DaemonSky
@dsky.bsky.social
Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
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This account mostly posts the life of caring for parents and the world. There will be public health, digital humanities, occasional politics, and a lot of random things including Late Night Thoughts and crafts.
Posting is not doing. If you use my posts to hurt people, I block. Be kind. Make stuff.
Posting is not doing. If you use my posts to hurt people, I block. Be kind. Make stuff.
I'm ways so amused when a bunch of people block me and I haven't posted in days. Can they just *feel* my opinions through the ether??
I am usually entertained by blocks, not offended. This account is for fun, not work.
I am usually entertained by blocks, not offended. This account is for fun, not work.
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I'm ways so amused when a bunch of people block me and I haven't posted in days. Can they just *feel* my opinions through the ether??
I am usually entertained by blocks, not offended. This account is for fun, not work.
I am usually entertained by blocks, not offended. This account is for fun, not work.
The reality is that inflation is visible to them every day in every good or service they need. So are stagnant wages. Large economic measures have never *really* described experience, but now they are just laughably disconnected from daily experience for non-wealthy people and thus meaningless.
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The reality is that inflation is visible to them every day in every good or service they need. So are stagnant wages. Large economic measures have never *really* described experience, but now they are just laughably disconnected from daily experience for non-wealthy people and thus meaningless.
Whelp. DC friends, be aware. That's not good - at least the metro times are mostly not commuting hours, but still. Red & Yellow & Union - f--k.
And I guess we now have more reasons than usual to be pissed at March for Life people that a normal year.
And I guess we now have more reasons than usual to be pissed at March for Life people that a normal year.
Health Officials Investigating Measles Exposures to DC Residents
(Washington, DC) - DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious. DC Health is informing people who were at t...
dchealth.dc.gov
February 9, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Whelp. DC friends, be aware. That's not good - at least the metro times are mostly not commuting hours, but still. Red & Yellow & Union - f--k.
And I guess we now have more reasons than usual to be pissed at March for Life people that a normal year.
And I guess we now have more reasons than usual to be pissed at March for Life people that a normal year.
Wow didn't realize that my Game of Life nostalgia existed until this very moment. Aww. That was so fun and lovely!
February 8, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Wow didn't realize that my Game of Life nostalgia existed until this very moment. Aww. That was so fun and lovely!
This is a spinoff of my private obsession with MLM meltdowns and the ways they look so much like religious schism. (I need amusement while cleaning today)
February 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is a spinoff of my private obsession with MLM meltdowns and the ways they look so much like religious schism. (I need amusement while cleaning today)
James Welsh is a he one I'm watching right now who isn't a lawyer but is really funny. His series on beauty brands gone wrong is awesome.
All the lawyer ones on the R&F eyelash serum were wonderful, but his is entirely solid and quoting the cases beautifully.
All the lawyer ones on the R&F eyelash serum were wonderful, but his is entirely solid and quoting the cases beautifully.
February 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
James Welsh is a he one I'm watching right now who isn't a lawyer but is really funny. His series on beauty brands gone wrong is awesome.
All the lawyer ones on the R&F eyelash serum were wonderful, but his is entirely solid and quoting the cases beautifully.
All the lawyer ones on the R&F eyelash serum were wonderful, but his is entirely solid and quoting the cases beautifully.
I really appreciate the level of legal analysis of skincare drama and the FDA that happens when lawyers are also skincare nerds. Maybe these people are how we fix the ridiculous cosmetics and sunscreen rules in the US.
They're adorably mad about the most obscure things.
They're adorably mad about the most obscure things.
February 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I really appreciate the level of legal analysis of skincare drama and the FDA that happens when lawyers are also skincare nerds. Maybe these people are how we fix the ridiculous cosmetics and sunscreen rules in the US.
They're adorably mad about the most obscure things.
They're adorably mad about the most obscure things.
Wasn't this one a combo of it actually working for sailors (scurvy) and the OJ industry? Somewhere I read something on this, but it was forever ago.
Some of these are the transfer of solutions for one issue to a generalized belief and I'd bet $5 this is one.
Some of these are the transfer of solutions for one issue to a generalized belief and I'd bet $5 this is one.
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Wasn't this one a combo of it actually working for sailors (scurvy) and the OJ industry? Somewhere I read something on this, but it was forever ago.
Some of these are the transfer of solutions for one issue to a generalized belief and I'd bet $5 this is one.
Some of these are the transfer of solutions for one issue to a generalized belief and I'd bet $5 this is one.
I have no idea how we introduce people to the simple, functional solutions of the past in this era, but the pricing for all of these is hilarious.
I did not pay $30 for a plastic version of pins I have in metal from grandma. I'm not paying $40 for sticky notes. But others will.
I did not pay $30 for a plastic version of pins I have in metal from grandma. I'm not paying $40 for sticky notes. But others will.
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I have no idea how we introduce people to the simple, functional solutions of the past in this era, but the pricing for all of these is hilarious.
I did not pay $30 for a plastic version of pins I have in metal from grandma. I'm not paying $40 for sticky notes. But others will.
