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Recovered academic, lifelong leftie Jew, FASD adoptive mom, indie rock snob.
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Many gluten-free foods are high in calories and sugar, low on fiber and protein, and they cost more − new research

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

New question for everyone: what are we doing to distract ourselves from watching the world burn? What's driving your current neurodivergent hyperfocus tendencies? For me: consuming as many performing arts as possible. Music, theater, dance, stand-up comedy, whatever I can find.

one thing about the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic I expect very little coverage about is the amount of anti-Asian hate it spawned and the mental and physical toll of that on Asians and Asian Americans

Well done, internet.

Interviews with over a dozen queer Arizonans who have left or are considering leaving reveal unease about the state’s willingness to protect their marriages and bodies. Published in partnership with @lookoutnews.bsky.social:

I just realized that Isabella Rossellini is wearing blue velvet in honor of David Lynch & immediately started to cry.

lol yes sometimes this feels 100% accurate

Man, I never thought I'd get to the point where I can't even read @hcrichardson.bsky.social because the facts are just too upsetting. I'm having a really hard time just keeping abreast of the day-to-day of current events. Anyone else?

Measles outbreaks are happening primarily bc parents are afraid of autism. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... As a mom to two kids on the spectrum, I'd rather live with a child who has autism than try to endure their deaths, or knowing that their infection caused the deaths of others.

Use Signal. Donate to Signal. The ability to send messages that can only be read by the sender and recipients is crucial to free expression:

ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. By @craigsilverman.bsky.social

'Any old AI can write a novel, but it takes a human to have writer's block' Daily Telegraph. Buy a print: telegraph.co.uk/mattprints

lol same

There is a fascinating correlation between billionaires and shameless stupidity. Who is going to read this when the WSJ exists?

*gulp*

I’m at a restaurant and every song they’re playing is on Rock Band and now I’m wondering if that’s on purpose but I’m too embarrassed to ask. 🎶🎵🎤🎸

We’re living in the future.

Great news for Arizona voters.

I miss DEI

Bitch you are the government.

Say what you want about Southwest Airlines but it sure is nice to be able to change reservations in the app when they have a sale and instantly get credits for future travel. ✅❤️

Yeah, no. Academics of all fields have been writing blogs where they talk about their work in chatty prose for as long as blogs have existed. There are piles of trade books by academics on academic subjects. Magazine articles. Podcasts. Interviews. Video lectures. All the things.

Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

I loved this game so much.

I honestly think it would be hilarious if there was one family on White Lotus that was having just the best time, like we get two miserable storylines and then occasionally cut to this family going “We saw three dolphins!”

Got about 175 people coming to this helllllll yeah. Rascal brigade building.

I thought I was getting old when I started getting insomnia during perimenopause, staying up all night looking at my phone. Turns out that was just the beginning. Now I have to wear reading glasses to do that.

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Ok that made me laugh

Parker Posey’s mouth needs its own Bsky account and I promise to reskeet every utterance that comes from it because that shit is GOLD.

pick one: 1. these guys are absolutely clueless about what the technologies their companies build, use, and sell actually do 2. they have malign intentions and think you are stupid enough to believe otherwise

kinda true tho

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

I don’t know what this is but I am here for it

Terrible news. We need the humanities in higher ed.

Enjoying this immensely.

Simple as this. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

This is #GoogleMaps on my own phone, right now. This is madness. Our king is literally mad. #gulfofmexico #google #imperialism

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

If you don’t yet know what’s going on…

Really feeling for all my academic friends and former colleagues. This is not the world we trained for.