vanessa

I have only just discovered them and need to dig in more!

to keep schtum is to stay silent/keep a secret!

can you just delete them or are they on someone else's page?

thank goodness they are. i literally can't do my job without docline and pubmed.

That's my job! 😀 I fear that DOGE fired a bunch of ILL workers at the National Library of Medicine though, because I put through about a dozen requests to them last week and they haven't been filled yet. Usually they do it within a day.

💯

ACABECC (all cops are bastards except clay cops)

I subbed to a friend's for a year for $50 because she needed the money, but I have not been able to work it into my media consumption routine so far--maybe for the best.

I feel ignorant because I only just started reading stuff on Substack. I had no idea who was funding the platform. Didn't even really recognize Marc Andreessen's name until I started reading about the Dark Enlightenment and NRx, and I probably only know a tenth of all the scary shit it entails.

Just ordered a starry owl for myself. It will be my first piece of yours and I can’t wait 😍😍

I saw them with Crudos somewhere in Chicago around 96 and I know I did not appreciate it as much as I should have

Howwwww does your String of Pearls look so good? Mine inevitably die so I swore off them (same with caletheas)

I was scrolling all the comments to make sure nobody had already said Gary Hart before I posted lol

Don't forget Clinton's nominee for USAG, Zoë Baird, had to drop out for pretty much the same during Nannygate. And Kimba Wood's nomination for a federal judgeship got pulled just for the appearance of doing the same, even though she hadn't actually broken any laws.

YouTube video by MEUTE MEUTE - Hey Hey (Dennis Ferrer Rework)

this made me feel better after that bleak-ass essay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtj...

Just read this and feel hopeless: www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

it's been almost a whole day i'm dying

there's also pixelfed!

i think about this a lot. and reagan era hardcore. nobody cares anymore.

i audibly gasped when i saw this sweater. it's absolutely stunning!!

Leni (the other half of the PuppySongs duo with MarPup who died last year) passed away and I definitely shed tears.

Real names of people who died in Baltimore in 1911:
Abathiah H. Capers
Dora Zork
Onofrio Dicola
Spangler Geiselman
Charles F. Chillingworth
Gesnalda Salamoni
Comfort Bond
Harry L. Colliflower
Zeta Dick
Mildred Fingles
Flinton A. Gasway
Levin M. Conquest
Phliomeno Cozentino
Amos G. Diffendaffer

i tend to allow people who have damaged me to stay in my life far longer than i should. today someone who hurt me quite a bit in the past contacted me and instead of just being nice i asked him not to contact me anymore. he of course sent more messages so i blocked him. trying to feel good about it.

i had to ask my partner to stop sending me fb reels today because i just don't even want to look at it. but i also don't want to announce my departure or post my bluesky username because i want to be able to keep it mostly deshittified over here and also not feel guilty when i don't add someone.

I give you permission to toss it.