Cat Stelling

Generally books, movies, comics, and assorted Nerdery.
Sometimes raging against the machine.
Always over the top
She/Her/Hers

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.

Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.

Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.

The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.

[Project for Awesome @proj4awesome]

1 MONTH UNTIL P4A! #P4A2024

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

UPDATE: After an enormous outcry, Cigna has reversed their unconscionable last-minute denial and will be covering Carole's transplant (!!).

Carole is extremely relieved, and she's grateful to the many, many people who emailed Cigna over the past 24 hours.

Having said that...

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.

In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

.@DanaherCorp has shut down their public-facing phone line. I guess they don't love hearing from the public. That's odd, because they were happy to accept over $250,000,000 of public money to develop their GeneXpert Machine.

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

Hey @DanaherCorp: You're already in the news. Great story about Danaher's price gouging and nerdfighteria's refusal to accept it. #PeopleOverProfits
https://t.co/GHBUEafdC8

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

Just so you know, @DanaherCorp, today is Day One of However Long It Takes you to facilitate equitable and affordable access to lifesaving TB diagnostic tools.
We don't let up. #PeopleOverProfits

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

Good morning, @CepheidNews and @DanaherCorp. Admin, today is going to be difficult. I'm sorry about that. It isn't about you--I'm sure you're lovely. This is about your bosses price-gouging the world's poorest countries through Cepheid's functional monopoly on tuberculosis tests. #peopleoverprofits

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

. @DanaherCorp makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light. #PeopleOverProfits

[Partners In Health @PIH]

(🧵) IT'S TIME FOR $5.

#Tuberculosis is curable, but right now it's still the deadliest infectious disease in the world.

One reason? The artificially high price of testing cartridges.

Watch now: https://t.co/0hzRs9MbAB

#PatientsNotProfits #TimeFor5

[Chris 🏳️‍⚧️ @MrChrishere]

I am a trans man. My biology will always show I was born female, my sex is female(the whole point of “trans”), my GENDER IS MALE. I don’t care about the chromosomes, I don’t care what the archeologists say about my bones 500 years from now. I’m living my life as the man I am and that’s the ONLY thing that matters. My chromosomes are none of your business, my body parts and what I choose to do with them are none of your business. What is your business, is that I identify as male, so that’s how you may identify me, period

[Cat Stelling @eyedart]

@hankgreen https://t.co/iP95iV7B8j I hope this video makes you smile today.

[Judy Blume @judyblume]

Per my recent interview with Variety:

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Texas heard SB888 yesterday, an anti-trans bill targeting doctors caring for trans youth.

After one person spoke, the chair then read off the names of 3 people to speak next...

And just...

Watch...

God I love Gen Z💀

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

If we saw these children’s distress as feedback, maybe instead of sending them to see a psychologist, we’d be asking how we could change the school system so it prioritised flourishing over curriculum, so it put emotional well being on a par with test scores. 5/

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

What would happen if we saw school related distress as feedback on the system? As a psychologist, I meet many children who are distressed by school. Usually I’m being asked to change that. Can I make them less anxious? Can I make them attend without protest? 1/

[Cat Stelling @eyedart]

@layne @beatonna This is a severely underrated tweet 🤣

[Zinn Ed Project @ZinnEdProject]

We recommend YA book of historical fiction "Crossing Ebenezer Creek" by @tonyaboldenbook for HS students (and adults) about massacre that led to demands by Black ministers for Field Order #15. ⬇️
Check out more of Bolden's books for young readers.
https://t.co/qZDDe5jRLf

[Cat Stelling @eyedart]

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