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Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I have no idea how law students are supposed take seriously anything they learn in constitutional law when the Supreme Court's entire approach to precedent and stare decisis is just "does Mister Trump want us to overturn it right now" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Everyone knows baby sleep in pelican pouch

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

Hey, it's my birthday! I am Moderately Old! If you want to do something nice for me today, you could buy either of my new books for yourself or a friend! books2read.com/b/angelmaker books2read.com/b/thefoldedsky

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

Project management is easy. Just ask these key questions: 1. Who will do the task? 2. No, you can't just say "somebody will" do it. Who is somebody? 3. Is it you? 4. So if it's not you, what's your budget for a vendor? 5. Oh, no budget? Right, okay, one more question, what planet do you live on?

That escalated quickly!! #Gabrielle is now a cat 4, winds 140mph. With all the lightning around the eye it means rapid rising motion, a clear signal of rapid intensification, with more likely on the way! Luckily it will miss Bermuda and continue as a fish storm. #HurricaneGabrielle

Cat School is in session

We rushed out of our B&B this morning to make it as early as possible to Burncoat Head park to see the "world's highest tides" at low tide and walk on the ocean floor in one arm of the Bay of Fundy. It was such an incredible experience! They tell people to be […] [Original post on ottawa.place]

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

I am terribly sad that the magnificent @kellythompson.bsky.social’s Birds of Prey has been cancelled. Not only is it a tremendous read, as all her books are, but BoP is an important book to comics overall. It sucks that an Eisner-nominated book of this quality is ending.

If you want anything from me for Halloween, I recommend getting in your order sooner rather than later! 🎃👻🖤 corviforms.etsy.com 🖤💀🍂 (I plan to keep my shop open til the end of September, but at 34 weeks pregnant you really never know)

like okay, i get wanting to just see cool papers and stuff, but uhh i'm a trans scientist in the US as funding crumbles trying to support my students, including those who are Black, Indigenous, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrants, international, queer, trans, the list goes on- idk what to tell you?

We were saddened to learn that WOS member Eugene Morton, recipient of the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice Medal, passed away last month.

Tippy tap tippy tap! 🪶

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

i'm team Turkey Feather and it's not even close

I was going to protest this slander of the noble butcherbird but, ah, Kelsey has a point here. 😬

my hot take on the humphrey's executor news is that it's probably good to get them on the record with formally overturning it it's obviously a terrible decision in the making but at least this way the next dem president can fire everyone he's appointed immediately

Lights Out Alert! The next three nights are BIG for fall migration here in Oregon, with around 5 million birds flying through our skies nightly. Join us by turning off unnecessary outdoor lighting from dusk to dawn to reduce sky glow and help migrating birds. 🌟 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

A few people have claimed that the "revoke some trans passports" in my latest story is "hyperbole" or "sensational reporting." The Trump admin in their 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has literally said they will do this if they win. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

“The time has come. True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, I declare that today France recognizes the State of Palestine.” - President Macron at the French-Saudi convened UN Conference on Middle East Peace

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

Dinosaur-shaped text!

Continued vital reporting from @teenvogue.com: www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

consensus reality is completely broken

This one followed every child born in Denmark from 1999-2010, with more than 650,000 children. No association between MMR vaccine and autism was observed.

Someone got the brief “make it look like the old serial posters” but didn’t actually look at any & went off a really vague memory. “Slanted type? Check! Ooh, how bout a wave? Double check! Let’s put the names at an angle, too! Should it match the main text angle? Hell naw! 5 typefaces?! Oh, yeah.”

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Add me to those saying it’s crucial to acknowledge anti-authoritarian successes. Harvard and NYT are fighting in court instead of folding. Pritzker and other IL leaders kept Nat. Guard troops out of Chicago. Grand juries reject frivolous charges; many lower court judges uphold the law. And more

I illustrated a tribute to my beloved cat, who is the most evil princess a cat can be. I love her.

Also, rules like this make it INFINITELY harder to avoid. When you disincentive proper tagging because people aren't sure how your vague rules might punish them, you make it so we end up seeing content we could have avoided if the rules had been "mark this so people can avoid it"

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

Abundant Eocene fossils of plants and animals are found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. This fossil Pseudosalix Hanleyi, with stems, leaves and flowers preserved, is harder to find than a T-rex tooth!

As Steve Williams waited for federal funds to take his flooded farmland out of use, his bills didn’t stop. His family could do nothing and watch their farm operation fail, or keep trying to grow crops on land they knew would yield little. With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

I think these are tree swallows. Whatever they are, there's a bunch of them. Howard's Marsh, OH

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Sea ice is fucking phenomenal (📸 by me over Greenland in 2023)

finally DONE! day 30 of avian august - kākāwahie! thank you to @cookiedoves.bsky.social for organising this challenge, i had loads of fun even if it took me nearly two months to complete all of them :) #art #illustration #birds #birdart #artsky #avianaugust

I invite you to JOIN or FOLLOW me in the worldwide daily art challenge called Birdtober. WHO will be joining me in Birdtober? #mattstarrfineart #birdtober #birdtober2025 #bird #birds #birdart #birdillustration #birdpainting #birdartist #artchallenge #birdartwork

This is an important point about keeping the focus on fascism instead of on Kimmel himself. There's a decent chance this ends with Kimmel getting his show back by making a statement about how we should all try to get along and how he supports ABC blah, blah. You don't want to tie yourself to that.

Oh oh oh someone in the press pool ask Trump if he deserves to get Raptured on Wednesday.

I was fired from my gig as a primary and middle school drama director on Monday. We live in frightening times. Take care of each other, and reach out to me if you want to talk 🧡

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