Robert Parducci

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

masks in healthcare settings makes so much sense, no matter rates of transmission for ANYTHING. you should not be able to catch something at a place you go for your health.

Book Cover - Giant Steps. My Improbable Journey from Stage Lights to Executive Heights. Forward by Tony Visconti. Author - Derek Shulman with Jon Wiederhorn. Assorted photos and Gentle Giant character appear on cover.

I attended a book signing at Rough Trade Below. Jon Wiederhorn began with an excerpt from Chapter 8 - A Tall Tale. Derek Shulman (Gentle Giant) and Tony Visconti (David Bowie) shared stories and adventures from their collaborations. I look forward to reading one this over the weekend! #BookSky

99.9% of everything is terrible, but at least I get to make comics.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Book cover, Tim Allen - I'm Not Really Here. Man holds an sphere with spinning particles in his left hand.

Any love for ...
Tim Allen, "I'm Not Really Here" (1996)
After reading this I sent a copy to my Uncle, thought he could relate. #BookSky

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges)

time.com/7323442/sout...

They're playing Górecki's 3rd Symphony on In Tune. This piece should come with a trigger warning. My husband is now crying into our dinner.

A depressing but very necessary thread:

Black Fatigue is real.

Radioland Murders - Movie poster shows man and woman looking from behind a stage curtain. A microphone is in the foreground and a dead body is on the floor.

Any love for ...
Radioland Murders (1994)🎬
#BrianBenBen #LeighannLord #BakedPotatoes

Vivaldi, of course!

My left arm - tattoo of dog head with bow tie. Walgreens bandage for COVID booster shot.

I got my COVID-19 booster #Wallgreens #Pfizer #GotToGetThemAll

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Me? I am on ALL THE LISTS. This is because I am a smallishly famous white lady with a track record of being litigious and I have a file a mile thick anyway. I risk nothing if the feds find out I was doing my job. They know I do that.

It does not then mean most of my friends should be signing lists.

Name the most overlooked gem from 90s cinema 🎬

IMO... Dark City (1998) 🖤

GOP-Friendly Local ‘News’ Broadcasters Plan More Harmful Mergers After Trump Destroys What’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits During Trump 1.0, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from gr…

Major media outlets are (surprise) missing the fact that the big networks are being more feckless than usual (Kimmel) in part because they're lobbying the FCC to eliminate some of the last remaining media consolidation limits preventing the big four networks from merging

It should be a much bigger deal that anti-vaxxism is killing people with bullets AND disease

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Without saying The Fifth Element, fav Bruce Willis film? 🎬

YouTube video by Ron Carter Bassist Ron Carter- Miles Davis, A Tribe Called Quest & the Role of the Bass with Terence Blanchard (SFJAZZ)

Ron Carter
youtu.be/b4ZXTpH7jWk?...

FCC chair teams up with Ted Cruz to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids Ted Cruz’s anti-hotspot bill stalled, but FCC is ending Wi-Fi program on its own.

fuck them poor rural kids

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

Share a movie that's a... 🎬

• 10/10 Plot
• 10/10 Cinematography
• 10/10 Cast
• 10/10 Acting
• 10/10 Soundtrack
• 10/10 Direction

Happy Birthday LL!!

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

I don’t want to be born again. My Mother got it right the first time.

Happy Birthday to me!

Movie Poster - The Fantastic Mr. Fox

We watched "The Fantastic Mr. Fox." Animation. Voiced by George Clooney and Meryl Streep. Book by Roald Dahl. Directed by Wes Anderson. #NFotD

What movie do you consider "perfect"? 🎬

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.