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Brent Black

@brentalfloss.bsky.social

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

May 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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CerberusXt

@cerberusxt.bsky.social

Good morning Bluesky !

April 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM

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Adria

@adriaandthepriors.bsky.social

If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed
If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed
If you’re happy and you know it getting up will surely blow it
If you’re happy and you know it stay in bed.

February 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Evan Dorkin

@evandorkin.bsky.social

Commit the sin of empathy.

January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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Dr Dean Burnett

@drdeanburnett.bsky.social

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information

Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years

Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth

Tuba: AI

January 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Ody

@odeecs.bsky.social

Dear Tech Companies,

No. We don't want "A.I." anything.

We don't want A.I. social media "friends."
We don't want A.I.-generated news reporters or anchors.
We don't want A.I. to curate our music or make our movies.

We REALLY don't want A.I. put in charge of our insurance claims or kids' education.

January 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM