Allison😽

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

been carrying it since 2019, but I’ve never had to use it

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

What the right wing REALLY means:

The silence from our universities has been deafening. Tell them to grow a spine and stand up for their scientists!

Top NIH funded schools:
UC - regentsoffice@ucop.edu
UW - regents@uw.edu
John Hopkins - cbjorklund@jhu.edu
Penn - ofcsec@pobox.upenn.edu, (215) 898-7005
Duke - boardchair@duke.edu

I love my kobo e-reader!

A second plane has gone down in 3 days. Seems like things were safer when DEI was still in place.

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

If she can do it, we can all do it.

🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia).

Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for:

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

Happy MLK Day.

Choose wisely

Too many people haven’t touched a book since they graduated high school and it shows.

Ah, Bluesky, where you can post a video of you playing music with your child without 50 people immediately replying ‘Hope you both die soon, you Libtard’.

Bliss. ✨

i’d like to make it very clear from my first day on this app that this is a safe space for women, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, SA survivors, and so may other communities of people who experience hatred and discrimination due to their very existence.

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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.