“Getting mad at people to have a sense of control” is essentially the summary of most lefties’ idea of praxis sadly.

Gaza genocide death toll tops 71,266 with more bodies recovered - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-genocide-death-toll-tops-71266-more-bodies-recovered

Seriously: teenagers feel ambivalent about being given books that are supposed to be "good" for them, right when they're trying to establish their own tastes. It may never have occurred to them before that giving someone a book is *an invitation* to meet them in another time and place. (1/2)

The bourgeoisie doesn't want you to know how soft your skin gets on estrogen Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“ every rollback of protections, every mask ban, & every act of pandemic denial is a choice made in the service of the perpetuation of the very same systems of control & subjection that are responsible for the ongoing violence & abandonment of the pandemic” @reallandsend.bsky.social. Thank you

“MAHA is a seductive process because it speaks to real pain—the pain of being abandoned. But it offers no solidarity only self management, not justice only blame, not transformation only cruelty disguised as wellness.”

“MAHA says don’t change the system, change yourself. Purify your body. Deny your kid vaccines. Blame the sick for their sickness. It’s magical thinking for the carceral state.”

The idea that we known the exact overall and type specific numbers of the neurons of C elegans is incredibly fascinating to me. Even more amazing is this has yielded huge advances in neuro protective treatments by transgenic and experimentation.

No I think this is a normal amount of notation.

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Huntress Wizard, Flowering

📣NHeLP seeks a Community Manager (2-year term) to help run our Medicaid Access Strategy Hub and support advocates responding to OBBBA. Deadline: Dec. 31, 2025 https://nationalhealthlawprogram.applytojob.com/apply/3hvRL8j58D/Special-Project-Online-Community-Manager-Medicaid-Access-Strategy-Hub

The neoliberal slay of unprecedented drone strikes.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Still unsure if FGFC 820 is satire or incredibly fashy nationalistic electro music…

As a health policy person, most random anime pfp socialists have more robust models for enacting Medicare-for-all or some other fully subsidized healthcare system than a lot of liberal public health professionals.

Life hack: If you like to wrap things, you can buy wrapping paper and wrap any object at any time. Wrap your groceries. Wrap the toilet. Wrap the dog. You don't have to wait for a "holiday" and turn it into a whole weird thing.

Learning the five movements seems like a more realistic plan than waiting for Dems to grow a spine.

editing a trans magazine is a spectrum

Martyrs As Above So Below Titane Bring Her Back The Road

We know making health coverage affordable works to keep people insured, support local economies, and strengthen our care systems. Choosing to let premium subsidies expire risks major disruptions to the marketplaces that will be difficult to overcome, despite having been easy to avoid. bit.ly/4ajXsaT

-Insert holiday themed ask for donations-

Off of work for two weeks means throwing myself into a pool of reading and researching time.

The most radical thing you can do is defend archaic patriarchal norms. Wait… shit!

Opposing schools of thought in neuroscience are so perfectly Derridian at times. Rather than trying to positively assert a framework to understand neural function, they instead seek to rigorously problematize their peers’ frameworks in a way that really just tickles me.

Our 600th episode of Death Panel and a fitting one for the milestone: an episode where we pick apart the unholy alliance between MAHA and traditional Republican austerity politics under Trump, building on analysis from years of the show & our book. Please enjoy 💙

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Time to research kosher booze!

we just released a major episode: covid year six it took over a year to produce, and now it's off being professionally transcribed so more people can access it once it's unlocked. that transcription will cost over $300, and to break even on the transcript alone we need ~60 new patreon supporters...

Transsexual dyke Sysiphus but who only assembles furniture.

Another day if furniture assembly.

The Chicagoland area says that ICE can fuck right off the bat

Color me shocked.

Time to “relax”

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

It’s okay to not be okay. As long as you’re “not okay” in the ways that make people feel completely comfortable and isn’t inconvenient in any way.

All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me. I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.

HAQQ is still the best LITVRGY album. If you can convince me otherwise, I'll mail you some art.

Very mundane, but Enter Shikari shouldn't slap after all this time. And yet, they do.

We gotta find a way to redact all of trump's selfies

if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too

girls smelling good is a recession indicator

6 years ago every trans person I know was saying that the fomenting wave of anti-trans lege at the state level would crash federally in the near future. MANY people, cis and even trans, had their fingers in their ears - deplatforming us, maligning us as alarmists.

I'm still sort of without words for the last two weeks' events. But mainly because myself and many of my kin have been screaming into the wind since 2015 that this country was building a movement to push trans people out of public life entirely. We were called extreme, alarmists, etc.