Zibby
@herglorang.bsky.social
Small joys, garden, writing, books, birds, the sky, history, quiet, laughing, kindness.
"Every moment of your life that is not a hideous nightmare is happiness" - Merrill Markoe
"Every moment of your life that is not a hideous nightmare is happiness" - Merrill Markoe
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36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
December 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
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Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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I can relate to being inspired by practices that have survived from antiquity but "I like this theology because in my interpretation, it elevates me above those I consider my lessers" is generally about ideology rather than faith
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I can relate to being inspired by practices that have survived from antiquity but "I like this theology because in my interpretation, it elevates me above those I consider my lessers" is generally about ideology rather than faith
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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However. One of the patients talking with "Viv" (the AI companion)...had not had a visitor in three months.
She talked for two hours. She was so, so happy to have someone to talk to.
It broke my heart a little. I think it broke the researcher's heart a little, too.
She talked for two hours. She was so, so happy to have someone to talk to.
It broke my heart a little. I think it broke the researcher's heart a little, too.
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
However. One of the patients talking with "Viv" (the AI companion)...had not had a visitor in three months.
She talked for two hours. She was so, so happy to have someone to talk to.
It broke my heart a little. I think it broke the researcher's heart a little, too.
She talked for two hours. She was so, so happy to have someone to talk to.
It broke my heart a little. I think it broke the researcher's heart a little, too.
Today’s fun in Reading Things Quickly and Carelessly:
“Existential baby care tips for new parents”
Make up your own jokes about what these might be.
“Existential baby care tips for new parents”
Make up your own jokes about what these might be.
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Today’s fun in Reading Things Quickly and Carelessly:
“Existential baby care tips for new parents”
Make up your own jokes about what these might be.
“Existential baby care tips for new parents”
Make up your own jokes about what these might be.
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Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
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I would argue that he is not the richest man on earth, he just has the most money.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I would argue that he is not the richest man on earth, he just has the most money.
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I’m not saying he should be president, but maybe the next president could have the ability to put their kids to bed and a grasp of facts about air traffic control, just for a change of pace
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I’m not saying he should be president, but maybe the next president could have the ability to put their kids to bed and a grasp of facts about air traffic control, just for a change of pace
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Relatedly, here is a piece of graffiti written on the wall of a former hotel, which until November housed immigrants from Venezuelan who were bused from red border states to Chicago in the dead of winter with only the clothes they wore, after walking hundreds of miles & through the Darién Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Relatedly, here is a piece of graffiti written on the wall of a former hotel, which until November housed immigrants from Venezuelan who were bused from red border states to Chicago in the dead of winter with only the clothes they wore, after walking hundreds of miles & through the Darién Gap.
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Art points to the government table and says "these defendants should be ashamed of themselves.
"It's a disgrace. And one of the great things about our Constitution, is that if that's what we think, we can say it."
"It's a disgrace. And one of the great things about our Constitution, is that if that's what we think, we can say it."
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Art points to the government table and says "these defendants should be ashamed of themselves.
"It's a disgrace. And one of the great things about our Constitution, is that if that's what we think, we can say it."
"It's a disgrace. And one of the great things about our Constitution, is that if that's what we think, we can say it."
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech
If I didn't live in California I'd move to Illinois.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech
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Looking at all y’all. Click into stories. Read them. Then share them, preferably saying why.
Then maybe those of us determined to put them out there for you can survive to keep writing them.
Then maybe those of us determined to put them out there for you can survive to keep writing them.
As an editor I always hear a lot of: "Why don't you cover climate/environment/prison reform" and 99% of the time the answer is simply "because you don't click those stories!" Readers don't realize they are the ones who dictate all future coverage, and they do it every day with their clicks
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Looking at all y’all. Click into stories. Read them. Then share them, preferably saying why.
Then maybe those of us determined to put them out there for you can survive to keep writing them.
Then maybe those of us determined to put them out there for you can survive to keep writing them.
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Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting
Still haven’t seen a video of neighbors cheering an abduction, still haven’t seen reports of a neighbor pointing out a hiding migrant to ICE/Border Patrol
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting
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Ok, but Gary, if we lose our 2A rights, what will stop a tyrannical president from sending federal officers and troops into our communities to violently violate our rights and disappear our neighbors?
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ok, but Gary, if we lose our 2A rights, what will stop a tyrannical president from sending federal officers and troops into our communities to violently violate our rights and disappear our neighbors?
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Vaccination and public health are at bottom gifts we give each other and ourselves. They are inherently social.
The alternative is pathological individualism, a fundamental rejection of others—one that sees humanity as an ideal gas of unconnected atoms.
Scared & lonely is no way to go thru life.
The alternative is pathological individualism, a fundamental rejection of others—one that sees humanity as an ideal gas of unconnected atoms.
Scared & lonely is no way to go thru life.
A patient in Utah refused to be tested or to help with investigation into the outbreak.
Measles is extremely infectious. It can linger in the room for up to 2 h after an infectious person has left.
Among unvaccinated people, 90% will become infected if exposed.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Measles is extremely infectious. It can linger in the room for up to 2 h after an infectious person has left.
Among unvaccinated people, 90% will become infected if exposed.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk
The person refused to even tell health officials their address.
arstechnica.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Vaccination and public health are at bottom gifts we give each other and ourselves. They are inherently social.
The alternative is pathological individualism, a fundamental rejection of others—one that sees humanity as an ideal gas of unconnected atoms.
Scared & lonely is no way to go thru life.
The alternative is pathological individualism, a fundamental rejection of others—one that sees humanity as an ideal gas of unconnected atoms.
Scared & lonely is no way to go thru life.
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The viral videos show horrifying events, but do not capture the fact that they were EVERYWHERE and took people from at least 3 separate neighborhoods. This was not a one street, one incident event. It was a military style siege stretching from Calvary cemetery to Skokie.
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The viral videos show horrifying events, but do not capture the fact that they were EVERYWHERE and took people from at least 3 separate neighborhoods. This was not a one street, one incident event. It was a military style siege stretching from Calvary cemetery to Skokie.
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For context: this is actually the same time Catholic groups have staged this demonstration, which seeks to offer communion to those detained in the Broadview ICE facility.
Last time, bishops weren’t involved at all — I asked.
This time, they are. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...
Last time, bishops weren’t involved at all — I asked.
This time, they are. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...
As ICE rocks Chicago, Catholics respond with prayer — and protest
(RNS) — ‘As a person of faith, as a leader of faith, to not speak of it is simply unethical — and sinful,’ said the Rev. Brendan Curran, a Dominican priest.
religionnews.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
For context: this is actually the same time Catholic groups have staged this demonstration, which seeks to offer communion to those detained in the Broadview ICE facility.
Last time, bishops weren’t involved at all — I asked.
This time, they are. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...
Last time, bishops weren’t involved at all — I asked.
This time, they are. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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"Under the First Amendment, we cannot have people be afraid. And they don't have to like what you're doing. And that's okay. They can say...that they wish you'd leave Chicago and take the agents with you...but they can't get tear gassed for it "
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Under the First Amendment, we cannot have people be afraid. And they don't have to like what you're doing. And that's okay. They can say...that they wish you'd leave Chicago and take the agents with you...but they can't get tear gassed for it "