts of performative cruelty will further harm the economy, won’t attract Reform voters, will repel centrists and left voters
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
These are just the new "lady prosecutors" -- women who defend law-and-order but, because of their gender, are perceived as doing it with lady-like grace. Of course, the problem is, there was no grace to running blacksites or mass surveillance or drone strikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Also tiled bathrooms to make cleaning and disinfecting them easier. I get twitchy when I see rough stone walls in modern bathrooms.
I still mask in public, but ironically my elderly parents don’t, so they’re the ones who bring ick home. I really wish the pandemic had led to full scale upgrades of indoor air quality and filtering all over the world. It did after the flu pandemic of 1919! We got hot radiators and windows to open.
I know many, but only in the areas where I’m interested. There are so many niche celebrities now that I don’t think anyone could know them all.
Hey if you forgot that you put your abusive ex as a contact on your home alarm system 11 years ago, maybe double check right now that you took them off once you got the fuck out. Don’t ask me what made me think of this 🫠
if you're a passenger and the driver is using their phone please don't stay quiet to avoid confrontation. family member, long time friend, coworker, doesn't matter, make it awkward. If they persistent ask to get out, find another way there. Not worth risking your life or being party to manslaughter
No home should ever have more than three (3) secret passageways.
Friends, you’re not alone. Please don’t let fear or worry stop you from connecting with help available. You deserve care! 🫂
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
Here's a picture of a wee coo to lighten ye heart.
Not exactly a store, but I was on hold with the IRS for two hours once. Trying to fix a mistake in my tax form... And, for those ENTIRE two hours... "This Must Be The Place" by David Byrne.... 🪦
You’re in spring, right? So still indoors a lot, heating making the indoor air dry, people cramped in together, respiratory infection season. I think covid having summer and winter peaks means we all have to expect respiratory infections will be year round now, but they will always suck.
Nice crisp sheets are a wonderful thing. As much as my mom drives me crazy, I’m glad that she believes in having multiple sets of decent sheets. Outlets and places like TJ Maxx have really nice ones at good prices.
A very lucky Franklin got a bath today, to cool off in the hot weather and also to smell better.
famous or semi famous person. Without alt text, I’ll look at some viral post with a joke that relies on knowing who’s in the photo, and if I don’t recognize them, it’s lost on me.
I’m so use to it here I look for it on other sites and am so disappointed when it’s not there. It’s good writing practice, y’all! I have days when mine are bare bones because my brain isn’t braining, but it’s still useful. And it tells you who the people in a photo are. None of us knows every
Not my list, but the people running it say in that thread to let them know if someone has changed and deserves to be removed from it.
Having her bath
when pokemon go came out the entire world found joy in the same thing and i think only one other event could replicate that
Remember how DHS very studiously and repeatedly said they DID NOT pay for this? (and they didn't) apnews.com/article/flor...
WE HAVE THREE YEARS TO PICK A CANDIDATE THAT DOESN’T SUCK. This is the time for people to be loud about what they want and don’t want in one. Start thinning the herd before the real money gets spent.