Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW
@mwfrancis.bsky.social
Social worker. Educator. Activist. Researcher on substance use recovery. Views are my own. They/them ♿ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
People really don't remember how pervasive smoking was. Every restaurant had a smoking section, often separated from nonsmoking by a 5-foot-tall barrier. People smoked in offices. You could buy candy cigs for your kids. There were cigarette vending machines. It was everywhere, and just *normal*
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · yesterdaySweet bleeding Mithras, almost everything is SO MUCH BETTER than it was 40 years ago. Air travel I grant you (with the exception of SMOKING ON PLANES). But medical technology? The availability of so many foods? Air pollution? It's just so much better now.
"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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The epic music makes this (also makes me think Assassin's Creed thoughts)
Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · last wk.An Alpine ibex perched on the roof of a chalet in the Parc de Merlet near Chamonix, France. They are famous for their extraordinary balance and often climb onto the stone chimneys of chalets in this area to lick minerals or soak up the sun. The background offers a view of the Mont Blanc massif.
One reason this quote from Charles Mills’ Racial Contract is is so important is in showing the flipped time structure rationalizing and erasing the effects of destruction even before it has taken place. The people are nonexistent before they’re even removed. Then they were never there.
Every time I drive by a Dumpstertruck I make a Simpsons-style "ha-ha!" noise and imagine the sad little person who chose it. So I guess in one way, they are having an impact?
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2w agobloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Wilson's translation was outselling basically everything else in the space by orders of magnitude before the film ever happened
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
I swear I see this dude and his regrettable goatee on campus every week
Quake & Quiver@quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 3w ago
🎶Nooooo onnnneeeee mogs like Gaston, aurafarms like Gaston, bodymaxes and yeets betacucks like Gaston🎶
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11mo agoSay what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.
Adding fish to rice paddies fights a horrible parasitic disease. In a schistosomiasis hotspot in Senegal, researchers stocked rice fields with two native species, African bonytongue and Nile tilapia, that eat or outcompete the freshwater snails carrying the parasite buff.ly/pLZVsmD #ShareGoodNewsToo
Farming technique could curb devastating tropical disease
New research shows how introducing native fish into rice fields may help boost crop yields while suppressing a disease affecting more than 220 million people worldwide.
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At best, AI bros either know this is the case, and do not care. Or, worse, they know this is the case, and this is exactly what they hope for; because all they care about is ensuring a generation unable to read, think or write without their technology.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w ago
this is the face Sandal makes when people say the Supreme Court term "could have been worse."
Welcome to Disability Pride Month, also known as “Abled People Wrinkle Their Noses and Ask Why You’re Proud of THAT” Month, and let’s just handle this now: I am not proud of my disabilities per se. I am proud that ignorance hasn’t ground me into dust yet. I am proud of my fellow disabled people.
Dudes rock 😂
Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · last mo.If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...
I made an audible kettledrum noise while watching this 😂
Side-Eye Pinkie Pie Read Project 2025 - Did You?@nypoliticalmom.bsky.social · last mo.Sure, your butt is tight enough to bounce a quarter off it. But can you bounce a baseball off of it? 😂😂😂😂😂
We definitely need a new term for this kind of person, and I propose “prolapsed Catholic.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”
Reminders: 1. Juneteenth ain’t got shit to do w/ “unity”; it’s about when the memo arrived to Galveston, TX in 1865 that this slavery shit is over 2. Opal Lee fought for decades to make Juneteenth a national holiday, so don’t insult her w/ some “it should’ve never been a national holiday” bullshit
