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i wish i could mail you my skin these are precious

it’s difficult to stomach talking to others who haven’t been stretched this way by grief and i wonder how anyone managed to be around me at all before this chrysalis of grief.

it’s frightening to feel your experiences push up against previously understood extremities of pain and suffering. i can feel myself hollow out and rebuild, scaffolded by empathy.

everything everyone says about grief is correct. everything about grief is singular and common. something i did not know about is that you can cry until you give yourself black eyes.

every year brings new feelings that connect me to the rest of humanity despite my general withdrawal from it.

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

i’m a subscriber. they’ve locked EVERY forum thread talking about this story and people’s concerns with that same message.

every time i see a picture of this tool i see a waste of money, like what do you mean that you’re a billionaire who can pay a real artisan to make real armor, including ARM BRACES THAT FIT

i mean also yes yes the fascism, but it’s really the cherry on top that there’s no taste here

sigh

Here on Bluesky, AltNPS just reposted @karlbode.com's post. Great! No problem there.

But on Facebook, where AltNPS has many times more followers, they just reworded his post and didn't give any credit.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does

Alt National Park Service: And here we go again. Some federal employees are starting to receive furlough notices as lawmakers in Washington weigh how to end the partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.

Karoun Demirjian, NYT: Some federal workers have begun to receive furlough notices, as Washington waits to see if Congress will end a partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.

AltNPS carefully did find-and-replace on a few specific words, but they can't hide that this is the opening paragraph of Keroun Demirjian's article in the New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

It's 2026, please stop following and reposting viral "resistance" accounts that do absolutely nothing and instead follow people who offer real, palpable steps on how to help your friends and neighbors.

Here's a good starter pack via @gregpak.net go.bsky.app/6DoVMhY

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

🧵

I can't stress enough how cynical and useless AltNPS is. They could be sharing links to places like the ILCM, galvanizing their millions of followers to donate to Twin Cities mutual aid and bail funds, but they aren't. They just don't care.

I saw someone making the point that ICE and Border Patrol are likely to step up the hunting of Venezuelans here on temporary statuses etc... saying that their cases for seeking asylum are now moot.

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

we killed more than a million civilians last time i watched our aircraft dropping bombs on a capital city. i feel sick today. while many will celebrate, the us has no respect for humanity.

Where lies the strangling fritter that came from the hand of the baker I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather on the overpass…

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

This is not the way any of us imagined Bill Clinton ("Bubba") showing up in the Epstein files.

What a day to have eyes.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

If you are in politics, you should help people even if you get NO CREDIT FOR IT. OK? Stop being fucking ghoulish.

i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that

Mr Mamdani: "The golden witch Beatrice has trapped me in a series of locked-room murder mystery games in an effort to prove that magic is real. But I'm not stressed. Beatrice isn't relevant to my real goal: to make New York City a more affordable and more equitable place to live. That's no mystery."

the tone deafness of complaining about trick or treaters not coming to your house when ice is spiriting parents and children away