In a very different past life I was a Mormon missionary. I had $200 ecco's flats. My companion bought a new pair of $10 flats from Walmart every month. By the end of 18 months my eccos easily had another year left before they'd have been as destroyed as the Walmart flats by the end of a month.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Little girl on the train: Uncle Mallory died. Her mum: Yes. Little girl: So he won't feel anything now. Her mum: No. Little girl: Which is good because the insects will be eating his eyes.

men invented "rationality" because they love to say outlandish shit and then act like no, actually, everyone should be thinking this way

it was SO busy today (because Canada had a long weekend stat holiday yesterday) and this guy came over to the consultation window like "quick question" and I was like "yeah what's up" and he said "what vaccines do I need for my trip to Malawi"

frankly this headline makes it sound like previously we didn't know what the effect was, when in reality this new study is just confirming what we ALREADY KNEW TO BE THE CASE

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 17h ago

wow really

screaming “there is good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for” until my throat bleeds

Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

the MAHA movement likes to blame illness and disability on stuff like "eating processed foods" and then, conveniently, when you die of eating the literal shit salad they failed to regulate it's your own fault for having an underlying health condition

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

why do I often put scare quotes around "vulnerable" and "at risk"? because people are *made* vulnerable, and people are *put at-risk"—these are not stable categories. we all live in a state of risk, some more than others, and risk is not distributed evenly. we can all be made vulnerable.

other PSA: the treatment for styes is warm compresses. oral, topical, and ophthalmic antibiotics all do a terrible job at penetrating the walled-off bacteria. you can do warm compresses for free at home!

blaine@jblainefoster.bsky.social · 2d ago

just a public service announcement that if you have a cough or nasal congestion you almost never have strep throat

just a public service announcement that if you have a cough or nasal congestion you almost never have strep throat

still stuck at $352 needed to stay housed, office closes in one hour, and they confirmed if i can’t pay tn or first thing in the morning I’ll have to leave then 🥲 idt I can survive that w/ heart and autoimmune issues so anything, everything, and boosts appreciated still 💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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series of gj tubes@ozkhowlng.bsky.social · 4d ago

thankfully got my meds, but still at: 🆘 $10/600 due Monday to stay housed, or $590 to go plus: $150 for toiletries, groceries, and OTC meds $170 overdue copay $50 phone/other bills $150 for more feeding tube formula everything helps 💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

children under 5 are hospitalized for covid at higher rates than anyone other than the elderly and the fact we reopened before vaccines were available for them and have consistently botched the rollout once they were is an enormous policy and public health failure

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Covid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.

An accurate film would spend about 5-10 minutes with the lead character struggling to remember *how* to use the microfilm viewer, finally spools it in and turns it on, but then it's upside down so they have to start over again.

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d ago

I can suspend my disbelief while watching film in most respects except for when people use microfilm to look at old newspapers AND QUICKLY LAND ON THE EXACT PAGE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. Without slowly scrolling through countless pages, without having to nudge the image or adjust the contrast.

Theory: The context collapse of the 21st century means many people read or consume media through a deeply personalised lens - everything is either about or for them specifically, so critical writing is experienced as confrontation

- it's not clear to me if the article is claiming overdose rates are higher in cities with harm reduction than those without, or if overdose rates have simply climbed everywhere (bad writing? disingenuous framing? who's to say) - even if they WERE higher in cities with harm reduction, it could be

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 4d ago

Also frankly embarrassing the Atlantic is running this lazy correlational argument

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d ago

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

before we moved to Canada 20+ years ago, there were times we couldn't afford health insurance and just went without, I had to quit karate because we couldn't afford me getting injured without health insurance, etc. etc. it is a tremendous relief to live here, and an important form of freedom.

Kitty Chandler@mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh, did anyone do the part yet where this is a big part of why more people don't quit their jobs at terrible places like Lockheed Martin, or take more risky actions in protest of the administration's bullshit moves, because your health insurance is tied to your job and no job, no health insurance?

Two people are walking down the street when they see a billboard that says "The AI singularity is on the horizon!" One turns to the other and asks, what's a horizon? The other one answers: it's an imaginary line that moves away as quickly as you can approach it.

yeah like to me the difference between, say, Dave Chappelle vs JK Rowling is Chappelle is mean to trans people and then he goes and spends his money on cars or watches or whatever his personal rich person thing is, whereas JK Rowling spends her money on anti-trans legal cases and activists

jj skolnik@supremenothing.myatproto.social · 5d ago

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

realized today that my parents being out of town all week meant a LOT of eggs and cheese and broccoli all on the verge of going bad

I love the IDSA. So many orgs trying to be "apolitical" which usually means screwing over minority populations and they're out here like "we decided right now was the ideal time for an Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award" ❤️❤️❤️

IDSA@idsainfo.bsky.social · 5d ago

ID physician Anthony Fauci, MD, FIDSA has led with courage, scientific integrity and an unwavering commitment to improving public health. These qualities inspired IDSA to establish the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award. We thank him for his service to patients, science & the ID community.

this is honestly why I found it way easier to find a PCP when I moved to Alberta than when I moved to Montana like there's a single up-to-date website searchable by postal code? it doesn't have ghost listings from 10 years ago???

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5d ago

everyone is going to try to explain this to you and nothing we say is going to capture how stupid it is because it is fundamentally impossible to explain. insurance companies just have a list of doctors they'll let you see and places you can see them, they don't line up, and you don't always know

Gilmore Girls is a fascinating case study of all the different ways people can need to go to therapy and then not go to therapy

"this sinister man used a lab leak to take away your liberties" — Republicans, looking at this image

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7d ago

The absolute worst thing Rand Paul's staff could think of when generating a photo of Fauci was to show him chilling in a 90s-themed bedroom writing "vaccines are cool" and "stay safe."