GOOD NEWS! A group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukemia have seen their cancer driven into REMISSION by an innovative immune therapy known as BE-CAR7. 82% of patients reached deep remission and 64% of patients have now been disease-free and OFF therapy for THREE years.

So do the cats in Cats not ever die if they're not chosen, or are they just not reincarnated unless they're chosen?

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for the project of Elon Musk, not merely coincidental, because his brand is the scrappy underdog fighting the powers that be, but as the world's wealthiest person, he cannot define the powerful by material wealth, corporate ownership, or political connections.

I moved to Uruguay.

RIP Trevor Belmont. You would've loved ketamine.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but I am NOT keeping the freak show talk to a careful minimum.

There's a weird trend in sort of pop science/pseudoscience talk where people think serotonin is the good feel-good neurotransmitter for long term happiness, and dopamine is the bad one that only gives short term rewards. The reality is that serotonin and dopamine are necessary for brain function.

Orgasms are good for you, in case anyone's not clear on that. They're good for you both psychologically and physically. They can improve prostate health, vaginal muscle tone, various types of pain, and even heart health.

What. No. Don't use their language, @newyorker.com that is not even a real word. What the hell is wrong with "flee" or like. "Flee this godforsaken country"

I used to live in a suburb that was within walking distance of three different bakeries for dogs, and that was in a much less populated area. It didn't even occur to me to make a conspiracy theory about it. The daycares are fine.

As far as I can tell, nobody is abandoning the body positivity or fat acceptance movements because of Ozempic. People just have more options now.

Even if I believed Marjorie Taylor Greene were both sincere about changing and actually in some way progressive now, I wouldn't want her to hold public office, because she's stupid as hell.

“I hate children!” wow, that’s a very fucked up thing to say if you think about it for even one second. you should perhaps be exiled to a desert island

people should have absolute and complete autonomy over the decision whether or not to have children. but positioning kids as a regressive burden from which you are enlightened and free demonstrates a pretty sour understanding of your obligations to your community

Tempted to start a shared blocklist of antisemites on here. Somebody talk me out of this.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Does anyone know of online Spanish tests used to assess your proficiency level that aren't made by people trying to sell Spanish classes? It seems like if you're selling lessons, you've got motive to make people think they're worse at Spanish than they are.

I've been cooking lately, mostly simple things, and it's really rewarding! I made some sweet potatoes in the air fryer again today, and they came out the best yet.

So if your bi friends (especially your older bi friends) are flinching when people tell them what bi means (or what it doesn’t mean)—via relying on the binary—resist the urge to tell them there are better words, or "you should say…" Ditto when representation relies on words like "both."

"Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have "two" sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders." 1990. Language evolves, for sure. But they weren’t unclear.

A gentle reminder, from 1990: "Anything That Moves" (a bi magazine produced by the Bay Area Bisexual Network published the "Bisexual Manifesto."

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Saw people comparing Ozempic, the medication that is the reason I am no longer diabetic, to "a pill that makes you straight"/"a pill that makes it so you're not autistic" in a negative sense. And like, fuck off. Sometimes people have medical conditions due to weight that need to be treated.

I moved to a new country and learned a bunch of Spanish for that reason! Also I’ve done like a million scary things in the process.

As a fat transmasc, it can be really hard to feel attractive when I don’t see bodies like mine portrayed as desirable.

Entirely too often, a gentile gets told by a Jew that using “Pharisee” as an insult is antisemitic, and the gentile immediately gets so angry that they have to go to the hospital.

Wait, I’m gonna rephrase a post because I feel like it was syntactically confusing.

some people are so fundamentally incapable of understanding what we mean when we say "stop using 'Pharisee' as an insult" that they end up saying things like "what, you don't see the man who murdered six million descendants of the Pharisees as a Pharisee!?" as if that isn't batshit

she just got the house to pass her bill criminalizing trans care for people under 18 years old. the only mention in this piece is about how she’s upset trump hasn’t done *enough* to harm trans kids. oh and a quote from her saying trans people are all “perverted”. what is going on at NYT?

Ok all sarcasm aside, what these white supremacists are really talking about is when they are asked to apologize for doing racist things. Which happens. Because racism is something to apologize for. What they are saying is that no one should have to apologize for racist actions or statements.

There's something kind of exhausting at watching you tell a group of Jews that we don't understand our own history... Pharisees became modern day Jews. It is not a synonym for hypocrisy and Jews have been screaming to non-Jews to stop using our history as a term for all the people you hate.

“I’m an atheist who believes all scriptures are full of lies, which is why I reference scripture all the time and, when confronted with the antisemitism of the lies, find it nigh impossible to apologize for not recognizing antisemitism when I see it and just stop making scriptural references.”

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

SSRIs do have a high adverse effect count though? Like don't get me wrong, I'm pro psychiatry, but SSRIs do increase suicide risk for some patients. Given how widely they're used (& the fact that no causation has been established between ChatGPT and suicide), SSRIs have almost certainly killed more.

So we haven't been able to find condensed milk here to make Vietnamese iced coffee with condensed milk (cà phê sữa đá), but if my sister is to believed, you can make a surprisingly good approximation using dulce de leche and (I think) cream.

Guys, I haven't read Lord of the Rings in a while. Was Sauron the good guy?

This is such a huge time for Canadian and Canada adjacent fujoshi. Love that for them.

BUT THAT IS YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF HAM

still not too late to get vaccinated!

they can fireproof it to hell but life, uh, life finds a way

My first thought was to say "fleeing the US", but then I realised how many scary things I've done in the process of doing that and in the months after. I guess what's given me a lot of my courage is my family who left with me, as well as my friends back home and abroad who I talk to every day.

So there's a word meaning "fearful" in Spanish, which is "temeroso". And that might sound easy to remember because of the English word "timorous", meaning "fearful or timid", except that "temerous" is also a word in English, which means "fearless or bold".

Other countries are jealous of the U.S. because we have so many responsible, mature gun owners. abcnews.go.com/US/oklahoma-...

The problem with my wonderful son Moon Rover is that he is incapable of perceiving any sound I make as a threat or even an admonishment. I've tried a wide range of noises to get him to get off the table, and every time, he's just like "oh hi :) friend :) :)". #cats

One of the many problems with Google's search result summarising AI is that if you search for something completely unhinged, it just yes-ands you. Observe: