based on my experiences as a parent i genuinely believe that if someone is feeling irritable the first thing they should ask themselves is “have i pooped today?”

This is so, so well-articulated.

I have also been asked: who is looking after your children while you are at this meeting? Are you planning on wearing makeup for your seminar? Are you planning on following your spouse for your next job? When will you have children? Why do you need a lab coat that fits your pregnant belly?

This is awesome! Flip the script: be an ally How do you handle being assertive without being perceived as aggresive or bitchy? Have you ever been told to smile more? I'd like to add something else men are never asked: Do you have reliable child care? #SheShed

So many water bottles and hoodies.

Women lost a larger chunk of their NIH grant funding than men over the past year — on average women had 57.9% of their grant terminated, while men had 48.2%. Via @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

I get notifications for the kids school and my work email and it’s always on silent. I also put on DND in the gym and turn off all work notifications when out of office. Even when other peoples phones constantly ping it makes me stress. I don’t know how people do it.

I haven’t had notifications on my phone in a decade. A list of exactly five people can break through my DND if they call twice. This freaks 1) millennials 2) Gen Z 3) students out to no end. I don’t know how we ever thought this was okay but then again I’m old.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

Parenting: checking the work calendar to make sure I can buy the coveted kindergarten play tickets at 12pm on a Tuesday.

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

**protects mice**

2026 basically

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

🐱😈 Oops... I shared. 😼

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

Someone hacked into Chicago’s DOT traffic sign who knew the assignment :::

RFK Jnr on the Time 100 people in health for ‘reshaping public health’ is infuriating.

This is a bracing read, and also one to share with anyone you know questioning the severity of this virus:

Let me repeat what Katie says: YOU. CAN'T. REPEAL. A. SCIENTIFIC.FINDING. That's not how it works.

House passes dangerous voter suppression act, calls it the “Save America” Act, which is a lie unless they’re trying to save America from democracy and fair elections. You don’t have to use fancy tech to steal an election. You just have to suppress the vote that’s more likely to vote against you.

Almost exactly three years ago, this thread on "AI" in healthcare and the kinds of things likely to go wrong in that context:

‘Nearly two-thirds of the funding is unspent money allocated to state and local public health departments in California.’ CA already pays more taxes than it receives in funding. 🤬

"About Edward: Looking for a younger woman who will mistake my brooding looks and condescending misanthropy for tragic torment, and ideally is into employer-employee roleplay."

Bad Bunny halftime was pure joy. It uplifted our nation’s beautiful tapestry, the entire western hemisphere & the beauty of queerness. The bizarre white nationalist backlash — platforming a racist guy who advocates pedophilia — said so much about the cult running our government.

I have encountered a little of this. My brother historically has received more praise than I. When I visit India it’s awkward for me. The women talk in the kitchen about cooking while the men sit in the living room talking about global affairs. There is no space to talk about me or science.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

He gave them a tiny podium!

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw

sometimes i think about how taking the moral high ground means you do not get the job. you don't get the rec; you're not spoken of highly; your reputation does not precede you. you end up pushed to the sides of the profession, if you still work in it.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

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fund research on menopause you cowards

We have endometrial tissue roaming around our bodies, sometimes ending up in our brains and chest, nobody knows why, and the only solution they have is yanking the whole organ out. But sure, let's fund penis research.

Let alone the logistics involved in summer camp enrollment, PTA events and selling girl scout cookies…

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

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Why would you make parents stay up till midnight for camp registration? Insanity.

This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like

SUPERBOWL WEEK OF ACTION Your presence is requested in the run up to the big game! There are so many opportunities to show up & show out, so get plugged in now. The San Jose community defense coalition is organizing a week of action to keep our neighbors safe & say once again: ICE OUT OF THE BAY

I have reached the buy hot glueguns/hole punches/jewelry pliers phase of parenting.