Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialmaddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 05/08/2026being an artist means finding things that you have absolutely zero memory of drawing 13946122
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I ❤️ librarians. #BookSky 162114591949
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialSchera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines 242125006536
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialThleen @kathleenbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Just watched Citizen Kane for the first time and it was so good I’m furious. Things that everyone agrees are obviously good shouldn’t actually be that good. My actual favorite movie now might be Citizen goddamn Kane. Can you imagine anything more fucking embarrassing 336051
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Rice cooker cups are 180ml instead of 250ml because they are one gō, a unit dating back to the 16th century Edo era. A gō of rice is 1,000th of a koku, about 150kg of rice. 10,000 koku of rice production was the minimum wealth required to become a feudal lord. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokuen.wikipedia.orgKoku - Wikipedia 419245
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialEb @ebthen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026My role in my immediate family is apparently Government Bureaucracy Understander and like... I would have personally chosen something else. 071
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 24/03/2026Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic' the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway and it's wet this is biology. 1015127
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 24/03/2026"Even individuals who did not become seriously ill with COVID-19 may have developed a weakened immune system that could lead to serious illnesses in the future." www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...news-medical.netSwedish study reveals COVID-19 may increase glandular fever riskEven individuals who did not become seriously ill with COVID-19 may have developed a weakened immune system that could lead to serious illnesses in the future. 6283137
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight?? 2683241239
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/03/2026“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTONtelegraphherald.comA children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in TennesseeDolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park. 227138383076
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialAlan Garner @garnalan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026COVID is not a cold. Children should not be catching it over and over. This study details immune cell changes and heart muscle dysfunction in children who had mild and even asymptomatic COVID.journals.lww.com 218460
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialSean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I built AIRE, a free browser tool that estimates airborne COVID risk indoors using the PMC framework. It also offers an optional “cigarette pack equivalent.” Why? Because 3% per event is abstract. Cumulative harm is easier to grasp on a familiar scale. 🧵 1111136
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialProtect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026“Even without hospitalization, many of these infections have long-term consequences, from organ damage and immune issues to increased risks of cancer and dementia. It’s unconscionable that we aren’t doing everything we can to reduce these risks" dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc...dailyhive.comHealth group calls on B.C. to bring back mask mandates | NewsDoNoHarm BC is calling on B.C. to reinstate mask mandates in medical settings in order to protect patients from medical harm. 17034
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup. 1008208372665
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/05/2025One easy way to know if you should support cuts to Medicaid is to ask yourself if you want your nearest hospital to be open or closed next time you need it. Then repeat the question substituting “Emergency Department,” “Trauma Center,” “Stroke Center,” “Cardiac Cath Lab,” etc. 391804644
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/04/2025the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless 314164503506
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialSARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty. 38769253283
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Listen, I know we’re entirely out of power and our party leadership is capitulating to Nazis and their average age is 97, and we lost Roe and the presidency and climate change and maybe social security and Medicare, and people are being disappeared off the streets, but why change course now? 834972
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Musk's "joke" calling Social Security recipients "vampires" reveals a lot: He sees retirees as parasites who don't deserve economic security. That's why he's going after Social Security. Trump's lies should fool no one on this front. www.salon.com/2025/03/18/e...salon.com"Vampires": Musk's war on Social Security is fueled by Republicans' view of retired people's valueTerms like "fraud," "scam," and "definitely dead" are how the DOGE leader demonizes elderly people 1271667644
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If 250 people can be deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process and vanished forever, then you can be deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process and vanished forever. apnews.com/article/el-s... 13752298
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialElana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025there is no cure for covid or long covid. Everyone is trial and erroring drugs for symptom management. However it is malpractice for your doctor to tell you there is literally nothing to try. Or if they just give you depression meds. Many people have symptom improvement from off-label medications. 513324
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/03/2025i finished the book and What A Dude. absolute mad lad. lost his foot in an incident exploring the ice cap of greenland where he extricated himself from ice with a shiv made from his own feces. sheltered refugees from the nazis, was part of the danish resistance, and hung out in 1930s hollywood. 2246349
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril. 1713209966052
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I've seen a few "actually, a lot of dems are really good at the internet, they just aren't getting attention" please give me non-AOC, non-Bernie examples so that I can educate myself. I will say though, being good at the internet MEANS GETTING ATTENTION. 72411425697
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialAlaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 08/03/2025“All I know is my work is telling me I’m fired, not fired, fired, not fired. Meanwhile, the price of eggs is like 30 bucks, and there’s airplanes falling down around me.”– Kitty Sopow, former National Weather Service 5456112
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 28/02/2025I mean this genuinely: Russia won the cold war. It took until the 2020s, but they did it. 20375102
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs 177144263496
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialMolligru Oak 🏳️⚧️🦄 @blahpers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025*screams in SARA-CoV2* 0621
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialJeff, but a Spooky Ghost @blueberrywerewolf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025That old playbook: 1. It didn't happen 2. Even if it did happen it's not a big deal 3. Okay it did happen but you don't understand <-- we're here 4. It did happen and it was awesome 336719
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialChef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 28/02/2025Oh my fucking god 34377851016
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialClean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife @cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025We spend 90% of time Indoors Children spend a large Proportion Of time high density schools Do not have choices In the shared air breathed Relying on leaky buildings 🪟 natural ventilatn Is Wholly INADEQUATE GOOD #Ventilation #AirFiltration Is ESSENTIAL 4 Healthy Safe Learning 🧠🫀🫁 26327
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialeve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 28/02/2025One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass 193403684
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Ok let’s just manage our hysteria a bit. This is a 90-day stop-work order not an outright cancellation. That’s not good! It’s still scary. Anything can happen during those 90 days. But it’s not dead yet. 724672
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialSarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy 41467403485
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialJeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically. 455214688836
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialAdorable Assassin Ace 🏴☠️ @gaythanksbye.northsky.social · 19/02/2025I was telling my friend today how I wasn't doing so great yesterday and she gently said to me "Flow like water, baby." I later bumped into another friend and she was having a bad day and wanting to pay it forward I put my hand on her shoulder and said very sincerely "water flows like babies." 515214
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialEthan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/02/2025It’s funny when people look at my artwork and say “wow you must do a lot of drugs” and I’m like “haha, no my brain is already barely functioning” 4872
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong. 443255371995
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652768715653
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/01/2025A memo leaked to the Associated Press reveals that the White House has told the U.S. CDC to stop working with the WHO immediately. This breaks protocol which requires the approval of Congress and a one-year notice to leave the WHO. 525124034726
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025It's Inauguration Day and perhaps you have some Trump supporters among your friends and family and this is an important day for them so please remember you don't owe them shit, you're allowed to tell them they're trash or to become estranged from them, whichever you prefer. 🫶 31946127
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/01/2025If you are going to put controls on the top of a device there should be a button lock so the goddamn cat and his dump-truck ass can’t fuck with the dehumidifier settings!!! 47141554
Reposted by @ninisparkles.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I don't think booktok is gonna really migrate here because look at all the words you have to read on here. So many words. It's all reading, you'd really have to enjoy reading to enjoy this place. Like, do it for free in your spare time levels of enjoying reading. 1033821
