It could be even simpler than that: I think when the pictures of his puffed up, bruised hand got out, his vanity drove him to go into hiding until it gets better. That tracks for me because his ego is towering but also incredibly tender.
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It could be even simpler than that: I think when the pictures of his puffed up, bruised hand got out, his vanity drove him to go into hiding until it gets better. That tracks for me because his ego is towering but also incredibly tender.
“The reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines. Now, as head of H.H.S., he is using his authority to launch a full-blown war on science, on public health and on truth itself.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I’m sure vibe coding will help fix that!
A skeptic is someone who needs to analyze and understand the evidence for a claim before they accept it. RFK Jr has seen all the evidence, had it patiently explained to him, and rejected it because it didn’t fit his worldview. He’s not a skeptic, he’s an anti-vaccine zealot.
ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids Truthout truthout.org/articles/ice...
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Um, this is amazing.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
I would just x out the whole left side for Adams and write “cop” in red.
Love that and only wish it were longer!
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
cc: NY
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!
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The border is invading America. It has become unmoored from geography, dragging its violence and impunity into the heart of American life. My latest in @nytimes.com - please read & share. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
The linked headline's "unexpected" is ridiculous. Every person who worked in this space (specifically, not legislators) said, correctly, that this would happen. It should be replaced with "predicted" or "standard" or "obvious." This is not an untried policy! See also FOSTA/SESTA.
🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
Call to Action: Mass protest at Washington D.C. on November 5th. Plan accordingly. #3E #RefuseFascism
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
cc: USA
says a lot about the supposed democracy index that the united states ranked higher than canada before trump returned to power despite its shambles of a democratic system where corruption is legal and political parties openly draw the districts so they win. canada isn’t perfect, but come on.
Seems telling that they only painted over Superman.
Huh. I didn't realize he could survive being exposed to sunlight.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hell, if you assault a police officer with a flag you get a pardon.
It’s gonna be TMZ, isn’t it?
NYT host concludes: “the CDC is poised to distribute misinformation” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis himself concludes the CDC is now a danger to public health
I’m sure my fellow political junkies are already aware of this story but the additional details continue to horrify. We’re in a very bad place and we can’t afford to wait until midterms to do something about it. Podcast episode - www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/p...
Are these masked thugs employees? Contractors? Rando volunteers that badged man picked up as they left a klan meeting? No way to tell.
Then they’ll try to run AI Trump for POTUS.
Pure unmitigated cruelty.
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
“Ardayfio said that the Halo glasses, dubbed Halo X, do not have an external indicator to warn people of their customers’ recording.”
Um... shouldn't young people be idealists wanting to make the world a better place? “Some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home,” Nguyen told the tech news website. So, maybe don't build that? #AIEthics #privacy techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Is Vance even thankful for the countless memes that have been made about him?
Something to read while you wait: Safety Not Guaranteed: The Myth of Data Anonymization Think your data’s safe because it’s been anonymized? Think again. It can be deanonymized. And AI may be helping. stribs.medium.com/safety-not-g...
I’m skeptical, but if Trump is near death, I hope he’s getting the best possible care from RFK Jr himself.
Anticipatory schadenfreude?
Wrong direction tho.
I’m skeptical, but if Trump is near death, I hope he’s getting the best possible care from RFK Jr himself.
***Possible Spoilers for Apple TV’s Foundation, Season 3*** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Who knew Lee Pace’s Day/Jesus Christ/Big Lebowski character would become so sympathetic. Feel like this a great portrayal of the descendants of top dog authoritarians even growing weary of authoritarianism.
If any venture is worth investing in, it’d be a fries-based venture.
“Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-generated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down.”
I’m not a praying man.
Did they use ChatGPT to make make the accompanying image? If so, that’s just 👨🏻🍳😘
Timely
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...
We’ve been growing increasingly Balkanized the past few years and this administration is just accelerating that.
Good.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... “law enforcement agencies that use [WA database] are required to sign an agreement…they will not use the system for immigration enforcement.” Homeland Security signed the agrmt, then let its ICE colleagues use the database for immigration cases. Not acceptable.
