Unfortunately, fascism is not a uniquely American problem. 😭

Tho we seem to be among the societies who like authoritarianism a lot!

Sadly! It's hard to break off from community, though

Great to see you here! Yes, I really did. I always get your positive comments via screenshot at #MEAction HQ Slack, but it's way better to interact ❤️

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Largely text-based graphic sharing that research paper highlights a new tool enhancing diagnostic accuracy for ME/CFS in clinical settings. Image of paper title, authors, and journal with the QR code and photo of Jaime Seltzer (white woman with long curly hair wearing glasses, green shirt, and black blazer.) Text: Building tools that clinicians actually use—tools that reflect what patients experience—requires lived experience leadership at the table from day one. MEAction Scientific Director Jaime Seltzer is co-first-author with Stephanie Grach, MD.

We’re excited to share a new study about the ME/CFS diagnostic & treatment algorithm that #MEAction’s Scientific Director & Mayo Clinic researcher-clinicians created, as part of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine grant.

www.meaction.net/post/meactio...

@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

Scientific American Unionizes with WGA East, Demands Voluntary Recognition | Press Room NEW YORK (April 13, 2026) – The reporters, editors, producers, and other professionals involved in producing a successful print and digital product at Scientific American unionized with the Writers Gu...

We're blown away by all the solidarity with and love for our announcement! If you'd like to read more about why we're unionizing, check out this press release from @wgaeast.bsky.social. Excited to share where we go from here!

What we lost when we lost Self magazine The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.

Mother Jones: 'What We Lost When We Lost Self Magazine'

'The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.'

'..Seltzer said sparked more awareness around ME/CFS and Long Covid and had a major impact on people..'

By Julia Métraux

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."

Great piece 👇

let me on infowars. i will be fully insane. i believe that electricity changed colors in the 2010s and that straight people are actually space monsters attempting to breed a race of gay superhumans to fight in their star wars

we keep saying it but they keep getting so mad and it is very funny. all the intellectual curiosity and conversation this guy is complaining about not existing is totally here on bluesky, it just doesn't like this dude is all.

the Atlantic is such trash, bluesky is just the place that will tell you it to your face. they keep trying to make this lunch hour debate club but this is a disaster queer house party, always has been, and they can't stand the limited access to clout they have here because they suck ass

Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social • 8h For folks who still believe it's OK to stay on this website, I'm genuinely curious: can you go through these quote posts and tell me with a straight face that this is an acceptable way for adults with PhDs to engage in intellectual discussion in 2026?

This has real “grandma can you pick me up from the rap battle” energy

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’ Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself.

Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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I have confirmation the SAVE Act died because Senate Republicans knew it would disenfranchise their own voters at much higher rates than Democrats. I wasn’t going crazy.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

I think our society really is grossly underestimating how important visible accountability is for social cohesion.

May we re-learn this lesson.

First you go to a cute walk with your wife by the river and see some funny duck, and next thing you know 2 weeks later you're taking an online ornithology class and birding in the sleet beside 12 people who woke up at 6 AM to stand in the middle of a swamp to see a weird bird with a long neck.

Trying to make nicotine into a secret health hack is the sign of a weak, soft mind. Do the thing that's bad for you, accept that it feels kind of good for a second because you're a drug addict. Like an adult

ahahah I thought this was in response to something else. yes, in my experience, too

but I do agree that chatting with an LLM, particularly a syncophantic one like ChatGPT, could make that worse

oh, I lived there before the AI boom, so this is def in reference to every other aspect of the monstrosities they've created and denied responsibility for

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

this is such an interesting observation, especially when you put it in the context of how gaming has employed a similar approach to keeping casual players engaged - removing variance and feels bads, using skill based matchmaking etc to prioritize retention

Just a few paragraphs in, and this is already excellent:

"I tried to get out of the conversation as quickly as I could, not least because he seemed frustrated that I didn’t see things exactly as he did — a new behavior and likely a symptom of LLM overuse."

When I lived in Silicon Valley a programmer exasperatedly asked me what I 'expected' tech lords to do to make their products safer. I told them to hire more social scientists and listen to what they had to say.

They were very surprised there was a quick answer to the question, lmao