DaemonSky
@dsky.bsky.social
Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
I really did want to sit in the comfy reading chair, Bella. I only got up for 20 minutes. I think we need to talk about sharing?
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I really did want to sit in the comfy reading chair, Bella. I only got up for 20 minutes. I think we need to talk about sharing?
If we laugh bitterly at the idea of ever buying a house near our jobs or paying off student loans - we aren't the rich ones even if it really does seem like living on what we make should be fine.
All of you are poor. These hypothetical poor people everyone is discussing are us. We’re poor. Idc if you make 6 figures or not. You’re poor too.
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If we laugh bitterly at the idea of ever buying a house near our jobs or paying off student loans - we aren't the rich ones even if it really does seem like living on what we make should be fine.
My kingdom for a company that doesn't make an app. I want to order coffee ahead, not download a thing, earn points, and give you my location, you absolute jerks. Just let me buy your thing without another password/app/text chain/thing to remember to delete!!
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My kingdom for a company that doesn't make an app. I want to order coffee ahead, not download a thing, earn points, and give you my location, you absolute jerks. Just let me buy your thing without another password/app/text chain/thing to remember to delete!!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Well that's fun. Hmm. A random selection with some recency bias:
Tesseract
Boris
Flogging Molly
The Melvins
Dar Williams
Well that's fun. Hmm. A random selection with some recency bias:
Tesseract
Boris
Flogging Molly
The Melvins
Dar Williams
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
The B-52's
The Cure
Kylie Minogue
Cyndi Lauper
Björk @ Red Rocks
The B-52's
The Cure
Kylie Minogue
Cyndi Lauper
Björk @ Red Rocks
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
The Cult
Marillion
Rush
Living Colour
Zucchero
The Cult
Marillion
Rush
Living Colour
Zucchero
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Well that's fun. Hmm. A random selection with some recency bias:
Tesseract
Boris
Flogging Molly
The Melvins
Dar Williams
Well that's fun. Hmm. A random selection with some recency bias:
Tesseract
Boris
Flogging Molly
The Melvins
Dar Williams
You know, we had 10+ year meltdown in pathogen research about publishing enhancement methods. Whatever you think about the AI paper and whether it's good - if they'd published their poems, they'd be getting ripped apart for irresponsible behavior rather than withholding info.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
You know, we had 10+ year meltdown in pathogen research about publishing enhancement methods. Whatever you think about the AI paper and whether it's good - if they'd published their poems, they'd be getting ripped apart for irresponsible behavior rather than withholding info.
This would explain why they're are so many fewer doctors in my current area vs my old one. With so many people on PCP wait lists, more docs aren't coming. I wonder if this is well known privately by PCPs and not talked about?
– Physician practices are paid ~10% less for encounters with Black or Hispanic patients overall, and ~15% less for visits with Black or Hispanic children. These comparisons exclude payment differences associated with differences in visit content (e.g. RVUs,) or geographic market... (4/7)
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This would explain why they're are so many fewer doctors in my current area vs my old one. With so many people on PCP wait lists, more docs aren't coming. I wonder if this is well known privately by PCPs and not talked about?
But if I hit all of them, do I get a sparkly demon or something? I'd have to pull off some miracles to pass as male for the freemasons, but I'm not UNwilling if I get a prize.
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
But if I hit all of them, do I get a sparkly demon or something? I'd have to pull off some miracles to pass as male for the freemasons, but I'm not UNwilling if I get a prize.
This is so evil and will just drive citizens out of the country for the safety of their spouses.
Gut wrenching: “I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.
Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown.”
Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown.”
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is so evil and will just drive citizens out of the country for the safety of their spouses.
So it turns out one of the advantages to getting a sewing machine that's not from before 1950 is magical things like thread cutters and automatic lock stitches and automatic button holes.
Apparently it's hilarious that we'd never seen automatic button holes and both think they're magic.
Apparently it's hilarious that we'd never seen automatic button holes and both think they're magic.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So it turns out one of the advantages to getting a sewing machine that's not from before 1950 is magical things like thread cutters and automatic lock stitches and automatic button holes.
Apparently it's hilarious that we'd never seen automatic button holes and both think they're magic.
Apparently it's hilarious that we'd never seen automatic button holes and both think they're magic.
This is amazing! Hope for a future where we still have antimicrobials that work is a beautiful thing.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is amazing! Hope for a future where we still have antimicrobials that work is a beautiful thing.
Given I'm on day two of wishing curses of inconvenience on our security and IT departments, just 1000 times this. Security is important, but when it quite literally prevents people from doing *everything* they need to do they'll find ways around. It's true in every kind of security or defense.
Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Given I'm on day two of wishing curses of inconvenience on our security and IT departments, just 1000 times this. Security is important, but when it quite literally prevents people from doing *everything* they need to do they'll find ways around. It's true in every kind of security or defense.
In case you need a little historical strangeness in your day. I love weird patents!
Presenting: A masterthread of our spotlights on old-timey patents for weird objects that interface with vaginas. We regret to inform you we'll probably update it occasionally. Links are Mastodon up until the point where we started posting these on here, too.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In case you need a little historical strangeness in your day. I love weird patents!
It's great. Really. My computer is so secure between all the 2FAs and VPN and security software that eats 30% RAM that it just doesn't work as a laptop. I'm going to super-soaker my IT department's pet server next time I'm in the office for this evening.
