'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs... That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

I see what this post is trying to get at, but it’s wrong. The entire dot-com bubble was created because of unfounded hype. And Steve Jobs continued developing the art of hype creation with the iPhone reveal events. He was just better at it than Sam Altman

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

You see versions of this dynamic in so many places. When you learn comfort with other people living their lives, it becomes easier to feel comfortable living yours. Knowing and loving a lot of trans people has definitely made me more confident in my own gender identity.

So if someone opts in, and has taken photos of friends, relatives, kids, even strangers, they’re “giving permission” on behalf of all those people. So lots of people have no say in this. The whole “opt in” thing was always a charade but it’s approaching terminal nonsense at this point.

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

#podcast No Gods No Mayors: Peter ”Mayor” Buttigieg, with Cory Doctorow www.podbean.com/media/share/...

#film Ex Libris: The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddjn...

#article A Computer-Free Day: How One Small Mistake Changed My Perspective on Productivity www.pw.org/content/a_co...

#art Mira Nakashima Talks Family, Furniture Design, and Legacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnq...

#movie #book Stone Reader www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8J...

#books The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. libreture.com/bookshops/

#podcast Celebrating 300 Imaginary Worlds www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/epi...

YES. The chart guys want us to both respond to an abstract average *and* ignore the distress of friends and neighbors as anecdata and precarity just does not work that way!

During law school, on campus interviews were conducted in hotel rooms. If you wanted a job at one of those firms, you had to go to men's hotel rooms.

This is a big problem. Lumping together deaths among peds/cyclists and car occupants obscures the extent to which the US fails to protect people outside of cars. Congress & safety advocates should push NHTSA to stop doing it.

I’ve seen multiple people saying that they’ve been talking to reporters about Eric Swalwell for a couple years, but no one was interested in the story. If you have a story like this, I am interested in it. I’ll protect your identity and you can talk to me.

The kids at Coachella are calling the variations of Covid they are passing around the “Coachella flu” again.

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

“But why would you drink with him if you thought he was a creep?” Because creepy men are still powerful people in their fields. Because they are still the professional & social contacts we are forced to maintain. Because the same people tell us we’re crazy for thinking a man is creepy to begin with.

We’re the bad guys for pointing out that men often rape women AND we’re the bad guys for suggesting that not every man should be treated as a would-be rapist the second he invites a woman to drink with him or go into his room.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

Google's proposed workaround for installing unverified apps: 9 steps, a 24-hour wait, delivered through Play Services (which Google can change at any time without consent). It exists only as a blog post. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

I don’t think film dystopias do a good enough job portraying what keeps people going despite their terrible conditions, and I think it’s related to a lack of introspection and curiosity about how enslaved people psychologically survived enslavement

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

scientists are calling it "pretty cool"

I suggest “botfuckers” because they all really just want to fuck their computers.

from an ethical standpoint i think that when you personaly feel iffy about a mutual aid request it's definitely okay to simply do nothing and shut your fucking mouth

Ed Blum is a gutter racist. Maybe he dresses it up in public but that’s all that’s underneath.

Think hard real hard Our major zeitgiest medi moments and stalwarts : - Kpop Demon Hunters - PITT -Sinners -Heated Rivalry - Abbott Elementary - Company Retreat So many shows driven by “diversity” but we listen to the child’s and entitled nitwits

Except we’ve spent $50 billion, the Strait is closed and 3000 people are dead. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#article The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux www.sambent.com/the-engineer...

#article FTC Warns PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Against Debanking www.xbiz.com/news/297090/...

#article Historic wild rice restoration underway in the Detroit River: ‘Living tribute to the First Nations’ planetdetroit.org/2026/04/wild...

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

ORACLE'S LARRY ELLISON: “Citizens will be on their best behavior” with AI surveillance systems "We're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on." Welcome to the dystopian AI surveillance state. @NicHulscher

"Texas...was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery...a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time." - TX secession doc, 1861

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth." - Mississippi's declaration of concession, 1861

w/ alt text. honestly, I wish I got this sooner. beating yourself up over things that you can't help won't get those things done. it just makes you feel like shit, and nothing gets done. you just feel like shit, and more guilty than you did before. give yourself some grace, and be patient.

To a person. When I suggest even the smallest action to such people clearly with time and energy on their hands, such as phone banking for a ballot measure, door knocking for a local candidate for office, or just joining an organization, they always reject it out of hand.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Well, we already understand this but for the people out here who don't - the idea is to stop people like Greta Thuneberg.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop Financing the Crisis of Plastics & Petrochemical Pollution!. Sign here: action.texasenvironment.org/petitions/st...

seems p. clear that Pierre called his boss the minute he got out of that Pentagon meeting and Leo DID NOT TAKE IT WELL because he - the only Pope in history who has ever been to a Fourth of July barbecue!!! - declined a direct invite from the White House to be a VIP guest at the America250 shindig

When sex workers are excluded from feminist analysis, the gaps are obvious. Policy conversations become abstract. Harm becomes theoretical. Safety is framed as something administered to people rather than built with them.

"How did things ever get like this in Canada?!?" - Carney fans in the future, after having praised every single step along the path to things getting like this in Canada

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.