Just a little reminder 🐾🤍

Amen! Good luck getting useful/actionable results from it!

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Use Claude Code they said. The most advanced model they said.

My kids are calling me weird for liking whipped cream that's been frozen.

Or their priming dose as an adult because of an anti-vax parent. Like, oh, ME. I only got polio shots in, uh, 2021??

People who had the acellular pertussis vaccine as their priming (childhood) doses get less of an immune response to the boosters, so it's extra important to keep up with your adult boosters and get them more often. But everyone should be on a 5-year schedule unless you have a good reason not to.

"Puncture wound", "outside", "healed quickly", and "didn't bleed much" are the textbook indications for a tetanus booster if it's been more than 3 years since your last one. The reason it's important if you're younger is the DPT vaccine used in childhood switched to acellular pertussis in the 90s.

A lot of pharmacists will also give you a Tdap if your (potentially fictional) sibling is expecting a (potentially fictional) nibling who you’re going to babysit and their (potentially fictional) doctor says you need a booster

If your doctor is a butt about vaccinating you more often, go to the pharmacy clinic and tell them you were working outside and had a puncture wound that didn't bleed much and healed quickly but you heard you should get a tetanus booster. (And make sure it's Tdap, not Td.)

Booooosting.

(An N95 mask should help substantially if there is good fit and you're not hanging out in the area. Measles has an infectiousness *higher* than Covid, IIRC, so you'd have to mask more carefully.)

The CDC schedule also calls for a single adult booster at age 18+, so even if you have documentation of getting both childhood doses, a booster is a smart idea (and should be covered by insurance). If you can't get the MMR because it's a live vaccine and you're immunocompromised--

Boosting this. Heck, if you don't remember if you got 2 shots and there's any reason you might not have? Call your insurance and see if they mandate pharmacy/doctor office, and top it up.

Also, Mumps definitely wanes a bit, IIRC, so ask for a MMR to top off that, if there's mumps in the area too.

This is what every measles infection has a chance to do. Silently. Ten years later.

This is the roll of the dice.

And in the U.S., add crushing hospital bills for the survivors.

A measles shot has very high protection, and is much cheaper.

The Creation of the "Shadow Docket" by the Coward John Roberts YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

This explainer (on the NYT report on the origins of the shadow docket by J Roberts) by @jamellebouie.net is, per usual, outstanding, take a look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXtg...

ChatGPT is not the actor here; it’s a product. You can’t investigate ChatGPT anymore than you can investigate autocomplete.

OpenAI is the responsible party here, and this NYT social post should reflect that.

(laughter) Ignoring this. Paying PROPER attention to the Belgians who invented “French” fries (confused doughboys thought they were in France due to the locals speaking the language). FRY THEM TWICE YOU WEENIES! 😄

2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Finalists - Locus Online Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer have been announced by LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,488 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2025 and 2026 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2026 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during May 2026. Members of …Read More

Congratulations to all of the Hugo Awards finalists!!

it’s the weirdest fucking phenomenon. They absolutely to refuse to consider that one could just think “huh, what else do I need to know to answer this?” and then … go find that stuff out

instead they go all lemongrab at the AUDACITY of not giving them everything they need to solve it

At my daughter’s literary competition today I watched the teenager the row in front of me enter every question into an LLM. If he had used it to cheat he would have ended up missing ~40% of the answers. Probably would have ended in last place.

Turns out if you want to totally unhinge a certain type of LLM enthusiast, all you have to do is give them a question that they need to do the tiniest bit of research to answer

A shimmering circle of light surrounds the upraised arms of a woman who weaves light from the battlements of a castle. She wears an elegant dress of black and purple, and even in small detail it's obvious she's dripping in gold jewelry. Below an orange dragon with a yellow scaled belly blasts a stream of flame into the air. The gout isn't aimed at the armed men below who run in terror as their shield their eyes and bodies. A wall of white flames climbs the castle wall behind the dragon bathing the foreground in intense light. None of the flame consumes the surrounding bare trees or tents—evidence of a siege in progress but now broken.

Detail from STRONGHOLD featuring a Sunrunner weaving light from the top of castle battlements. Below an orange dragon cracks its maw to send a line of fire into the sky.

lose detail from STRONGHOLD featuring a woman with arms upraised as she weaves a shimmering circle of light. She wears an elegant dress of black and purple, and even in small detail it’s obvious she’s dripping in gold jewelry

STRONGHOLD (1990)
Acrylic - 30” x 20”

The magic in Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner trilogies involves weaving light, but just what is that faradhi on the battlements casting? There are clues to what's going on in the illustration. 1/2

#booksky #art

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

friends… would it be weird if i ask y’all white claw drinkers to send me those colorful pop tops from the cans? i want to diy some rainbow chains… i’ll pay for shipping!

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Let Meteora meet Mettle From The Sundered Marches - Let Meteora meet Mettle

METEORA × METTLE is an industrial fantasy novel following the 3rd Irregulars as they fight, flee, and fly across THE SUNDERED MARCHES. Alpha reader responses are strong—but it still needs maps and editing! And that's expensive!

If you could click below and spread the word, I'd be real grateful.

oh hell yeah, this is extremely poppy-coded lmao

Also as an aging narcoleptic? I know ball. Most of you are writing tiredness wrong. I don't blame you, you're young and connect all tiredness with being winded. You don't understand when your breath is smooth and even but your bones are numb, your limbs heavy and sluggish. It's very different.

Yeah. I'm wish listing the dead trees version.