@petergleick
With a significant difference:
This time there is no reputation to be destroyed...

Someone just told me (via email) that it's "unbecoming for a professor" to use language like "bullshit".

Now that's some bullshit right there.

@losttourist

Good point. Will do. In fact, will change it to a different media link.

@mastodonmigration With the greatest of respect, in the future if you can possibly avoid linking to the Daily Mail that would be great.

It's probably the closest thing we have in the UK to Fox News i.e. mass-media that veers right-to-far-right. Every page view and video click they receive brings in advertising money to them.

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.

Now the Home Office is threatening to prosecute & deport two children of Brazilian parents (an eleven year old boy & eight year old girl) while allowing their parents to remain.... even though the children have lived in the UK for most of their lives.

Once again the British state demonstrates its callousness & inhumanity, being happy to rob children of their parents.

I may be funding this through my taxes but this is not being done in my name!

#migration #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone

We made a comic about jaguars.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/

Breaking: "Trump’s EPA to reconsider ban on cancer-causing asbestos."

Next up: reintroducing lead paint, dial-up internet, and bloodletting for colds.

@davidho People that think everyone is using AI for everything live in a bubble of stupid.

The federal government is firmly in the hands of white supremacist, misogynistic patriarchal Christian nationalists. https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to-heaven-flag-sba-government-agency-dc/

Seen on Bluesky:

Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.

@davidgrieve @grrlscientist @blogdiva
Image search turns up the #crow’s given names Mable and George

George is the male with the broken beak? (Interesting gender swap in the viral image)

I guess June Hunter blogged about them in her yard for some years 🐦‍⬛
https://www.junehunter.com/blogs/nature/more-on-mabel
#birdsofmastodon

@grrlscientist
Just wondering, who has been tracking these two crows for the last 12 years? How do they know so much detailed information about them? How do they know the broken beak was from hitting a car?
Looks a bit sus to me.

VA doctors can now legally refuse to treat veterans based on political affiliation, marital status, or gender identity

Think about that.

This is thanks to a new Trump-era rule stripping civil rights protections for millions

That means a vet could be denied care for being unmarried. Or gay. Or a Democrat.

It’s a direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath and morally reprehensible

Chocy Milk Life Hack

Someone shared this gem recently but I can't find it nor recall who anymore(feel free to mention so i can edit)

Very strong!

You just know this is true. Emperor Trump had an expectation that the military would kiss his ass like the wannabe dictator he is.

Instead, he got this.
#trump #parade

Check out this video from about 1:15 on, as a brass band play the leftist anthem "Bella Ciao" to drown out #ProudBoy neo-Nazis who showed up at a #NoKings rally in Atlanta yesterday. Not only is it incredibly heartening, but the band SLAPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k

ETA: A Tumblr user identified the band, "The Black Sheep Ensemble":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3zqlA1uhk

Art of the Deal!