Alan Jackson

This thread is for my fellow migraineurs. After contending with chronic migraines for over 50 years, and trying almost every treatment, I am finally almost migraine free. I typically get about 5-15 migraine days per month, so this is significant.

These people have shit for brains. Oh, and without reading I'm gonna guess they're boys.

Hey, you already knew RFK Jr is a crackpot piece of shit working to kill millions of people, but did you know he's a *racist* crackpot piece of shit working to kill millions of people?

Give me your tired, your poor, Your befuddled asses yearning to bribe free, With secret accounts kept off your teeming shore. Send these, the voteless, second-round-lost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Using BlueSky has helped me find so much incredible research, but also caused my to-read list, a bunch of open tabs, to balloon in size. So I built a widget to track papers and share them with friends. Introducing Marginalia, a social reading shelf for academics! marginalia-papers.netlify.app

1/ Bird flu is one of the things that keeps epidemiologists up at night. Now, a report of bird flu spreading undetected on a Utah mink farm for months is raising serious questions about our surveillance systems. Here’s why it matters and what else we’re watching this fall. 🧵

Ousted dictators used to flee to Moscow. Now, apparently, they flee to the United States. www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/a...

Thanks @dmagazine.bsky.social ! Read it here:

If we must have prisons -- and with ~60% of Texas' increasingly elderly prisoner population being parole eligible, I think we need far fewer of them -- IMO we should restart the prison rec programs.

I hope they do this, and I hope it spurs additional funding for prison rec programs, which all but vanished in the bad old days of the mass incarceration era but are actually pretty darn important if you care about prisoner rehabilitation at all. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

Huge headlines around the world. In major US corporate media, complete silence. Something fishy here.

This was good.

when they show you who they are, believe them it was never just about illegal immigration

Ouch.

Amen.

This is horrific. eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/art...

Two new R packages from me addressing the changing data environment with data increasingly being closed off from programmatic access. {safeconduct} provides passage to data encumbered by browser checks, r2parquet facilitates self-hosting of (encumbered) data.

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

Woody Harrelson has done an ad "for Exxon". Well worth watching

So, after Space Karen slowed down Starlink for the Ukraine, the Trumpists, in their brilliance, decided we should give him that capacity for the US Air Force. www.statesman.com/business/art...

27th of Owltober! A burrito-wrapped Burrowing Owl was admitted to a wildlife clinic to treat eye ulcers from suspected head trauma. The sender (anonymous) said "his favorite meal in care is mice and mealworms and he is very vocal now that he’s feeling better!" #owlsintowels 💛🦉

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Texas' congressional map is the most gerrymandered in the country. "On the north side of Austin, you can drive through five congressional districts in about 10 minutes." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why. Why. Black Mirror continues.

The destruction of protected wildlife sanctuaries in Texas for border wall construction continues long after the slogan was forgotten. Here's what will be lost: 'Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) on a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)' (📷: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS)

$445 million (Elon alone) could be used as $5 million stabilization grants to 89 critical rural hospitals, keeping ERs open, preserving jobs, and trauma care. 👉🏼shape the future—vote! 👉🏼read Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26...

From NY Times article on newly-reopened Goya Museum in Spain: If I already had plenty of reason to dislike "immersive" art experiences, looks like for this projected image they inexplicably tweaked the colors in Goya's famed "Third of May" painting. Why..?? Art museums get ever closer to Disneyland

A Haaretz survey shows that Israeli broadcast media are completely dominated by Netanyahu and Likud, platforming him 3 times more often than Eisenkot, who leads in the polls. Channel 14 is the Rupert Murdoch News feed, offering all Bibi, all the time. Netanyahu rules the airwaves in Israel.

Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

Not enough people are talking about the fact that Elon Musk's attorney might get elected to Congress next week

Today's walk.

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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

There was a thread the other day on here about all the things that have gotten better in our lifetimes, and it seemed half of them were about environmental quality. (No more smog, no more flaming rivers, etc.) All that is being aggressively undone.

Elephants belong to a taxonomic clade we call 'Tethytheria', with members all having forward looking eye sockets, similar teeth, ear structures & internal testes rather than a scrotum. But what elephant relative has a FOOT that looks like THIS?

New project! Contributor @owenlacey.dev asks whether Kevin Bacon is the most-connected actor in Hollywood, per the popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. 🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

Behold, my son the disco ball 🎃

Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech

“Failed to stop” vs “caused” is one helluva editorial choice.

🗳️ Early Vote Day 7: 42,593 Harris County voters showed up! 🔥 That’s up 52% from 2022 and ahead of 2018. 📈 Let’s keep it going! ⏰ Early voting runs through Oct 30.