Evil public library shill (she/they)

Thank you for telling me

Who is Tom?

You can go to the ACLU site and print pamphlets in Spanish to be passed out in Hispanic areas. I've been through ICE raids speaking fluent English. It's worse in Spanish. We have to protect these people now.

I didn't know about note to self. Thank you

I had to stop. Where did you end up getting your cultures from?

One thing to note here about long polio (aka poliomyelitis): initially, people will appear to recover.

Appear: damage has been done, motor neurons destroyed; but the human body is resilient, other neurons take over.

But they're not for long: these neurons are now overloaded, will die prematurely.

Fun polio fact: it is asymptomatic in 70% of cases.

In 29.5% of the cases symptoms do appear, they are gastrointestinal distress, normal enterovirus stuff.

Polio only displays neurological symptoms in 0.5% of cases.

You don't remember polio, you only remember *longpolio*

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It. Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

A floofy black cat named Yetling standing on a mantle next to an Emmy and a statuette of Atlas holding up a magnifying glass instead of the sky or globe.

“I’m quite the prize myself.”

me in my 20s: it’s saturday night! time to go get drunk and party!!!
me in my 40s: ah, saturday night. time to enjoy an evening with my family and perhaps enjoy a drink or two
me in my 8470s: huh. i think i might be god
me in my 98580s: yep i’m god for sure

you matter so much. so incredibly much. I actually wrote a poem about this whole thing recently because so many people put a lot of effort into convincing us that we are the problem and that we are not important.

you are so important

thank you for being who you are

oooh, have you had any luck?

I wish I could block channels and users.

please donate what you can to sakher so he and his family can eat!

How often ‘value-based care’ is uttered on Wall Street This week in health care news: Insurers tout value based care, we round up hospital finances, and regulators have an eye on vertical integration.

A very meaty Health Care, Inc. this morning from @bobjherman.bsky.social

He points out that buried deep inside a Medicare proposal from last week, the government asks the public for feedback on what to do about a loophole that lets insurers pay themselves above the legal limit.

Check it out: 🩺

I miss dingdongs

date: I eat very little meat.

me: You mean like mice?

do you have reservations?

well, we would have preferred slightly better reviews but we're willing to give it a shot

I love this

Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! - Bluesky You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.

here is a write up

bluesky does have dms but the aren't encrypted in any way and you can set who is allowed to message you. let me go look for a write up

important resources

An orange tabby cat is curled up sleeping on a folded blanket on a bed, her legs and paws mostly tucked up beneath and behind her head. One paw is sticking out toward the camera and her human is gently holding that paw in their hand.

It’s been hard to have enough energy to post any personal updates, and it’s also felt like there isn’t much new other than the continuing saga of health awfulness and never ending crashes.

But I’m still here. And Cheerio is keeping me company.

thanks for bringing it up! birthdays are awful for lots of people

they were cool with it this year. I got them a pound cake.

they want soft cookies for their next one.

evil shit I've done today:

1. asked my friend when their birthday was

2. put it on my calendar with multiple notifications

guess who just got cared about *BAM*

Copying over the first of many ADHD threads, which is the most useful one:

"Oh fuck, I've been called out by enough posts/TikToks/memes, I think I'm ADHD, but what now?"

First things first: You should know that there's an emotional part of this, and you're going to process both anger and grief.

Sister's dating a maga. So I decided to end any chance of bullsh*t at family dinners before it started. Setting the table I put an Alka seltzer tablet in his glass.
Also had an empty pill bottle I put green jellybeans in.

Everyone sits down, I pour the drinks.
Him: why is my glass fizzing?

Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.

Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.

I used to work so hard on Twitter to separate my little shitposter alt from my “professional” account and I just refuse to do it anymore

you will get indigenous history and climate policy posts and posts about weed and vibrators, this is who I am