The person who designed my company's 2FA system need to encounter only the most enraging situations for the rest of their lives. May they suffer every enraging inconvenience, inkless pens, unstable internet, etc.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's great. Really. My computer is so secure between all the 2FAs and VPN and security software that eats 30% RAM that it just doesn't work as a laptop. I'm going to super-soaker my IT department's pet server next time I'm in the office for this evening.
The person who designed my company's 2FA system need to encounter only the most enraging situations for the rest of their lives. May they suffer every enraging inconvenience, inkless pens, unstable internet, etc.
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The person who designed my company's 2FA system need to encounter only the most enraging situations for the rest of their lives. May they suffer every enraging inconvenience, inkless pens, unstable internet, etc.
I'm fascinated by how mad people are about an idea that's been discussed for 20+ years. It's an artificial volcano that buys time to decarbonize - do y'all not understand that we have to cool much faster than we have to not kill tens of thousands? How do you plan on achieving that?
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I'm fascinated by how mad people are about an idea that's been discussed for 20+ years. It's an artificial volcano that buys time to decarbonize - do y'all not understand that we have to cool much faster than we have to not kill tens of thousands? How do you plan on achieving that?
Yeah this is "Cool. Can I get you something else? We have tea, coffee, sparkling water, etc..."
Don't be a jerk about other people's choices.
Don't be a jerk about other people's choices.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Yeah this is "Cool. Can I get you something else? We have tea, coffee, sparkling water, etc..."
Don't be a jerk about other people's choices.
Don't be a jerk about other people's choices.
Some good news for the day!
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Some good news for the day!
In all these movies where they send out the National Guard to keep people calm, I wonder how people would react in future. All the little kids in my life who've asked if the soldiers are going to hurt us or their friends won't see them as peace keepers ever again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In all these movies where they send out the National Guard to keep people calm, I wonder how people would react in future. All the little kids in my life who've asked if the soldiers are going to hurt us or their friends won't see them as peace keepers ever again.
This thread is a perfect morning read to correct history and undo the injustice of films that demonize people who don't have the power to stop them and. Oliver Stone should be ashamed.
Surprisingly, this post got traction last night. So now I want to tell you about Clay Shaw, and Jim Garrison's horrific homophobic prosecution of him, a nightmare of Les Miserables-like proportions.
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
That Oliver Stone made a movie lionizing Jim Garrison's ludicrous prosecution of an innocent man (Clay Shaw) is one of the most egregious historical transmogrifications in cinema. Imagine in 20 yrs a Stephen Miller hagiography starring Chalamet, that's the artistic crime level we're talking.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This thread is a perfect morning read to correct history and undo the injustice of films that demonize people who don't have the power to stop them and. Oliver Stone should be ashamed.
One of the best parts of my county's holiday parade is all the dance clubs and schools from a bunch of countries/regions. It's a parade of "here's a cool place you haven't been and out awesome traditions" and I love it. Mixed with the very good marching bands and the troops of various things.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
One of the best parts of my county's holiday parade is all the dance clubs and schools from a bunch of countries/regions. It's a parade of "here's a cool place you haven't been and out awesome traditions" and I love it. Mixed with the very good marching bands and the troops of various things.
Absolutely this. I'd add that many conspiracy movements focused on women's health exist because the medical establishment has completely failed women. I know so many people whose doctors drove them to strange behavior in desperation.
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Absolutely this. I'd add that many conspiracy movements focused on women's health exist because the medical establishment has completely failed women. I know so many people whose doctors drove them to strange behavior in desperation.
This makes me so happy. I would 100% go to a Vatican rave.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This makes me so happy. I would 100% go to a Vatican rave.
Every now and then a day is so weird, I just repeat the convo with my old Marine shrink that goes:
M: are you going to drink about that?
Me: yup
M: is that a GOOD idea?
Me: oh definitely not
M: and so...
Me: to the bar, lol!
M: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ dammit why are you an 18 yo dumbass at 40????
M: are you going to drink about that?
Me: yup
M: is that a GOOD idea?
Me: oh definitely not
M: and so...
Me: to the bar, lol!
M: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ dammit why are you an 18 yo dumbass at 40????
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Every now and then a day is so weird, I just repeat the convo with my old Marine shrink that goes:
M: are you going to drink about that?
Me: yup
M: is that a GOOD idea?
Me: oh definitely not
M: and so...
Me: to the bar, lol!
M: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ dammit why are you an 18 yo dumbass at 40????
M: are you going to drink about that?
Me: yup
M: is that a GOOD idea?
Me: oh definitely not
M: and so...
Me: to the bar, lol!
M: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ dammit why are you an 18 yo dumbass at 40????
Researchers might be worse? I think our DM almost flipped the board after 30+ minutes of questions about what *exactly* we could and could not take through a portal into the realm of the gods and how the physics of that worked. 😂
Also, many, many language questions on how we were talking to who.
Also, many, many language questions on how we were talking to who.
It must be hard for DMs to have journalists in your D&D party because we’re professionally trained question askers and probably grill you on a bunch of shit you weren’t prepared to think about.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Researchers might be worse? I think our DM almost flipped the board after 30+ minutes of questions about what *exactly* we could and could not take through a portal into the realm of the gods and how the physics of that worked. 😂
Also, many, many language questions on how we were talking to who.
Also, many, many language questions on how we were talking to who.
I am dreading this election. It took years of work and volunteers and building to get her elected and I'm still pissed she sold us out to become governor this soon. This is going to be such a mess.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I am dreading this election. It took years of work and volunteers and building to get her elected and I'm still pissed she sold us out to become governor this soon. This is going to be such a mess.