This is genuinely disinformation. Vaccines are great are reducing severity, they do not greatly reduce your risk of getting sick, and even that effect wanes within a few months. Masking with n95s or kn95s and cleaning the air are the best protections against getting sick.

Gothamist@gothamist.com · 17h ago

City and state health officials say vaccines are the best protection against getting sick during respiratory virus season: gothamist.visitlink.me/QMbCuO

Never forget that maintaining the status quo is, and always will be, a political act.

Start every negotiation with this simple question: what is your publisher FOR? How do they help YOU? Stories for free up front is simple value extraction, and I can't help noticing it's often pointed at marginalized folx who can't get other platforms.

here’s another of the interviews @susanlbridges.bsky.social and I did at SDCC! we get into writing for Star Trek and the Voyager crew, how there’s never been a non-political Trek, writing as a married team, and more! thanks for the lovely chat Jace! 🩷

Jace@jacethecomicsource.bsky.social · 4d ago

They basically got to write a NEW ENDING for STAR TREK: VOYAGER Susan & Tilly Bridges join to talk VOYAGER: HOMECOMING, bringing Species 8472 back, finally getting the crew home, Star Trek’s hopeful future & a lot more. Watch the full interview now. https://youtu.be/g0TJq2bVHUo?si=KSA1rMwwkjp2kaQi

I want to thank the great industrialists who brought us the innovation of walking

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3d ago

The Washington Post opinion section is an elaborate experiment to find the least compelling angle on everything

IF YOU LOST A SMALL FOLDER OF GAIL SIMONE COMICS AT ROSE CITY COMIC CON—we are going to lunch, Karl Kesel has your folder, one table over!

IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 4d ago

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

When it comes to civil rights, that slope is a vertical line. You trade away those of your countrymen and you WILL be losing yours. It's only a matter of time.

what causes this? well..

Krispy@feathernotes.bsky.social · 4d ago

So... can we talk about this

I'm grateful that managing #StarTrekAdventures allows me to commission art that represents things we know about but never got to see on screen. One example is this lovely image of Captain Nyota Uhura, boldly exploring as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Leondegrance. Art by Paolo Puggioni. #LLAP

iiiif you missed @susanlbridges.bsky.social and my most recent newsletter, then you missed all the details we can presently reveal about… this screenshot! don’t you wanna (kinda) know what’s up??

Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · last wk.

time for a new issue of @susanlbridges.bsky.social and my writing newsletter! don't you want some details on... secret things? don't you want to see interviews with us about our work? don't you wanna know what we're working on? don't you want cat pics?? don't you LOVE US? you do? Oh phew ok cool

The snobbishness about this comes in part from the fact you can no longer pay all your bills doing a minimum wage job. If you work 35hrs a week you should be able to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & have a little left over for a few beers on a Friday. This never used to be a controversial view.

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's absolutely nothing wrong with working a minimum wage retail job no matter your age. A job is a job. And this performative, ignorant gatekeeping by those saying it's not a "proper job" can get in the bin. Work is work.

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An ectopic pregnancy was the worst pain of my life. I was told it would kill me if not removed. Since then I’ve written a whole shelf full of comics. Maybe that’s a small thing, but Imagine what else is missing from the world because all these women are gone.

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 5d ago

Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...

HOUSING PEOPLE IS THE ECONOMICALLY CONSERVATIVE OPTION

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 5d ago

we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million

I don't watch the Olympics to see a fair competition. I want to see some kind of super mutant throw a 16-pound hammer into the face of god

In May 2003, writer Simon Wessley opined about “World Trade Center Syndrome”, claiming that traumatized, anxious Manhattanites were experiencing a psychological problem, and not the real physical symptoms they were reporting. Thousands would later die from exposure to toxic chemicals from 9/11.

This is not only true but so obviously true it’s kind of amazing

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."

The Hitachi magic wand is like a hundred dollars.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 7d ago

sorry for screenshotting some twitter rando but you guys need to see this

LOS ANGELES AREA FRIENDOS! (again) ICE is being extra shitty in Burbank: "ICE kidnapped someone in the middle of a 9/11 ceremony in front of the jail on Palm and 3rd st" www.stopice.net/login/?alert...

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People could buy a house off of working on one show and now people juggle as many jobs and side jobs as they can hustle and can't make rent. The race to the bottom killed Hollywood.

Y’all are smarter than this. Don’t talk to the rage bait alt account. Block and move on.

delighted that @susanlbridges.bsky.social and i got to contribute to the 24th Century Campaign Guide! here’s a taste of our contributions i will ALWAYS jump at any chance to write Dax and Grand Nagus Zek is, uh, actually SO fun to write? we’re always happy to do more for Star Trek Adventures 🩷🖖

Jim Johnson@ineti.bsky.social · 7d ago

New blog post up; celebrating 60 years of Star Trek and the periods of play presented in the 24th Century Campaign Guide. Plus free Star Trek Generations mission briefs! Oh, and the pdf of the 24th century book is being transmitted to preorder customers. 🖖 #LLAP modiphius.net/en-us/blogs/...

a little something about my recent move into academia - true fact, when we won the emmy, one of my fellow “lost” writers turned to me and said “the first line of your obituary just got written”

Rob Owen@robowentv.bsky.social · 6d ago

TV Talk: Former #Lost #TheWitcher writer @okbjgm.bsky.social leaves L.A., moves to #Pittsburgh to teach at @CarnegieMellon + #ThePitt early Emmy wins + 2 reporters join @WTAE this month + #SouthPark renamed, via @triblive.bsky.social triblive.com/aande/movies...

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I will not vote for, endorse, campaign for, or donate to any candidate or party that does not explicitly endorse FULL AND EQUAL RIGHTS to trans people in all areas of society. I'm not a full citizen, you don't get my second-class vote. Period. I don't think I can make it any clearer.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.

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I am so infuriated by this transphobic nonsense. Trans athletes were allowed in the Olympics for 20 effing years and in the NCAA for over a decade, and now they’re banned from the Olympics for literally no legitimate reason at all. Also sex testing is bad actually! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is not a clever work around. Sports aren’t fair! Is it fair that one kid’s parents pay for private coaches and summer camps when another’s can barely afford cleats?

Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...