Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🚨 We have lost SO MANY disabled people in our community whose funds were not met in time to save them. PLEASE. YOU can help save Wylder’s life— and save a family— by contributing anything you can and at least reposting his links. Abscesses are fuckin’ SERIOUS. Please help however you are able.

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

(things said by people who have not undertaken a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021) I wish liberal covid deniers would actually engage with the piles of evidence on the continued danger of covid, rather than deeming everyone who has insane.

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear. #bbcqt

I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms

“May the the part of me that loves Assata be water. May it be every part of me, may it flush out the fear the state insists on and turn it into faith.” www.alexispauline.com/now/assatarh...

Well don't I feel stupid

Again, I recommend moving away from and being mindful of using of TikTok. Oracle, one of the most privacy-violating, pro-surveillance, genocide-supporting, pro-policing corporations to exist, is taking over co-ownership of TikTok.

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it coincides with a halving in the education budget for prisons and a commitment to use prison labour for arms manufacturing. literally what are we doing here

it was only in 2017 that the UK government retroactively pardoned gay men. it's colloquially called Alan Turing's law, being an expansion of a campaign to pardon Turing who was convicted and chemically castrated for homosexuality. the scope for abuse here is staggering and obvious.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

few people know this, but the shooter in the charlie kirk case actually knew and associated with several cis people. now i'm a responsible journalist so i won't say if we should have a nationwide pogrom.

Sometimes people say “political violence” needs to involve at least one state actor. Other times, they say that it needs to be motivated by political disagreement. Is women’s aspiration to self-determination and dignity a “political opinion” that could motivate “political” violence? Just wondering!

dril from the top rope 💀

6/7. 🎯Read our blog for the #ACS2, which includes what to expect from these critical discussions: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/fr...

The death toll from the Afghanistan earthquake has now risen to 800.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation

I’m worried this is reaching into censorship of books. Could you lose your PayPal account for simply buying a book discussing and depicting these topics in an academic context? A journalistic one? I would not put it past PayPal

In case the link doesn’t open for everyone, at least a screenshot of the opening paragraph

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

This is long and wordy, but very plausible: LLMs allow susceptible users to engage in what amounts to "auto-cold-reading", which convinces them that the LLM has conscious intelligence when it's really just reflecting their own intelligence back at them through statistically likely responses.

Told you so. #VirusFreeAirNow

The Times: 'Lack of ME research because of ‘medical misogyny’, says top scientist' 'Professor Chris Ponting, who led a groundbreaking study into the disease, says it is ‘highly stigmatised and incredibly female-biased’' #DecodeME www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

I wear a mask - a respirator - when I'm indoors in public spaces or outdoors in crowds. I do this because COVID is a disabling, deadly disease, with no predicting who will be struck down. I'm self-employed and solo in life; I need my body and mind okay. And, I don't want to be complicit in eugenics.

This is some of the most exciting observational research into post-viral illness. At the end, @virusesimmunity.bsky.social says that positive results would lead them to try to pursue trials with immunotherapies like FcRn inhibitors, B cell targeting therapies, and IVIg.

The evidence continues to accrue. You don't want covid. We probably should have been doing more to prevent cold and flu spread even before covid too. These aren't guesses or vibes, these are scientifically-supported facts, with more supporting evidence being published all the time.

“I started masking in 2018, particularly on planes, because I noticed that each time I flew, I'd get sick. But life isn't just about me. I mask because I want to be the kind of person that cares about the health and safety of others.” Jade T. Perry ( jadetperry.com ) #MaskTogetherAmerica

If you compare Greta Thunberg's treatment to Chris Smalls' then you can understand why we say that this can all stop as soon as white people decide it's important enough.

“A study involving nearly 27,000 pregnancies suggests that women infected with COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are at two to three times the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks' gestation.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

It has been the plan to starve Gaza for at least a year. Israel crafted its final solution and announced it in public a long time ago. What a tragedy that they were wrong. Turns out everyone in the world would let them do it.

3️⃣ An "IPCC for pandemics" would let scientists develop consensus on key issues where the evidence is complex and sometimes contradictory - think airborne transmission, social distancing, herd immunity, school closures, pathogen origins, and most importantly, future risks - BEFORE the next pandemic.

Riddle me this: how do you stop a measles outbreak if you only mask people with symptoms? Apparently, #measles can be transmitted BEFORE symptoms appear. Plus, it’s airborne. Sounds like outbreak locations need N95 and clean air. uihc.org/news/measles....

This whole thread is why I wear a mask. Imagine being the reason this granddad could no longer talk to his family? Could no longer play with them, spend time with them? COVID is airborne, you are infectious before you show symptoms. Wear a mask, it's not rocket science. It's community care

5/ New commentary on this paper [Patient-reported treatment outcomes in ME/CFS and long COVID]: "Growing recognition of post-acute infection syndromes" by Anthony L. Komaroff Free fulltext: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #LongCovid #MEcfs

Flooding in Shiloh is causing homes to sink and foundations to crack. Insurance companies are denying claims, and some residents are losing coverage entirely as they're forced to face the damage on their own. #ALDOT #JustCompensation #FifthAmendment #takings

If you want to know what OBR really said on all this, I wrote a brief summary TL;DR: Since net-zero is much cheaper than thought and unchecked global warming is far more costly than thought, climate action makes even more sense than thought www.carbonbrief.org/... 6/6

The Sick Times: 'Left without care: Many Long COVID clinics are closing down in the U.K.' 'The U.K. government set aside funding for Long COVID clinics in 2020, but funding is now up to local health boards.' thesicktimes.org/2025/07/15/l...

INSANE HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST Crazy MINIMUM TEMPERATURE 38.3C Tuz IRAQ Dozens of stations allover Middle East (Iran,Iraq,Kuwait,Emirates) with Minimums >35C Max. temperatures expected up to 52C. Nights up to 40C ! Historic heat wave,one of the worst ever seen anywhere worldwide it 'll last weeks

My mother-in-law died of COVID in April. It's still a pandemic.

Honestly, once you look up 'fecal / urinal / toilet aerosols', you will never enter a public washroom without a mask ever again. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

One of the things my former friend who’s a republican and I were able to agree on is that it’s bullshit that people on Medicaid aren’t allowed to save more than $2,000. You want to try to lift yourself out of poverty? Well, the US government says too fucking bad… and yet you’re the problem somehow?

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.