These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”

I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.

Jussie Northside@jussienorthside.bsky.social · 2d ago

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Cosign

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

This Is Fine

ALT: This Is Fine

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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder)@audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 4d ago

The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Why do we love Walter White? Omar? Stringer Bell? All the other Bad Dudes? I give you bell hooks: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......

BTW, the CDC just changed the rules again saying healthcare workers can return to work 4 days after testing + for Covid, meaning they will be treating patients during their peak infectiousness. If anyone was considering not wearing a respirator or mask in a doctor’s office or hospital

Nurse: Are you sick? Me: Immunocompromised. Nurse: Would you like us to put on masks, too, or...? Me: That'd be great, thanks. I have only a trained researcher's understanding of Covid and other viruses, and you could not pay me to work unmasked in healthcare from September to April, jfc.

I've finally started "Theo of Golden" and Mr. Theo already reminds me so much of one of my favorite uncles that I'm a little afraid to continue the story, which could make me cry with further simple resemblance or with tragedy. #booksky

It'd be super cool if texting had a mute/snooze option between "24hrs" and "Always."

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

If there is a more perfect sound than cousins laughing in the dark on a crisp autumn night, I don't need to hear it. My only brother brought his family for a visit this weekend after 10 years of absence/estrangment, showed my nieces our hometown, and started mending some fences. It's a start. ❤️

A lay ministry for our time

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s brother, John, told Italian media that the pope helped him file his tax return and, over a video call, got him back into a computer he had locked himself out of. Prevost propped his iPad on the dead machine and asked his brother what to do. “Because I’m computer illiterate.”

Parent: I demand X! Me: We cannot do X because of my disability and my kid's. Parent: I demand we do X closer to your house! Me: If we do X [this way], two of us can *try* to join you. Parent: We will not do X [that way]. Me: Okay. Have fun. 🤷‍♀️ This really doesn't have to be so hard, istfg.

mmygod

the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · last wk.

Jeopardy gonna be huge today for fans of one specific Jeopardy bsky post

Standing together against stigma and disbelief. Long Covid Kids has joined fellow members of the Overlapping Illness Alliance in writing to The Telegraph about “How having a disability became cool.” Complex illness deserves evidence and curiosity, not suspicion. 🧡 #LongCovid #Disability

On the one hand, being a Very Part-Time church secretary was never on my career radar. On the other, no other job has had the kind of acoustics—or colleagues—that support my habit of randomly belting "Ave Verum Corpus" and Alanis Morissette tunes. So. 🤷‍♀️

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Vermont voters, a Biden-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The department is now 0-24 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data.

And so all the RCT zealots. EBM gurus, and masters of clinical appraisal, this is what you delivered to us in the real world.

The Men of Data and Science Who Enabled the Quackery of MAHA and the Scientific Sabotage of MAGA

To paraphrase the famous movie line, if the EBM you followed brought you to this, of what use was the EBM?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2w ago

Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.

Fucking hell

James Holland Jones@juemos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gas prices today in Menlo Park.

A deeply appreciated thread for parents who saved their favorite books for their kids to enjoy...especially us "cult classic" cult members. Adams's oeuvre lives on the top shelf in our living room. Our kids don't give a shit. 🤷‍♀️🙃

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w ago

Elsewhere on Bluesky folks are noting that The Kids These Days aren't much into Douglas Adams. As someone who is much into Douglas Adams (and in fact wrote an intro to new edition of his works) allow me to remind folks that it's not actually surprising when The Kids aren't into decades-old stuff.

FDA (20 years ago): This milk has been sourced from a meticulously inspected dairy farm, and has been through a certified pasteurization process. FDA (today): Look, it's liquid, and it's from a cow. At least that's what they tell us. It's fine, probably.

It's hot. After last month's historic heat wave, many CA temps will be in the 100's again. Remember the farm workers out harvesting the chilled snack you're enjoying. #WeFeedYou

We told you.

Sharing from Internet Archive: “Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the web Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't

Adult merit badge suggestion: repairing coffee maker while uncaffeinated. 🙄

Biggest problem with modern Looney Tunes, even COYOTE VS ACME (which I like) is that Bugs Bunny has been sanded down into a mascot. You watch him in the 40s or 50s and he's a freaky lil dress-up pervert who is down for anything. Assigned diva at birth. Nowadays, he's just a regular guy. Not my Bugs.