Laurel Krahn

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

August last year, in fact.

You know what would be a good use of some political C(3) "public education" money? A tariff calculator that allows you to look through a massive catalog of normal consumer goods and show how much tariffs are increasing the price of each.

Oh cool, you're writing about Homicide again!

(I kid. I guess The Wire is good too.)

hey buddy (special Adonis edition)

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

The Mountain Goats - Cold at Night / Rocks in My Pockets Choose your preferred music service

ahem

30tgrs.ffm.to/coldatnight-...

YES! like, do you want us to fight using every fucking tool we can put our hands on or not??

If we need to learn one thing from the damn GOP, it is their pathological willingness to go "well that didn't work, who has an even weirder idea let's fuckin go"

Hanging out with my Dad who's watching MSNBC. I just saw Hakeem Jeffries, my fellow law school alumm fail yet again to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor. And then he shanked a direct question about whether he will *vote* for him. Incredible. This is unacceptable.

Zelda has been sounding the alarm on the dangers of AI for YEARS, long before the technology got to where it is now, because she's:

1) brilliant (go watch Lisa Frankenstein).
2) ridiculously smart.
3) experienced first-hand how fucking WEIRD people are about her Dad.

Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth

I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

There is an important conversation that should be going on (maybe at the UN level?) about this, as it will become worse with time (as more satellites are orbited).

Nations worked together to build the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone Layer.

These constellations threaten all of that work.

YouTube video by AngelicDazeAMVs Holding Space // Defying Gravity ft. Wile E Coyote AMV

Perfect fanvid is perfect. #FanvidRec for "Holding Space // Defying Gravity ft. Wile E Coyote" by AngelicDaze which is a Wile E. Coyote vid to "Defying Gravity" obviously which is a brilliant idea well executed.

Vidder: "It came to me in a vision"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HE8...

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

Always a good day when more people discover this thread.

(Please do not try to milkshake duck Decoy. Let us enjoy this cute dog.) (HEY BUDDY) (You can root against the Dodgers & still like Decoy and/or Ohtani.)

I wonder how many people I have blocked because they were weird in your replies. (it's a significant number!)

"everybody has a smartphone these days lol" false. that's something you made up. only 91% of Americans have smartphones. those last 9% are still people who deserve services (and probably need them more than anybody else). that's still like 30.6 million people

Apparently I find pro athletes more appealing if they dote on their pets. (I posted about Matilda yesterday and now Decoy today.)

I mean, the Dodgers did win the World Series after they had a dog bring out the first pitch.

Just added this to my Decoy thread.

Adding this to my Decoy thread, from later on.

Right? It was perfect in every way. So cute. Pretty cool that one of the best baseball players ever also is apparently a really good pet owner who trains and dotes on his dog (he was apparently nervous about that first pitch going well for Decoy).

Showing my old Decoy first pitch thread to anyone who says a word against Ohtani.

Come on, people. You cannot boo this man (or dog).

Got multiple Frey postcards in the mail including a handwritten one from some volunteer. Ugh.

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Reminding myself of where I am on Mastodon so I can tell you where you can find me on Mastodon. 😂🤷‍♀️ (Yes, I once again have multiple accounts because I'm just like that.) (Probably have another one out there.)

mastodon.social/@windowseat

wandering.shop/@laurel

mastodon.social/@wintwins

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

if you're going to NYCC, please consider masking!! 😷

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"