There is a sickness moving through American public life, not a crime but a capitulation, officials who know the truth and repeat the lie anyway because it costs less than saying it. Societies do not fall by force alone. They fall by agreement.

First time I saw one like this outside Appalachia & asked what they were trying to keep out of their house. 😂🙃 Oh, just decorations for you... Interesting! Iykyk

Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social · 6h ago

On my walk I happened upon the very rare mason jar 🫙 tree 🌲

Since my saltine trans sisters need to hear it- Screaming "genocide" and "Transphobe" at people pointing out that you are factually wrong? Is peak abusive white man behavior. Decouple yourself from the bullshit you were raised with. You clearly internalized more than you think.

OK, I’ve now blown my Bluesky budget 🤣😂🤣WA AQI is rough. Mask up if you have to go out, use your filters, stay as safe and comfortable as possible.

When your junk box has too many parts but your skillset didn't factor for velocity x mass to overcome gravity. He'd have been ok with slower take off, then ramping up. As soon as air filled that sail it became a brake!

Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social · 9h ago

Fred had been tinkering for years with his flying seat and today was the day he’d prove to everyone he was in fact crazy (She said he didn’t even break bones but his flying seat was broken in half thankfully)

Who needs a call? Someone, of the millions of strangers in the world, needs a friend My dm remains open, and it costs me nothing to answer the phone to you.

Max Miller is a sick man and my god I feel sick for that young girl jesus Christ. What an abusive oxygen thief the man who fathered her is.

I'm weirdly finding that as I get older, it's easier to learn new skills, which is the opposite of what I thought was supposed to happen. I don't think we're giving enough credit to a lifetime of built skills. When new skills have overlap w/existing ones it greases the wheels for the new.

lmfaooooo fuck 💀 (iykyk)

Name the first videogame that made you feel truly powerful.

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Just looked at the most over-engineered toothbrush & need a dentist for how hard my jaw clenched. 😩 These companies really are ripping people off in ways that still boggle my mind!

Sugar Maven@mochene.bsky.social · yesterday

when did they start charging $400 for an electric toothbrush?

“MC noticed the blood, first. The sodden carpet squelched against her soles as she wheeled the book cart past the cases. She looked down. Paint, or dark water? Her gaze followed the puddle to the narrow space between two of the cases, too narrow for a person to step between. And she saw the body.”

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 24h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

In the US, female surgeons save 34% more lives than male surgeons.

Boys for Pele seems fitting music for sealing doors, windows, etc. Hunker down & clean cupboards until AQI is safe enough. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AbN...

Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (The Dakota Version) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape

m.youtube.com

I get mad about this fact once every day & twice on Sundays. 😭

Sbooks@bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · yesterday

We are paying to live on a rock that was made for FREE!

I swanny there's a bot operator who occasionally flips a switch & unleashes these annoying herds. Noisebots for politics, beggar bots with emotional pictures, advertising bots shilling ai products, bots pretending to be allies. What ones did I miss? lol

AI bot comments section

Alt: AI bot comments section a person walks through field of iRobots or an accurate representation of how you feel vetting followers sometimes bc it's all bot looking activity on those pages or in comments.

static.klipy.com

Nonofyur Darnbusiness@ladyasrai.bsky.social · yesterday

Shit is hitting the fan. Feels like this sudden influx of nasty little noisebots is meant to drown out the sound of the splatter.

People who've told me they believe this; also believe in chem trails & every other "but, that's not true!" conspiracy. Who ever said you have to just out conspiracy them is right! Lab leak? HA! You think secret labs exist. Next you'll tell me that blue screen up above is sky.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · yesterday

If you are talking about “lab leak” in 2026, I genuinely think you are an unserious person who does not deserve the respect of a debate

for this #OwlAwarenessDay let's all remember that one time @franzanth.bsky.social thought he heard an exciting new owl call only for it to turn out to be a bunch of old ladies doing yoga

Aww that sounds about right. Love when classic bacteria microbiologists act like fungi are ~spooky mysterious eldritch creatchers~ that ~nobody understands ooOOoOOooo!!~ Like ok maybe you guys don't.... the people who work with them manage just fine though?

Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · yesterday

I focused on rumen fungi and ciliates and even though they’re harmless they low-key scare rumen bacteriologists

I felt like I knew this crow I was sketching from somewhere! It's my old friend, Nicodemus. One eyed older crow who I haven't seen in a few years. He was missing his left eye. Had to look harder with his right to find food. 🥺

Watercolor mitosis in small, medium or large #sciart artologica.etsy.com

Artist to support & inspire you. Fantastic thread of labor involved making anatomy art.

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last wk.

The stages of a brain painting 1) light pencil

For folks dealing with dense relatives, remember. Mistrust of CDC is purely coincidental to attacks on Fauci, or Biden administration. Trying to help someone convinced of conspiracy theories usually just confirms their internalized bias.

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · yesterday

The CDC has lost more than a quarter of its workforce since January 2025. The Lancet reports 80 percent of its top positions are vacant, roughly 2,000 staff fired, another 300 on administrative leave. There is no confirmed CDC director.

"It is currently unclear whether there is a connection between the current heatwave and the reported cases of illness...However, high temperatures pose a significant stress, especially for high-yielding dairy cows, and can make them more susceptible to disease" www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Swiss cows struck by mystery illness

A virus spread by biting midges never before seen in Switzerland is thought to be responsible for a surge in sickness in Swiss dairy cows, authorities said Monday.

ctvnews.ca

Look, I'm busy fighting chronic pain and depression here. I'll make this quick: -I don't use GenAI because I actually love writing. -It's built on theft. -It's an environmental disaster. -It's constructed by corpos to addict and disable you. -My younger self would've been addicted to it.

Next time politicians or news tries to convince you it's poors & disabled stealing; please think of these stories. I'll never understand individuals shrugging off massive theft as "Oh yeah that happens" Yet, someone poor simply existing will provoke disgust & punishing them is "acceptable"

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday

"“I fucked up,” Yaroch told FBI agents when they interviewed him at his house last month, according to the affidavit."

Tempted to just smoke until wildfire AQI stops triggering "don't breath!" training. NBC trains us to stop if certain smells are detected. Imagine having to concentrate on every breath; forcing yourself to override trained survival instinct to hold it or only breathe shallow? Damn it, spicy air!

Ted Jackins (They/Them)@killthethingyouluv.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wisdom from Bernard Black.

I've seen a lot of AI making Black content in music categories. Why am I surprised they'd also copy people like this? Hard to know who is real human beings when programming was made specifically to copy us from socials. Pixel for pixel, & beat for emotional beat.

Chaos Cherub 😇@biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Hmm. Well I can’t sleep and I love a good investigation so here’s what I found. At the very least, both appear to be real human beings. Marva has posts going back to 2017 and Candas has posts going back to 2013.

That's why sky was yellow here & outside smells like equipment burning. Guess it's time to saran wrap bonsai pots & take off for breathable spaces. airqualitymap.ecology.wa.gov