they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content

we are going to win

there's this Tuesday lunchtime skate nearby that, in theory, is perfect: good ice, good vibes, nice arena, not crowded, rink guards let us get away with stuff but every time I go, I feel shaky wobbly and weird and can't do shit...yesterday I fell directly on my ass doing a backward snowplow stop 💀

Excellent public health messaging from New York City!! Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji. How can you do that? Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95. It’ll help keep you and your community safe.

Updated research unravels claims about alcohol’s potential health benefits and links drinking at any amount with increased cancer risk. @drjthrul.bsky.social shares how these findings can help people make their own decisions about drinking. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/977-the-heal...

People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

Please help Sally's family survive Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza by sharing & donating as Palestinians are left starving & homeless in winter rains. 1 donation in 9 days:

Mai also has a GFM listed later in the thread if you feel more comfortable donating on that platform ❤️

Just give people money who say they need money—let them use it however they want; ban vehicles from public streets that are over a certain size; melt the guns. I have more but that’s a good start.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"

I'm raising funds to support Scarleteen and y'all got me to my initial $1,000 goal so quickly that I want to push for $1,500! Thanks to a donor matching overall donations up to $10,000 if we GET to $10,000, your dollars will count twice if you help us reach our goal. www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...

Today, nurse Hammam has a simple fundraising goal. $50 to buy one chicken for his family. I think we can get him there today, wouldn't you say?

This is why a lot of us are avoiding crossing that border.

The great defining bond of having experienced girlhood is turning 11 and being actively punished by the entire adult world because a bunch of weird men want to fuck you

careful, berlusconi first got elected in the wake of mani pulite in '94 and his ascendence was an exercise in redirecting anti-corruption work of his opposition for 25 years. if and when trump is defeated, there will be a vacuum. the solution is socialism, and eliminating billionaires from society

The secret third thing is that weirdos who are obsessed with breeding a master race are frequently also pedophiles.

This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Happy whale carcass explosion day to all who celebrate!

This is also why setting up a recurring donation is so valuable, if you can swing it. Knowing that they'll get even $5 consistently each month REALLY increases how much food they can provide.

If we're going to uncritically internalise idealisms of "the body" like this then we won't make it. We can't say we're going to fight racism and ableism and misogyny and transphobia if we're going to cling to moral conceptions of aesthetically tolerable bodies. This is failure at the first hurdle.

I really miss that stretch of time when fatness was being treated as human and beautiful. The snap back to pseudohealth body standards is really fashy and has infected the left to everyone's detriment. imo.

Shereen has lost most of her extended family and her husband recently (while holding her son) had a chain from an Israeli aircraft fall on him and shatter his arm/ give him a head injury- luckily little Ahmed was safe. She started this fundraiser after this happened because he can no longer help

A bit of something wholesome in this day of rage... A woman asks a Japanese TV show called Knight Scoop to find out why her dog Sacchan has gotten so fat, so the show decides to follow Sacchan around as he goes about his daily routine in a Japanese town. I'd watch the hell out of this show.

On Wednesday morning I leave for my VERY LAST in person lab exam and y'all have helped me get *so close* to meeting the need for that ask but I'm still about $225 short. If you can help, it's deeply appreciated.

Lord, I saw what you did for Bob Dylan...

Losing #measles elimination status as predicted is the result of vaccines being a victim of their incredible success. It quite sad that people will need to experience the suffering inflicted by an infection like measles in order to remember why elimination was remains something to strive for.

There's a Kurtzgezagt video on this (www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-K7...). Every illness damages your body. The body makes repairs but it will never be the way it was before. A big reason you are aging better than your grandparents did is because vaccines saved your from illness aging you as a child.

At a certain point we have to accept persistent failure as a strategic feature in service to a pyramid scheme.

still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition" people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic

99.9% of the time when someone says "ultra-processed foods" what they really mean is "the kinds of foods I assume fat, unhealthy poor people eat, and to which I ascribe blame for their fatness and ill-health, because I believe they are stupid and have no self-control."

First snow, and first day skating where I didn't feel like I was going to collapse after an hour on the ice...winter's off to a strong start

study, 35% received the Pfizer vaccine (COMIRNATY), and 64% received the Moderna vaccine (Spikevax). According to the study’s authors, COVID vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.” Researchers conducted the observational study using

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% and their risk of death by 64%. Of the nearly 300,000 U.S. participants in the

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50. “Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

how is it possible to feel more pride changing a flat tire on my bike than for any normal adult accomplishment?

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

Do something Dick Cheney would have hated and help a Palestinian family ❤️

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

important. look at this fat bird