“It’s difficult to know why the word ‘airborne’ is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded.”

BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️

NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️

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The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

post from Jamelle Bouie that says: "i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”" Bouie is quoting a post from The UnPopulist that says: "Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history."

To OP & all the people (rightfully) decrying this in the replies, you're all wearing masks in public, right???

Because like, you know that's the easiest thing you can do to refuse to participate in RFK Jr's eugenics project, right??

Right???

MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor, the Democratic-backed candidate, has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The result expands the court’s liberal majority to 5–2, extending its current ideological balance for years to come.

University of Wisconsin Board of Regents votes to fire system President Jay Rothman • Wisconsin Examiner The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously to fire UW President Jay Rothman on Tuesday, ending his tenure immediately.

UW board of regents votes to fire UW president Jay Rothman via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/04/07/u...

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

Nutella photobombing an historic moment.

🙏🏼😷❤️

It’s a short film (under 6 minutes) that captures the experience of living with #LongCovid and its challenges with humor and heart. A good conversation starter for friends and family. ✌🏼😷😎

Gray kitty with a tux pattern and long whiskers

Winnie hopes you are having a nice #Caturday

Strangely Optimistic (Dir. Nina Storey) now available via FB and soon on YouTube. #LongCovid

UW President Jay Rothman says Regents told him to resign or be fired without clear reasons • Wisconsin Examiner Rothman is refusing to go as he says he has not been given any clear reasons for the regents' loss of confidence in him.

ICYMI: UW President Jay Rothman says Regents told him to resign or be fired without clear reasons. @bspears.bsky.social has the backstory.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Curled-up kitty with gray-tuxie fur and pattern.

@johnquijote.bsky.social Here’s Winnie 😎

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million

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A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

"When I first met Francesca Hong for Wisconsin in 2022, it was clear that she’s not another cautious, politics-as-usual Democrat waiting for permission to lead."

Science takes ~17 years to reach clinical practice.

The science in 2026 is clear: we don’t have another decade to wait on SARS-CoV-2.

If you’re doing what you can to avoid (re)infection, your behaviour is 100% aligned with best current available evidence.

If you’re not, waiting is ill-advised.

Text by Dr. Jennifer Irwin says: “Science takes ~17 years to reach clinical practice. The science in 2026 is clear: we don’t t have another decade to wait on SARS-CoV-2. If you’re doing what you can to avoid (re)infection, your behavior is 100% aligned with best current available evidence.”

Have you made your plan to vote?

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Imagine getting mad at me online when I’m quite literally beyond beef

The immediate aversion to any criticism of Dem candidates is baffling. No one has given me more hostility online than the “stick to the hand-picked candidate” crowd. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I can explain over and over again till I'm blue in the face that we don't breathe through our hands and we catch respiratory diseases by breathing in infectious aerosols and people will smile and nod and keep washing their hands to prevent COVID & the flu because The Rules say so.

Tax billionaires out of existence.

River with frozen spots

Late winter in the 414

Exoskeletons! Bionic leg braces! The wrong trousers!

Most of us do not want these things. The loss of being bipedal isn’t what grieves us.

It’s the fact that abled people just cannot help themselves making exclusionary decisions that DON’T NEED TO BE. Everyone benefits from ramps.

As an aside, when I took this photo I was standing about 30 feet in front of the piragua cart and vendor that 8 years later would be chosen and appear in Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.
#DtMF