My OB-GYN friend posted this elsewhere, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Don’t mess with disney adults

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

This was my first thought when I saw these wackos are trying to blame pregnant women who take Tylenol. Glad to see it spelled out more coherently in this link.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

sometimes you hate a person because of public actions they've taken and things they've said to you personally and then you sit down and read something they've written and you are delighted to discover that they are also just dumb as rocks.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

I just overheard someone refer to a state school as “government brand”

this whole idea that dems need to be more moderate in redder states is so backwards. the governor of kentucky has stood up for trans kids far more than most dem politicians and he's got one of the highest approvals of any governor.

AAA is good to have and my local tow company is great. This car doesn’t fit a spare, so I keep a full spare at home so I can always get a tow there.

Leaked memo from Amazon that warns existing H1B holders to avoid travel back into the USA after the September 21st deadline - their lawyers evaluated the new executive order as not just affecting new applications

Latest Grand Banks set is up. Probably the best set we have done in some time, at least for what we are into these days. It was a lovely evening with a whole lot of good people there as well with the sound of seasons changing in Virginia as the backdrop. grand-banks.bandcamp.com/album/grand-...

Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.

Early voting in Virginia begins today: www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...

“Death panels”

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

And they make the worst compressors on the market. Friends don’t let friends buy Samsung refrigerators.

TIL there’s a 3-series blu-ray. Just ordered it. Getting rid of “the Bluey app” (aka Disney+) is so easy now.

I’d like some shoegaze recommendations. I’ll go first: “Realistic IX” by Belong belong.bandcamp.com/album/realis...

Reading this and it seems like the “deal” is that global conglomerates will get to buy a bunch of land and resources in the UK to rent compute time to the UK. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.gov.uk/government/n...

It physically nauseates me to see trade reporters cover the potential Paramount-Warner merger as mere asset shuffling and not a fucking death knell for this industry. It's absolutely maddening to see short sighted, hateful ghouls sell off the thing you built your life around for parts.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

if there is any "ideological indoctrination" on college campuses it is through meeting other kids from other places and realizing your own worldview comes from your own world and others have equally valid worldviews

Has anyone asked Ezra Klein if his shift towards platforming the right wing is a response to Vox forming a union? Love to be a boss til someone calls you a boss.

iOS 18.7 turns automatic updates on even if you’ve explicitly turned them off to prevent iOS 26 from downloading

@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's weekly newsletter for @thesicktimes.org is probably the best weekly update on current covid rates!

I built a Mastodon bot that reports on Covid wastewater levels, which gives me weekly updates on how cautious to be depending on where I'm going. It turns out that @wvgg.co ported it to Bluesky and improved it, with twice weekly updates! Insta-follow for me. Recommended.

these are segregationists

if you are at all skeptical of the idea that a person's "media environment" can meaningfully impact their basic understanding of reality consider I just heard someone reference a show called "Bob Hearts Abishola" that is apparently not only real, but also ran for five entire seasons on CBS

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

I’ve been hoping for a Santa Cruz PHEV but I think that dream’s over

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

“I suffered and so must you” seems to be at the core of so many of these people and their followers.

guys i think we all need to get good with the fact that debate culture is not and never was geared toward arriving at knowledge that is simply not one of its goals

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

The entirety of the “good side” can be negated by the bad. Not vice versa.

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

Big feelings for anyone who read Erin Kissane’s essays about Myanmar erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...

The 2025 Ignatz Award Nominees Have Been Announced #spx #ignatzawards #smallpressexpo

it's actually not civil to say that specific groups of people dont have the right to exist. like, that's quite rude actually.

But lets get to Weiss and The Free Press. Here is their key claim. Universities are the main culprits behind American political violence - no other potential sources mentioned - akin to radical madrassas training terrorist. This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.

New York Times is chaotic evil fronting as lawful neutral. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“How Law Enforcement Got Him” if you don’t want to read this turgid beat sweetener is: he literally drove himself to the police station and turned himself in peacefully.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

America sure is online now

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

UPDATE: At least 19 states have issued orders to protect COVID vaccine access including AZ, CO, CT, DE, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NV, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, VA, WA. Almost all orders allow pharmacies to give vaccines without a prescription, some states have taken steps to ensure insurance coverage.