🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/10/2026need someone to write an essay about how ‘colors’ suddenly became ‘colorways’ 000
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 11/10/2026oh dear, my 10-year-old upstairs neighbor seems to have taken up the trumpet 020
Reposted by 🦭Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.gadgetreview.comVirginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their HomesVirginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits. 13429541456
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 06/10/2026bathroom interaction with colleague yesterday: colleague: how’s it going? me: i’m hanging in there! colleague: you got a cold? me: no i actually haven’t been sick in six and a half years because of this amazing technology 040
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 05/10/2026my very leftist therapist this morning: ‘i don’t know if you even know how far left i am’ 000
Reposted by 🦭Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1455001469
Reposted by 🦭Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026explaining to my toddler that we pay a lot of money for health insurance which pays for our healthcare, but also we have to pay the doctor for healthcare until we pay enough money for the health insurance to start paying for our healthcare but even then we still pay the doctor 1427
Reposted by 🦭regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026... 3734571023
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 26/09/2026cannot stop thinking about the sheep dog demo i witnessed at the common ground fair yesterday 010
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 20/09/202672 mg ferrous bisglycinate chelate every other day while also trying to add additional iron into my diet! (lentils, beans, dark chocolate, heme iron) 010
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/09/2026duncan sheik wrote some of the most beautiful music i’ve ever heard in my life, what an enormous loss of a creative luminary 000
Reposted by 🦭Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...cidrap.umn.eduAirport air sampling captures COVID, influenza virusesResearchers say air monitoring complements wastewater testing in detecting respiratory pathogens from diverse populations, including asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people. 513252
Reposted by 🦭The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2026Breaking News: Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who traded pop stardom for Broadway as the composer of “Spring Awakening,” has died at 56.nyti.msDuncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.” 99933
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/09/2026this may be a hot take, but why are people naming their dogs ‘potato’ 000
Reposted by 🦭Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.socialrollingstone.comThese Women Tried to Warn Us About AIRumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears 7619283
Reposted by 🦭morgan 🍁 @morgan.northsky.social · 10/09/2026DAVID MORALES, THE NEXT MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 041
Reposted by 🦭Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections. 463001574
Reposted by 🦭Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine. 7346126
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026thinking that week 2 of my first-year STS writing course is going to be called ‘in defense of writing and thinking’ because that’s where we are in the year of our lord 2026; what are your favorite pieces on the value of writing and thinking in the age of AI? 031
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026livingwithcovidmuseum.comlivingwithcovidmuseum.comLiving with COVID MuseumA living evidence and education project about COVID, Long COVID, prevention, history, and misinformation. Every reviewed Museum claim carries its evidence strength and its limits. 010
Reposted by 🦭Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...katemanne.substack.comGossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason ArdayOr, the anatomy of a pile-on 20470114
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026since moving to maine last week each morning i awake and ask myself: where am i going to swim and where am i going to consume ice cream today? 030
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 19/07/2026after some research, i’d like to officially come out as pro-daylight saving 000
Reposted by 🦭Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026Former ME CD02 candidate Paige Loud, a social worker and citizen of the Cherokee Nation is putting her hat in the ring for the US Senate race in Maine: www.threads.com/@loudforsena...threads.comPaige Loud (@loudforsenate) on ThreadsThe strongest candidate to defeat Susan Collins is one who can keep the conversation focused on the future rather than on defending the past. I am a social worker whose career has been dedicated to se... 322049
Reposted by 🦭Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The argument, always, is not over whether rape happens. Everyone knows that it happens all the time. The argument is over whether rape is morally serious. A lot of people do not think that it is, and they would be more honest if they said so. 6510103
Reposted by 🦭NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Let’s please steer the conversation back to my Nazi tattoo. by Graham Platner 151109129
Reposted by 🦭The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/05/2026Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/M5gaYm 54012
Reposted by 🦭Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 18/06/2026The Tartan Army has been the most delightful addition to June in Providence this year 1206
Reposted by 🦭b. supp @valhallabackgirl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Patricia from Widow’s Bay might be my favorite character ever committed to celluloid. Kate O’Flynn is incredible. 4303
Reposted by 🦭betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Today at @thesicktimes.org: We republished a great piece by @whoevenreads.bsky.social about bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness! thesicktimes.org/2026/06/05/i...thesicktimes.orgIndie bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026 - The Sick TimesThe trajectory of COVID-19 awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future... 37121
Reposted by 🦭The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Less: ChatGPT More: Researching amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Edinburgh during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost. 15873164
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/05/2026therapist: ‘you probably don’t want me weeping at your graduation’ me: ‘uh, you’d be incorrect’ 000
Reposted by 🦭Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org 4525321122
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/05/2026undergrad house party blasting iris from the third floor with all the windows open 031
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 15/05/2026my tiktok feed is now serving me videos of dogs in doctoral regalia 010
Reposted by 🦭Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026OpenAI is being sued by the family of a 19-yo student who overdosed after ChatGPT wrongly advised him to consume a deadly mix of substances. The lawsuit seeks to halt access to "ChatGPT Health," a health "support" product that outside experts have found grave flaws in: futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comOpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College StudentOpenAI is being sued over the death of 19-year-old Sam Nelson, who died of an overdose after ChatGPT recommended a deadly mix of drugs. 422996
Reposted by 🦭Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I wonder how many people will panic they’ve been exposed to hantavirus when whatever they have is actually one of the many other diseases we’ve decided are not worth doing anything about even tho they’re far more likely. “What a relief, you actually have the brain-,blood vessel-&heart-damaging one!” 25118
Reposted by 🦭Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Publ*c health’s main job has become to tell people “don’t panic” and “trust us” without doing much to make those things possible and it’s really sad. But they won’t do better because too many people put saving face (and “the economy”) over saving lives. 15816
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 23/04/2026can someone please help me to diagnose the vocal affect shared between alison roman and anne helen petersen 000
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 22/04/2026ALSO BEGGING THESE FUCKERS TO RECOGNIZE THAT CHRONIC DISEASE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!!!! 000
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 14/04/2026on today’s episode of make it make sense, why the fuck do you have to pay more taxes if you’re single than if you’re married!!!!! 110
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social · 13/04/2026‘everything about our therapeutic relationship is different from any other relationship i’ve ever had’ - my therapist 030