(cautiously at the farmer's market) and would you say your cow is... you know... a friend of Louis Pasteur...?

Does anyone know the answer to: “what percentage of the uk population take immunosuppressant medication"? Google is no more useful than a bag of dicks.

This morning, @SkyNews has a report on the rise in airborne infections filling hospital beds: 💙 'flu = 4x more beds than 2023 💜 RSV = high admissions for 0-4 yr olds Thanks to @AnnaJonesSky and @ashnahurynag for this excellent report. 1/🧵

Reminder that if you ever need a meal and can't afford it, find your local gurudwara, they will feed you a great hot meal for free, you won't even have to fetch a plate for yourself and they'll also give you a place to crash if you don't have one and there's room. gurudwara is open to all always

The problem with this article is that the media hasn't been very empathetic here. This isn't a case of "white man kills family" and the photo is him jet skiing. The media has actually been trying pretty hard to shame everyone who is being empathetic to him. The empathy is coming from social media.

Photoshops by people with poor photoshopping skills are more endearing - and environmentally friendly - than these AI images. This is absolutely no better at getting the technical details right (e.g. the faces of the 2) than a bad photoshopper.

Quite surprised that the BBC 10pm news is quoting disablist hate speech out loud; without a hate speech content warning first. But then we’re only disabled, we’re not full humans with thoughts and feelings

I fully support the introduction of tethered plastic bottle lids to reduce the amount of plastic bottle tops littered. But the current design of the lids is so bad, the tether is so short, that it’s almost impossible to get the lid back on if you don’t chug it in one. Yes I just got a shower of OJ

No one asks questions because “that’s just what happens to ‘disabled people’.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYqaFbdE/

Living in a block of flats, I’m so scared that one of my neighbours might be charging one of these things in here. In the BBC article about this fire it says this: The *government* is aware it can ban these things; rather than just advising ppl not to buy them? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trying to imagine pitching this movie 50 years ago: “So this guy from apartheid goes to America and cons his way to collecting half a trillion dollars and buys a President with it. Then he starts to order Congress around from his computer which is actually a portable telephone.”

Anyone reading the Cass Review should be able to see it was political, with a set end point dictated in advance. It was criticised at the time by scientists for this. Every other country’s reviews on gender affirming care has found puberty blockers are safe. Cass’ report should be binned.

Gannett, owner of the Des Moines Register, won’t publicly commit to paying legal costs for Ann Seltzer, the pollster being sued by Trump. This is ominous, especially in light of the capitulation last week by Disney/ABC, which is vastly better resourced than Gannett. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/u...

There’s so many jaw drops in this article. He’s not been having cabinet meetings, he’s not even willing to be on the other end of the phone for his cabinet, his aides compile media briefings for him that leave out all criticism.

Hm, I wonder why agricultural chemical companies don't want tighter PFAS regulation, I'm sure there's a benign reason for it.

Pasteurization was a revolutionary and lifesaving innovation! I can’t believe we have to have this conversation

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

Yesterday, 37 Democratic Senators voted to pass the anti-trans NDAA. Those same Dems refused to allow Senator Baldwin to advance an amendment to remove anti-trans provisions from the bill. EITM has released an easy to read list of Senators who voted for it. Subscribe to support our journalism.

And yes, the dear Senator Duckworth DID vote for the bill that stripped away healthcare from trans kids this week, for those wondering.

So the list is, I presume, being quickly retitled “The 100 Best Restaurants; and one to avoid at all costs”?

I DID NOT EVEN CLOCK THE FIT OF THE JUMPSUIT Who let him cinch that waist? Did they add shoulder pads to the jumpsuit? I’m pretty sure this is the kind of tailoring the menswear guy raves about Meanwhile every cop looks like they’re about to show up for a first date with me (derogatory)

Remember that appalling condo collapse in Florida? There is...a lot more where that came from.

The optics on this image are truly wild like the Adjuster clearly has a comrade embedded somewhere who suggested that this would be a good way to handle his perpwalk because this performative display makes him look metal as fuck.

He's literally trying to buy himself congress, right out in the open.

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

seems a bit dramatic

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

An unhoused woman in *active labor*—her water had just broken—was ticketed by Louisville police for sleeping outside. What a cruel, cruel country.

Pregnant people are more likely to die by homicide than due to obstetrical complications (we'll see how Dobbs affects these numbers..). Intimate partners with guns are the primary drivers here.

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

"Wrong people listened to on puberty blockers ban". The National in Scotland continuing to do some good work.

🚨 Carmarthenshire Winter Pride cancelled after legal threats from GCs and the Free Speech Union.

we’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out How Trump Won and the answer is simply that we live in a country where people think the moon is a government drone

"I was exactly what they wanted to a T, and that's why it felt so right." Disney decided it's too risky to let children see this young trans women as a human being like themselves. For shame.

A person's gender doesn't belong to anyone else. It's only theirs. That's what it means for something to be an identity. It's not your-dentity or their-dentity or mom's-dentity. It's I-dentity. A parent has no more control over this than they have over any other individual's gender.

I hate substack not because it hosts gross people (every newsletter service does) but because it actively platforms and promotes vile people and their revolting enterprises.

The Church of England and its tolerance for abusers is a disgrace. And these bishops who put the safety of children last, well behind their concern for the Church's reputation and fell feeling for their abusing colleagues, should absolutely not be in the House of Lords.

They said that same bullshit about gay people holding hands. I am not doing this again

I’m so ill. I’ve called an ambulance for myself 4 times as an adult; and twice has been in the last 2 days.

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Anyway a trans teen has been missing in my town for a week and for some reason people feel compelled to send me Facebook screenshots and there is a direct line from what JS is peddling to the hate and bile people are putting out there under their government names with their grandkids in their pfps.

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting. This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

Banning masks is a disability rights issue. I’ve almost died from a common cold multiple times. It’s not just about COVID. If you’re banning masks, you’re actively excluding those like me from accessing those spaces. Disabled people deserve to be in society.

I was stunned to see ProPublica quoting “evidence-based gold standard treatment for those with medically necessary needs” suggesting that quote is the truth about ABA. They’re supposed to be the best research journalists in the world, and they couldn’t Google “Ole Ivar Løvaas” 🤦‍♀️

NOPE, we are not going to make UHC restricting ABA "therapy" a scandal. Autistic adults who survived it as children describe it as torture. It should be illegal and I don't give a fuck if they're only doing it to save money, it's an unambiguous good to reduce the hours we torture autistic kids.

Always surprised how many folk on social media are unaware that highly visible women online regularly get threatened w/ rape and other violence. Happens to every woman w/ a substantial following I know, has for a decade regardless of platform. And no, authorities don’t care and that’s no solution.