Mx. Punky

If the catastrophe materializes then it was, in fact, not catastrophizing to warn of it...

I’m struck by how many people have walked away from important positions to try and warn us that catastrophe is nigh and how little impact sounding the alarm has had on the public or the Congress.

We are at the”preemptive curfew” stage of fascism.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

"The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."

Anthony Stafford Beer

Begging folks to spend a few minutes learning how to put slideshows into presentation mode 🙏

The Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE.

The Matrix is older than ICE.

Legally Blonde is older than ICE.

We're not talking about a venerable American institution. We're talking about post-9/11 Patriot Act overreach.

Claw that power back. Destroy ICE.

I am finding myself asking: if troops on the streets helping masked government agents warrantlessly whisk people away in broad daylight is not the red line, what is the red line? Is there a line?

I've never once related to "hope being powerful" or whatever nonsense.

AFIACT 'hope' == 'wishful thinking'. I've tried so many times to get folks to explain hope to me, yet I remain flummoxed by it. If you have a good explanation of hope and its importance I'm dying to hear it...

Finding Yourself or Finding Autism? When Teens Hunt for Labels Online My Office Diaries: Young Women Searching for Answers

I'm curious to hear folks' thoughts on this article.

slaterj.substack.com/p/finding-yo...

Yes,that's the point. Decent copy editing \ QA should have caught it rather than just blindly rubber-stamping.

The vaccines are vital. However, the vaccines have never been enough protection. People still die of covid every single day. If you’re going to admit that it’s a problem not to have booster access, it’s time to take the next step and realize that *prevention* is as important as minimizing severity.

Yeah, researchers, do bake sales and shit. The oligarchs need the tax cuts more than little people need to be healthy.

Honestly answering, just because others are doing something doesn't inherently make it good or right. The US and other countries can all be wrong at the same time.

The danger is all the death & disability mass vaccination would have prevented, increased absences, more variants, and callousness 😔

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

RFK Jr takes a discussion about measles and turns it into an attack on those with autism and chronic illness.

Autism & diabetes are not contagious. Measles is.

If he truly cared about chronic illness, he would address COVID spread. It’s one of the leading causes of metabolic disorders.

Just been told that a trans guy was having his meds withheld by his GP in NI for reasons. For 3 weeks they 'couldn't' sort it. Legal action was threatened. The perscription was issued within an hour.

Do not let them get away with this.

He's completely lost it. We have someone with no grip on reality in charge of HHS.

Make that 1 month with no movement on a simple tweet appeal...

Solidarity ✊😂

bsky.app/profile/mxpu...

Bully vroomers be very lucky that my cruise control does not share my burning desire to brake check them...

And honestly, this should be a chant at queer demos again. That genocidal rag deserves to be known for that and only that.

PANGAEA is rescuing numerous datasets scheduled for decommissioning in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of other endangered datasets, please contact them. Importantly, let others know where to find the data.

www.pangaea.de

"RFK was only calling SEVERELY autistic people useless eaters" Oh damn, sorry, I didn't realize he was saying a different kind of fucked-up, evil thing, I like him now

“I am freeing men from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a chimera called conscience and morality.”
—Adolf Hitler

Its not that inscrutable.

Not putting Andrew Wakefield, and every parent who's kid died of a preventable disease after swallowing his bullshit, on trial for negligent homicide was a big fucking mistake.

If looking for a model voting protocol, I suggest that used in VT of hand-marked optical scan ballots which provides a physical artifact and makes human and machine reading able to check against each other. Tampering with the counting machines is a concern of course, esp. if it just fudges a little.

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.