Mike Dark

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

While I'm bopping around the Internet, here's the most useful site ever: thistothat.com

art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

Loved this.

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

it does give me some level of satisfaction that he’s going to die mad about not getting a nobel peace prize because obama got one and he didn’t

*starts beating shoe on table* CONSEQUENCES CONSEQUENCES! CONSEQUENCES!!!

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

It took me a lot of time to put this together. I share it to residents & medical students when I'm rounding. The feedback has been very positive. I wanted something that could be foldable, fit into a pocket etc. Born out of my frustrations on antibiotics decisions residents make esp on night float.

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

That's my music

I’ve read plenty of “They must have known Canada would never agree to this, so the logical conclusion is that they didn’t want to make a deal at all” takes. And yes, that’s the logical conclusion if they knew what they were doing. But I truly don’t think we can take that for granted anymore.

I keep re-watching this, and laughing harder and harder each time.

In fact it's the reverse, the problem with attempts to compromise on the principles around scientific integrity and ethics is that they fundamentally introduce flaws into the information that can be gathered, into the understandings that are produced from such research, that persist for decades.

wife: what's wrong? me: I just got diagnosed with dyslexia wife: wtf me: no actually this is bad

to recap: so Hong got 40% in Wisconsin which shows voters decisively rejected democratic socialism, but Fishback 10% in Florida, so the far-right is winning.

I’ve seen a few people commenting today that the idea of separating the MMR vaccine into three separate shots might be a good strategy to get anti-vax parents to vaccinate. Absolutely not. Here’s why. First, countering anti-vax misinformation is like playing whack a mole. You bat down one lie…

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”

Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

What do you call it when the federal government secedes from the union?

From @gregggonsalves.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1882...

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

Preventing explosive diarrhea was apparently too DEI for the DOGE crew

Previously: the American Heresy, explained (you will have to scroll way up and reparent to get the thread start even though I swear it's the short version) bsky.app/profile/raha...

If OMB's proposed changes to the federal grant process are enacted, political appointees could: 1. Make funding decisions regardless of the advice of scientists. 2. Stop funding midway through a promised grant period. 3. Institute new rules, including rules severely limiting foreign interactions.

“You there, boy! What British Prime Minister is it?”