Phil
@alsonamedphil.bsky.social
I used to hate the fool in me
But only in the morning
Now, I tolerate him all day long
(He/Him)
But only in the morning
Now, I tolerate him all day long
(He/Him)
Pinned
Phil
@alsonamedphil.bsky.social
· May 30
Friday Tune: Sierra Ferrell - American Dreaming youtu.be/V8e9nbsq-18?...
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
One of the more distressing parts of this is the people who think replacing coal, a fossil fuel, with LNG, a fossil fuel, will actually solve the climate crisis.
As more and more studies expose fossil-fuel health harms, Mark Carney is doubling down
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
First Nations and frontline workers are leading the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down
First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
pressprogress.ca
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One of the more distressing parts of this is the people who think replacing coal, a fossil fuel, with LNG, a fossil fuel, will actually solve the climate crisis.
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the internet was better when it was confined to several big plastic cubes on a desk in one room of your house
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
the internet was better when it was confined to several big plastic cubes on a desk in one room of your house
Social media is weird. I spend two months in another country without my phone and I don't miss it for a day. Suddenly the phone is back and I get sucked in for a moment at a time.
It's inevitable, apparently.
It's inevitable, apparently.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Social media is weird. I spend two months in another country without my phone and I don't miss it for a day. Suddenly the phone is back and I get sucked in for a moment at a time.
It's inevitable, apparently.
It's inevitable, apparently.
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Is it just me or does Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day feel like it comes earlier and earlier each year?
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Is it just me or does Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day feel like it comes earlier and earlier each year?
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Clickbait headlines have no place in responsible health reporting.
How about this?
"Yes, you should absolutely still get the flu shot say experts"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
How about this?
"Yes, you should absolutely still get the flu shot say experts"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
What’s the point of getting a flu shot this year? Here’s what the science says | CBC News
Some scientists say this year's flu shot isn't well matched to a key strain that could spread widely in the months ahead. So, is there still a point in getting it? Medical experts say: absolutely. Her...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Clickbait headlines have no place in responsible health reporting.
How about this?
"Yes, you should absolutely still get the flu shot say experts"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
How about this?
"Yes, you should absolutely still get the flu shot say experts"
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
By making it to OT, the Leafs get to maintain their spot in teams with a .500 or better pts% with 25 other teams this season... because the NHL system is stupid.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
By making it to OT, the Leafs get to maintain their spot in teams with a .500 or better pts% with 25 other teams this season... because the NHL system is stupid.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
/angry goose meme
"Left vulnerable by whom?"
"LEFT VULNERABLE BY FUCKING WHOM, ASSHOLES?!?!"
"Left vulnerable by whom?"
"LEFT VULNERABLE BY FUCKING WHOM, ASSHOLES?!?!"
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
/angry goose meme
"Left vulnerable by whom?"
"LEFT VULNERABLE BY FUCKING WHOM, ASSHOLES?!?!"
"Left vulnerable by whom?"
"LEFT VULNERABLE BY FUCKING WHOM, ASSHOLES?!?!"
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
FTR, I still exist.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
FTR, I still exist.
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"When the rich rob the poor, the rich call it 'business'. When the poor fight back, the rich call it 'violence'."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
September 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"When the rich rob the poor, the rich call it 'business'. When the poor fight back, the rich call it 'violence'."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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relevant life lesson from comics on this one
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
relevant life lesson from comics on this one
Robert Redford was a true triple threat: actor, director and a top ten all-time meme.
a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods
Alt: A man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods
Yes, that's Robert Redford.
media.tenor.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Robert Redford was a true triple threat: actor, director and a top ten all-time meme.
Pierre Pollievre speaking to CBC radio?!
Geez, he's desperate. (He's currently complaining Carney hasn't built anything in his first six months and brought up Trudeau within a minute.)
Geez, he's desperate. (He's currently complaining Carney hasn't built anything in his first six months and brought up Trudeau within a minute.)
September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pierre Pollievre speaking to CBC radio?!
Geez, he's desperate. (He's currently complaining Carney hasn't built anything in his first six months and brought up Trudeau within a minute.)
Geez, he's desperate. (He's currently complaining Carney hasn't built anything in his first six months and brought up Trudeau within a minute.)
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“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’”
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’”
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I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!
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Now that he’s no longer a useful martyr, Charlie Kirk is going to be forgotten so fast that he’ll be lucky to get a headstone.
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Now that he’s no longer a useful martyr, Charlie Kirk is going to be forgotten so fast that he’ll be lucky to get a headstone.
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I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.
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I'm shocked SHOCKED I tells ya: globalnews.ca/news/1140487...
Ontario gas prices climb, erasing consumer carbon pricing repeal savings | Globalnews.ca
Consumer carbon pricing added about 17.6 cents per litre to the price at the pumps this time last year, but gas is only five cents less today.
globalnews.ca
September 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm shocked SHOCKED I tells ya: globalnews.ca/news/1140487...
No one deserves to be struck by lightning but if a person routinely ran around outside in storms with a long metal pole, it wouldn't be surprising nor incredibly tragic.
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
No one deserves to be struck by lightning but if a person routinely ran around outside in storms with a long metal pole, it wouldn't be surprising nor incredibly tragic.
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There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.
September 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.