You are right and you should say it. It's not ableist, it is factual and not a judgment: A significant proportion of the population has literal brain damage and does not know it.
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You are right and you should say it. It's not ableist, it is factual and not a judgment: A significant proportion of the population has literal brain damage and does not know it.
This theory may have merit.
📌 Pinning for accurate summary of our stupid, deadly national identity.
It is, in fact, TREASON, if you care about that sort of thing!
It burns me up to see this shit when there are plenty of proudly self-identified historical WOMEN who were rebellious, "masculine," or otherwise wildly nonconforming-in-expression. Barry *tells us* he was a man; undermining him is cruel and unnecessary. It does not diminish womanhood to respect him!
Also, actual low-frequency harms from the vax require more and better study, not less. COVID is a new disease; these are new vaccines. Some info suggests the vax can be a mast cell activation trigger and have gnarly interactions with underlying infections. We should study and prevent those things!
The collapse in American agriculture started two years ago during the last half of the Biden admin when everyone got so busy with the old man election pageants they all forgot to do one thing: their fucking job. Coulda had a solid farm bill to help protect us all but NOO "we'll do it after we win"
Analysis suggests incidence of Long COVID at 4% of pediatric infections and 10% of adult infections; that's just in *documented* SARS-CoV-2 cases, and the adult risk may be as high as 26%. That's NOT rare, and even the now-compromised CDC website emphasizes "Anyone can get Long COVID." (2/2)
Point of thread taken, but: "...long covid and risk of other post-viral complications....But these are also relatively rare in healthy children and adults." With respect: No. False. Even with only five years of data, it's clear that they are MUCH more common than initially thought. (1/2)
It is possible that I have never related more to a famous person.
I'm spoken for tonight, but if youuuuu are in Baltimore and would like an evening diversion that is extremely apt for Our Times, you can get a ticket for this right up to the last minute. Centrally located, too—if you're in Charles Village/Remington/Wyman Park/Waverly etc. you could walk.
This is the way.
Dang, I completely missed that this was happening! I hope you do it again; it sounds great.
I am mad that you made me read this.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if even one (1) broadcast org stood up to him, or if the players just refused to start, or if half the stands walked out... I know these are just "gestures," but FOR FUCK'S SAKE somebody at least make a gesture.
I absolutely take your meaning, and I also wish that Blair Mountain (local "law enforcement" + National Guard) and the MOVE bombings (local LE, military tactics) were part of every school curriculum.
This is amazing (congratulations!) and also GREAT information, even for those of us not in your particular medical circumstances. Many thanks for laying it out.
The problem isn't that LLMs "aren't good enough yet" or "need help"—it's that, as always, rich people want slavery. A lot of white people want slavery. A lot of people, period, desire slaves. Creating a digital slave that you call sentient begets extreme devaluation and disrespect of human labor.
This right here. Best way to avoid getting duped by dubious scammers in this case is to just have great writers on staff lmao
I mean...agree. Had never seen you before the Clipping gig in DC and you were terrific. Thanks for the amazing show.
Hey, @mldavies.bsky.social, do you have any insight here? For some reason you sprang to mind as a person who might know.
"*I* did drugs for perfectly understandable reasons; *you* should toughen up and work on a farm instead of taking Adderall."
📌 Pinning because you're so right.
You can't grasp anti-trans hate unless you understand this, they wholeheartedly believe there will be some inflection point where trans people just stop existing. And every day trans people continue unabated, that's further proof the trans conspiracy is even stronger and goes deeper than before.
In that case, saying "during peak COVID" is literally a one-syllable adjustment and more accurate to boot. Anecdata that I wish weren't true, but I know a ton of people who say "during COVID," many lovely people who I like, and they have given up ALL prevention and think COVID doesn't matter now.
Having this kind of traffic-driving mechanism with absolutely no built-in consideration for consent is really shitty. Now you've made it even more frictionless and are still dropping all responsibility for negative externalities on the people affected by them.
Hey, I am genuinely glad to be here, but can I just give this Starter Pack move the world's biggest and most enthusiastic THUMBS DOWN?! I want to be able to OPT OUT of a Starter Pack, not make it trivially easy for people to put me in one! People have been begging for opt-out since packs began.
One of the things that I said about the obsession with pandemic learning loss is that the kids are always learning. Many of us are too afraid to ask what it is they are learning. This is a pretty good summary of some of the lessons.
📌 Pinning because it's always time to remember that police are not our friends and they suck at their job.
Precisely. Destroying my laptop or my typing fingers would be bad for my livelihood and overall happiness, so I should not do things that might encourage me to punch walls, throw laptop out window, etc. Also having a stroke in my early forties is not a goal.
