Just watched a woman come out of La Gourmandine (oakland), dump crumbs out of her bag at one of the tables, and then walk off

cw #petillness pet illness #petdeath pet death

pip-pip has some sort of cancer and when we asked about next steps, the vet started talking about how to tell when it's time to euthanize

we should do this

You can’t be back on your bullshit if you never leave it

a paper I'm a co-author on got a write-up on Forbes.com!

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Pittsburgh:

This chain employs a dude named Scott who runs an alt right website that hates every minority you can think of. They were told and refuse to do anything about it. Maybe eat somewhere else.

mariospgh.com

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

writers think they're good at interpersonal conflict bc they are "clear communicators." but really they're just good at crafting a narrative that makes them feel better about themselves

It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.

If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.

www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

How is it that I, a PhD program director at Pitt, heard about this from the media and not my University?!?

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

“I told you so” is just a little ego death it’s not planes falling out of the air or environmental disasters that pollute drinking water or tiny coffins for all the dead kids that childhood epidemics will wipe out. Anyone who prefers mass deaths to hearing they’re wrong is a terrible person

If they can’t handle the discomfort of “I told you so,” then they definitely aren’t ready to be part of an anti-fascist coalition, so this question truly answers itself

Today is a good day to migrate your content off of Substack so you’re not trying to fight Nazis from inside a Nazi bar.

Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

me, uploading pics of my happy healthy ginormous baby: but could a depressed person make this???

such bullshit that stress can cause physical symptoms. like I'm not already dealing with enough

A Trump-Musk memo telling US government employees to hide what’s happening from the public is a sign that:

1) Public legitimacy is a constraint for them, they know it, and will at times alter their behavior accordingly

2) Reporters should focus on it, revealing more of what they’re trying to hide

Like if I cared about my security state I wouldn’t tell spies who know a lot of stuff that I don’t give a fuck about them or any people like them because that’s obviously an invitation to go sell my shit to the highest bidder lol

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

for the curious, I'll save you a google: the internal temp of a burger cooked "medium" is ~140-150F

also, because some people are already misinterpreting this: there are no reports of any human contracting H5N1 from the food supply and enough contamination already that we'd have PROBABLY seen it if it were likely to be a thing, but we're not going to have a functional monitoring program anymore

Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze A court ruling may temporarily ease funding problems, but for many projects the long term outlook remains uncertain

“It’s kind of bonkers. The amount of money it took to get those varieties in the ground is a lot more than just the pennies for labor to keep them going and collect the data.”

Everywhere you look is waste, of money, of effort, of good will. And all of it perpetrated in the name of “efficiency ” 🧪