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws
Thanks to America’s ever shifting trade policies and Trump, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada. 🔗 www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Wait until Johnson hears about the violence perpetrated by cisgender men.
Here's a Nazi sympathizing account to block
Street art plays an important role in any society, but in specific times it’s particularly significant for its displays of solidarity.
Outstanding
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
My sincere thanks to @steveportigal.bsky.social for organizing this open letter to LinkedIn taking them to task for changing their hate speech around “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” 🔗 Open letter to sign - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.
While ICE agents can note in their database if someone they’ve investigated turns out to be a citizen, they are not required to do so. As a result, records are often wrong and left uncorrected even after agents have been told of a mistake. (Published March 2025)
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title “Tom Clancy’s A Confederacy of Dunces”
Shades of The People vs. Larry Flynt
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title “Tom Clancy’s Frog and Toad Are Friends”
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
This season of Foundation is increasingly gonzo in a Big Lebowski meets The Fifth Element kinda way.
Have to admit, I hadn’t heard or thought about this one: Google Fonts violates GDPR by collecting and sharing personal information with third-party services without user consent. www.cookieyes.com/documentatio...
Aside from the objectification folks are noting, the lyrics in the AI music videos posted by perhaps the most famous person in my field are positively cringe inducing as is the largely uncritical lens through which he seems to be advocating for AI in practically everything he posts these days.
Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚
We could hobble to the midterms in a semblance of democracy but only with a LOT more resistance on every front. And even then, some amount of Congressional oversight is...what exactly. People need to wrestle with the real stakes. Right now.
And that their very presence is typically antithetical to whatever department they’re suddenly running after being recruited from the troll podcast circuit.
Oh that’s right! I noticed that the other day, too. Bizarre.
Seems like a great moment for someone to commit an act of, ah, civil disobedience.
ChatGPT is not engaged in expressive conduct any more than a lawn dart is
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
Thank you! 🙏
Signal boost? bsky.app/profile/stri...
Also, Matthew 6:5-6: "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues”
Fmr. CDC chief calls out ‘all-out assault on public health’ after director’s firing www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
I probably shouldn't put it this way, but uh the "hide reply for everyone" button feels great to press. You decide what your posts are a platform for
I don’t deserve such an honor, though when so many others have leveled the same complaint before me! 😅
They’ll need to outlaw cats too, as they kill significantly more birds than both buildings and wind turbines combined.
The way you know this is culture war bullshit pushed by the fossil fuel industry is that buildings kill up to a billion birds per year and you can be sure our real estate developer president never cared one whit about it.
As many have noted, you know your post is doing numbers on Bluesky when you get a steady stream of responses that treat your joke as serious and somberly highlight all the flaws in your reasoning. This should be [Someone’s] Law but I don’t know who to pin it on.
Likely true. But there hasn’t stopped him from firing a bunch of other people he has no Constitutional right to fire either.
I remember I used periodically to feel (a teensy bit) bad about posting political stuff on here (or previously on Twitter) because people maybe follow me for UX stuff, but now you go on *LinkedIn* any given day and people are like, "What the fuck is even going on? We live under a dictatorship!"
An almost meaningless observation given everything that's going on but it's beyond me why Medium would update their UI to add a left rail to clutter your reading view. Truly boggles my mind. And you can't even dismiss it. OK, back to posts about our rapidly disintegrating democracy.
Trump firing Vance would be an incredibly amusing development.
I guess it's clear but that first post should've read "changing their hate speech policy." Oh, for an edit button. On the other hand, sometimes these accidental omissions and typos can convey a deeper truth ...
So please read, sign, and share. Thank you! 🏳️⚧️ Bonus trans affirming punk anthem - againstme.bandcamp.com/album/transg...
The climate is taxing enough for our trans friends without a platform that enjoys a monopoly with its audience making changes like this that you might conclude aim to avoid the scrutiny of folks intent on applying cruel policies to shame and beat down an already tremendously at-risk community.
I hope you'll join me and others in signing this letter in open support of a better environment for our transgender friends and family members.