Why does drinking alcohol make you dehydrated? 🍸💧 Alcohol suppresses vasopressin, a hormone that helps kidneys reabsorb water via aquaporins, so you lose more fluid as urine, causing that familiar dehydrated feeling 🧪
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Why does drinking alcohol make you dehydrated? 🍸💧 Alcohol suppresses vasopressin, a hormone that helps kidneys reabsorb water via aquaporins, so you lose more fluid as urine, causing that familiar dehydrated feeling 🧪
The undermining of science and the incalculable value of vaccines is scary to watch - effects will be global due to the huge influence of US 💉⚕️🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Lethbridge contact Rob Miashiro (NDP) Lethbridge.West@assembly.ab.ca or Nathan Neudorf (UCP) Lethbridge.East@assembly.ab.ca
Burning Man should die. But not before it gives us one true crime podcast www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’
Hampstead Heath, 07:04
A rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol. September 24, 1941, Phoenix.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Vance was born in 1984. What did Orwell know?
Trump has fired fired the top US Military officers. All of them. How come?
Man Ray's '38 Adler and 41 Graham Hollywood
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
"I know where I'm going, I'm just taking the rough way to get there." Overheard at Costco, suitable for t-shirt.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order aimed at curbing the power of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops that he said Trump has threatened to deploy to Illinois.
Sebastian Suarez, 28, was arrested near the Pulse Nightclub memorial in Orlando after police thought he intended to color the rainbow crosswalk with chalk. He was released after a judge found no probable cause. youtu.be/BWclfadDQO8?...
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
I’m just very grateful and happy that the unique circumstances that came together to make that film happen DID happen… and may other such cosmic meetings of the moment bring about other memorable gems.
It’s an especially silly thing for him to say when the only reason the movie got made was because George Harrison put his hand in his own pocket to pay for it… because… the studios weren’t interested!
Reminder: So far, globally, we've done exactly nothing about carbon pollution. That is what the data says -- exactly nothing. We're right on (slightly above) the trend in atmospheric concentration extrapolated from 25 years ago.
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ Deuteronomy 27:19
I also expect they will be trumpeting some made up bullshit numbers of various sorts confirming that “Americans are healthier due to the Dear Leader’s infinite wisdom” by the end of the year.
Even though the effect would probably be invisible for years at least, I expect the administration will make an effort to cover up the fact that autism rates don’t change or simply make it more difficult to get a diagnosis.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚
I think I'm quite comely. In certain lighting.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
If the US government persists down this current path—ignoring scientific evidence, embracing antivaccine conspiracy theories as official government policy, cutting critical research, and abandoning vital global partnerships……..ultimately making Americans less safe.”
That’s @drsethberkley.bsky.social
"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Whoever has been writing headlines at @the-independent.com recently is doing a great job
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
The roses pictured were at the cottage Orwell lived in from 1936-1940s and may be ones he planted. He took a bullet fighting fascism, did more against it as a writer, noted in a column, "last time I mentioned flowers in this column an indignant lady wrote in to say that flowers are bourgeois.”
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looking forward to the many press conferences during the next pandemic where we’ll be forced to listen to someone who sounds like pennies in a garbage disposal and looks like fried chicken skin telling us how to stay healthy
‘We’ve never practiced it in the church, though, only in school’ v @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
Any fans of the Monarch series here?
She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
Never Forget
I can't believe this asshole had it right all along.
Dictator alert
ICYMI🚨 Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday. apnews.com/article/us-t...
Check out this superbly Ruckerian video, then help Kickstart his next novel: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rud...
Yet again, this Michael Rosen poem hits the bullseye.
Thanks! I suspect that’s it.
My mother found it in a crumbling garden shed at the edge of a lakeside property my parents purchased from a retired Navy admiral near Norfolk VA in the early 1950s. She carefully cleaned it with paint remover and applied some sort of brown stain. I was with her when she found it.
