No causal and arguably no meaningful relationship between smartphone use and mental health. Objective use, not self reported use, and that’s the key. When you ask someone how much time they spend doing a tech activity, you are asking about their vibes. Objective indicators tell another story.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

As someone doxxed by Andy Ngo, myself, I understand the drama it can bring. His latest target, Daryle Lamont Jenkins is the hero of the film SKIN, and an even greater hero in real life: A Black man who, on his own for decades, has targeted and transformed white supremacists. Now, he needs our help

maybe i’ll say it here because it helped me to read it from someone else: you can always put your mask back on. just because you stopped doing it all the time doesn’t mean you can’t choose to make a smart choice when the risk is higher.

the thing about manosphere stuff, like a lot of hard-right culture sphere beliefs and practices, is that it’s built to be self-reinforcing. i don’t know a woman who would respond well to this - but when she doesn’t it’s “proof” that entrenches the misogyny further

I feel like a disabled autistic 15 year old child going missing and ending up with ICE/HHS should be far bigger news. Especially considering he’s been located yet NOT returned to his mother. This is kidnapping. Yet the combination of racism & ableism means it gets ignored.

it is ok to dog ear the pages, write notes in the margins, underline passages, etc with your books. these are signs a book is loved and read

I love living in my hometown but sometimes there are downsides. Like today I get a call from my dad on my way to work asking if I’m cold because he saw me at the stop light with a “big coat” (a hoodie) on.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

I’m trying a new antiperspirant and I either forgot to put it on last night or it doesn’t work like at all.

@jackob1.bsky.social can I get an invite to the TDZ discord?

No, I was definitely hearing that phrase when Elon was ripping through the welfare state with the DOGE boys.

Do you want an orchi, and are you worried that you'll never be able to get one, either because of cost, or lack of access in your country? Well earlier this year, some friends and I went to Thailand to get an orchi for as cheap as possible, and one of us wrote a guide on the process! globoho.moe

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION. "Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE. Fuck you - fuck you again.

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit. Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages. If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

This has to be the MOST cynical attempt to pretend individuals hold equal responsibility for climate change as corporations I've ever seen. I mean, who can say who's worse: tech billionaires draining earth's water and electricity for AI data centers or selfish people trying to breathe?

I just want to keep saying that tear gas is 1) an abortifacient 2) extremely painful and scary 3) outright dangerous for people with respiratory issues 4) has effects, especially reproductive health effects, that long outlast the acute stage of exposure. I'm talking months of symptoms.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

The federal surge didn’t end in DC. It became entrenched. ICE is still riding with MPD. We have “local control” back & people are still being detained & deported. National Guard is still here with long guns pacing our streets.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

1/ "Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCOVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found": www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

A massive U.S. study of >460k kids found a 2nd Covid infection doubled the risk of long Covid despite vaxx status. Leaders must act now to reduce reinfections in schools & communities

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

These two are openly laughing though? I also see two people texting, people blatantly whispering, and sleeping.

I will just say it again : One of the most radical acts of resistance and shared humanity in the face of fascism is wearing a well fitting mask. Now more than ever if you have stopped wearing one reconsider wearing one when in public. Protect yourself and others from the pandemic and surveillance

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

put all the "we had anti-slavery regs for farm workers & Trump got rid of them back in June" videos in one place youtu.be/J8zit-g86v8

This is a great time to remind everyone that US farmers are a lot wealthier than we think they are. Most *small family farmers* are millionaires. And no, it's not "just because they own land." Their income is much than average- yes, AFTER you take out farm debts and expenses.

The “alarmists” were and are right about COVID and climate change too. Maybe we should stop calling them alarmists and start calling them the people who can correctly read a room.

🧵A few notes for all the haters bitching about Violet Affleck’s speech to the U.N.: She’s not a kid. She’s a 19-year old woman. She’s not unqualified. She’s currently a student at Yale University, which has a 4.5% acceptance rate, and is pursuing a public health degree. (1/4)

“We can recognize filtered air as a human right, as intuitively as we do filtered water. We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, so that tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it.” —Violet Affleck

My husband is cruelly refusing to get me a lobotomy if they start offering them again. His reasoning is I seem to want one too much?

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

My husband is cruelly refusing to get me a lobotomy if they start offering them again. His reasoning is I seem to want one too much?

like I'm glad it wasn't Fallon but it's so deeply undignified that we have to be out here riding for Jimmy Kimmel I try to think of it less like "hooray, his important voice has returned to the airwaves" and more like "hooray, the FCC didn't destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of innocent workers"

NSAIDs (which many pregnant women will now take instead of Tylenol) are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events like heart attack & stroke. Pregnancy-associated SCAD is also a leading cause of heart attacks during pregnancy & postpartum. NSAIDs increase SCAD risk. I am concerned.

EXPOSED: Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

shit is scary right now, but i have no intention of shutting up or shutting down. support independent media. subscribe to the handbasket.

Days after Brian Kilmeade called for the wholesale murder of unhoused people there was a mass shooting event www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

If you fanned the flames by rushing to post the unconfirmed rumor about the bullets of Charlie Kirk's assassin having trans stuff written on them, please take a moment to consider whether the clicks were worth it

Covid is over for you until you need a doctor for something else and have to wait eight months because so many health workers are being permanently disabled.