JIndeli.bsky.social
@jindeli.bsky.social
Noli sinere malos insolentesque te vexare. I’m mostly on here to learn from those who care enough to share specialized knowledge… and for some of the art and all of the animals.
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties. ...summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us."
It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.
John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoA reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty. @davidfrum.bsky.social
Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 5d ago"Trump’s record of dishonesty, callousness, and selfishness during the pandemic is a documented reality. The imputations against Fauci are mostly fantasies". www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More transmissible cancer, this time in fish… in Vermont! 🧪 “Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer” by Curd et al. (2026, Nature) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.
nature.com
The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoMatt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
This piece by @drjudystone.bsky.social is an *exceptional* look at the root causes of Cyclospora outbreaks, including a discussion of how migrant workers are treated and the consequences of that behavior.
It’s The Water, Not Produce, Likely Driving Cyclospora Outbreaks
Contaminated irrigation or processing water is more likely the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. There are many systemic failures, outlined here.
forbes.com
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
theatlantic.com
I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w agoCDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
bona-books.com
seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.you're welcome to just do whatever hardcore shit you're implying other people should do
The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”
Who amongst us didn't read the Guardian article and think what items in their home would be shown to a jury as proof that you were a terrorist? (If you haven't read it, it's here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...)
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
He was on a lifelong mission to de-medicalize pregnancy and birth. He delivered thousands of babies, helped legalize midwifery in Canada, and fought for birth doulas in delivery rooms. We miss him already. I wrote the obituary with my brother @sethdklein.bsky.social.
He's been making tiny soccer players out of gum wrappers since age 10 — see them at LACMA | LAist laist.com/news/los-ang...
He's been making tiny soccer players out of gum wrappers since age 10 — see them at LACMA
Fútbol Is Life meticulously recreates historic moments from men’s and women’s soccer... with miniatures.
laist.com
I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.
I was just having conversation about the safety of folks traveling to U.S for the World Cup. So glad this MA & NH organization that's already helping immigrants has put together resources to keep people safer. 🩵 Website supports English, Kreyol, French, Spanish, Portuguese, many other languages.
World Cup 2026 Resources for New England - MIRA Coalition
The New England region expects 2-3 million visitors for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by the US, Mexico and Canada. For those who can make it into the US, it could become a very different ex...
miracoalition.org
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition@miracoalition.bsky.social · 2mo agoCheck out our new ✨travel advisory✨ for visitors as well as resources for local New England residents and business owners who want to safely enjoy the games. ✨ Find more multiple languages on our website! ➡️ https://bit.ly/NETravelAdvisoryFIFA
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 2mo agoA US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong
University of Winnipeg’s Jan DeFehr was a closet critic of the mental health system until she was invited to teach her perspective on mental health. Read DeFehr's A CRITICAL MENTAL HEALTH PRIMER and Mad in America interview: buff.ly/SvtVUWV #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #SystemChange #HealthJustice
These booing graduates, and the many excellent speeches by graduates themselves, are cause for hope
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agothank you to everyone who sent this to me
It's as if this headline was engineered in a lab to get me to finish the deGoogle checklist.
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3mo agoCounterpoint: No I will not
'Taiwan Travelogue' author hopes book can be read in China. Yang Shuang-zi, tells AFP she hopes her International Booker Prize-winning novel can one day be read in China and facilitate dialogue about the "future Taiwanese people want" u.afp.com/SRz2
Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3mo agoYes, I want to see most or perhaps all of these scumbags in prison. But I gotta be honest: I look at the Democratic Party and I don't see more than a handful of people with the integrity and fortitude to make that happen.
