hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

From my little thread on “able-bodied” and its origins in the labor laws after the Black Death.

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So exhausting..

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

Withholding an endorsement for the Democratic nominee for mayor in your own city is bad enough, but then issuing a glowing press release praising the corrupt incumbent no one likes? All while doing fuckall to stand up to Trump? I swear, he's got the political instincts of an Amish child.

OK. The #Klein + #Remnick lovefest in @newyorker.com is a bridge too far. If I could ask Klein a few questions. Dear Ezra, you suggest that you are still "community" with the far-right, even as many see that as impossible at the moment. 1/

What people should realize about "breaking up the MMR vaccine": Standalone shots for measles, mumps, and rubella are no longer licensed in the U.S. So convincing parents to demand "separate shots" will lead those parents to a dead end ... because their doctors can't currently provide those shots.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

"Instead of looking at our to-do lists and seeing that we’re being asked to do way more than is reasonable, we assume that we just need to find new ways to become more productive." meredithfarkas.substack.com/p/rest-as-a-...

#Yunxian 🏺🧪 Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage. This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Innocent.

'Treating careful scholarship as somehow less important than the acquisition of data can adversely affect the reliability of the scientific record & consequently, the course of science. In today’s tense environment around science & politics, meticulous scholarship has never been more important.' 🧪📚

'The study shines a light on potential biases in acceptance and where they may arise in the complex process of choosing papers for publication.' 🧪📃📚

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

Yesterday's Tylenol press conference was at "inject bleach" levels of insanity, but it also revealed the plan for cancelling the MMR. Here's how I think this is going to go down. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

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"'The harsh reality is that it tends to be trans people saving each other,' Angel says. 'If we could depend on cis people to protect us, then maybe we wouldn’t need to fundraise, or share each other’s mutual aid posts, or even do this interview.'"

Black rhinos are a critically endangered species. Here in Kenya, they suffered a catastrophic 98% decline between 1970 and 1983, as poaching decimated their population. But today, Kenya’s black rhinos are growing in number. In honour of #WorldRhinoDay, read Chamboi’s full story: swt.bio/chamboi

U just never know who you're gonna meet at the London Pets Live Issy the African Giant Pouched Rat meets Isi the Scribe! These cuties are literally saving lives by being trained to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis in placess like Cambodia & Tanzania. #pets #herorats @herorats.bsky.social

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

'while television may have evolved since 1975, Fawlty Towers was born fully formed. It still lives in a world of its own.'

'“We’ve got giraffes that will stay for upward of 20 minutes and allow us to draw plasma,”...(In exchange for their efforts, the giraffes receive rye-crisp crackers, she added, “which is essentially like giving them a candy bar.”)' 🧪🦒🩸🌿

In praise of marginalia. 📚🧠🧪

This is shocking and concerning for the EAA and its membership. As a signatory of the open letter asking the EAA to act responsibly and ethically, the way @archagainstaparth.bsky.social and EAA members were treated is appalling. More thoughts later.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

A lot of people aren’t going to want to hear this but letting a tiny group of people hoard all the wealth - because of the delusion that you could somehow ever get into that group through hard work or merit - is actually the cause of most of the problems in this country

Really loving all these shenanigans when I'm T minus 11 days until I give birth. 🧪🩺💉

I finally wrote something about Charlie Kirk's death. Been thinking about this one for a few days. Not exactly a hot take, just some thoughts about how much this situation sucks. www.readtpa.com/p/we-can-con...

Embrace decay. 🧪🌿

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

Most people know of Mesopotamia's ancient art, but a new show at Bard College's Hessel Museum highlights the almost forgotten range of Baghdad's modern art movement, many works of which were lost during & after the 2003 U.S. invasion: wapo.st/3Kks6Wo [gift link]

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Friends, the The Natural History Society of Maryland is building a new museum that will include a shark science and conservation exhibit that I get to help design! They're hoping to raise $3,000 to fund exhibit materials. Please consider supporting them: marylandnature.square.site/exhibit-spon...

I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

📣 EAA Members 📣 If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!) 🍉✊🏼🍉 Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

'It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,”' 🧪

It COULD happen here. 🧪🩺

Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History — or About to Become History? therevelator.org/endangered-herbaria/

If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...

I 💗 this cover so much!