PSA: if you use an LLM to do your writing, no you didn’t BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR WRITING!! YOU ARE NOT A WRITER. You extruded some text from the plagiarism machine. YOU ARE A PLAGIARIST. YOU WILL NEVER BE A WRITER BY STEALING OTHERS’ WORDS.

In the primary it’s “no one else will vote for this guy” in the general it’s “actually everyone has to vote for this guy” and it’s a bullshit two step.

If I still posted on Twitter I'd explain why there are no cop cats

Abuse thrives in the soil of Christian forgiveness culture. When the abused person is the one required to change, to forgive and forget, there is no pressure for the abuser to change. If *everyone* forgives the bad one, rhe problem is labeled fixed. But what it means is endless harm to the community

PSA in my tradition there's no really convo about forgiving harmdoers who have not done the work of owning harm, beginning to change, amends and serious apology (up to at least a few times, and possibly never is the harm involved trauma) more in my most recent book, ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, natch

I am convinced that two of the things wrecking America’s collective mental health are the Protestant Work Ethic and Christian forgiveness culture.

And they’re still screaming, which is why this hantavirus situation has spread worldwide—the idea of living in a society meaning you have to *quarantine* when you have a contagious dangerous virus instead upping the yolo travel is inconceivable to them.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

I was a research assistant for one of my college profs citation checking his book and I swear to you there was a citation on a PARAPHRASE called “New York Times, 1999.” Y’all I don’t even understand how I still went to grad school after that search! (But also def something I would do to me so 🤷🏻‍♀️)

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I love this for those kids, but I also love it because these people have all worked very hard to shelter themselves from what we really think of them, and all their media/internet consumption is just other people who agree with them saying the same shit. but a rescinded invitation is gonna land 😂

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

And the reason our society is so obsessed with youth in women, why it despises old women, why it pressures you to act and appear young, is that cis men never make it to Act III, and yet they are desperate to maintain that they are “naturally” the proper leaders of the species.

In whale species with menopause (5 of the 7 species), hierarchies and social organization are fluid, except in times of crisis. If things are rough, everyone turns to grandma to lead. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/kil...

Our society is obsessed with adolescence—all the stories, all the media, all the romanticization and horror of it—because it is the only metamorphosis cis males go through, and metamorphosis is legitimately a big deal. But people with uteruses go through a second one, and it is ignored.

Menopause isn’t just aging. In most mammal species, female reproductive capacity declines with age, but it doesn’t get shut off the way it comes online during puberty. This is a distinct, post-adulthood third stage.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

Here's the key difference. These men don't want to do research. They want to have ideas and opinions and test those and be celebrated for their findings. Citations aren't just a checklist annoyance. They are a critical part of research - what has already been done in this area of inquiry? 1/

The GOP obstructed processes during the entirety of the Obama presidency. Anyone playing defense for the Dems is either agruing in bad faith or is an extremely useful idiot for the Dems

Covid never stopped being a threat and early research into the strain of hantavirus on the cruise ship shows it is also, in all likelihood, airborne as well. Wear An N95

This article is so important. It shines a light on bookstores and communities on the front lines of the Long Covid crisis we face, what they're doing to protect people, and how we can support them. Also hell yes indies and BOOKS! (And they shout out our Covid Safety Guide, w00t!) Read and share ⬇️

Seriously, why do people think no one should just have to WAIT for anything? Like, if you want to talk to your professor, maybe wait until they're working? "I have a question at 2 a.m." is NOT an urgent problem; indeed, more people should learn to just be okay with waiting until others have time.

Jfc I am so tired of people still acting like we have to entertain the idea that men running society is “natural.” A) not in mammal species with menopause B) up to half the males in most mammal species never breed, so if you want to talk about what’s natural stop whining about not having a GF

it’s so wild like folks he wrote down his promises !!! and we can compare it with the political reality we all lived through !!!

There is a considerable effort made to memory hole this. Whenever I mention the rollback of protections, testing sites, the quarantine period, I get responses that say “yeah, fuck trump!” And yes, but that wasn’t him.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Look, not only can you give the kids around you old media they’ll love, you can also spark lifelong hatred! My father has been dead for nearly 33 years and I am still pissed as hell at being forced to watch Andy Griffith, which aired 60 y ago. Just thinking the title sends me into the whistle-hell

If an established organization with some credibility made a certification and brand seal out of this I think it could make a difference to the 'AI everywhere in everything' trend.

Does this also mean that asymptomatic patients can transmit Hantavirus for years?

To be clear, all these reforms would be downstream of campaign finance reform. You can ban or limit the texts and calls but until you eliminate the centripetal force at the core of the grift - the need to raise zillions and zillions or perish politically - this is all lipstick on a pig

Nobody is entitled to a growing population. But everybody is entitled to protection from creepy, manipulative demands that they reproduce/don't reproduce in service of "population."

No, dear authors, it’s your job to cite correctly. It’s also your job to think, analyze your data, and write your words. Let’s look at it like this: If you outsourced your work to impoverished department of [your speciality] at the University of 3rd Lowest GDP in the World, but put your name on it?

Because with Covid, public officials introduced a model of “if they don’t want to hear it, pretend it doesn’t exist” and here we are.

Since AI is like the inverse of arts and culture, I’d be willing to bet engaging with AI accelerates biological aging

::twitches in rhetorician::

I was not "socialized male," I was "socialized other." I was "socialized fa**ot." Trans women experience sexual abuse, assault and harassment disproportionate to their cis peers, male or female, 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 transitioning. Read Casey's thread.

When I was 4, I cried when the 4th grade orchestra played because it hurt my ears. I would rather listen to that for the rest of my life than AI ever.

Everybody wants their rights, but not their responsibilites.

Every single news about hantavirus makes me insanely angry.

It increasingly feels like a lot of celebrity men are grossed out by the idea of consensual sex with an adult woman, and the parts that gross them out are the “consensual” and “adult.”

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

+1

Medical misogyny is bad for everyone, actually

“Inevitable” The automobile was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The personal computer was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The internet was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it The smartphone was inevitable b/c the PEOPLE wanted it AI isn’t inevitable b/c THE PEOPLE DON’T FUCKING WANT IT!

Oh also, they discovered all sorts of stuff in there that can tell whether you have endo and is as good or better than a Pap smear/biopsy at telling whether you have cancer but watch OB/GYNs oppose this because they’d rather get paid to torture you instead.

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

It honestly never occurred to me that someone my develop expertise in locating escaped indoor cats, and while I hope never to need that expertise myself, I am glad it exists and glad to help other people learn it exists!

Technical points- If you lose your cat- Lost Cat Detective Kim Freeman is amazing. Her book works and I can’t recommend it enough. Flyers, flyers, flyers. Paper the neighborhood. Do not give up a few days in. If you don’t have proof or good reason to suspect death, keep going. 26/e

Yes, Jym, women are well aware that the worst thing men can imagine is being treated the way they treat us.