I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

It really cannot be emphasized enough that the Holocaust was modeled after the American campaign to displace and exterminate Indigenous people. This country drew up that blueprint.

Disabled people are not expendable. The elderly are not expendable. Children are not expendable. Worth should never be tied to economic productivity. If we protected the most vulnerable in society, everyone would be better off.

Of course, in the UK "regulators" are never really regulators. Their raison d'etre is political: to dress political goals in regulatory clothing, to act as reputational buffer zones, to gaslight outsiders like you and I into thinking regulation exists. But never, god forbid, to regulate.

We need this screening for Covid across the UK. The Oxford coverscan study showed the damage early on and now we know it’s cumulative. You can’t see blood vessel damage or heart damage. See post below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26C...

I feel like the recent discourse is a good example of what I have been thinking of as 'pressure cooker politics'. We all know everything sucks. That sense is escalating rapidly. We do not have the means to reach out and touch the people responsible. So we lash out at the people in arm's reach.

“U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III wrote that the facility is “infested with mold” that eats through brick and metal, drips from ceilings, and falls from air vents.”

The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates

Incarceration is deadly. People incarcerated on a single day in 2008 had a 39% higher risk of death compared to similar people who were not incarcerated:

anyways, freaking out at @parkermolloy.com because she isn't into the same kinks you are is cringe af, especially when you try to turn it into a morality campaign. this is the kind of reactionary impulse that fascists manipulated during gamergate btw. plz self-crit a lil. transmisogyny delenda est

PSA: It’s not too late to get your flu shot, as the record-breaking flu season will continue for several months. While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!

It is the most bizarre feeling to sit in a doctor's office wearing an N95 and be asked if I'm sick by a maskless nurse who can't stop sniffing. Please, please mask in healthcare settings.

This is an ongoing genocide, and our friends in Gaza have ongoing need for help and solidarity. It must be so exhausting to try to adequately describe your pain and need in a way that appeals to strangers just for a few dollars when they already know what you're facing.

So many organizers I know and respect are no longer able to be on the front lines in the streets or at the doors due to getting Long Covid. There’s still much people can do behind a screen and on the phone, but it’s not the same. SOMEONE still needs to be in field. Protect field capacity: Mask & vax

Weird furry porn games and their devs were turned into internet lolcows by the same people insisting that feminist communist stalinist islamists were taking all the t&a out of video games Because, well, theyre liars

modding breasts onto an AC character is weird, and tbh it’s ok to do weird shit, but when a more normal person is like “homie that’s hella weird” and your first instinct is to become unglued over it and call them an oppressor for pointing it out, idk, maybe the little freak life isn’t for you

"if you say that you find something that makes me horny a bit weird you are literally Goebbels burning down the Institut Fur Sexualwafflemaker" tumblr socialisation has nuked your mind

noticing the degendering, but what's interesting is the discourse cycle cooldown: whenever the high of the chili-neighboring* dogpile starts wearing off, people realizing just how far they took it start to feel uncomfortable with themselves & they start to moralize reasons why it was actually >

the hypocrisy may be the point but also what a miserable way to exist, where you have to condition your entire worldview on whatever the marching orders are day to day and just fall in line I rather enjoy having consistent takes, actually, I think my brain would explode

Like seriously, normies seeing your weird shit and being confused and curious is a central feature of being into weird shit. Whether that's weird sex shit, weird literature shit, weird music shit or whatever someone with more conventional tastes seeing it and being like wtf is part of the deal.

frustrating how often i find myself not having very strong feelings or any particular take about the thing the discourse is about, but being appalled by how many reactionary & noxious assumptions are being smuggled in BY the discourse itself

Until we learn why generations of women keep swapping between "I hate restrictive modesty, I wanna be a liberated slut!" and "I hate extreme sexualization, I wish my boundaries could be respected and modesty sounds neat", we will not escape feminist samsara.

if the us seizes greenland the eu will say they're gravely concerned about violations of national sovereignty and will closely monitor the situation. they would say that if trump nuked paris too

"Shirley’s main source is a lobbyist and one-time right-wing candidate for Minnesota attorney general whose full name is David Hoch. Accounts bearing his name have a long online history posting about the Somali community in Minnesota."

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

It's genuinely wild to kidnap a foreign head of state and it be genuinely unclear to what end (even what cynical self-serving end) you have done this. I am finding this new world hard to adjust to. At least we never need "stupid or evil?" debates again, can always just say "yes" and be done with it.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

It rules so hard that this interview got big enough for the NYT to try to do firefighting and that Trans News Network said fuck off we don't owe you column space.

There’s lots of reasons why being colonized by aliens would probably be terrible, but increasingly I’m willing to do it for the irony.

The full panel is even wilder x.com/metasynthie/...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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The only people I won’t talk shit to regarding our actions in Venezuela are my Venezuelan friends. They’re much more clear-eyed about the threat of US intervention and their elation over the removal of Maduro is completely understandable.

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

I see it’s that time of the month again

Reactionaries truly live in a hell of their own making. Being mad at things that don't happen mustn't be good for the brain.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

Scorpio: That pattern you've been noticing is real and it's the key to understanding everything. Of course you'll need to gather a lot more data, so it's imperative that you neglect all relationships and responsibilities. You must focus on the pattern.

Taurus: You will live like a king this year. Isolated, paranoid, never sure if anyone’s affections are genuine.

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

The sexual abuse factory has opinions on sexual ethics

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Y'all we are so, so close. Please help us get there.

!!!!! "the Henry A. Kissinger ’50 Professor of Statecraft and World Order, a position that will permanently honor the polarizing American diplomat." www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

A reminder that Harvard thinks war criminal Henry fucking Kissinger was the bee's knees.

To add to the madness of it all, the attack on Venezuela is clearly, above all, an oil grab. But we scarcely need oil any more.

Every imperial power drums up paranoid fears to justify aggression and expansion. If one excuse looks too ridiculous to attempt, another will always be found.

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped