Tiny Fat Bird

There is no case but the moral case. The public health data have precisely the moral valence that we give them and, crucially, that we are willing and prepared to act upon. The process of political development in public health is the process of developing just such a capacity for action - action that will be, by definition, not strictly related to public health in the majority of cases. The intellectual action consists of the movement from "free them all for public health" to, simply, "free them all." Public health will follow.

if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

I found out that in Finnish, an idiom for saying someone doesn't think straight is "doesn't have all the Moomins in the valley" and I'm gonna have to steal that

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important.

A thread 🧵

Do not make art if you don't enjoy the process of slowly getting better at making art. That is the gate. Consider yourself kept.

a friend’s partner needs a bit of help to make a move across the country if you have a few dollars to spare! www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-t...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Because I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles.

And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.

I was already not really giving the DNC money, but I think it will be very hard for me to ever put another cent into a political campaign when I could give it to the people on the ground who will spend it for direct good, and not put it into the pockets of advisors & analysts & pollsters.

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I’m going to be shutting my shop down for the day and providing links to places where you can put your money instead.

Do what you can, keep pushing

always illuminating getting to talk
with Bea, who with Death Panel has created one of those rare outlets where you can try to make sense of the world live on a mic—this one was especially that kind of episode. solidarity w everyone still in the streets and helping people stay there.

This is a long episode (normal by Death Panel standards) but I hope everyone takes the time to at least listen to @reallandsend.bsky.social’s opening monologue about ICE showing up to intimidate us and why the community response here made it impossible for them to do so

Minneapolis is literally giving us the open blueprint on how we win. Minnesotans are showing up in spades with compassion to protest gun wielding men and demanding “give us back our neighbours and leave our city immediately.” It is a phenomenal act of courage.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

Rough Sketch by SGW: Young woman holds ups kitten wearing a sweatshirt with the patch "kitten fart club" on it.

Mine that dopamine wherever you can.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help

photo of an illustrated calendar

photo of a row of hand painted wood mini shields hanging on a chalkboard

photo of a small wood banner painted, it's leaning against a chalkboard

I've discounted all my calendars, even if January is basically over you can still use the calendar page as a postcard and have 11 other months to use the rest of it

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Also I put a bunch of new painted wood banners up if you missed the chance last month

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)."

@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. Lucille Clifton

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

When the State murders you, they always kill you twice. Once in flesh. The second time when they vilify your memory to justify killing you.

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Also I absolutely thought my uncle worked as an optometrist because every time I saw him he was picking up his glasses and took me with him; I really don’t think you should have been laughed at. (He actually made sensors to detect nuclear materials, I was way off)

Right or not, that’s how I’d use it😂

colorful pastel patchwork insignia with a red circle and a line crossing through black text reading "AI"

something like this maybe

I'm very excited about this, but someone needs to investigate the apparent correlation between Animal Crossing releases and global emergencies.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!