ScreamingMD

@screamingmd.bsky.social

Nerd, Mom, Doctor (EM & Tox), Sportsfan - not necessarily in that order

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Every. single. woman. has played nice and attempted to placate an angry man they are forced to interact with in personal or work life. Hell, when a creep at work commented on my appearance recently, I just said "thank you." I didn't welcome the comments, but I didn't know what else to do right then.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.

The world that the anti-vax/covid denialists live is one where children live in a vacuum. You can’t just throw out the facts that: the disease was spreading exponentially, vulnerable adults were both at school and at home, and it is much more damaging to lose a parent than to lose a school year.

Clay Jones@clayjones.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yes it was and yes we do. It killed roughly 1,300 kids in the US and caused serious and sometimes chronic illness in thousands more. Also, COVID killed a parent or household caregiver of over ten million children worldwide and over a quarter million in the US. Fuck you.

I don’t know what going on downstairs but I just heard: Boy 1 (16yo): fuck you Nimmo Boy 2 (13yo) and Husband: *groan* (and yell various Nimmo related things) I love my boys (all 3 of them).

Mychal sits & shares that Ms. Rachel posted, “Black boys deserve to grow up.” This is not controversial, it is hope. Black library kids deserve to grow up to become Black library grown-ups. Black boys deserve to live in a world where that has not always felt true. Black boys deserve joy ✨

At this point in 2026 Bordeaux, France has experienced more days above 40°C (104°F) than it had in the years from 1920 to 2025, and while it would be wrong to say that this is the end of the world, it certainly suggests that the world as we knew it has already ended.

Quite telling how every argument for AI data centers is transparent bullshit. It creates no lasting jobs or population movement at all. Literally no reason for any place to allow it unless the community extracts massive perpetual cash payments in return.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."