“But for now, we
are alive at the end of the world,
shell-shocked by headlines and alarm
clocks, burning through what little
love
we have left.”
@theferocity.bsky.social
“But for now, we
are alive at the end of the world,
shell-shocked by headlines and alarm
clocks, burning through what little
love
we have left.”
@theferocity.bsky.social
“Popular culture has long elevated certain women by portraying others as rivals, obstacles or villains. Isn't it textbook misogyny to tear down one woman in order to build up another?”
07.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
good to see the hospital at Mugonero, where the letter was written that gave “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families” its title, has been so upgraded to serve the public health
en.igihe.com/health/artic...
next up —over the next 4 yrs— the medical/public health workforce 🛟
07.03.2026 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Friends, I am in the Strand unsupervised with a credit card
07.03.2026 15:57 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0“For Hite, understanding how sex actually worked for ppl, or did not, offered a key to understanding gender relations more broadly. ‘A woman's place in sex,’ she wrote, ‘mirrors her place in the rest of society.’ Perhaps, she thought, an anonymous survey would yield the revelations she was missing”🧪
07.03.2026 16:26 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Say what now
“Despite being the most likely to believe a woman should not appear too independent or self-sufficient, gen Z males were also the group most likely to believe women who have a successful career were more attractive to men—41% agreed with this statement.”🧪
“An abundance of girls functions as a form of capital that wealthy men can mobilize to build ties among themselves…
In [this system], men endowed w/ wealth extract value from young women's *bodies* w/ a disturbing degree of impunity, permitted through the value system of our society.”🧪
Ashley Mears!
“By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
—Moby Dick
In ~75% of school shootings, the firearm was obtained from the shooter’s home or a friend or fam member’s home
Safe&secure gun storage—unloaded&locked up—saves lives
Spread the word: Firearm violence prevention is everyone's job
🛟🧪
publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/u...
“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.”
“40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪
These parental alerts are not “a replacement for improving their platform design & content management policies, which should be protecting children from harmful content online already,’ said Kris Perry, the Exec Dir of…a nonprofit that researches the impact of digital media on children”🧪
28.02.2026 02:09 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“‘The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans,’ says Payne [study lead]….
‘It is possible the issue goes beyond the absence of emotion,’ [Tong Zhao] says. ‘More fundamentally, AI models may not understand “stakes” as humans perceive them’.”🧪
@stokel.bsky.social
“About 80% of data-annotation & content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds.
Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities & towns, where rents & labour costs are lower, & a growing pool of 1st-generation graduates are seeking jobs.”
“The Guardian spoke to 8 data-annotation & content-moderation companies in India.
Only 2 said they provided psychological support to workers; the rest argued that the work was not demanding enough to require mental healthcare.”🧪🛟
▫️ curb stones ▫️
every day, walked over, biked over, kicked at, run over by cars, by lorries, by builders, by dogs, and by every kind of weather
▫️ never the same - small wonders ▫️
“As an assistant prof of biology, it's made her think of the young women she sees going into the sciences today.
‘Will their ideas be taken seriously?’ she wonders. ‘Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?’”🧪
Very grouchy burrowing owl standing in his burrow, wondering what fresh hell awaits him this week.
Good morning! 🪶
23.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 175 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 3
5(+) authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Kate DiCamillo
Ann Patchett
@emilymandel.bsky.social
@legroff.bsky.social
Lorrie Moore
Zadie Smith
Nicole Krauss
Antonya Nelson
James Baldwin
#Booksky
exposure to negative social ties is “patterned along lines of psychosocial &health vulnerability…Inds w/greater psych-soc adversity…[eg]higher ACEs, appear not only to carry early-life scars but to inhabit adult relational contexts where difficult,demanding, or conflict-prone ties are more common”🧪🛟
21.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Can't say enough how much of a joy it was to see Alysa Liu win gold today. Women's sports are so often centered on control. To watch a young athlete embody freedom and strength and come out on top is so special
20.02.2026 03:16 — 👍 140 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0“The sudden shift in what seemed an intractable problem has unearthed hope, as well as a host of questions.”🧪🛟
19.02.2026 04:02 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men have been stalked at some point in their lives—often by current or former romantic partners, or someone else they know—and it often goes hand in hand w/ intimate partner violence.
Today, the dangerous phenomenon is colliding with AI in grim new ways.”🧪
"’These delays can compound over time to affect [women’s] career trajectories,’ Cassidy Sugimoto, an info scientist at the GA Inst of Tech who was not involved in the study, told ‘The Scientist’ in an interview about the findings.
‘When production slows [...] visibility slows with it,’ she added.”🧪
+ Elizabeth Neuffer’s “The Key to My Neighbor’s House” & eric Stover’s “The Witnesses”
16.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🧪
16.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
happy (belated) valentine’s day
“The high concentration of aggressive males ‘actually seems to be causing an extinction vortex,’ said Jeanine Refsnider, an evolutionary ecologist at the Univ of Toledo in Ohio who was not involved in the study.”🧪
@inkfish.bsky.social
“But in the end every story I want to tell you is the same. Once upon a time, there was a boy. Once upon a time there was a mother. Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his mother loved him very much.”
#booksky
Cover of “All Our Missing Hearts” / Celeste Ng
“Who ever thinks, recalling the face of the one they loved who is gone: yes, I looked at you enough, I loved you enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?”
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
