Bloody hell.

Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

A package of KFC “colonel’s favorite jellybeans” with fried chicken, sweet corn, and gravy flavors

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

This. Amazing stuff all around. Books, crafts, music, mental peace, a boom in soul-feeding things.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Yeah. I get that it can be funny/inspiring to see people you think of mostly as ferrying kids to soccer practice and collecting Stanley mugs showing up to protests with kind of bloodthirsty signs. But the surprise bothers me because 75%+ of the time the people leading and volunteering are women

You know you're getting old when staff barely glance at you before they slap the "Over 18" wristband on.

Alysa Liu stole her hairstyle from an Australian

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).

These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:

Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"et choo, thomas?"
— sir topham hatt, during his assassination

Listen. The average person just doesn’t need training to know that it’s wrong to kill people.

This is not some big complex problem that requires expertise to get right. If ICE is killing people, it’s from a lack of morality, not a lack of knowledge.

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

Thank you for talking about BPPV and sorry you have to experience it. It is truly the worst.

I have BPPV & it is the WORST. An episode feels like being shoved in a barrel, thrown roughly down a bumpy hill, & landing in a rapid before finally crawling ashore feeling more nauseous (& vomiting) than you ever have in your life. I'm glad to see people speaking about how debilitating it is.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Full view of 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar

January 15 entry on calendar: "MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'S BIRTHDAY Xena ends the Trojan War"

I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.

☹️ Oh damn, I'm sorry. I hope treatment all goes as well as possible and it doesn't progress.

A poem by Diana Wynne Jones, very early in her career. Wilkins Tooth was published in 1973. Richard, Colin and Mickey in the poem are not fictionalized: those are indeed the names of her sons.

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

The most recent one is “Robin Hood was a murderer and terrible person actually.” Like, do you even get the point of Robin Hood?

I grow weary of these gritty Robin Hood retellings. Where are the adventurous, romantic, camp, and vibrant Robin Hoods of yore?

NOW GO OUT THERE AND LIVE THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS SHITSTAINED YEAR BEING KIND AND BOLD AND DARING AND FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE PIT WHEN YOU SEE SOMEBODY GO DOWN YOU HELP THEM THE FUCK BACK UP

it’s the moooooooost wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeeeeeeeeear (the 6 days between Christmas and New Year when it is socially acceptable to eat a 2pm breakfast consisting of the wreckage of cheese and chocolate left over from your 2am dinner)