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"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

As a non-romantasy reader I hope sooner rather than later 🤞

This is true. No one wants to admit COVID still exists or ever existed. Quite incredible. Where are the huge conferences dedicated to COVID, like there still is for HIV?

Into the Spiderverse

🚨 If you're in the US, please reach out to your senators. The tool 👇 makes it very easy to connect with your senators (it does all the hard work & even makes the call) so all you have to do is advocate for LC funding & research.
Windows closes today!

Bigolas Dickolas 1:1-5, from the This Is How You Lose The Time War apocrypha

Comic cover with the title "What Does HIV Mean?" by Jordan Collver & Jaime Garcia Iglesias featuring a patchwork quilt.

Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition. TEXT: Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not. A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person. Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure… [background sign]: CLINIC thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition. [phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus. [building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known. [handbag]: VINTAGE CITY “When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP) Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life. “The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg) Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility. But it wasn’t always this way.

Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room. We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges. Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose. TEXT: Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s… [sign]: HOSPITAL it was a matter of life and, very often, death. [sign]: STAFF ONLY [sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.” “Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…” “…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…” “and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white) “It was a fear-filled time… But…” “…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)

I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research!

"What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

I know intellectually that the Final Fifteen and the kiss happened, but somehow seeing it officially acknowledged as Crowley confessing his "true feelings" in a And That's What You Missed on Glee promo has me gearing up to take a seaside journey for my health.

#GoodOmensS3

Loving that depressed rat’s apparent choice of lifestyle after the end of S2 #GoodOmensS3

I mean not to be ‘we were here first’ about it but millennials did not endure a thousand ‘why is this 20 something bringing their spinning wheel to the dmv’ articles just to have it said the wee bairns pioneered the old timey movement lol

Read an Excerpt From The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty - Reactor Amina al-Sirafi's quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee.

We are DELIGHTED to share an excerpt from @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's The Tapestry of Fate, the highly-anticipated sequel to The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi!

#booksky

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Acute COVID-19 severity and impaired cognitive function up to 32 months after diagnosis: an observational study - BMC Medicine Background Cognitive dysfunction (“brain fog”) is a commonly reported post-COVID-19 symptom. Leveraging data from five general population cohorts across four European countries (Estonia, Iceland, Norw...

Not sure how much more evidence is needed to convince science-literate people to
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“The data indicates that a severe COVID-19 acute illness course is associated with impaired cognitive function up to 18–32 months after COVID-19 diagnosis.”

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(next to an image of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez) “You cannot love this country if you only fight for the wealthy and big business. To love this country is to fight for its people, all people. Working people ….. who punch a clock and are on their feet all day in some of the toughest jobs out there."

Lord, I see what you’ve done for others

We should all be heartened that you can, in fact, vote out fascism, and that as Americans the fascists we’re going to be voting out are deeply unpopular everywhere

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.

How Manhattan's 'last queer bookstore' just might be saved by a Bushwick peer Hive Mind in Bushwick has its sights set on the West Village's Bureau of General Services — Queer Division.

What devotees are calling the “last queer bookstore” in Manhattan is expected to shutter in a matter of months.


That’s unless another queer independent bookshop — located in Brooklyn — manages to save it. gothamist.visitlink.me/mZYKHx

A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.

Two cool ladies and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

I am so tired of being deluged with the sordid details of sexual crimes. It feels nonstop since 2014. Yes absolutely those stories should be told. I get that this is how justice begins: with victims having voices, stories being heard, and so forth; I've been supporting that forever.

Never gonna shut up about how TEXTILES are what bring astronauts home safely from the moon.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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It probably doesn’t matter but I called my Democratic members of Congress.

And it probably doesn’t matter but they should push for impeachment.

Because morally, it still matters that we try.