#ActuallyAutistic, PTSD, metastatic cancer, Ohioan, if someone finds my executive function please return it.
Crowdsourced 2025 motto: Come at me. I dare you.
White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives.
Avatar: a photo of ghost pipe flowers
Header: a photo of trees, trunks in shadow, top branches bare of leaves, bathed in red-gold light
Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join.
Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard”
It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life.
If more people would accept that and work with us, we would all be better off.
An editorial in _Microbial Biotechnology_ argues that journals aiming to maximize the number of papers published, in part to maximize #APCs, are "promoting an insidious degradation of rigour and quality standards of reviewing–editing practices. Such predatory practices result in the systematic degradation of research quality and its “truthfulness”. Moreover, they undermine the science ethos and threaten to create a new generation of scientists that lack this ethos. These trends will inevitably progressively erode public trust in scientists and the research ecosystem."
https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1751-7915.70180
Since the authors don't mention it, I'll mention that non-APC #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journals don't create this problem or even carry the risk.
PSL Bay Area says:
"ICE changed their tactics—because THE PEOPLE forced them to!
"Today, ICE tried to sneak immigrant check-ins at an unmarked SF facility at 478 Tehama St on an unusual weekend schedule. But by 7AM, hundreds of community members showed up in force to shut it down."
#SanFrancisco #California is stopping abductions too!
23K likes, 1,209 comments - pslbayarea on June 14, 2025: "ICE changed their tactics—because THE PEOPLE forced them to! Today, ICE tried to sneak immigrant check-ins at an unmarked SF facility at 478 Tehama St on an unusual weekend schedule. But by 7AM, hundreds of community members showed up in force to shut it down. Money for jobs and education, not for war and deportations! ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!".
Cancellations now total $15.5 billion since January; nearly 12,000 jobs lost GOP districts see $9 billion in investments; 10,000 jobs disappear due to cancelled or delayed projects so far $444 million in new investments announced in May don’t offset cancellations WASHINGTON – As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on massive tax and spending bill
Via Sherrilyn Ifill:
When the man w poss worst judgment, & best poss personal security that ensures his safety is left to make decisions based on “instinct” that imperil the rest of us.
Ryan Goodman:
1 more reason only constit option was to get Congressional approval:
"In the days before Trump gave final order for the attack...#Iran sent private message to pres that it wd respond to such a move by unleashing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil carried out by sleeper cells"
[Me: Btw👇🏼]
"Padilla, you should know, is not only a sitting senator. He is chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
/13
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/waging-war-against-america
"It’s going to get worse. Trumpism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos. Each time a new one is broken, the previous one is normalized, made to look not so bad by comparison. The cuffing of Padilla was a red-line moment. And yet: There’s plenty of reason to worry that in four months, we’ll look back on it as a moment of comparative innocence."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
/23
Great Signs, Cont.
Another serving suggestion for No Kings Day protests. And just a comment, echoing what Scissorhead Ten Bears has been saying: If you decide to protest (and I really hope you do), do it locally, don’t make the effort to go to DC. And besides saving yourself the time, trouble, and money, the more distributed the protests are, the less likely he can send troops to every city large and small.
http://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/06/11/great-signs-cont-338/
Broadwaybabyto
petersuber
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
David Roberts
Gernot Wagner
Laffy
Charles Gaba ✡️
William Lindsey 
Tengrain 🇺🇦