I did not pay $30 for a plastic version of pins I have in metal from grandma. I'm not paying $40 for sticky notes. But others will.
So much of what is appearing as "innovation" is just reviving the solutions we had. "Novel note system!" = sticky notes. "New hair solution" = 19th - early 20th C types of pins. "Novel environmental solution!" = apparently daring and patching? (?!?)
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
So much of what is appearing as "innovation" is just reviving the solutions we had. "Novel note system!" = sticky notes. "New hair solution" = 19th - early 20th C types of pins. "Novel environmental solution!" = apparently daring and patching? (?!?)
I'm increasingly convinced hair pins and accessories (maybe more generally fashion?) are a clear indicator that we can't hold useful history in our heads. French hair pins are ancient and so many people are sending them to me as new. Yes, I have 1930iah metal ones that aren't good in my hair.
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I'm increasingly convinced hair pins and accessories (maybe more generally fashion?) are a clear indicator that we can't hold useful history in our heads. French hair pins are ancient and so many people are sending them to me as new. Yes, I have 1930iah metal ones that aren't good in my hair.
Man I wish I could teleport for that day. Introducing young people to why infectious disease control is important in the most horrifying historical ways is one of my favorites.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Man I wish I could teleport for that day. Introducing young people to why infectious disease control is important in the most horrifying historical ways is one of my favorites.
Wait until he find out about smallpox scars. Every time I watch a movie with someone we know had scars I snark about it and someday my friends are going strangle me to get me to stop. It'll be earned, fairly.
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Wait until he find out about smallpox scars. Every time I watch a movie with someone we know had scars I snark about it and someday my friends are going strangle me to get me to stop. It'll be earned, fairly.
Clean water is one of the cheapest, most effective public health interventions in history. And now so amazingly inexpensive to produce too.
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Clean water is one of the cheapest, most effective public health interventions in history. And now so amazingly inexpensive to produce too.
I'm reasonably convinced that the more glaring the typo in a post, the more likely it is it will be reshared. It's just the law of the universe.
February 7, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I'm reasonably convinced that the more glaring the typo in a post, the more likely it is it will be reshared. It's just the law of the universe.
I really love that we're at the cultural point wher the sewage treatment plant gets to make jokes about the media ecosystem.
(Also I kinda love this video - water infrastructure is awesome!)
(Also I kinda love this video - water infrastructure is awesome!)
February 7, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I really love that we're at the cultural point wher the sewage treatment plant gets to make jokes about the media ecosystem.
(Also I kinda love this video - water infrastructure is awesome!)
(Also I kinda love this video - water infrastructure is awesome!)
I have watched that video so many times now and it does not get less adorable. How can we not all love him? (and the guy behind him who can't stop laughing)
February 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I have watched that video so many times now and it does not get less adorable. How can we not all love him? (and the guy behind him who can't stop laughing)
I got online in time for olives in tacos debate, but I too missed the dunking!
February 7, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I got online in time for olives in tacos debate, but I too missed the dunking!
At this moment, I could really use a keeper who knew what is missing in my enclosure. I need enrichment but I'm too tired to know what.
February 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
At this moment, I could really use a keeper who knew what is missing in my enclosure. I need enrichment but I'm too tired to know what.
Reposted by DaemonSky
As if immune amnesia and significant risk of hospitalization and disability due to measles infection aren't bad enough, there's this particularly nasty outcome--in 2 versions: the immediate/acute one and the rarer, years later onset/highly fatal one called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.
How GOP HHS boss RFK Jr is hurting American children: "One of [measles] complications has been confirmed in the ongoing, record-breaking measles outbreak in South Carolina: encephalitis, or brain swelling." www.scientificamerican.com/article/sout...
Brain swelling is one of measles’ nastiest side effects, and it’s happening in South Carolina
The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children
www.scientificamerican.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
As if immune amnesia and significant risk of hospitalization and disability due to measles infection aren't bad enough, there's this particularly nasty outcome--in 2 versions: the immediate/acute one and the rarer, years later onset/highly fatal one called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.
Yeah all of those descriptions seem like end of joyful super bowl commercials. Like, what's the point of watching more AI slop when I have to wade through it every day? The creativity of them was always the fun part!
February 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Yeah all of those descriptions seem like end of joyful super bowl commercials. Like, what's the point of watching more AI slop when I have to wade through it every day? The creativity of them was always the fun part!
I mean, it's a clear message from them about their values. When the companies self-identify, it's easier to avoid them at least.
I do, in fact, prefer my art made by human souls.
I do, in fact, prefer my art made by human souls.
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.
From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.
techcrunch.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I mean, it's a clear message from them about their values. When the companies self-identify, it's easier to avoid them at least.
I do, in fact, prefer my art made by human souls.
I do, in fact, prefer my art made by human souls.
If you were only several towns closer, I would buy you sadness drinks to repay the universe for the physicists that kept me sane through my field's meltdown.
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
If you were only several towns closer, I would buy you sadness drinks to repay the universe for the physicists that kept me sane through my field's meltdown.
Could you get my mother to believe this, please?
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Could you get my mother to believe this, please?