Byron Norris

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Love the painting! You just know IRL that monstera has an exploratory root extending 10 feet past the left of the painting.

Dear Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator

Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public.

Not great. Really not great.

h/t Sahil Kapur

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Did you ever run across Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials? It was the first time I saw a picture of a Puppeteer and it was definitely... something else.

Yeah same. I had seriously thought I was losing my mind. “I can’t even keep my beloved sci fi in the grey matter!?!?!?” The upside was there were 4 more books to read.

I finished Ringworld's children & thought to see if there were any sequels. Wiki says "Followed by Fate of Worlds". Got halfway through before I realized I wasn't in the depths of ADHD word blindness - there were 4 books in the "N of worlds" series that I'd skipped and Fate tied both together. D'oh!

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Tendi, Beckett, and T’Lynn are stuck on a planet for a year. Tendi gets into her own head and begins to compete with T’Lynn by way of trying to be a better scientist. T’Lynn cultivates impressively large local melons to sell at the market. Tendi admits she can’t compete with T’Lynn’s huge melons.

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"Why is Gamora?" Drax meme style with "Why is Scalzi?!" quote

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No slight against Shirow's unique depictions of sweater puppies, but I wish he had become singularly occupied in drawing more landmates, tachikomas, and cyborgs. And those wonderful artist notes in between the manga panels. :D

Also please post some of the cats.

"You have to go to the troll market to buy some khyber crystals from this dude with a rocket fist"

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

It was a content desert.

I stand with these veterans.

So like, is the divide in the Democratic Party now between the “can we please just pretend things are normal ASAP” faction and the “we will not rest until we refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of the tyrants” faction

And Dem leadership is in the first while the electorate is in the second

a stray dog stands in a bushy area. the dog is blue with golden eyes. he looks majestic as he stares off into the distance.

a group of 4 dogs rest together in a bushy area. two of the dogs are tan, one is black, and the last is blue with long, scruffy fur.

a blue dog is mid-step as he walks through brush.

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

I love your work. What kind of workflow do you do to achieve these great depictions of dusk?

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What kind of excessive glass breaking John Wick/Nobody fight scene occurred in the foldgers crystals factory when they were producing dollar general labeled coffee during the 3rd shift?

Love that they have two Portland area arcades, Next Level and Ground Kontrol, on the list! Great place to be.

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details