ClockworkCanary
@clockworkcanary.bsky.social
Save what we love. I repost a lot. I like to amplify. The flower in my avatar is a cereus, or orchid cactus. The banner is my cat Madmartigan’s paw on a knitting project of mine, red and blue two color brioche. My media tab is mostly cats and knitting.
Fantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.
F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)
The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
nytimes.com
The people who will  inevitably lose Medicaid because they cannot jump through all these hoops will be reinstated at additional administrative expense because they are still eligible and will come back in worse health— whatever reason there is for doing this it’s not cost saving
Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · 12h agoHeadline writer calls it "potential upheaval" but "intentional, eugenics-adjacent cruelty" would describe it just as well www.ipm.org/news/2026-08...
What once would have been a pitch in a writers’ room for tastelessly edgy joke in a comedic satire of a deranged country full of greedy sociopaths is now our reality.
As a nation, our roots in "patent medicines" go WAY back. The FDA was established in part to keep people safe from being poisoned.
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-1... Like, in 2018 you had only a 33% chance that your ginko biloba thing actually contains ginko biloba. Every other supplement is exactly like that, except for prenatal vitamins, which *do* have FDA oversight. Because snake oil is 4x larger than big pharma.
gao.gov
In the US, every pharmacy has whole aisles of supplements of various kinds. Not a *single item* of which is FDA regulated except for any OTC pre-natal vitamins. This is because the snake oil industry is 4x larger than the whole pharmaceutical industry.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4x larger than the global pharmaceutical industry, to give some perspective for why the only supplements that *are* FDA regulated are pre-natal vitamins.
Fountain pen enthusiasts, please send me all your recs, links, and tips! My fingers are inkstained. My soul is fixed. My heart is happy. I'd planned to head over to Atlas Stationers while in Chicago for ALA, but never made it. Tempted to preorder for Inkvent, but I'm brand new to this category.
But "beautiful clean coal," which this Energy Department propaganda page sings the praises of!
Kentucky Lantern@kentuckylantern.com · 18h agoThis is an important breaking story published through our collaboration with the Appalachian News Exchange, written by @justinhicks.lpm.org and Howard Berkes. Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/05/a...
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Generally not great when a live entertainment company recently found guilty of acting as a monopoly has control of any music journalism outlet
I don't understand the whole "if AI went away, how would you get anything done?" argument. If you go back 4 years, we were doing things just fine without it.
So the idea was that community colleges needed to be incentivized to graduate their students, the schools clear the benchmarks, and the state legislature just shortchanges them to the point that some schools are predicting a 25% shortfall in their budget. But don’t raise tuition.
“Across the state, community colleges have exceeded expectations on those metrics, and the total amount due to the colleges is now millions of dollars more than the amount the board is allowed to distribute before the next legislative session.” www.dallasobserver.com/news/state-f...
North Texas community colleges set to lose millions amid state funding changes
The state incentivized community colleges to improve student success outcomes. Now, Texas can’t afford to pay up.
dallasobserver.com
some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.
Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 19h agoMy take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.
as someone who has owned both kinds of shoes, this is 100% true can confirm
Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 19h agoThe important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.
I think this deserves a chat about the meaning and purpose of the Fourth Amendment.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 19h agoThis man might go to prison for allegedly wiping his phone before DHS officials could search it. No warrant for the phone, no specific claim of what 'evidence' might be on it. But he used a duress/wipe password, leading to the charge Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmik...
First, junior, that’s two questions. Second, fuck yes, you drooling knob. That’s the goddamn point. I existed without it happily. And that’s the truth that scares AI bros. What they believe in, what they based their personality and money on, can vanish tomorrow and things would be just fine.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 23h agoHaving fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card 📚
Black Detroiters have been voting for progressives longer than some of your faves have actually BEEN progressive. Rashida Tlaib was first elected to the Congressional seat once occupied by John Conyers, who consistently advocated for M4A. thepulseinstitute.org/2019/11/02/j...
John Conyers, Progressive Giant
A Vignette of Memories Funny, Happy, and Sad Editor’s Note: A vignette of memories from Robert Weiner, former Press Secretary/Spokesman for Conyers and his committees, and life time friend later, W…
thepulseinstitute.org
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
There has to be less excruciating way to measure blood pressure. Come on, geniuses.
Born to be a tiny menace. Forced to be a tiny model. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
Heaven on earth comes in many shapes. Six kitten shapes to be exact. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
and this is why you should just wait until the final numbers come out instead of creating astoundingly inaccurate and false drama based on when fucking state and county databases and spreadsheets update
no one is ever leading. no one is gaining on another candidate. it’s just incomplete data until it’s counted and verified. this isn’t a football game. this isn’t the top of the seventh inning. it’s just counting.
good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.
Reminder to everyone living with smoky air right now: DRINK MORE WATER. You're inhaling particulate even if you can't see it, your body needs to flush that crud out, and it needs water to do so. You're probably gonna produce more mucus and that's annoying, but it's helping clean out the crud.