Trina McMahon

POND RULES: No swimming, jumping or gallivanting. Do not disturb the pond witch. No fishing with dynamite. Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS! Taunt the crows at your own risk. If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away. Do not feed the weretrout. Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger! They’re not ducks. Run. Have fun!

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives

Zohran Mamdani to release PSA video, "How to talk to your deranged racist MAGA uncle at Thanksgiving dinner."

I really appreciate this article, but one thing I’ll add:

ALL #MECFS and #LongCovid studies need to account for post-exertional malaise. Not just exercise trials.

Because ALL exertion can trigger PEM.

I’m writing this while in PEM due to a poorly phrased questionnaire 🫠

Damn, he beat me to it.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

There’s also been (at least for public institutions) a deliberate pivot away from the mission as we treat higher ed like a for-profit business. All these restructuring exercises based on ROI, closing key departments in the humanities, etc., are not mission-driven decisions.

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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

ICE just hit Durham, community is activating, message me if u wanna help

the last few days have been great 🙃

Saw this a couple months ago and fully endorse

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

Bar chart of water conflicts by year from 2010 to 2024 showing dramatic increases. Each year is also broken out in three categories: water as a trigger, casualty, and weapon. Water as a casualty is the largest type of water conflict, followed by water as a trigger of violence. Data from the Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology database.

Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.

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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

🚨BREAKING: While Americans were distracted by shutdown chaos, Trump’s MAGA Senate just gutted food safety laws — after millions in donations from Big Food lobbyists.

Buried in the new funding bill is a hidden clause that blocks the FDA from enforcing critical food traceability rules.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

Bluesky banning kenzidor for quoting Johnny cash is too surreal for me, I need to log off tonight I think

Chuck Schumer is caving in on ACA extensions the right way.

by Ezra Klein

The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)

Apologies to anyone who thought they were flying out of Atlanta tonight.

Husbands with Grindr profiles?

Cat and fireplace

Cat, bourbon, first fire of the season. Feeling very blessed (and I’m an atheist).

The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.

Startup idea: buy laptops, remove any hint of pre installed AI including the Copilot key that’s on all Windows laptops, and resell them as organic free-range grass-fed computers

Book Review: "Hiding in Plain Sight" - Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump - The Arts Fuse According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

pace @sarahkendzior.bsky.social a "we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government"

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