Ope. Maybe don't do what you did? That's so much easier and significantly less shitty.
#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 7h agoAlarms blare after Max Miller busted 'tampering' with evidence submitted for House probe #RawStory
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COVID long-hauler. Former archaeologist, opera, fed employee. Kids & homeless. Feral princess. Topes #WearAMask Comms: @publichealthaction.bsky.social 📍 Ba'al Pit FB: is.gd/bp2vTA Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers She/her
#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 7h agoThis was my biggest fear when I was little. It would keep me awake all night, thinking that if I fell in space, I would fall forever. You know, like any seven-year-old.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 4h agoMy 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
I grew my own goddamn lettuce this year, and when Diarrhea Lettuce Summer hit, the hornworms found my green, leafy gold. I'm very salty about this.
Breaking News: The FDA approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, enabling a faster way to target particularly dangerous strains.
F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine
The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
nyti.ms
Did @wired.com ever do the right thing about that god awful long COVID article (if you want to call it an article)? It taints everything else they do. Would be super if they stopped sharing that shit on FB ads.
"They are taking our jobs." Okay? Grow it yourself and ditch Door Dash. We all know you won't.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 9h ago"Joel" shares, "We're staking young apple trees, tying them to support them against the wind, in Parker WA. We're wearing masks as protection from the polluted air but it's still bad. I leave with a headache and very irritated eyes. The AQI is 189. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
Just a thought: if they can get away with all of this and set dangerous precedents, we can take it back and do the same damn thing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Understanding Trump’s Controversial ‘Weaponization Fund,’ Immunity Deal
The deal President Donald Trump struck with the US Justice Department in May to end his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) featured two unusual arrangements.
bloomberg.com
Families have gathered at the Moroccan border with Ceuta, searching for missing relatives among returning migrants.
Moroccan families seek missing loved ones after the migrant surge to Spain's Ceuta
Families have gathered at the Moroccan border with Ceuta, searching for missing relatives among returning migrants.
bit.ly
all the important battles for the future of the humanities were fought after the financial crisis, during the neoliberal restructuring of the university. faculty were too disorganized to stop it. popularization of our fields make no difference if people approach college as expensive job training.
Are we seriously going to just let this happen? Betting on natural disasters, elections, and now even cancer patients? futurism.com/health-medic...
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.
futurism.com
Last Sunday we had a terrific Zoom discussion with Amy Stewart, LCSW, about dealing with the stress that comes with being air-aware in a society that mostly ignores airborne pathogens, as well as dealing with the stress that comes from having Long COVID.
Join us and @airsupportproject.bsky.social on Thursday, August 13th, at noon ET for a Zoom discussion about an exciting new project: the Chicago Clean Air Resilience Network (Chi-CARN: @chicagocarn.bsky.social). Register for the Zoom discussion at https://tinyurl.com/chicagocarn.
Listen, McMaster (and I do sincerely mean listen): from 2020 on, you have done everything to gaslight and psychologize long COVID. Just stop already. Listen to us first, and then design an actual study. I told you hell no when you tried recruiting in my group, and I'll keep saying that.
Miles W. Griffis@mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 10h agoNEW: People with Long COVID have started a petition to pause a clinical trial at Canada's McMaster University that aims to test a controversial, branded behavioral intervention, that has been accused of exploitation. www.change.org/p/long-covid...
The story isn't just that batteries are getting cheaper. It's that batteries are getting cheaper while gas is getting more expensive. When the disruptor's costs fall as the incumbent's costs rise, adoption can accelerate far faster than most people expect. #SWB #Bettrification #Renewables
Batteries are getting cheaper while gas gets pricier. Here’s why
The battery boom is accelerating Australia’s shift away from gas.
theconversation.com
A lot of very horrible people are learning that Black voters and affluent suburban voters are not their Emotional Support Electorate(TM) but real humans with real agency and their own political priorities and concerns and they are going to lash out in incredibly nasty ways.
Please watch, listen & REPOST this message from @repmcgovern.bsky.social 🙏
Peter Morley ♿️@petermorley.bsky.social · 18h agoComing to YOUR city/town in 2027, via GOP & Trump Administration: SLASHING of SNAP by BILLIONS. SLASHING of Medicaid By 1 TRILLION. LISTEN to Rep. Jim McGovern: They're turning America into "A Tale Of Two Cities". UNCONSCIONABLE! (Please REPOST for AWARENESS!)
Dear Max Miller: Please rot at the bottom of the boiler room of hell. And take your buddies with you. Disgusting.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Now I’m no operational security expert, but if I was building a highly sensitive military facility I would probably refrain from posting photos of that facility as it’s being built.
What kind of alternate reality are you in here? Have you not seen every other post is a mutual aid post? We are not okay right now.
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
Rule 1: Treat every gun like it’s loaded. Rule 2: If you have to draw your firearm, make sure to look as cool as possible by imagining you’re in the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · yesterdayWhy did they make him look so cool though
This is the correct answer, and we all know someone will do it.
Ira Weinschel@iraweinschel.com · yesterdaySexy Bagged Salad Mix
"Sufficiency" isn't measured per-person, it's measured against a floor: the minimum cost of covering basic needs. Uniform means everyone gets that floor amount. Sufficient means the floor is set at (or scaling toward) a level that actually covers basic needs, not a number tailored to each individual
Basic Income Action ↗️@basicincomeaction.org · 2d agoWhat actually counts as basic income? The most comprehensive definition — 7 tenets: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, sufficient. Read it here → basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...