People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

“President Trump has a different way of calculating, there’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”
-RFK Jr

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [NYT cont]
As a GLAAD put it: "The NYT again failed to take responsibility for years of coverage that has been so inaccurate and biased the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, and [red states] have specifically cited it multiple times..."

guy who navigates to infowars dot com to laugh at all the stupid shit the onion put on there without realizing that they haven't actually changed anything yet

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Me online to BT: our broadband keeps dropping out. I have followed your online instructions but it’s no better.
BT: which service do you need help with?
Me: Broadband!
BT: Go online and follow the instructions.
It’s going to be a long morning.

Endangered Mexican axolotl discovered by girl, 10, under a bridge in Wales Evie and her mother were enjoying a day trip to south Wales when they came across the amphibian.

Endangered Mexican axolotl discovered by girl, 10, under a bridge in Wales

Turner Prize: Mythical shapes and the impact of oil explored in 2026 shortlist Judges said the four shortlisted artists presented "a compelling reflection of contemporary British art".

Turner Prize: Mythical shapes and the impact of oil explored in 2026 shortlist

Support the Global Voices Spotlight: Positive action on climate Every month, Global Voices will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. In May we are looking at the actions people are taking to fight the climate crisis.

Support the Global Voices Spotlight: Positive action on climate
In May @globalvoices.org is looking at the actions people are taking to fight the climate crisis

Movie Theater Day
Natl Email Day
Natl English Muffin Day
Natl Lost Dog Awareness Day
Natl Lover's Day
Natl Picnic Day
Natl Take a Chance Day
Pet Tech CPR Day
Shakespeare Day
Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Talk Like Shakespeare Day
World Book Day
World Laboratory Day
World Table Tennis Day

a slice of cheesecake with a spoon of cherry sauce on top ALT: a slice of cheesecake with a spoon of cherry sauce on top

April 23rd:
Army Reserve Birthday
Gathering of Nations (Pow Wow)
Impossible Astronaut Day
Intl Creator Day
Intl English Language Day
Intl Spanish Language Day
Intl Girls in ICT Day
Intl Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
Love Your Thighs Day
Natl Cherry Cheesecake Day
Celebrate accordingly! 🎉🥳🎂

The Gibson microscope slide collection in the Museum of Medicine and Health, University of Manchester Abstract. The Gibson microscope slide collection was donated to the Medical History Museum in Manchester (later the Museum of Medicine and Health) in 1977

Check out this article by Peter Mohr on a historical collection of microscope slides held at the @manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social Museum of Medicine and Health. #HistSTM #HistMed #MaterialCulture

academic.oup.com/jhc/article/...

House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Also troubling: NASA reportedly implemented some of the cuts in the (later rejected) budget request from last year, without waiting for them to be approved. If govt keeps threatening cuts, the agency will not be able to function as though the budget is stable. Even if reversed, these cuts hurt.

Delighted to share the link to my first monograph! Thank you @oxunienl.bsky.social #c18 #huguenots

Conn. student returns home from ICE detention in Mass. after being granted bond Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the high school student on April 6. Identified as Rihan at the request of his family, he was being held at a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the high school student on April 6. Identified as Rihan at the request of his family, he was being held at a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts as advocates and Connecticut leaders called for his release.

War-figh🤧t— 🤒 ‘scuse me.

Ai remix feature in privacy settings on TikTok turned on

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

“I have never seen anything like this, where I’m seeing ICE reporting out at least one death per week,” says Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network.

Anthropic seeks pivotal court win in music publisher lawsuit over AI training Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has asked a California federal court to ​rule in its favor in a copyright lawsuit brought by music publishers Universal Music Group , Concord ‌and ABKCO, arguing it made "fair use" of their song lyrics to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has asked a California federal court to rule in its favor in a copyright lawsuit brought by music publishers Universal Music Group , Concord and ABKCO, arguing it made "fair use" of their song lyrics to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.

For millions of Americans with disabilities, Medicaid home care is the only thing standing between independence and an institution. Cutting it is cruelty dressed up as policy. #ProtectMedicaid

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won year...

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the "Shot Heard Round the World" fired later that day in Concord 1897 1st Boston Marathon (B.A.A. Road Race), won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the world's oldest annual marathon inspired by success of the first marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics 1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of "obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth" in a New York stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career. 1932 US President Herbert Hooversuggests five-day work week 1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late) 1943 Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time 1943 Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network 1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of the sun’s glare causes the grass to die

National Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day

🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊

Today honors those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995
The blast claimed the lives of 168 people including 19 children
We also remember the emergency responders who served that day

We will be okay

Love
Foxy

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Libraries: full of dangerous ideas like trees, empathy, and history.

Oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill.

buff.ly/W1YsomE #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #politics #breakingnews #author #authors #government

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office theonion.com/my-work-doesnt-define-me...

Europe unveils an antidote to a potential US tech “kill switch” European companies have introduced a Disaster Recovery Pack – a tech stack that would ensure organizations can continue critical operations in a scenario where a foreign vendor activates the “kill swi...

Good idea.

“In 2025, Spain abandoned its plans to purchase US-made F-35 fighter jets amid rumors that a “kill switch” was embedded in them, allegations the Pentagon denied.”

Europe unveils anti-kill switch technology stack as tensions with the US rise cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

"The company scraped classic and copyright-free titles from Project Gutenberg,a library of over 75,000 public domain books, including “Alice in Wonderland,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Romeo and Juliet,” to create chatbots that allow users to “enter a story, and interact with its world in real time"

April 19, 1943: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Began The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began, on the eve of Passover, when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps.

#tdih 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Jewish resistance fighters held off Nazis for 28 days.

Read words ⬇️of Szmul Zygielbojm. He alerted Allies to Nazi’s crimes against humanity and later Jewish resistance in Warsaw.

Despite his pleas, Allies stood by. 💔
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wa...

Closeup of the head of a sleeping black and white dog. She has a very cute blep happening.

Husband and the teen are on vacation already (I'm joining them in a day once the dog/house sitter is here), and they keep sending me pics of beautiful warm beaches, so I'm sending them back pics of our adorable sleeping dog

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns

We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday

(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)