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Taken from the periscope of a Norwegian Ula class submarine

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Ben Affleck's daughter, 19, tells the UN we STILL need to wear masks Violet was appearing as part of an event titled Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action.

Daily Mail: 'Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet emotionally advocates for mask mandates and children with long COVID at United Nations event'

'It is neglect of the highest order...'

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

My w’shops are on zoom & are open to anyone.
I’m a scientist obsessed with how creative activity improves mental health & I’ve taught classes on BBC Countryfile & at the V & A.
We’ll make & photograph small museums & there’s an hr long talk about how this alters brain biochemistry for the better...

Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event - The Sick Times During today’s United Nations (UN) event “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action,” advocate Violet Affleck spoke about how clean air and masking are vital tools to address the ongoing COVID-19 pa...

The Sick Times: 'Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event'

"She also advocated for children with Long COVID, citing a recent JAMA resource...."

“It is neglect of the highest order..."

thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

Thanks so much, @pemalevy.bsky.social and @motherjones.com, for the time and care you all took with this important story.

Not One, But Two Men Were Found Hanging in Mississippi | Black Zone Magazine

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

PEM warrants recognition as a neurological pathology resulting from metabolic and immune dysregulation (3). Approximately 48 hr after a triggering event—physical, cognitive, or emotional—patients experience what is colloquially termed a “crash.” This involves a surge in neurological symptoms that may render them unable to function: profound fatigue, cognitive slowing, hypersomnia, photophobia, phonophobia, tinnitus, nausea, headaches, migraines, executive dysfunction, word-finding difficulties, working memory impairment, pain, and worsening dysautonomia with orthostatic intolerance, mood disorders. Although these symptoms may be present at baseline, they rapidly escalate in the disabling cacophony of the “crash”. Many patients report diurnal variation, with symptoms peaking midday and easing somewhat towards night, repeating daily until resolution, suggesting a neuroimmune process with a circadian rhythm. Patients often experience disablement until the episode resolves over days or weeks.

Great to see a UK GP writing a BMJ e-letter like this:

"Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid"

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

#PEM #LongCovid

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts green-blue water, piers and kayakers with fluffy wool trees and rich green grass.

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts green-blue water, piers and kayakers with fluffy wool trees and rich green grass.

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts green-blue water, piers and kayakers with fluffy wool trees and rich green grass.

'All paths lead to water' - my newest aerial embroidery, inspired by the grounds of Antony House, Cornwall! I loved the radiating paths through the trees leading to the water edge so here's my take on the landscape... with kayakers! Now available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a...

American Werewolf in London?

"school shooting industry"

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

5 common stormwater management principles that apply to daily life:

restore.
stabilize.
let things soak in.
think outside the channel.
meander more.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Scientists reversed memory loss by powering the brain’s tiny engines Scientists have discovered a direct cause-and-effect link between faulty mitochondria and the memory loss seen in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a novel tool to boost mitochondrial activity i...

"Scientists have discovered a direct cause-and-effect link between faulty mitochondria and the memory loss seen in neurodegenerative diseases."

Wondering how this might inform the reversing of COVID-induced mitochondrial dysfunction #LongCOVID #MECFS

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

woman in a dimly lit industrial tunnel setting wears an orange NEORSD hard hat and safety goggles. she stands behind a microphone stand, adjusting her goggles with her left hand as she reads from a booklet in her right hand.

a crowd of writers in orange hard hats seated in an industrial tunnel under LED lights, two people stand in front of the group speaking behind a mic stand.

what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant

Thieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Goggles and More A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

www.wired.com/story/myster... White power and white supremacist groups have stolen tons (literal tons) of military weapons and equipment from US armories, posts, and bases. The Pentagon has known about these thefts since at least the early 1980s. (1)

NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?

"It’s an extinction-level event for American science, one that will surely destroy arguably the greatest organization symbolizing science and progress in all of history."

NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science bigthink.com/starts-with-...

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

#BackToSchool

CPSC has fallen

A bright collage of orange, turquoise, and terracotta that includes captivating, pink hollyhock flowers, a person with long hair in a high quality mask, ristras (red, dried chili peppers) and a black and white poster for the keystone symposia for Long COVID and other post-acute infection syndromes. The text reads, “The Sick Times. “The field is coming of age”: Long COVID researchers gather in Santa Fe to foster collaboration. By Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles W. Griffis.”

Key points you should know: Over 170 researchers, medical providers, advocates, representatives for pharmaceutical companies, and others gathered for a three-day conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico: the Keystone Symposia on Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes. Main themes of the conference included collaboration, the future of clinical trials, keeping an open mind about the potential theories of Long COVID, and lessons learned from associated diseases. Medical providers attending expressed that the conference confirmed what they are seeing in clinics and will better guide their care for people with the disease.

Key points you should know: While the conference had COVID-19 precautions in place and sought to include patient engagement, some in the Long COVID community experienced virtual access issues due to high costs and conference guidelines that discouraged sharing results on social media. Researchers were clear that Long COVID is not mysterious, but finding unified directions for research is a challenge with tens of thousands of prior studies. Future collaborations will help identify biomarkers and promising clinical trials.

“We were very determined to build a meeting working across those unhelpful silos, and I think managed it." - Danny Altmann, Keystone Symposia co-organizer in an email to The Sick Times reflecting on the event

Last week, leading #LongCOVID and infection-association chronic condition researchers met in Santa Fe for the second Keystone Symposia meeting. Read our reporting from the conference by @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/3UFl0xR