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2026 Graphic Medicine Awards Winners Announced! | Graphic Medicine

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the winners of  the 2026 GMIC Awards!!! The winners in each of three categories of the 2026 Graphic Medicine International ...

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Today in feeling justified for the way I talk about Elsevier: an email trying to sell me a new product with the title, "Hiring more staff won't solve research reporting."

"Mental well-being is knowing and doing the things that make you happy, living a life that aligns with your personal values, and engaging in meaningful relationships with others." By this definition, required work training, you're telling me that life in 2026 is incompatible w/ mental well-being.

Can't hire more staff to do the work that needs doing, but no worries, IT is now providing access to the "approved AI tool of your choice: Claude, ChatGPT Edu, or Microsoft Copilot Premium."

My MLS students would like you to know that if you don't post a salary with your job posting, they aren't likely to apply.

I didn't even realize this series had started dangit

Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social · 2h ago

DC's THE DEADMAN miniseries expands to 12-issues

I can't help but feel like I failed somewhere along the way because I am working more hours now than I did before getting an "adult" job. The entire goal was to be able to stress less, work less. Instead...

"COVID wasn't that bad" Fuck you

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a massive victory for the party's progressive wing in a battleground state. https://to.pbs.org/4fPHHJQ

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing

The real test of El-Sayed’s and progressives’ strength will now come in a November matchup against Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman who ran unopposed for the GOP nomination.

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I am seeing this exact exchange playing out across social media. Moulton going so low is turning away voters.

R.I.P. Dory Funk, Jr.

Isn't the US executive supposed to be explicitly rein-inable by Congress...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

Hey everyone, I have a couple of opportunities for folks who will be going to SPX: 1. I need a couple of more moderators. 2. I have a panel called Humanizing Medicine. If your work intersects with graphic medicine and you want to be on this panel, reply or DM me directly. Thanks!

WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

"Identity documents like birth certificates or marriage licenses are free" claims a guy over and over and over despite repeatedly being told and shown with evidence they are wrong. What do you even do when people refuse to learn? When there's millions of them?

I get what people are trying to say with the whole "libraries are the original data center" or whatever but... no. Just no. I love you for opposing AI. But we aren't the same thing. And we don't need their language.

If you don't want to talk to kids, for the love of the gods, do not have children

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

Is it normal in the rest of the world for politicians to malign entire religions within their country? Republicans do this about cities; Democrats often do it about rural areas. This division helps no one. And it is usually based on ignorance, fear, and bullshit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

The amount of school libraries hereabouts that have become "media centers" wherein no classes are given/take dedicated library time is pretty darn sad. An incalculable loss to the students.

1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me

"underlying health issues" Fuck off

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

2026 is killing us, I'm sorry I'm not sharing more, it just is and we're so tired

This thread is what is better known as bootlicking

I think the worse-on-purpose story about how Pyrex stopped being borosilicate glass in favour of cheaper, worse, but passable alternatives is relevant. No one got a choice except the execs who could work out manufacturing to make borosilicate cheaper for more or just exploit branding and marketing.

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.