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
I’d take an mRNA vaccine to boost my immunity against a virus over horse dewormer, bleach, bright light or chloroquine any day of the week.
Can anyone identify the carving on this softwood platter, at least 90 years old? No idea how it was originally finished, as when found it was thickly lathered with what I imagine was silver radiator paint.
The shooter is in the USC library. Avoid the library. 🙏
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want? youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
open.substack.com/pub/lilscien... WORST ADMINISTRATION EVER
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Hey, Portland, I'll be in conversation with Mona Awad at the Powells on Burnside September 30, talking about her new novel. I love Awad's work, so this will be a treat! share.google/uFWVbmvY6Mal...
BREAKING: National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying weapons tonight, including rifles, a Defense Department official said.
😂😂😂
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
BIG country, TINY little gas station economy. That’s what happens when your state is run by a mob running the worlds biggest protection racket and who only want to support business that can’t escape and set up abroad.
Was something published recently about these orange ones (like our Wheezie) being a partial subspecies, or something?
I really need my fellow Americans to pay attention to this, especially considering how small businesses abroad are suspending shipments to the US.
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
@jwomack.bsky.social I blame my OCD for accumulating all of Iain Banks books, 32(?). A used book, “The Wasp Factory”, 1984, was the start. I loaned it once to someone who never spoke with me again, an intermediary returned it.
*That yarn of ours is a space-opera, and I'm inclined to think that you never read one like it
#books are awesome.
Hiiii if you were at my LA event tonight and couldn't get a copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster because of the warehouse snafu, North Figueroa will have a ton of copies soon! Also there are signed/doodled copies at Vromans and Skylight 💖
Nope. Though it’s a place where you might well see me eat.
Vance is the least intimidating person ever..
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon
Fascinating watch on the demographic collapse in Russia. youtu.be/JKRqEj5PpDU?...
Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.
I urge all Californians to vote to redistrict our maps in response.
I am so damn proud to be a California Democrat today. Who’s with me? Vote YES on Prop 50. Let’s win this 🔥
“The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and other materials. The order also prohibits any new construction at the site.” (🎁 link)
Important to remember that Newsom made it clear that California would only go through with this districting if the governor of Texas drew first. He did, so here we are.
Thank you so much to everyone who came to tonight’s @swsworlds.bsky.social readings! It was really fun 💜🌸
Mockery will work, but clearly it has to have enough eyeballs for Trump to notice it.
Wish I’d seen this earlier, to post it time!
TODAY! 4pm pacific I'll be reading from my forthcoming novella! Hope to see you there 💜🌸
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Some people may not like how @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is talking. You may not find his posts funny. It is absolutely working. His fundraising #’s just came out. $6.2 million THIS WEEK. 200,000 donors… Dems feel like ‘finally someone is fighting for us’.”
“Putin is a predator, an ogre at our gates,” French President Macron warned. Calling Russia a long-term destabilizing force, he stressed Putin rarely honors commitments and seeks to redraw borders. “This is a threat to Europeans—we must not be naive,” Macron said.
Many people unfortunately don’t seem to be aware that in May, Prasad and Makary announced that the FDA was changing guidance for COVID19 vaccines to only those aged 65+ or those with a health condition that puts them at risk for severe COVID19. This is the impact of installing RFK Jr. at HHS.
Doing a test screening of ROGUE TROOPER a week tomorrow here in the US... Still lots of work to do on all the post, but... I'm SO EXCITED!
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
I never walk more than when I’m in London. Hours a day. Streets I know, streets I don’t… it’s almost like the Aboriginal Songlines, and if I don’t regularly come back to my city & walk it, London will cease to exist. And in a way, with its constant inexorable morphing, maybe it WOULD disappear.
Who been drivin' my Terraplane for you since I been gone? I'd said I flash your lights, mama, your horn won't even blow… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccfz...
Here's a nice yellow 1936 Terraplane roadster (via Mosgreen auctions, sold)
