I also find it ironic billionaires chasing longevity while overlooking something as basic as clean air, despite evidence that multiple pathogens accelerate dementia and other neurodegenerative processes. Living longer is great. But what’s the point if your brain doesn’t come along for the ride?

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social · 12h ago

I find it ironic that the billionaires are chasing longevity while undermining our basic life support systems.

Back on the horse. Building the archaeological argument for a potential link between matrilineal kinship structures and the likelihood of female authority in areas of Iron Age Britain.

the quilt made of ribbons is now ten million times more beautiful

Margaret Dumont@margaretdumont.bsky.social · 13h ago

"'My father was an alcoholic and I heard all the time, "Can’t you do anything right? What’s the matter with you? Can’t you do anything right?", so with the ribbons, I was like, "Oh, I can do something right".' Johnson said."

he's right, and he should say it

manish vij@mvij.org · 6h ago

… and to dodge prison

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep NYT up with one its rare positive stories on trans kids: Jefferson Cty CO is one of rare school systems to sue over Trump demands to revoke protections or face cuts. Typical of NYT only two sentences are from an actual trans person. [free article]

How a Colorado School District Is Fighting Trump’s Anti-Transgender Push

Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts.

nytimes.com

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep LGBTQnation After a legal battle for nearly 10 years, Bulgarian Supreme Court bows to EU court finding that member states must recognize trans people’s gender changes and rules that Bulgarian trans people can change name and gender on govt IDs.

"A deep relief": Trans advocates celebrate Bulgarian court's ruling in favor of legal gender changes - LGBTQ Nation

“It is a deep relief and a source of satisfaction to see that the system delivers," one advocate said.

lgbtqnation.com

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social So Bulgaria - a true communist backwater state in the old USSR sphere -- now moves firmly ahead of the the United State govt when it comes to recognizing trans people's legal gender changes.

This is a great way to frame it. Similarly, "price of eggs!🤡" doesn't make you MAGA. If it did, Black women would be the most MAGA, but they're the least MAGA. "Price of eggs!🤡" plus the racist resentment / white supremacist views that have you feeling like you should be on top, make you MAGA.

Dr. Alexis Turner@surliertexan.bsky.social · 14h ago

The double bind respectability politics puts white women in is that they can either cling to a liberal moral position they will never attain & where they will feel powerless except over other white people, or they can go to the right and lose power among white people but gain it over everyone else

Non-Natives...I am begging you to stop worrying about being polite and to turn that karen energy on your peers and get your village boneheads under control. It's not enough for ya'll to just say you support Indigenous people, we need ya'll to put a stop to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes

A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

theguardian.com

every one of these anti-science grifter fucks should have their medical license revoked or why do we have medical licenses?

ProPublica@propublica.org · 14h ago

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)

If you've been following the news, you probably saw that a judge ruled the so-called "homewrecker law" case against Kyrsten Sinema can go forward. There's a lot of misinformation floating around about this ruling, however, so I figured we could take a look at it - and why it matters to you.

So it turns out that the only “boat” that the Masked Morons in Dover “stopped” was a *car ferry* taking British holidaymakers to France. Their face coverings hid only stupidity and now protect these fascist failures from cringing embarrassment.

old laptop finally crossed the point of no return last night (HP Spectre you absolute piece of shit. barfs hot air at you, ports stopped working like a year in, now the keys are just falling off) so I got a new one and the first thing I did was look up how to remove AI from everything everywhere 🥰

Absolutely amazing.

JRho@jrho.bsky.social · 21h ago

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

A surge of COVID-19 infections is happening in multiple states in the U.S. and has been building for the past month, according to the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, led by @michael-hoerger.bsky.social.  The PMC produces weekly COVID-19 heatmaps of the U.S. based on wastewater data.

www.cpr.org/2026/09/04/c...

Colorado students across the state walk out of school to protest ICE crackdown

Hundreds of schools saw kids walkout as organizers says they’re tired of hearing that their voices don’t matter.

cpr.org

Here's a great article on recognizing rabies in cows. www.beefmagazine.com/livestock-ma...

What producers should know about rabies in cattle

With skunk rabies cases climbing in central Kentucky, veterinarians urge livestock owners to be alert, take precautions, and know how to respond to possible exposure.

beefmagazine.com

A pulp mill in Washington state where 11 workers died after a chemical tank collapsed in May had a history of safety complaints, poor maintenance and discharges of toxic chemicals, records reviewed by The Associated Press show. https://to.pbs.org/4qZjJkz

Records show history of safety complaints at site of deadly Washington pulp mill disaster

A pulp mill in Washington state where 11 workers died after a chemical tank collapsed in May had a history of safety complaints, poor maintenance and discharges of toxic chemicals, records reviewed by...

pbs.org

The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals with their wastewater, according to two former agency officials who were involved in its development. https://to.pbs.org/4x4pgYB

Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals with their wastewater, according to two former agency officials who were involved in its development.

pbs.org

Messages Show SPD Primarily Responsible for Information Gap After Bite of Seattle Shooting The messages show Mayor Wilson was indecisive about going to the scene of the shooting while advisors gave conflicting recommendations and TV reporters speculated about why she wasn’t there

Messages Show SPD Primarily Responsible for Information Gap After Bite of Seattle Shooting - PubliCola

The messages also reveal that Mayor Wilson was indecisive about going to the scene of the shooting while advisors…

publicola.com

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s decision to sharply downsize two Utah national monuments in July are re-upping their argument that he didn’t have the authority to do so. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/09/05/p...

Patagonia, environmental groups revive old legal fights against new cuts to national monuments • Washington State Standard

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s decision to sharply downsize two Utah national monuments in July are re-upping their argument that he didn’t have the authority to do so.

washingtonstatestandard.com

Leading medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — saying they hope to ease confusion caused by the Trump administration's changing advice. https://to.pbs.org/4i9BU4C

Top U.S. doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — sayi...

to.pbs.org

Not one mention of Giuliani’s 9/11 scandals and fuckups and scandalous fuckups.

Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial

During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.

nytimes.com

I mean, as a trans person, my overall take is that fundamentally trans healthcare is important because trans people deserve it But also as a researcher i'm like "y'all are leaving all this cool AF stuff on the table just because trans people gross you out??"

local12.com/news/around-...

Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

local12.com

lets be honest, of those 33 another 20 probably also can't stand him but would rather die than reveal that to pollsters and family after 10 years of saying the opposite

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterday

The latest nationwide FT-Focaldata poll found that just 33% of registered voters approved of Donald Trump’s performance as president — the lowest number recorded since the FT first started asking the question. ft.trib.al/L70XHLr

On the one hand: having a disability is not cool, nor is it invented for attention. It's exhausting and it's life-limiting. On the other hand: compared to reading the Telegraph, having a disability is being a fucking rock star.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

About 1,000 years ago, this ‘Tables’ game board was smashed up with an axe and thrown into a rubbish pit at Gloucester Castle! 🪓 😳 Ancient evidence perhaps of a sore loser!? 😂 Ironically it is the world’s oldest surviving complete tables set! Gloucester Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My suspicion is that a lot of the "should we reach out to MAHA" discourse/discussion/debate rests on collapsing the distinction between 1) MAHA leaders & their associated overt pro-MAGA, explicit white Christian nationalist/supremacist beliefs and 2) regular people who've bought into some of that.

These guys always want to excuse their Ai use with “It’s just a tool, I want to use all the tools at my disposal,” and so on. But they never want to to walk about how the tool was made. Or how the tool does the thing it does. And there’s a good reason for that...