I have also been really beating myself up about not doing enough, and then sometimes I remember that I effectively gave myself a second job working on a public information project about the destructive effects of the Trump administration. It's certainly no cure, but it's something. *cracks knuckles*
It IS valuable! I hope to come on another tour.
2/2: ...and the Gray Man, and to federal agents covering their faces + men objecting to women and service workers masking for disease prevention. @debcha.bsky.social had a great Metafoundry entry touching on some of this (marked/unmarked), but it seems to have disappeared. Dang.
1/2: There's a banger of an essay somewhere in this about masculinity as extraction/gaze/entitlement (to privacy, to the objects of gaze, to accommodation) and how perception = potential accountability = anathema to unchecked power. Also tied to the "marked"/"unmarked" gender distinction...
Same. Not engaging with certain people's audio/video is part of my mental health protocol. I read coverage, transcripts, quotes, anything written, but if I listen to them, my head is gonna fly off and I will be UNWELL. So I just don't.
Also CONGRATULATIONS <3
Do you have a favorite cookie recipe?
Exactly. The literacy is fake, just like everything else it offers: fake art, fake writing, fake thought, fake interaction.
Cosign.
Maybe? Good plan so long as I don't just flat-out reject uncomfortable information if and when it appears, when it's important. That's a standard I like (and appreciate in others, too).
...Yike. Literally had no idea. There are so many swaths of culture, in all fields, where I really don't know the industry goings-on, or only a specific slice of it, because I just didn't happen to be looking.
Ha, sure, might as well. I'm not a famous-chef stan.
I have not read it! Maybe I should, even if it will do weird things to my memories of the place.
I was not up on alllll the lore.
It was an odd place, but I really liked it. (I think some of my enjoyment came, strangely enough, from NOT being part of the semi-cult following? I just liked the restaurant? For instance, we never went for brunch, which was evidently a whole *thing*. We'd do walk-in for dinner and sit at the bar.)
And before, kind of a date category: For a few years we just kinda traded off treating each other to dinner at Prune, mostly birthdays. We went rarely enough that it was quite special, but enough times for it to be a tradition of sorts. We usually ate at the bar, because we both loved it there.
In 2021, my dude and I got tickets to the Amber Ruffin Show taping on the day after his birthday. It ended up being a great episode, and on the way out I got him a cute lil' rocks glass with the show logo. We had such a good time.
I like this both because I will have very easy access to a great exhibit and because I am in favor of our city symbolically telling the Trump administration to kick rocks.
This whole thread is perfect, tx.
ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
A perfect accidental illustration for The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
Hey, Ohio friends, if you're trying to call the @clevelandclinic.bsky.social and getting garbled static on the other end of the connection, just absolutely useless trash audio, it's not you! Their phones are SCREWED right now—system wide!—and there are no notifications about it anywhere!
Hey, your phone system audio is completely screwed, system wide. You should be using your public comms (text alerts, social media, banner on website) to tell people about the problem and give an ETA for a fix. It IS actually a problem for your patients, especially your elderly patients.
Love this for you. (I mean, love it for them, too, but they probably won't listen.)
OK the bees def do twerk but I had never put it quite like that in my head and this has sort of made my night.
I'm a semi-recent transplant and still too hermit-y, but I moved here on purpose and this place is great. Fewer people dying and being harmed is great, too, and people are proud!—but the point is that military activation against civilians is fucking evil. (Also illegal!) Baltimore says shove it.
A good thread. COVID doesn't care if you'd rather not think about it. This message brought to you by "My partner was just at DragonCon *working*." He masks everywhere he can, but he can't mask when he's performing or for some of his work. After every event like this, we have to quarantine and hope.
Surely one of these "usually apolitical" billionaires who are suddenly getting nervous about the total collapse of industry and economy as we know them could be persuaded to bankroll you.
Dave, how do we work it out so you (or another comrade in reality) can utterly humiliate all these losers at poker? They need to be humbled, and evidently dick-swing via gambling is the only mode of communication they understand.
I know I already reposted, but I feel like I should personally thank you for writing this. It says everything I needed it to, and it warms my heart. Having someone else, someone with credentials, even, lay out what is in my head, nearly verbatim, is an immense and very human comfort.
Honestly, this. I have several excellent opinions and have been known to turn a phrase on the internet, and no prestige media outlet has gone out of its way to pay me for anything. We could certainly do better than "wanting better school lunches is the same as dismantling modern medicine."
...I am intrigued/confused. (Made from real French snowflakes?)
Are they going to order you the bug-bite thing? That would be amazing.
Yes. I yell about politics on here, sure, but that's just because I'm human and I care about those things so they come out. I'm here for, y'know...the *social* reasons for social media: amazing recommendations, thoughtful people, mundane commiseration, fluffy dogs, pretty pictures, stupid jokes!
