✨ Sparkle Monica ✨
@monicacarmean.bsky.social
⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙 "10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
Fantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.
F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)
The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
nytimes.com
Holding a young kid’s favorite toy hostage as a way to manipulate your child into liking being at your house better is absolutely sick and twisted.
I usually try to explain it like this: picture Bethany Mandel as Pete Buttigieg. Now imagine they're Syrian. Doesn't look so much like the Latin American debt crisis was caused by Greek gods gambling now, does it?
In this screenshot of texts between Rep. Miller and Senator Bernie Moreno in May, Miller says that the Morenos will have to go through the parenting coordinator to get the bunny back. (5/8).
NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)
I thought she was crazy at the time but in hindsight my mom was right that you do actually have to clean up before the cleaning lady can come
Rescued by strangers: an important part of the boating experience. Must impart in children in a young age.
In 2020, nearly 5% of Lakeview residents reported their age as 25, and 34% were in their 20s. It had the most lopsided population distribution of any community area in Chicago. Meanwhile, no single age contained more than 1.5% of West Pullman residents. It had the flattest distribution in the city.
somewhat tangential but i never really understand the “just cook it at home” retorts sometimes u just want to go out to eat it is fine
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
I don't have a lot figured out but I do think I have a lot of cool ideas about feeding slop, some of which I should try out on my dog this month.
commissioner jessica vásquez said the cook county board had yet to see a contract for briefcam, sheriff tom dart's proposed jail ai surveillance camera system. dart said breifcam will "save lives" and downplayed its facial recognition features while hyping up its object recognition features (?).
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3mo agonew: sheriff tom dart is quietly pitching the cook county board on two new surveillance systems that could be approved as soon as thursday. dart wants $2 million for a software that uses ai to monitor the jail’s cameras for drug use and nearly $1 million for more flock license plate readers.
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Life, man, I don’t know. You’re born. You assemble countless pieces of inexpensive Swedish designed furniture. You die.
Anyone have an opinion on Calendly versus Google Calendar for scheduling time?
Okay team, this is my current TBR shelf. Would any of these books make for plausible beach reads? Or do I need to acquire even more books? If the latter, please provide recs. I have an Old Town Books gift card burning a hole in my pocket
Major congratulations to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @donavanmckinney.bsky.social & @wewill2026.bsky.social for their victories in Michigan. Proud to support them. (1/4)
This is team player shit, beat the bad guys shit. I love it. No fucking around with it, just let's go.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 15h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Dozens of company and trade group PACs refuse to say whether they’ll ditch — or defend — Rep. Max Miller.
Max Miller’s Corporate Backers Go Silent on Embattled Congressman
Dozens of company and trade group PACs refuse to say whether they’ll ditch — or defend — the Ohio Republican.
notus.org
To be blunt, your entire argument is factually and legally wrong and ignores centuries of legal precedent.
Seriously the community college love in this thread is incredible, though also shoutout to "random youtube channels and podcasts and Wikipedia rabbit holes" there are so many ways of learning things!
Sara H.@sarastar43.bsky.social · 8h agoIf you have a community college near you they often offer academic classes on a one-off basis (ie you don't have to be enrolled as a student) - they're usually listed under like "continuing education" on the website
not to brag but my mom read this and said "you could be a newspaper columnist if they still had those"
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13h ago"The guy I’d just told to fuck off on Nextdoor lived on my block, and was chatting with my—no, OUR—neighbors..." @amybrown.xyz on becoming the most reviled Nextdoor user in El Cerrito:
don’t listen to the haters Royce. Keep exactly this shit up
Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 11h ago"How are they going to tell you the difference between the biological sex of your crops?" MN GOP Senate candidate Royce White went on a rant at Farmfest, attacking Democrats on gender identity and claiming California is giving power to "communists." #Farmfest
I believe you can see this guy slowly realizing where Schiff was going.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
ahhh the good ol' "Dick and Goats" maneuver, it's a classic, even Sun Tzu was a fan
