Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA):

“A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

Republicans Stab Ukraine in the Back A week which will live in infamy

Republican senators are traitors to the international order that has kept this country safe for the better part of eighty years. They are traitors to their own constituents. They are traitors to everything that has actually made America great.

HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

Love how gritty and chewed up Murderbot’s armor gets in the second promo image: I’m really looking forward to this.

Comic book cover showing Captain America punching Hitler. Text reads, "Smashing thru, Captain America came face to face with Hitler..."

The response was entirely positive, so let the Nazi Punch of the Day begin. It seems appropriate to start with a classic. This is from Captain America Comics #1. The cover date was March 1941, but from what I've read, it was on the shelves several months earlier.

#NPD #NaziPunching

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

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So beautiful! My best attempt at a photo is two blobs lol

a true king in Texas 👑👑👑

The most reread books on my bookshelf - I was probably around 10 when I checked the first two books out of the library over and over, but they didn’t have the last book, was so thrilled to find it at a bookstore finally.

The Riddle Master of Hed was amazing when I first read it at 13. At 57, it’s heartbreaking genius, and I don’t know that anyone has written anything better in the fantasy genre. If I write anything that’s half as good I will have entirely justified my existence. McKillip was a treasure.

Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)

Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.

This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.

Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations

www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

When Galileo was forced to recant his claim that Earth revolved around the sun, he's alleged to have said, "Eppur si muove," which means "Still it moves."

Because the ignorant proclamations of petty, power-hungry tyrants can't change the truth.

(This is a post about the validity of trans people.)

YouTube video by MissSheenie Star Trek: Tik Tok

I’d just like to take a moment to acknowledge the best tik tok video of all time youtu.be/7ZWaWrvJ7nA?...

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

A catalogue of charges of plagiarism of Tanith Lee leveled against Neil Gaiman by Matthew Boroson

A catalogue of charges of plagiarism of Tanith Lee leveled against Neil Gaiman by Matthew Boroson.

This, by Matthew Boroson, is pretty convincing. I knew exactly none of it before reading the original post on Facebook.

Believe it or not, my very first

#cdrama

#bl

#wuxia

#donghua

Was #MDZS #TheUntamed

Never looked back

screenshots of the profiles of 32 bluesky accounts: foreverfunny.bsky.social sexyandfunny.bsky.social funniestthings.bsky.social imtryingfunny.bsky.social funnyisthenewblack.bsky.social moviequotess.bsky.social moviesandquotes.bsky.social moviesandquote.bsky.social quotingmovies.bsky.social moviesceness.bsky.social cuteanimalss.bsky.social sendmeyouranimal.bsky.social iloveanimalss.bsky.social ilov3animals.bsky.social natur3.bsky.social natureisamazingg.bsky.social naturepics.bsky.social artporn.bsky.social artcollections.bsky.social thebestart.bsky.social artfromeverywhere.bsky.social wholesomememess.bsky.social whol3somememes.bsky.social wholesomem3mes.bsky.social wholesomemem3s.bsky.social wholesom3memes.bsky.social amazingnatur3.bsky.social natureporn.bsky.social artsavestheworld.bsky.social picsofanimals.bsky.social tattoosz.bsky.social besttattoos.bsky.social

It's an excellent time for a quick look at a network of 32 content farm accounts that have been attempting to build an audience through "fun" image posts (and good old-fashioned bulk following), apparently in order to sell random crap on Amazon.

Hello, your body is long.

y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?

i think about that a *lot.*

You can tell bot farms have invaded Bluesky by the amount of new followers with the template of "attractive women with no posts and profiles saying they are single and loving life" I've gotten in the past few weeks. Hope they don't ruin this place.

A meme shows “2025” over Jack from the Shining and his wife screaming “stay away from me!” With a baseball bat in her hands

Exactly this emotion

Saying you’re using AI to create art is like saying you’re using DoorDash to cook.

Raising the Stones is one of my favorites - time for a reread

"Raising the Stones" by Sherri Tepper, which I actually have rarely gifted because it's been out of print for years in the US (there's a UK version one can find if one looks). In the US there's no ebook version either, nor audio anywhere. I only rarely meet people who have read it, which is a shame.

My Happy, Normal, Trans Life in the Heart of Texas While I struggle with the hateful rhetoric and policy of our state's leaders, my community has mostly accepted me with surprising ease.

“I’d come out as transgender through a Texas Observer essay, begun living full-time as a woman, and started gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy all at once in March of last year. I’m not normally so wont to jump into the deep end, but there’s no discreet way to transition in a small town.”

Even if we live to be 100 years old, our entire lifetime is just a blink of an eye compared to Earth's 4.5 billion years of existence. Why waste our precious time on negativity and hating our fellow travellers who share this brief journey with us? Let's find joy instead.

YouTube video by closetfan Starships - a multifandom space vid by bironic

Whenever I have a bad pain day, I rewatch my favorite fanvid ever made (Starships, a multifandom fanvid by bironic) and it cheers me up.

Since I've shared it a billion times on The Site That Shall Not Be Named, it's past time I share the glory of this vid here, too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGd...

YouTube video by Coldplay Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)

Dick Van Dyke, who'll turn 99 in a few days, sings and dances his way through a new video recorded just a couple of months ago, and whoo-boy, did it make me verklempt. But in a good way. I sure do love that man. youtu.be/o4OlL0OpbW8