Question for the astronomers out there: What am I seeing near the moon this morning? Is that Jupiter?🌗
Brad Siroky
@bradsiroky.bsky.social
Freelance trumpeter. Part time resident of Discworld & Middle Earth.
What percent of healthcare workers have to have long-COVID before masking becomes status quo in health care? And maybe throw in improved ventilation, air filtration and UV-C tech just for good measure. It’s frustrating to have the tools and *choose* not to use them. 🤦♂️
CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 3w agoStudy: More than 1️⃣ in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms Older age, female sex, multiple underlying health conditions, and multiple COVID infections were also associated with persistent symptoms. Read more: https://bit.ly/4xGJkjW
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll
David Elfstrom 🍁@davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll
@nycparks.bsky.social What do you have to say? ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Brad Siroky@bradsiroky.bsky.social · 2mo ago@mayor.nyc.gov Can you please explain to me why it was necessary to clear cut such a large area of mature trees in Ewen Park in order to repair the stairs? Those trees grew there for decades & some lazy contractor chopped them down in seconds. This should be criminal.
@mayor.nyc.gov Can you please explain to me why it was necessary to clear cut such a large area of mature trees in Ewen Park in order to repair the stairs? Those trees grew there for decades & some lazy contractor chopped them down in seconds. This should be criminal.
Just when you think things can’t get any stupider…
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo agoTrump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires
Live from NY, it’s…oh, wow, it’s really smoky out there. (Measurements taken just outside my windows in the Bronx.)
This one ***really*** shouldn’t be this hard. Citizens United should have been overturned by legislation years ago. But right now would be ok.
Rep. Joe Neguse@neguse.house.gov · 3mo agoMy resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 88 co-sponsors! (You can view the full list at: congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/122) I won’t stop fighting to get it across the finish line.
👏👏👏👏👏 @mcsweeneys.net nails it yet again!
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo ago"If the Free People are going to defeat Sauron, you need to let go of your elitist attitudes and choose someone who can appeal to the moderate orc vote. That’s why I support Saruman the White to lead the Council of the Wise."
@schumer.senate.gov The 4 Justices that voted against this should be impeached & removed from the Court. If they cannot vote with something that is so clearly spelled out in the Constitution, they have no place on SCOTUS.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 3mo agoDespite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.
I think this might be my new favorite thing. Bravo to the musicians of the Rotterdam Philharmonic for reminding us that it’s supposed to fun! youtu.be/K8mYM-4hQ2E?...
Farewell Prank for Lahav Shani: Musicians Switch Instruments
YouTube video by Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
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Pundits and consultants keep talking about moving to the center. What happens to "the center" if the right moves ever sharply rightwards while the left stays the same? Answer: the center moves right. From the @thirdway.bsky.social, @nytimes.com: moving to the center means moving rightwards.
@schumer.senate.gov & @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social : Where the hell are you? Why aren’t you standing shoulder to shoulder with our neighbors? Why are we letting @kim.senate.gov stand alone?
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.
![Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreigksp6ynzr4oxga34viyko2fgg47c6262zz7rqj3khvz3y24pz4by)
Let’s go America. Time to raise our voices. See you out there.
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 7mo agoWorking people are peacefully rising up and making our voices heard today. With the power of our solidarity, we can stand up to the wealthiest bosses and the most powerful politicians. America’s unions will see you at a #NoKings event near you. www.mobilize.us?q=No%20Kings...
The USA is once again on the wrong side of history. I am ashamed.
Fiyah 💜 Angelou 🪮 🏁@fiyahangelou.blacksky.app · 7mo agoThe UN General Assembly just adopted a resolution on the enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. 123 in favor. Countries in red - voted against. Countries in yellow - abstained. #BlackskyNews 🥴
Does anyone know the route for the NYC #NoKings march from Central Park South in NYC this Saturday? Trying to work out the exit plan! @indivisible.org @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 7mo agoNo ICE. No wars. No Kings.
Senator Tillis seen here making an airtight case for term limits in Congress.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoafter absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.
@mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social NYC needed another day to work on snow removal. City owned spaces are the worst. How exactly are students & teachers meant to get to school safely when stairs and walkways are not cleared & iced over? I already fell once, and I’m only halfway to work.
Once again, it’s @theonion.com for the win. 🤣🤣🤣
The Onion@theonion.com · 8mo ago“Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
America, Shakespeare would like to have a word with you. Please listen to the monologue at the end of this interview and take a hard look at your “mountainish inhumanity.”
David Strathdee@davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow. An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
Just one note, @schumer.senate.gov : Getting the whole truth is Step One. Accountability and consequences for everyone involved in hurting kids is the point of getting to the truth. Let’s try and remember that, ok?
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 8mo agoDonald Trump said the nation should move on from the Epstein files. No. We will not move on until we get the whole truth, the full truth about the Epstein files—as you promised. We’re not even close to that yet.
@schumer.senate.gov is soooo close here. “All of ICE needs to…” The correct answer is: …be abolished and held accountable for their crimes.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 8mo agoICE’s abuses go beyond the headlines. Residents are afraid to go to schools, to grocery stores, to even step outside. Agents are patrolling the streets like a military operation. A 20% reduction is not enough. All of ICE needs to leave Minneapolis now.
Bovino: See what you made me do? Has that sentiment ever better uttered by the good guys? (Answer: No. No it has not.)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoBovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
This is good, but @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengrind.bsky.social @democrats.org need to understand that their base is not calling for “common sense reforms”. ICE must be abolished & accountability must follow for all involved in these atrocities. Including leadership & anyone lying to cover it up.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 9mo agoSenate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.
