Can I just- It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
“Ignorance is becoming socially acceptable.” Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
It’s their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online
Look, I am not here to complain about gender balance of Nobel Prizes, I figured out what I needed to about that all a long time ago and 🙄 But. This got me. They really have NO self-awareness, do they?! After all this time?!! 👀
Me: why does my upper arm hurt so much? Also me: got a flu shot last night Me two hours later: wait why does my arm hurt? Looks over at my bandaid adhesive shaped mild skin irritation, oh, oh right (I got my covid shot a few weeks ago, doing it separately helped me with side effect severity)
Academia is so weird. I have plenty of work to do and not enough time, but somehow the system is set up that I'm also trying to compete with other people to do MOAR WORK later. As if I don't have data, work, and ideas to fill that time.
Oh my god Vance is the asshole in your college seminar who has every answer and is always wrong
Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
Hopefully I won't need this post tonight but I'm not optimistic
i love that i only know i can order more free covid tests when someone i follow on social media is like "heads up! go to the usps website today!" a robust public health infrastructure modelled on "McRib Is Back"
When everything is truly awful, there is one thing that legit gives me hope that humanity may be able to get our shit together: in times of disaster, people basically always focus on helping each other. Be like Mule Guy here and ask what you can do if the worst happens to care for your neighbors.
[AP story has 8 bylines] Mike Toberer decided to bring a dozen of his mules to deliver food, water and diapers to hard-to-reach mountainous areas. “We’ll take our chainsaws, and we’ll push those mules through,” he said, noting that each one can carry about 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of supplies.
The death toll after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast has reached at least 133.
