This is like the ultimate payoff for orange cat behavior, it's like an MLB scout coming to your high school game

Megan Thee Stallion Finally Adopts Stray Cat That Visited Her at Recording Studio

Megan Thee Stallion revealed on TikTok that she finally a...

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Ate pho in my hotel room last night, and when I was opening the chili sauce packet, it exploded *across the room* and splattered across a silk dress I'd laid out along with a T-shirt I'd been planning to wear today. Incredible.

Been reading the Hill in the Dark Grove and the writing is absolutely beautiful. I just wish I knew how to pronounce any of the Welsh names.

It's spooky season, and I keep reminding myself I need to subscribe to Darker Times.

From this WashPost article on the long term effects of the flu: “When there’s potential for viruses to cause neuronal damage, then ‘we have to prevent getting infected as much as possible,’ [neurobiologist] Hosseini said.”

Column | ‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.

Persistent symptoms can harm the lungs and other organs, including the brain.

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Conor Browne@brownecfm.bsky.social · 2w ago

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

Waiting for my plane at DFW and it's just a cacophony of coughing and sneezing and sniffling. Not a mask in sight beyond mine.

People will cut out artificial food dyes, spend hours at the gym, drink vitamin infused water…and then go to the airport and rawdog breathing in an airborne pathogen that can disable you permanenty and is basically guaranteed to be there.

Dr. Jen Irwin@drjenirwin.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...

OK, the one thing I really dislike about the Z6III is that if you have even slightly long nails it's nigh impossible to pry the CFexpress card out of the slot.

Meanwhile, "Why am I having so many fucked-up nightmares?" asks the person reading CJ Leede before bed.

A friend and I were talking about how many "last-minute" friends we have, which is to say, how many people we could text or call at the end of the day to grab a drink or go for a walk or do literally anything on the fly, and we each had a hard time coming up with more than two.

This is the most boring season of F1, I swear.

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.

Probably the least bad I've felt after a COVID vaccine, so I'm going to take that win. Just catastrophically tired.

Getting vaccinated at 7:15 a.m. at the local CVS is really where it's at.

Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions Adults who reported 2 or more infections had 76% higher odds of receiving a new medical diagnosis. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hleVmc

Having a three-day weekend makes my life immeasurably better.

Got our last seventh-inning serenade of the year from @jgoldstrass.bsky.social!

Big uptick in random activities triggering multiple days of deep exhaustion, head and body aches, sleep problems, sensory issues and more, which is disheartening and frustrating.

Fun fact: I do have underlying conditions but was able to schedule my shot without having to disclose literally anything. Didn't even have to check a box. This was my experience last year, too. Insurance gave zero fucks.

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to recognize — and the article discusses this — that "underlying conditions" is a very broad category. You may have one even if you don't think of yourself as high risk. See long list here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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My car informed me it needed to do a software update today. 🫠

Flu and COVID shot scheduled. I tend to get mine slightly earlier in the season because I travel a ton for work in October and November and want to be fully marinated beforehand.

I started watching AEW and it's been exactly the kind of ridiculous brain bleach I've needed, with bonus wholesome moments.

If we had clean air standards and mandatory respirators in healthcare, this wouldn’t happen. Patients deserve protection. They’re scared. They’re vulnerable. They’re often immune compromised. Infecting a baby in the NICU is a massive infection control failure. people.com/newborn-baby...

Pa. Mom Says Her Newborn Was Exposed to Measles in Hospital NICU: ‘He’s Already Had to Overcome So Many Battles’

Brittany Nicole Sponenberg’s newborn was exposed to measles while in the NICU at Geisinger Medical Center. The hospital has since updated its visitor screening protocols as measles cases in the U.S. r...

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You ever realize that if you're not the person texting or calling or checking in that most people are totally cool with just falling off the face of the Earth?

Recommended viewing – reports on avian influenza, the commercial determinants, and public health solidarity - Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/recommended-...

Recommended viewing – reports on avian influenza, the commercial determinants, and public health solidarity

Below we bring readers some recommended viewing – from avian influenza, to the unhealthy entanglement of the commercial and political

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ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Thinking about when I got this text from my dad:

Went out for a run and got absolutely demolished by biting flies we didn't have yesterday????