It’s Mary y’all

Biden admin capped overdraft fees at $5 to help people not spiral into debt. Today, Republicans helpfully removed that cap because heaven forbid banks feel a pinch. Wouldn’t want billion-dollar institutions to suffer, right?

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.

14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.

More info here:

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this Omar El Akkad

yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy

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Have y’all seen generalstrikeus.com yet? I feel like it is a valuable tool that doesn’t have nearly enough people involved yet

Musk’s team—Christopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kliger—is currently at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This move comes just months after Musk posted “Delete CFPB” on his X social media platform.

A Reddit post with a picture taken from a window of a flagpole with the American flag, at full staff, being flown upside down. Text indicates that this is the flagpole outside of the US State Department building in Washington DC.

A screenshot providing source and alternate links for the photo.

So this is great…

Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate

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Always fun to get a message like this from your rheumatologist two days after some bloodwork 🫠

A picture of very cute Texas Horned Lizard. It is covered in sharp spikes that resemble the thorns of a rose.

We’re watching Rugrats because we needed nostalgic comfort & the grandpa exclaimed “hopping horny toads!”, & I found out that Rory didn’t know that was a real animal. So in case you didn’t know either, meet the horned lizard, aka horny toad, who shoots blood from its eyes as a defense mechanism

There are currently 67,102 studies registered at clinicaltrials.gov that are (well, were, probably, until this week) actively recruiting participants, and 20,690 studies that are active but not recruiting right now. This is SO many people we're talking about.

Aw dammit Lowes... Y’all, I know Home Depot is trash, but Lowes is pretty much my only other option… where else can I go for lumber?

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...

Thailand to Celebrate Southeast Asia’s First Same-Sex Marriages Hundreds of LGBTQ couples will today officially marry in Thailand, which becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to guarantee equal marital rights for same-sex couples.

Thailand just became the first country in Southeast Asia to allow same-sex marriages as a landmark law takes effect

I wonder if TikTok’s usage numbers are down at all… I went back for one day and haven’t opened it since because the algorithm had so obviously been fucked with, and am curious if that is happening with other people as well.

A friend posted about putting 30 minute timers on social medial apps to make herself take a break and I might have to start doing that because my sleep has been fuuuuucked this past week (also hi hello this is isthisanon aka Mer from locked twitter, but I stopped logging in when muskrat bought it)

It looks like you have to go to the actual site and enable it in your settings.

I’m tryna be a little bit unattached to my full legal name on here for obvious reasons, so hi hello how are you I’m Mary and I love creating things (🧶🪡🪴👩‍🍳etc). I do regulatory work in infectious disease clinical research and absolutely love it, and am currently working on a masters in public health.