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I’m approaching 59 years old and I have been living with HIV since I was 30. With access to treatment, HIV need be no barrier to health, happiness or a long life. Plus treatment means there is NO RISK of me passing HIV on to sexual partners. HIV has changed, tell everyone.

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

What people are not realizing about the rescinded red card is not whether it was a good call or not but that Trump called in a favour. Whatever the outcome. FIFA ‘s name has been tarnished and the US team will be looked at as cheaters.

It's pretty wild that an entire industry's pitch for itself was predicated on its executives forgetting the connection between employment and access to the means of survival that exists for most working people. They really thought "you'll lose your job and have more free time!" was a slam dunk.

“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

Decent explanation about the shortage is estradiol patches. I'm on day 3 of being off them since I started and definitely notice symptoms coming back. This sucks. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/e...

I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it

It’s true that at present the insider-trading Democrats won’t do anything about it. The answer to that is not “nothing will ever change” but “we need to replace all of them too.” if your only answer is to say “nothing will ever change,” hey that’s what they say, too. Good job joining up with them.

If someone is expressing a desire for something that is wrong and twisted to improve, coming in to say “nothing is going to happen” is like pooping in a public fountain. It may result in a little bit of relief for you in the moment, but now we’ve got a turd in the fountain. Thanks for nothing.

I understand the urge to say “nothing’s going to happen” but please understand that giving in to that urge participates in the exact spirit that leads to nothing happening. Imagining better leads to expecting better leads to demanding better leads to enforcing the demand leads to getting better.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

You can't tell an LLM not to 'hallucinate', to be honest, or avoid mistakes, or stay faithful to the source material. The wrong answers are created by exactly the same process as the right ones, it can't tell them apart. It's like giving it the instruction: 'Do this, but don't do it by doing it.'

NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Add on the fact that the police already get paid more than other civil servants and are pull down more overtime it’s egregious.

Police working off-duty security is bad, I know we talk about the way surveillance sucks, but the fact that police departments can pretty much extort nightclubs, etc with security requirements which have to be staffed with off-duty cops forces people to buy off the books police protection.

“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”

It was overshadowed by the country's 250th birthday, but something else major happened yesterday: @ppfa.org regained access to hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding after Republicans in Congress allowed their one-year defund provision to lapse. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Residents of Washington, DC, briefly experienced the worst air quality of any major city in the world, according to a company that ranks pollution globally, as the capital reckoned with the aftermath of a massive, 40-minute Fourth of July fireworks show.

So many jobs require a doctor's note when you're out sick. Seems like this could be an appropriate measure here.

Whenever members of Congress are unable to cast votes, they should be required to file illness or injury reports, just like pro athletes, detailing their condition and expected return date

Dumb assholes.

Last 4th of July, a dad had a kid run up to us and ask why I supported Hamas. During a parade. I’m Palestinian, I’m used to it. But goddamn, be better.

seems like the appeal of AI is being able to blame shoddy work on the machine that did it for you no, it doesn't make things better, but it's nominally nobody's fault that it sucks

Transmedicalism is and has always been an ideology normalising/validating medical authority over trans bodies against trans selves, nothing more or less. It emerged out of psychiatrists recruiting trans people willing to collude through group therapy scenarios with picking out "bad" trans people.

The irony of an autism researcher who is not autistic, who had a ridiculous theory about autistic people and theory of mind, saying "my theory was misunderstood."

If by “unhelpful,” he means “actively causes harm,” then okay.

‘Once you acknowledge that most of the Americas were inhabited long before 1492, everything changes, starting with the idea that nature in its ideal state is what they used to call virgin wilderness, in which people don’t belong.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Absolute banger of an obituary in the Seattle Times today, rest in peace Judy

WE HAVE ARRIVED!!! All 1,000 items are now visible at auction.romancingthevote.com the time for waiting is over. you know what your choices are. make your final strategy. I'll be over here making sure the streaming software is on this laptop.

A lot of jerks will smugly ask undergraduate philosophy majors ‘what are you gonna do with that?’ and it can be hard to know how to respond. One option, though, is ‘dress up marketing for AI firms as profound philosophy ahead of their IPOs’

consider this his lying in state

Hey if you’re an AFAB person with a need for masc shoes, Tomboy Toes is tragically going out of business and your time is now. There are 1,000 pairs left and no restocks www.tomboytoes.com

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

You can read her dispatch here: www.thexylom.com/post/kenya-e...

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

this was exactly my thought too. no fitter end

Please don't sleep on the still open possibility of a bee plushie army. Our bee plushies bring all the ... uh ... crochet to your yard! www.32auctions.com/organization...

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

the forbes story deliberately launders this by linking first to an actual study that's totally unrelated www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

it’s not a real study

Anyway, my point is, if you are writing a story or posting a podcast about a group that is seeking help raising funds for a cause PLEASE include a link to a website where people can donate, or tell us who to contact. This took too much time and I gave up. 🧵Fin

But also, if you have a huge collection of Indigenous artifacts, RETURN THE ARTIFACTS TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. WTAF?!? And if you are in the US, fricking NAGPRA exists.

Just like your college major doesn’t restrict you to a single career path, your college major does not determine whether you will be good or evil. Your choices matter, and they don’t stop mattering.