Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
in that case, google shouldn’t give a response to an unsuitable query. giving a confident, authoritative, wrong answer is never the right choice.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
in that case, google shouldn’t give a response to an unsuitable query. giving a confident, authoritative, wrong answer is never the right choice.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
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sokobansploitation
Now that a judge ruled Trump's invasion of LA illegal, I wonder if Dems who avoided this topic will reflect on whether it might have been good to put their stamp on it now that it's been unmasked as a massive abuse of power. Pundits who urged caution should reflect on this too, but they won't.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Re-upping an article from last year about the billionaires funding the dark money network that is ravaging US politics, media, and our daily lives.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
That anyone is willing to say trans kids shouldn't be allowed to play sports with their friends in their public schools should alarm even the most radical centrist that Democrats care so little about public education when public education is under constant incredible fascist attack on all fronts
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Boston Common, start of the Labor Day Parade
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you won’t stand up for trans people and their rights, you’re tellling me you won’t stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. You’re telling me you don’t stand for anything at all. Also, they’re *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
They don't really face a "labour shortage" except in the immediate moment given the supply shock due to the shamefully racist immigration policies. They now face a market telling them that their supposedly "very aggressive" wages are simply not high enough. There a solution to that... 🤔
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Don’t print lies in the newspapers. Don’t keep platforming the lying liars to performatively lie on your teevee shows. End the interviews immediately if you’ve messed up by inviting them anyway & they once again performatively lie in public. What is journalism, anyway?
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*explaining communism to an American* okay so imagine a car…
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
there’s also the part where they know chromosomes “determine” sex but don’t realize that the overwhelming majority of people *never* have their chromosomes tested, let alone at birth
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
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The whole thing is an act of vandalism, nothing more.
the trans eliminationist twitter screenshot with no context on who the person talking even is has been going around and i am like 30 seconds away from unfollowing people i actually like for sharing breathless quotes of it. please stop.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Extremely funny given that Wikipedia is functionally a bunch of dispute resolution mechanisms that has somehow made an encyclopedia
A fortuneteller says: “You will die on a national holiday.” The tyrant asks: “How do you know?”
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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feeds and speeds, folks. you gotta get the basics right before you try to get fancy.
Tip 1: Keep Your Rabbit Cool Tip 2: Handle With Care Tip 3: Avoid Magnetic Fields Tip 4: Defragment Your Rabbit Regularly Tip 5: Update Your Operating System and Drivers Tip 6: Perform Regular Checkups Tip 7: Backup Your Rabbit Regularly (via the National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Minnesota will remain a safe place for our trans friends and neighbors. You are welcome and needed in Minnesota.
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
it will be a dangerous diplomatic embarrassment if the courts rule that water is wet
“I don’t have any choice” says the kidnapper.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
So you’re saying that the North and the South were equally morally culpable with regard to slavery? Both had too many slaves, after all.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
This is also a “why complex systems fail” thing. Complex systems always have parts that are failing, and it’s humans throughout the system doing the right thing that keeps things going.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Portland transit riders deserve better service, not policing! We've heard that the mayor wants to put cops on our buses and we say HELL NO.
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia seeks gag order against Trump administration, singles out Noem and Bondi’s ‘inflammatory’ attacks
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
per capita, that’s just over a penny per year
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
tbh it would be inappropriate to *not* affirm the president’s health in an answer like that
When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them
I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats. I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.
Welp, the lying about economic numbers — which everyone predicted would happen — has commenced. And the press is dutifully gobbling it up.
Why is President Obama amplifying an Ezra Klein essay in which Klein eliminates from history the fact that hundreds and hundreds of journalists asked Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign if his agenda was Project 2025 and *he lied to every single one of them, and every single American voter*?
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump thinks he's getting *personal* ownership of parts of companies this way. He thinks he owns the country.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
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More than ever.
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
Honestly, part of my fury over MAGA is it feels like a broken promise. As imperfect as things were in the 90s, I was told that we had all agreed on at least the *goal* of a society where race and sex didn't limit you, in which the law was blind...and actually a bunch of those adults were lying.
like the overwatch and world of warcraft teams before them, over 450 diablo devs have voted to unionize. last year's mass microsoft layoffs convinced them to start organizing, but this year's kicked things into high gear
You can't have vaccines or cancer research but RFK definitely wants you in a wearable that can transfer your health data to unsecure databases or have it shared with third parties, as Charlie McGill writes. prospect.org/health/2025-...
This won't have any impact on the broader narrative or the understanding the far-right has of this case, but for trans people who struggle, please, for the love of god, do not become a black-pilled far right detransitioner. It's an utterly destructive path. Nothing good lies that way.
NEW: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is suing President Donald Trump to keep her job, after the president earlier this week tried to remove her. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m still baffled by the part where they didn’t even *try* to justify their massive tax cuts for the rich earlier this year. No “trickle down,” no “job creators,” just complete silence about why this should be good for anyone but the ultra-rich.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
I got a wild idea, instead of explaining all 151 phrases on the mass murderer's guns, why don't we explain the online subcultures that's turning young people into mass murderers.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemns anti-trans hate in wake of school shooting, calls for unity: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity” #NOH8
RFK Jr. needs to go. Like, right now.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
media should not interview minors who have just survived a mass shooting
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Me and two of my artist neighbours successfully sustained a running habit for almost 2 years now...not because we want to look good in our 30s, but because we aim to feel great in our 70s. Proud of us 💪
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
this tells me that countless people saw the trajectory this guy was on and didn’t intervene
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs has proven to be almost prophetically accurate.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that it didn’t work is the thing that gets me. These people are so intoxicated with greed and cruelty that they’d destroy the very thing that enables their excess.
Emily Bunny (@emilybunny.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans in Congress could also end this at any time.
America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them
PLEASE NOTE. Even if you DO NOT necessarily “qualify” for the UPDATED 2025-2026 COVID vaccines under the current “recommendations,” by the CDC, it is STILL worth asking your provider if you can receive it if you want one!
I wanted to update this. The FDA has APPROVED the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines for the fall. Again, as I said above, please be sure to read the entire thread in regards to access and how to get them. • www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
GOOD
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LLMs brought to their knees by their greatest nemesis, the Russian novelist