BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Had planned to start my re-read of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower today. My first introduction to Octavia Butler was in a science fiction lit class at Penn State in ~1994 (thanks prof Youngquist). 100 pages in and this felt timely: www.axios.com/2025/02/01/o...

My Fitbit just buzzed and said it recognized a 16 minute swim. Bitch, I’m in my PJs on the couch looking for anything to give me hope for the next (2)4 years. I suppose that could be considered a form of swimming. Upstream, in a polluted river that’s probably been renamed.

Good luck to us all tomorrow and in all the days that follow. If I see the words ‘divi filius’ on a (meme)coin, I’m out of here.

I’ve finally accepted I will be singing, “in the year 2525” all year. Just that part though.

Grabbing a pic of the paint I bought because I didn’t buy enough and getting called out.

These fellas like to sit in my neighbors chimney and watch my TV through the window (don’t be fooled, it was full dark when I took this from inside my living room). We’re binging Bad Sisters.

My grammar school had a “cafe” that sold tomato soup with a fresh bread roll for 50p (late 80s). I think about those bread rolls a lot.