Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle. Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.

So, I trained an AI model using my own writing, and use it to help overcome the post-covid brain fog to fix my writing. This seems like an okay use of AI to me, but what do you all think?

Gay Bar Gay, MI

So, the president has apparently just surrendered to Iran. That was not on my 2025 Bingo card.

Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

If we're just figuring this out about a disease that we have long considered ubiquitous and have had around as long as we can remember, that most people can only get once, why is everyone so eager to go out and get COVID as often as possible?

“Inscribe my book with something weird and random” I was born for this challenge

The new subvariant has mutations on the spike protein. This means that several vaccines may not be effective against it, especially older ones. Something we will need to keep an eye on. Mask up everyone.

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected. My reaction:

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

Okay, so Trump may win the birthright citizenship case before the SCOTUS. Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.

This is not an idle threat, either. Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.

So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!

The Quakers are probably the only US religious group shooting over 90% from the field on being on the right side of history.

So when DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted last month that Abrego Garcia had been found with “rolls of cash” the reality is that he was wearing a sweatshirt that had rolls of cash depicted on it? Like cartoonish images of $100 bills? Is that really what happened here?

So, the US Treasury bond market has a maturation wall issue. This will push up rates, as more supply hits. Combine this with foreign debt holders selling off their bonds, further increasing their supplies, and foreign sovereign funds cancelling bond purchases, and we are in for a whole lot of pain.

Zuck: The average American has three friends.

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...

Very exciting thorium reactor news today, people. If your favorite nerds seem distracted or excitable, you gotta give the a little space.

"Get me a picture of Australians voting." "No that's too Australian".

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

Witnessing the horror show of US politics today, I am disheartened. I should be finishing an updated edition of "The People's Constitution" to discuss the ratification of the ERA and other ways to interpret the CAA, but I just can't get the energy. For the current edition;

Division Bell for me

"When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn’t realize he was dead." Read @merylkornfield.bsky.social & co on a scenario that could happen to many more people as Musk moves aggressively to transfer more names to the government's "Death Master File" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Needless to say anti-trans motions by an NZ political party along with everything else going on are really causing me to experience significant anxiety. The anxiety has been with me since ending up in hospital with pericarditis.

FUCK. THIS. All of this.

Comfortable in my skin, care about people, not parts.

The response to the UK trans decision makes it clear that to TERFs, they don't care about women's rights or concerns at all. The only thing they care about is hurting transwomen. youtu.be/jeMjAqT0qOY?...

The new Lysenkoism; suppression of science. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/h...

Having someone insist that a hydrolox rocket produces nitric acid as exhaust was certainly a take I did not expect to read today.

Show me a pic from star trek that embodies your aura

With the layoffs in my house, I sat down and looked at jobs in my originally trained field (cinematography) for the first time in over a decade and was sadly not surprised to see the same issues which led me to leave it nearly two decades ago; where equipment mattered more than skill.

It has taken me 15 years, but I have become a true denzien of the PNW. I went outside wearing socks with sandals.

“Something bad is happening.” 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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after endless hospital visits it turns out I’ve had Ehlers Danlos + POTS + PCOS this whole time and it took over a decade to find a doctor who didn’t say “learn to relax and lose weight.” THREE debilitating chronic illnesses left neglected until I was too sick to function. Medical misogyny kills.

F hungary

“Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating … the largest mass censorship operation.”

I'm #intersex. Born with 2 DSDs & ambiguous genitalia. I was treated as a girl by my mother for my first three years until doctors intervened and told her that I was a boy. My parents accepted their authority and agreed to have me surgically 'repaired'. I've known doctors like this all my life 🧵

Have you ever seen such efficiency?

A drug store in Japan went viral a few days ago when employees tried to charge someone 10,000 yen ($68) for what they deemed illegal parking. Turns out the employees were never told their parking lot was a shared lot.