Do the IRS Free File survey in my previous repost—seriously, it's so fast—and don't get thrown by this question about cost. WE pay for it either way, and publicly funded Free File is cheaper, more efficient, easier, and cuts out profiteering middlemen. Tell them to continue it and fund it.
I started this survey at 12:40. I finished it at 12:41. It's fast. Do the thing. 👇
Nah. Just exposing prime belly surface to absorb cosmic vibes.
I just want to squeeze his little fuzzy face.
I am in this picture and I wouldn't say that I *don't like it*, more that I bet everybody else wishes I were not in this picture.
I would love to talk with you about this someday; your perspective makes so much sense to me here, and it touches on a lot of things I've been thinking about regarding what kids aren't getting (and the bad replacements they're getting instead).
Help, I have something in my eye. (I have never spoken with Peter S. Beagle. I would be overjoyed if I got the chance. The Last Unicorn is, perhaps, my father's favorite book. He buys old copies and gives them to people. And The Folk of the Air was a formative fantasy work for me.)
There are enough readily approachable, materially accessible problems ongoing to employ every person in this country who wants and needs a job, using all our skill sets and making our whole world better and more comfortable for every human being, and they could be saying that EVERY DAY.
I am mad that he is gone.
Full disclosure, it's...six years since I got her this? She still loves it, but I can't 100% say there has been no change in quality. *Can* vouch that it is cute as heck and feels nice in the hand, and they put out new patterns semi-regularly. Website search will also bring up more sale versions.
Aw, fuck.
(Also I freely admit I am browsing this thread. It is hard to find something that hits that exact sweet spot of fun + practical. I wish there were a perfect hybrid of the one I posted and the Yoshi Yoshitani wallet.)
I don't own this myself but bought one for my sister in law, who loves it and says she will never give it up. It ticks most but *not all* of your boxes (no ID window, and it's pricy—though they do go on sale). Adding because it's so cute, thought it might help search. minandmon.com/collections/...
Let it never be said that you never did anything for us.
OK, neighbors, somebody nearby has a dying smoke detector doing the beep-once-per-minute dance and IT NEEDS TO STOP.
Please tell him he is very lovely and we all wish him luck. <3
Short people are great. I do not need a crick in my neck to feel special.
This says everything I would want to say about generative "AI"/LLMs, so I don't care that I'm a week late reposting it. Pass it around again. I am indeed a hater. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Thank you for doing this! (And thank you for working on the tip option, too. I have, um, a lot of subscriptions. I would like to keep all of them, but I am glad when there are paths for non-subscription support, too. Who knows how I'll be doing in six months.)
Last repost: I definitely knew before, in a general way, that most people are absolute crap at risk assessment, but COVID drove that knowledge home comprehensively and intensely. People are BAD-bad at big numbers and at gauging the *importance* of different risks. We must work against this.
One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
I am not even a Dior girlie, really, but I love how this one almost feels like a modern child of the Worth Ironwork gown.
Not weird! Though I don't do it much. I do have one beautiful silver print from when a very nice street photographer took pictures of me at an event. He was so respectful about it, was shooting film, and offered me a future print for my trouble. The photo is great on its own merits, and I love it.
This piece is from last year, but my urge to email it to every member of the mainstream media has not waned: (Should be a gift link. Alt: Link card featuring a photo of RFK Jr. mid speech, for an article titled "What the Fuck Is a 'Vaccine Skeptic'?")
In my admittedly limited experience, Chicago is a beautiful city and quite welcoming of visitors who are not threatening military occupation.
This is wholesome and I love it.
TBH it would be fabulous if the rich dedicated themselves more to beauty and patronage. Keep hundreds of skilled artisans employed! Fund an orchestra! Build a park with an amphitheater! Hire four tailors, three cooks, and two full-time gardeners! Commission painters! Pay them all extravagantly!
I have been saying this for something like 15 years and I am so tired, folks: the tactics. Of the right. Don't work. For the left. Because their politics are divisive and anti-community. Ours aren't. They win when politics is toxic and vicious. We win by building solidarity.
I just laughed a very grim laugh.
Once more, with feeling: Do what you need to do to get vaccinated, and also PUT ON A FUCKING MASK. You live in a society. Act like it.
GET 'EM. Whoever "'em" is. Happy day to you, and many happy returns.
If you use Google as your search engine and would like to avoid sending every single query through the "AI" world-burning filter, you can set your default search to web only. I encourage you to do this. Tell your friends and family. Evict that useless nonsense from your day-to-day search behavior.
Here's how to do it! tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...
I set my URL-bar default search to web only and it significantly improved my life. I don't want to even SEE that garbage.
This is exemplary in its clarity and simplicity. I hope many, many students—at Harvard and elsewhere—read it.