kormantic
@kormantic.bsky.social
Frivolous vitriol and a lot of frothing at the mouth about things I love! And about people I wish would fall down a lot of stairs.
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Ran across this recently, "Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in trial" w/link to JAMA article. Azelastine is a second-generation histamine H1-receptor antagonisthttps://www.sciencealert.com/over-the-counter-nasal-spray-cuts-covid-cases-by-two-thirds-in-trial
Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in Trial
We may have a new way of protecting against COVID-19 that checks almost all the boxes: It's effective, it's affordable, it's easy to apply, it's already approved as safe for public use, it's available...
www.sciencealert.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ran across this recently, "Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in trial" w/link to JAMA article. Azelastine is a second-generation histamine H1-receptor antagonisthttps://www.sciencealert.com/over-the-counter-nasal-spray-cuts-covid-cases-by-two-thirds-in-trial
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“Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.”
— Matthew Butterick
— Matthew Butterick
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.”
— Matthew Butterick
— Matthew Butterick
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school
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Kanopy is amazing!!! Their selection of The Great Courses is amazing and is the perfect "let me listen to this lecture as I drift off to sleep" show.
Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Kanopy is amazing!!! Their selection of The Great Courses is amazing and is the perfect "let me listen to this lecture as I drift off to sleep" show.
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BIG LOUD SAME
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
BIG LOUD SAME
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Thanks to y'all who are sharing this!!! Please keep sharing!
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
Hey Baltimoreans, I would LOVE to get more folks on this Wednesday evening's @fullstorybaltimore.tours ~Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point~ tour!
If you know anyone who'd be interested, can you please let them know? &/or share this Facebook post link, if you're on FB? www.facebook.com/share/p/17cX...
If you know anyone who'd be interested, can you please let them know? &/or share this Facebook post link, if you're on FB? www.facebook.com/share/p/17cX...
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thanks to y'all who are sharing this!!! Please keep sharing!
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
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Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Here’s 10 (not so) hidden ways how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various
www.eff.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Here’s 10 (not so) hidden ways how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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I know everything feels dark and terrible, but More Joy Day is coming back for the 19th year and I'm looking forward to it. I hope you all will join me on January 8, 2026 and share the joy.
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
More Joy Day is BACK
What's More Joy Day? In short it’s this:
Every year since 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy, I’ve proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one act, either online....
sdwolfpup.tumblr.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I know everything feels dark and terrible, but More Joy Day is coming back for the 19th year and I'm looking forward to it. I hope you all will join me on January 8, 2026 and share the joy.
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Did you know that you can creme brulee a pumpkin pie BECAUSE YOU FUCKING CAN
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Did you know that you can creme brulee a pumpkin pie BECAUSE YOU FUCKING CAN
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If you were wondering, the "NO!" is not actually how I have been doing it badly but also it's a good tip but anyway here's how to do them correctly.
youtu.be/BCVtXBU7wlk?...
youtu.be/BCVtXBU7wlk?...
French Knots - How To Do Them Correctly
YouTube video by River Birch Threads
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
If you were wondering, the "NO!" is not actually how I have been doing it badly but also it's a good tip but anyway here's how to do them correctly.
youtu.be/BCVtXBU7wlk?...
youtu.be/BCVtXBU7wlk?...
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
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Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
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November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM