This is an absolute failure of public health. People are looking for clear guidelines on how to protect themselves. Taking an individualistic "you do you"/"if you feel like it" approach to public health communications only causes confusion, and puts people who want to keep themselves safe at risk.

its out of touch thursdays!

if your web app doesn't work in firefox your web app doesn't work. it's literally broken. fix it.

When I look at the video of a clearly struggling Mitch McConnell, I think about how scary and difficult that must be, and how hard McConnell has worked throughout his life to ensure that the end of people's lives are as difficult and scary a struggle as they can possibly be made.

cool that in 2023 we have the technology for me to pull out my phone and point it up at the night sky and see labels for all the wonderful celestial objects out there right now such as STARLINK-3716, STARLINK-8755, STARLINK-1644, STARLINK-5244, STARLINK-6152, STARLINK-7361, STARLINK-1672, STARLINK-1739, STARLINK-5123, STARLINK-6321, STARLINK-7551, STARLINK-1540, STARLINK-1527, STARLINK-8223, STARLINK-2311, STARLINK-3080, STARLINK-3130, STARLINK-6581, STARLINK-8580, STARLINK-7001, STARLINK-5150,

I'm a geologist and this isn't cute or funny. Rocks only climb trees like this when they're very stressed.

Some COVID minimizers keep saying we can ignore COVID because we have vaccines. Not only is that untrue because layers of protections are most effective, but due to the end of the public health emergency, and greed of pharma companies, many people can't even afford the vaccines.

Really wish there were QTs here. Yes, bad actors sometimes use them to dunk, but more often they are a way to expand on a topic without derailing the original thread. Threads and Bsky have done something clever: allowing QTs, but you can't see them unless you happen to follow the QT-er. So the reach of a dunk-post is dramatically reduced.