As someone who is autistic, I’d like to send a message to the Trump administration

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Beyond the Noise 81: To serve Man If you are trying to understand the recent inexplicable actions of our Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), look no further than a Twilight Zone episode that originally aired on March 2, 1962 called “To Serve Man.” @pauloffit.bsky.social

Maybe this will be the day the heavy burden of autism is lifted from my shoulders 🥹 epiellie.substack.com/p/autism-sol...

Bear stress

yes - good video from @michaelburns.bsky.social on the Abundance movement - currently writing a section of my book linking space mining, the 'abundance agenda' and the tradition of American expansionism dating back at least to the 1840s www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6K...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

When he said "you can do it out of spite", he won me over.

"In our view, Ladapo’s reference to vaccines as “slavery” ignores this important and nuanced history, especially Black Americans’ role in the history of preventing communicable disease with vaccines." theconversation.com/vaccine-mand...

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

"On November 17, the government yielded to public pressure and rescinded the mandatory provision of the vaccination law … Despite the turmoil, vaccination campaigns resumed peacefully in Rio de Janeiro and other cities. Smallpox cases gradually declined." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm glad that I didn't try to follow this in real time. I would have just spent the day shouting at my computer. Why are the crazy people in charge!? www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

"the @greenparty.org.uk scored highest with newly elected leader Zack Polanski making public ownership of water a cornerstone of his campaign." weownit.org.uk/news/public-...

'Advice from a 1918 suffragette pamphlet'

As long as we obey, everything will be okay... right??

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I would definitely not be boasting about this! The rest of us are trying to figure out how to keep students away from using AI instead of their brains...

It’s also been interesting to see people’s appetites change once it dawns on them that they’re on the menu.

This is amazing

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The funny thing is that when the question was posed about what they'd do when they can no longer blame the EU, lots of people said they'd pivot to attacking "foreigners". This was dismissed by "sensible" pundits as hyperbolic or they just ignored it. But this wasn't stupidity, it was complicity.

THIS is why I get annoyed. We are three people, working out of a basement, while holding down full time jobs. It took us UNDER TWO MINUTES to sum up the framework within which the Jimmy Kimmel suspension sits, and begin the conversation *with what he actually said*. How can it be beyond BBC News?

It’s also been interesting to see people’s appetites change once it dawns on them that they’re on the menu.

what a haunting call

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In advance of our October issue, our latest editorial is now online The CDC "is in trouble, and we need to fix it" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

CDC is amplifying an MIT operations research professor - now chair of ACIP’s COVID workgroup - who has argued against mRNA vaccination. He cites outlier Korean autopsy data while U.S. surveillance shows myocarditis is rare, falling, and already labeled. The call is coming from inside the house.

After all the kerfuffle over Your Party, I've gone ahead and joined @greenparty.org.uk. I'm not being naive or idealistic. But, with the galvanisation of overtly fascistic politics in the UK (and elsewhere), we need to promote genuine voices if we're going to have any chance of a better future.

Yarn bombs in Southwell. I love this town. R8, adapted 35-70 F4 FD lens. #photography

I can't believe we spent 3+ years failing to convince people that yes a Harvard epidemiologist and a Hopkins medic and a Stanford economist can be totally full of shit. Such is the dangerous power of institutional prestige.

The Sound of Music (1965)

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Did the Trump regime write this!? 😆 www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/u...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I hope, before it's too late, the public will grasp that these are not clever people (and it's very evident they haven't read/understood the sci-fi that they mention). They have failed upwards, often after being given a start with daddy's money. A tale as old as time. youtu.be/gKOzDU64iPA?...

CDC to recommend looking only one way before crossing street

"This will decrease access just by virtue of making vaccination less convenient for some parents." Not enough people realise that access is the main driver of undervaccination, not "scepticism". Clearly, antivaxxers understand this. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/cross-the-...

New research article Diagnostic accuracy of low-complexity, manual nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of pulmonary and extrapulmonary #tuberculosis in adults and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #TB #TB-LAMP #OpenAccess #OA

What we call things reveals a lot about our priorities and biases. Graphic via @reenamahajan.bsky.social

"Each time someone is about to say my name, I brace. I am involuntarily forced into mental calculus. Is it worth correcting them? Will they take it personally?" I know this feeling 😆 www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/d...

"If you’re in any situation where there’s a chance that a Reddit subforum is advising your health decisions, I don’t think that that’s a safe place to be" That said, even the literature has a deep imprint of bias. So narrowing the training data is no panacea. www.ft.com/content/128e...

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