The mystery of medical diagnosis!

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

This year on Yom Kippur I'm thinking about how I can do better and be better and make amends, but it's hard to not ALSO think about how the people who really really need to be doing that reject the premises of self-improvement and apologizing.

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies 1/2

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

I saw this and I am always amazed at how little we actually know about so many things: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM. (other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

sorry im late i was vexed by riddles of the unquiet mind

The scientific illiteracy of the White House press corps is going to get children dead.

all things serve the beam, folks, isn’t that right. we have our breakers and they are working on the problems with the beams and they are working very strongly six beams, they all come brilliantly together. animal-headed friends of mine— they say, it's the most brilliant place you’ve ever seen

No one is less confused than a woman in a disagreement who says “I guess I’m just a little confused” btw. RUN

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

My 2yo tried fish sticks before she ever tried chicken nuggets, so she calls chicken nuggets “chicken fish sticks.” Today this food product entered our home and does anyone have contact info for Baudrillard

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

FRIEND: Are you excited for the show tonight? ME: (remembering how if a parent has any fun before their child turns eighteen “Bad Parenting Particles” float up from hell and attach to the baby, permanently decreasing their chances of living a happy, productive life) Kind of

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

They should make a computer that makes vulnerable, isolated people really good at dancing instead of what they’re doing now

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

as clothing becomes more and more disposable, knowing how to sew is punk as hell. don’t let them take skills from us!

Happy Labor Day 🙂

"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift

if going on ICQ to talk to your other teen friends in the 1990s had caused a number of high-profile suicides, my parents would have taken the computer in the backyard and shot it.

I guess "everyone dies you dumb shits" wasn't the winning message she thought.

I had NO desire to burn the American flag but trump made it illegal and suddenly…..

I keep seeing like... "why aren't you panicking, why aren't you freaking out" and .. i am, i am anxious all the time, it is a mindfuck seeing the news and still having to... just live, work, etc—but i can't let that panic and anxiety overtake every part of my life bc that would make me want to die

For everyone tearing up over Mamdani's scavenger hunt because you can't remember the last time someone in politics did something fun, what *you* need is a better State Fair.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

My toddler must’ve turned on speech to text, but honestly a lot of posters do need to hear this.

for the record I could be bribed with a few C-notes baked into a frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tart

As a person who was big into forums and chat rooms in the 90s, it’s unreal watching ChatGPT ppl develop forum addiction & epistolary limerence & go through vicious-cycle social reinforcement in EXACTLY the same ways, except with a reskinned Eliza app & they’re not being publicly shamed for it enough

A robot bends over, vomiting up slimy chunks of books that it devoured earlier. Botlicking technoslopper: "See that? That's my novel. I told the robot to vomit. I pressed the vomit button. I wrote that novel."

Nothing makes me feel more unhinged than seeing pleather rebranded as “vegan leather”. It’s plastic! It’s bad for the environment! It will fall apart in five seconds! Whoever came up with that term is my enemy.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Sorry I missed your post. I allow myself 3-5 minutes of browsing a day or else I can’t pull myself out of the panic spiral. Wishing you all the best.

Reading novels for school did less to make me love words than reading Stephen King did, and that is a fact.

I think the best book to give a young reader is the book you think *they* are going to genuinely like. With fiction, I firmly believe focusing on reading great books is less important than becoming a person who thinks of reading as pleasurable.

"Then the prophecy is true! The princess has been born! Take me to her."

Billionaires shouldn't be allowed on the internet except to send emails. They can also play NYT games if they want, whatever.

This fearmongering drives me nuts. The fact that a food is or is not processed does not make the food healthy or unhealthy. Just ridiculous way to shame people for eating the food that they can afford and have the time to prepare. Don't buy into it