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"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wron… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/19/2025 · 1h 10m

Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2

Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?

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Firing the people who collect money owed to save money is one hell of a foot-gun example 😂

we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Why Is My Drink So Damn Weird? When every cocktail is an experiment in novelty, ordering feels like a gamble. But if history teaches us anything, it’s that this era won’t last forever.

This @davidwondrich.bsky.social is magnificent, a marvel, the best piece of food and drink writing I've read in ages, a great respite from a stressy news world, amazing:

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A cocktail glass lit in red lighting on a bar with the back bar visible in the background.

Grabbing a barrel-aged Vieux Carre at Drinking & Healing, one of my favorite bars in Saigon.

Use a #StarTrek meme to describe how you feel.

Hope you're enjoying dry martini January. What's your spec? I'm partial to a classic 3:1. #cocktail #martini

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

“Older than the trees” conifers emerged around 300mya

“Younger than the mountains”
Blue ridge mountains began forming around 1 billion years ago

“Life is old there” John Denver is singing about trilobites

How is it so far?

a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world . ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

I feel like we know how this movie ends.

Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather

Use Signal

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Three bottles of gin and three bottles of dry vermouth on a home bar

Getting stocked up for dry martini January.

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House.

Ronald Reagan had them removed.

We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.

I did not make this image, but I would watch this movie.

Excuse me, but this is fucking INHUMAN.

"We are also expected to ignore that two days after Thompson was killed, two migrant teenagers were stabbed in Lower Manhattan. The culprits asked if they spoke English. The teenagers indicated they did not. They were then stabbed. One was killed. No ensuing nationwide manhunts."

I want men in science to think about this. Think about the biases you have grown up with so much you're probably not even aware you have them. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

ngl in light of all the troll/discourse bots showing up on bsky, remember that you do not owe anyone a response. You do not owe anyone online your time or attention, and replying to people is not an obligation. If you don't feel joy talking to someone here, just mute/block them and move on.

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

One of my hobbies is making Black Manhattans with various different amari. Tonight, giving it a go with the Venti. #cocktails

I'm still working on the habit of posting more #cocktail content here. In the meantime, enjoy this pic of a tasty drink from a guest shift from Nest by Pun (Taipei) at C108 (Hong Kong).

When I look upon its sides, I can see the rusty stains
Water in the wiring, don’t you know it’s such a pain
Repairs take forever, then it breaks down once again
Cybertruck can’t handle all the cold November rain