Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.
She missed these trials by a few months.
One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.
I feel such a hole inside.
In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.
No shopping on May 1! Take the pledge: tinyurl.com/pledgetacoma #maydaystrong #tacomawa
It’s nice to see fraudsters put in some effort instead of just going here’s some AI, give me one billion dollars
🍃🏔️ Sat, Apr 18
Fills up our senses when sunshine hovers over this beautiful place we live, that & whales.
Yesterday: 💚T65A3 Amir traveling in North Puget Sound; T419s moving down W Whidbey; grays around the Whidbey Basin, W Whidbey & Bremerton.
📷 Iconic Seattle scene - Audrey Gao, Jan 9.
#psws
On the show this week
Book covers: Escape from Warsaw Ian Serraillier Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI Karen Hao Mrs. Nash's Ashes Sarah Adler Nutshell Ian McEwan East West Street Philippe Sands Four Aunties and a Wedding Jesse Q. Sutanto The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee Yellowface R.F. Kuang
I found the way to make the #StoryGraph summary for my March reads!
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched
The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them!
The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.
According to the19th, ICE detained nearly 500 people who were pregnant, postpartum, and nursing. 121 remain in ICE custody where 16 miscarriages were reported. 363 were deported. Gender justice requires reproductive and #ImmigrantJustice. #GenderEqualityMonth
Science News'April cover story: Tear gas and pepper spray can have lasting health effects The chemicals are widely used for crowd control, but their long-term health risks are poorly understood.
FEBRUARY 2, 2026 AT 9:00 AM
Stinging clouds of tear gas explode from beneath a car full of children, forcing them to flee into the snowy street to seek air that’s safe to breathe. A man, face painted orange with pepper spray, is pinned to the icy ground by masked federal agents, unable to wipe the pain from his burning eyes. For weeks, reports of incidents like these have been coming out of Minnesota, where the Department of Homeland Security is facing daily protests over the agency’s largest immigration enforcement operation in its history.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6i2imbvcwwpvus24nrnaqz2/bafkreiedbbsxrocknhtpbnpgalbfqoncuekmzcnul5wtdkdych7y2657ie)
By [Nikk Ogasa](https://www.sciencenews.org/author/nikk-ogasa "Posts by Nikk Ogasa") FEBRUARY 2, 2026 AT 9:00 AM Stinging clouds of tear gas explode from beneath a car full of children, forcing them to flee into the snowy street to seek air that’s safe to breathe. A man, face painted orange with pepper spray, is pinned to the icy ground by masked federal agents, unable to wipe the pain from his burning eyes. For weeks, reports of incidents like these have been coming out of Minnesota, where the Department of Homeland Security is facing daily protests over the agency’s largest immigration enforcement operation in its history.
But the long-term health risks are poorly understood. No large, systematic studies have investigated the health problems that emerge long after exposure to these chemicals, says Anthony Szema, chair of the American Thoracic Society’s Section on Terrorism and Inhalation Disasters. Some research, though, has painted a picture of enduring repercussions. For weeks and even months after the immediate moments of exposure, crowd control agents may continue to sabotage the organs that allow us to breathe, pump blood and even make life.
Research efforts like Hassan’s are uncommon in the United States, due to a scarcity of federal research support — a drought that had set in long before DHS began its operation in Minnesota. There’s basically no government funding for this sort of research, Haar and Jordt say. “It seems to me that there is no real, serious intent to try and understand the health effects of these agents from the side of the government,” Jordt says
Tear gas & pepper spray can have lasting health effects
- @sciencenews.bsky.social's April cover story
Very informative. I now have lots of ideas for signs for this weekend & letters to my representatives.
How is tear gas even legal?!?
www.sciencenews.org/article/tear...
You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"
Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” live at Riverside Church in New York City for the 30th Anniversary of Democracy Now!
Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse. www.wired.com/story/book-e...
Nuclear safety, on Trumpism.
What could possibly go wrong.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
I was so certain he won an Oscar for babe! Sooo certain.
I looked up who won that year, and at once it made sense why I'd blocked it from my memory ...
i stopped caring about the oscars after BABE lost out to BRAVEHEART
I just purchased this book and I'm soo excited to read it!!!
If @letterboxd.social is looking for ways to help users share their recent watches in a way that's more accessible...
It'd save me time if I could copy the titles (with year & synopsis!!) of my last four watches on the app. Then it'd be easy peasy to add alt text to my LetterboxdFridays!
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched
FYI "We Were Here" is a reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis
Free to watch w a library card on Hoopla & Kanopy! Also streaming on Criterion!
Lying to Congress is a felony whether or not under oath. 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Horizontal bar chart showing new first-time Gen Z donors (under 30) by campaign, through 2025. Abughazaleh leads with 3,164, followed by the DSCC (1,880), DCCC (734), Jeffries (273), Biss (17), Fine (7), and Schumer (3). Abughazaleh's bar is highlighted in blue; all others are gray.
@katmabu.bsky.social narrowly lost the IL-09 primary last night. But here's a number worth sitting with. Her campaign brought in more first-time Gen Z donors than Jeffries, Schumer, the DSCC, and the DCCC, and her primary opponents combined. This is why campaigns like hers matter.
Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out.
Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky
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This is the seventh Best Actress-winning performance directed by a woman, and Chloé Zhao is the first female director to do it twice.
On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.
This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
It's about 1 km tall.
If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.
Charon (upper left) and Pluto (lower right)
Pluto and Charon from the approaching New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
David Attenborough’s 100th birthday is in two months, how are we celebrating
A rough, rubbly looking terrain that looks like that weird lint crap that builds up in crawlspaces.
This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.
I co-taught a lesson on executive authority in China and the US with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Letter telling them to get on a commercial flight, which don't really exist at the moment
A friend reached out the State Department about departure assistance as Secretary Rubio suggested.
This is State's response.
"Thank you, and please stay safe.?"