Oh hey, new plague just dropped

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6h ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

I just learned that there is a recording of Leonard Nimoy reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rain" on the Internet Archive. 15 minutes of wonder. archive.org/details/brad...

The temps have been getting to 121. Dez has medications that need to stay at certain temps or could lead to more health emergencies. Please help us keep our power on? I've reposted this 5 times cuz I keep making errors and I'm mentally exhausted. Tired of explaining every day and posting proof

Xodanix3@xodanix3.bsky.social · yesterday

Need to raise $422.38 by August 12 to avoid electricity shut off. 💕💸 #helpsky #tipaNative #disabilitycrowdfund

It's wild how expensive deodorant has gotten and that's really not something you wanna price out of people's reach

We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨

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Been thinking a lot about how so many "desktop clients" these days are just branded dedicated web browsers, so when the internet is down, so is the SaaS. Wanted to like Boxnotes, but ❌ Extra funny when you consider how shitty the US's commercial internet infrastructure is compared to other nations

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

If Jennings is the ally he claims to be, he would use his celebrity and privilege to get this lady her account back.

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

“[Nationalism does nothing but teach us to hate people we’ve never met before, and take credit for accomplishments we had no part in.]”

#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Good luck to everyone out there struggling to figure out how they'll get through the day. May the bastards not succeed in grinding us down and may we have enough oomph left to hold space for those we encounter who need it.

The medical guidance on dealing with Covid has never changed for immunocompromised or high-risk people. It has always been to wear a mask in crowded and indoor spaces. People will literally yell at kids with cancer and the rest of polite society goes “oh well, personal responsibility…”

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

Hating life at the moment for putting me in the unfortunate position of needing help. It's a really crappy feeling to be in this position, but here I am. Over the last 6 years, my body has been kicking my ass in every conceivable way and it has taken a toll on our lives. ko-fi.com/johnniejae#s...

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Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

Gonna embroider this one on a pillow

Sorrowscopes@sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cancer: You'll never outlive your mistakes. Make them count.

I'm so tired I can't even finish a take on the touchtyping-in-schools-we-used-to-be-a-proper-country discourse, and maybe I should let disability teach me wisdom

Is time to send the babies back to school #SnackSociety Consider making a donation to do some good $InvitationAMEZ venmo.com/u/solomon-MI... giv.li/y9kwut

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I was not counting in spending my Friday puking my guts out, but here we are. When I was telling myself yesterday that needed to pull deep from within to try to turn some shit around, this is not what I meant. Also, it sucks to be nauseous and hungry at the same time, but feel like it's a metaphor

Yup. That thing when you decide your feelings matter more than being a decent human being to others. A very common "ally" type for marginalized folks to encounter.

TV's Adam, getting some buzzards involved,@tvsadam.bsky.social · 6d ago

i saw someone (in defense of the game show guy who volunteered to be today's main character) suggest that marginalized people should be nicer to their allies if they expect to keep their support it's not the first time i've seen this argument made, and it is, of course, absolute horseshit

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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We will be ready to have a real discussion about Covid when we accept the fact that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said by Fauci, under Biden, was eugenicist policy.

I did tech theatre in undergrad, and a bunch of my friends actually made it to the pro level, houses you've heard of. Only one's still in it 20 yrs later. One was the founding stage manager for Rita Moreno's and Carrie Fisher's one-woman shows among other things. Union. She's a vet tech now.

Carolina A. Miranda@cmonstah.bsky.social · last wk.

"The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall." newrepublic.com/article/2136...

What still fucks me up to this day is that it's STILL ongoing and people ignore it. Covid's still happening, but the masking, the air filtering, where's that now? I got six weeks of Covid from my elderly mother bc she was told it wasn't a thing anymore & wouldn't mask, but I had to live with her

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last wk.

One more thing I want to be clear about: Most people are not talking about the trauma of lockdowns. They’re overwhelmingly talking about the trauma of being forced “back to normal” when “normal” had a new level of danger and cruelty.

A society that relegates caretakers, home makers and domestic labor to the lower caste, is a society that hates itself and it's mother.