babs ✨

not giving credence any which way here, genuinely just curious. it came across my feeds a bit ago and just had me like huh, interesting, how about that.

curious if anyone—but especially information/internet studies folks—have come across the strange little corner of the internet theorizing that kai trump and her bestie (cannot recall the name) are in a sapphic relationship?

a few but mainly clarinets here as well! bass clarinet and contrabass were my forte hehe

Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

This is great health equity news for something Black health advocates knew would happen if change happened. www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/k...

i'm extremely blessed to work at a performing arts school so i get to hear this frequently 🥹 what did you play?

huuuge same. as a former student ensemble musician i also get a nostalgic anticipatory feeling.. like.. the ghost of what it felt like to prepare to perform? like.. compersion for the performers on the stage? lovely all around, top 10 sounds.

heads up, if you've been waiting for metrix NAAT tests to restock, they're back!

i swear this company does not pay me a single cent, i am merely a user of their products !!!

great video from @fdsignifier.bsky.social—this is such a solid essential breakdown that all people benefit from hearing, and i'd bet so many in your audience wouldn't get anywhere else, especially the call to action to get people to organize for clean air in workplaces and schools!

oOo love to see @lolagerms.bsky.social cameo !

looking to report on folks with Long COVID in US prisons. if you have a penpal or loved one inside, it would be awesome if you can ask them if they know anyone who suspects they have it!

if you know someone or have an idea where I might look, my signal is @freeze.16 and email rebelprof@proton.me

Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease — years after he had it as a baby Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking — and killing — years later.

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

just keep asking cool artists to include alt text on their work, it isn’t hard to do and most people are actually very chill and nice about it!

I had several weird conversations today, but this one is definitely in the top ten.

“Do you realise you are getting rarer and rarer?”

(Don’t call the grammar police, I didn’t make it up.)

“Yes, why?”

“Why do you still wear a mask? Do you really want to be the last one left alive?”

you’d think the lava would be hot enough to kill any pathogens but alas 😮‍💨

i knew it was an LA story but it took about halfway through to get really juicy.

damn it’s a special thing to be an angeleno, born n raised.

went for didion, amused to hear her say “go for fried fish at the ventura county line” — a neptunes net shoutout for only the realest

Facebook post from Dr. Simone Gold, 6hrs ago: "Calling it “gender-affirming care” doesn’t change what it is. Removing or altering healthy body tissue in children is medical mutilation. The Constitution is clear: Parents—not the state—have authority over their children." [video titled "Gender Affirming Care" is Medical Mutilation]

one more from today, for good measure 😔

good thing they're just waxing possibilities about the next pandemic instead of doing something then, right? 😵‍💫👍

this Monica Gandhi in case you'd forgotten (champion of "covid = flu" and "get back to normal (without doing anything other than vaccination)"
(news articles she appears in before end of 2022)

ok maybe i blanked on this—gandhi mentions her children had just lost their father going into the pandemic... has she talked about this before? if not, seems super relevant in the evolution of her views.

our collective [waking] sleep paralysis apparitions

ok it's over i'm gonna go scrub my eyes with soap

apologies, this was actually still @brindabee.bsky.social speaking at this point—the stream was not always clear; my request still stands though! let's talk about the ongoing—if not growing—need for clean air!

rich of rochelle "masks are like “the scarlet letters of this pandemic'" walensky to discuss pre-bunking 🥲👍

hey there @juliaminson.bsky.social! i'd love to take you up on your call to talk to people with different views than you—the lack of acknowledgement, let alone representation, of ongoing clean air advocacy has been pretty jarring! i think we'd have a lively conversation.

ok maybe i blanked on this—gandhi mentions her children had just lost their father going into the pandemic... has she talked about this before? if not, seems super relevant in the evolution of her views.

q: "what advice do you have for the next generation...about how we communicate in light of this...polarization...?"
gandhi: yet again insisting she's the most lefty of all time, "and so i was surprised i was saying things more like the things leaders of red states were saying?"

ikr so weird!!!!

walensky: "we had six years—we had three years of really awful luck"

COME ON
OH MY GOD

i need to turn this off but it's like a classic farce—acting like what they're talking about is hypothetical, as if the worker stripped of resources "stifling their cough and going to work with covid" isn't literally maskless on the metro right now. my face is morphing into oni 👹

omg monica offered to consult on mitigation *for free* despite her incredibly busy schedule! who ever could imagine doing such a thing out of the kindness of their heart!