Anna Merlan

Lol I’m not aware of the lore but here I go

My secondary conclusion

I am reading two separate books at once about terrorist attacks (Underground by Haruki Murakami and V13 by Emmanuel Carrère ) and I can now confidently state that you actually shouldn’t read two books at once about terrorist attacks

Perfect, ugh

Z-Quil? “Shots” thereof? We’re talking about what seem to be college students here for context lol

Good for you for asking, I bet they prefer that than for you not to be safe!

Would I personally? No. Am I watching intently to see how this goes? Yes of course

Just watched people taking sleeping medication for a (delayed) flight that has not yet boarded. Bold strategy Cotton etc

A totally reasonable question honestly

Lemme see, terminal 2 on the way to terminal 3 is the best way I can describe it! It’s this guy: maps.app.goo.gl/2WNSTof8o2rU...

The French man. I was eating all this in his esophagus

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

LOL

Charles de Gaulle has a teeny tiny grocery store and I was able to eat a warm salmon spinach quiche and raspberry chia pudding on a layover. It’s cursed and damned in every other way but wow

I’m on a layover elsewhere now but the ancient wisdom still holds true

Your jacket doesn’t need a seat, your backpack doesn’t need a seat, your right arm doesn’t need a seat, your left arm etc

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done! The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

That’s a weird presumption!

The joke's on you at the Riyadh Comedy Festival The lesson, once again, is that Americans aren't as offended by autocracy as you might have thought.

"Capturing something essential about the modern world in 80,000 words is an accomplishment. The Riyadh Comedy Festival manages to do it in four." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Truth Social’s bogus medical claims fool Trump fans It's not just "medbeds."

Truth Social users skew older and generally have a great deal of faith in Trump—demographics that suggest a less sophisticated approach to evaluating online claims.

The site has become fertile ground for false or contested health claims.

How Truth Social’s bogus medical claims fool Trump fans It's not just "medbeds."

It's not just "medbeds." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This story is bananas. Fantastic reporting

He WHAT from WHERE

For you conspiracy-theory fans, a very important new entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "medbed", in use regularly since the late 1980s:

sfdictionary.com/view/3049/me...

(We do not discuss the conspiracy-theory stuff; that's not our jam.)

Wow this is incredibly my personal jam

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Med Beds: Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow? “Oh dear, I can just see, when I take the dogs out tonight, I’m gonna have all of these people standing around that only I can see because, you know, they’re very directional like that.” The woman, wh...

When you're done reading Anna Merlan's excellent piece, you can check out what I wrote a few months back. It's a pretty tragic conspiracy theory, all things considered....

The medical equivalent of Waiting for Godot.

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

wow. WOW

no you are!!!!!

This is a good boy AND a sweet baby. Very unusual combo