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If you use robots to tell you how to shape an idea into writing, you deserve to be read only by robots. And maybe it soon will be robots talking to robots all the way down! But in the meantime I hold that learning to express and practicing to refine ideas is one of the most important human tasks.

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A reminder:

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The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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If any of y’all were thinking, HEY, IF THERE WAS A SFF CON IN A SAFE COUNTRY, I WOULD TOTALLY GO, TOTES MCGOATS, then I have news for you! Canada has SFF cons! Like Hal-Con in Halifax, Nova Scotia! I’ll be a guest there this fall and would love to see you. Please come visit!

submitted 48 minutes ago • 8 comments

Bugs are dying and the AI that's stolen our work is in everything like a metastasized cancer and genocide is ignored and people are being disappeared and the oceans boil and nobody's watching the hurricanes and bigot clowns run everything and this is the worst version of We Didn't Start The Fire

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

A wild thing that happens these days is that huge swaths of the USA will have poor air quality because of wildfires, which are exacerbated by climate change. And we receive zero information about this, or health guidance, or warnings. Many folks are working or playing outside. Kids have sports.

submitted 2 hours ago • 49 comments

"Nothing / none" is the second most frequent response. We are not breaking through. If you care about health care (Medicaid,, Medicare, the ACA), if you care about SNAP, if you care about ordinary Americans, this ought to be very alarming.

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More information on this despicable case here: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

submitted 25 minutes ago • 36 comments

real vibe shift in that third frame

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NEW: Since reentering office, Trump has made clear his feelings about diversity programs, referring to them as “Radical and Wasteful” in his executive order — an order that has derailed the careers of Black civil servants whose work was unrelated to DEI. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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Commerce Department employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again learned belatedly that their health insurance has been cut off. Some had already racked up thousands in medical bills.

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This photo brought back very potent memories! 🥲🚙

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This is data from a national vaccine distribution system. The antivaccine people are winning and it annoys me that all the bad people keep getting what they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

submitted 15 hours ago • 771 comments

Please, please read this thread Many of us warned people about Project 2025 for a few years, despite Trump lying during the campaign that he didn't know what it was & wouldn't follow it. He knew & he is & our health, esp the most vulnerable will pay the price bsky.app/profile/eliz...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

pretty decent metaphor for bluesky elders

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Ventolin, the brand name for albuterol or salbutamol, was first sold in 1968. The first generic inhaler was not approved in the US until 2020 due to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry. Because there are still so few approved “generic” alternatives it remains cost prohibitive for many people

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

This video is chock full of fun bugs facts and I found myself saying wow a few times. Check it out! youtu.be/y66Hw3sevuc?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Violence against Jewish marchers, is a threat to violence against all of us. We must end this violence before it becomes accepted against countless men, women, and children. In addition to thoughts and prayers, we must take action to defend and protect all peaceful protesters.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

Oh, hey. TIDAL CREATURES is out in paperback today! If you want a book about weird alchemy, found family, moon deities around the world, academic politics, the destructive applications of peach trees, lesbians, and the Impossible City, this is the book for you.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

@mementomorty.bsky.social has been suspended by bluesky trust and safety for "hate speech" This is an outrage. FREE MORTY!

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

Hey everybody! My birthday is later this month and the ONLY thing I want is to raise some money for our local shelter, the Humane Society of Chittenden County. They do so much for our community. Please consider donating if you can! 🥰 givebutter.com/catsofyore

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

We desperately need more “Go the Fuck to Sleep” and “Where’s My Cow?” books, because it’s not about reading the story (you’re gonna have it memorized fast) it’s about the performance and the ritual that tells your kid you are present. And interruptions are your kid THINKING. Rejoice!

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Bridge Types xkcd.com/3097/

submitted 22 hours ago • 80 comments

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

submitted 21 hours ago • 74 comments

A new study from Yale University finds that singing to babies improves their overall mood. NPR wants to know what songs our listeners sing to their babies.

submitted 21 hours ago • 82 comments

You remember James Frey as the confabulator who faked a memoir and got humiliated by Oprah for it; I remember him as the book packager who egregiously exploited young writers with an outrageously bad ghost writing contract. He's always been fucking terrible. whatever.scalzi.com/2010/11/13/t...

submitted 21 hours ago • 31 comments

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump formally asks Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has set aside for all public broadcasters for the next two years.

submitted 20 hours ago • 75 comments

Racists are so fucking weird. Nobody's making you eat the Costco frozen gimbap. You don't have to have a perfect, simple, delicious food if you don't want it. You can just die mad in a pool of plain saltine crackers and leave yummy food for the rest of us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments