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GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

I made whole wheat molasses dinner rolls. #kai #food 🍽️🍜

9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.

1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵

Age gating the internet is not about protecting kids. It's entirely about creating an ID barrier for everyone as a form of tracking and privacy invasion putting our data in the hands of private companies that have already proven insecure. This only hyperfuels scammers and makes everyone less safe.

Terrific Q&A with #WHO 's Chikwe Ihekweazu about DRC's #Ebola response: how long the outbreak has likely been underway, whether Bundibugyo virus is more transmissible than other Ebola species & what it's like not having US experts on the ground. By @kakape.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

it’s insane how this is the new normal and for no fucking reason

3/7 Reading these stories is difficult because we recognize them. Across the federal workforce, employees with disabilities have spent the last year navigating impossible choices between their health, their careers, and the insurance that helps keep them alive and functioning.

2/7 Another employee, living with chronic pain and progressive spinal injuries, says was required to continue commuting and working in person despite worsening symptoms. According to the lawsuit, some days the pain became so severe that he had to leave work early.

1/7 A DOJ employee with PTSD, anxiety, and cardiac conditions successfully worked with extensive telework for years. After requesting telework as a disability accommodation following return-to-office changes, he faced months of delays and was eventually demoted.

7/7 To every CDC employee and federal worker struggling with these questions right now: we see you. Many of us are facing the same fears and uncertainties. We all deserve dignity, support, and accommodations that allow you to do your job without sacrificing your health. We all deserve better. 💚

6/7 When experienced employees are pushed out, everyone loses. Agencies lose expertise and institutional knowledge. Teams lose trusted colleagues. Public service loses talented people who want to keep contributing but are being told, implicitly or explicitly, that there is no place for them.

Every time I post warning people about cats and raw milk I get comments saying "lol the problem isn't raw milk, it's industrial farming. you have to go to a small family farm" and no. Just no. There is not some magical difference that makes small farm raw milk "safe".

Here, we've got 3 different employees tasked with "cleaning" the cows & equipment by spraying them down with water. This is a big, classic rookie mistake in food & ag. Spraying water on poop doesn't make it go away. IT LAUNCHES THE POOP EVERYWHERE NOW YOUR RAW MILK DAIRY IS FULL OF WET POOP MIST

I wonder if there's an entire genre of fiction about what it's like when technology is only used to prosecute and never to exculpate

Finished the stamppot; have to make split pea soup. But it hurts to walk/stand.

In reward for having made it through my thread yesterday, and to honor America's Greatest Living MS Paint Artisit @petridishes.bsky.social, I made you a graph.

The decision to conduct this review is based on politics and ideology, not science. Decades of gold-standard scientific evidence have overwhelmingly demonstrated the safety of mifepristone, including when it is provided using telehealth.

the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting

I work in a community hospital. Everyone deserves competent care, but when people come in pre-diagnosed, with preventable highly contagious pathogens, casually mixing with other patients in waiting rooms, this puts people at unnecessary risk and costs critical time and risk for healthcare workers.

I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again. Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed. 🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Measles is LUDICROUSLY contagious. And it can linger in the air for quite a while after an infected person leaves.

My piriformus is acting out again 😭

Sooooo….

Do tell.

jesus fucking christ who the fuck thought this waa a good idea

Thought you guys might enjoy this enormous cat who manages a butcher shop

I remember recently hearing a grown adult man talking about someone peeing out of their vagina and no one corrected them. And that's why we need sex ed. Because we are the same goddamn species and it's worth knowing how other human beings pee. (Not specific other human beings, just in general.)

Graham Platner is undeniably the most scumbag piece of human garbage to enter Democratic politics in the 21st century so far and every elected official defending him right now is being dragged further into the muck by pure association each day they refuse to renounce him. He is a one man Nazi bar.

Generally speaking, if you hate HR, it's for one of two reasons: * something bad happened to you and they did fuck all about it * you did something bad and they punished you for it The people complaining about HR lady Dem politics are from group 2

COPEG is a magical place that really straddles the line between Horrifying [it's a flesh-eating maggot farm] and Majestic [one of the great public health interventions of the last century]. Haven't been there (yet) but I have it on good authority that the Aroma is Memorable.

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

Tame! Like, the family friendliest you can get. Except that IS the message they want to oppose. Anything that gives children the idea that they have autonomy and a path to freedom from their family’s poison. The overacted disgust about “sexualization” is a means to an end.

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(Anyone know why he calls his account "based"?) You see, Senator, the thing about Christian nationalism and state establishment is that they unavoidably entangle the state in questions of orthodoxy. Once Hegseth decides the armed forces are Christian crusaders, he's going to decide who's Christian.

One of the worst aspects of Platner is not the *denial* of allegations, but the eagerness to explain how nothing in them was apparently bad at all.

Anyway you can say Hegseth is probably doing it for ugly reasons but Mike Lee is repping a historical propaganda movement to rebrand Mormonism as mainstream Christian Americana which is not objectively neutral or without its own ideological baggage so I don’t feel bad for anyone involved.

"HR works for the company, not you" was supposed to be day one advice for a 23 year old. It's turned into a cornerstone of the dumb guy worldview by people too dim to realize that every other worker is only there to benefit the company too.

within patriarchal societies, boyhood is an almost in-between or unstable state (you ever notice how types of androgyny are marked with -boy? eg tomboy, femboy) that does not yet have access to the full privileges of manhood, but must not be *allowed* to lapse into the degraded status of girlhood

"boys need someone to teach them how to be a man!" why tho. what would happen if they grew up to be a woman or non-binary or something else. would that be so bad?

imo the primary anxiety behind "boys need positive male role models" is the necessity of ensuring that boys grow up to be men rather than something instinctively felt to be worse, i.e., not a man. you know. like a woman or a queer lol

I will never interact with any AI product if I can humanly avoid it. You wanted me to give this tech a chance? Too motherfucking bad, you should have thought about it before you started plastering cities with these ads

My body is not a temple, it is a 7-Eleven and you wouldn't leave a baby in a 7-Eleven

The "AI " industry can take advantage of their immense investor money to buy up the *future* supply of hardware to try to make us go through them if we want to use powerful hardware, extracting rents on things we used to be able to do with our own stuff.

Literally everything is Gender and everyone is twelve

the "HR lady" thing is so telling. oh no, did someone ruin your open sexual harassment environment?