I started writing when I was six, binding little books together with construction paper and yarn, and people really think I'm gonna be horny to drink from the LLM recombinant barf trough "trained on" all my favourite authors plus like Stormfront with a smattering of incel forums?? Not really, man

oh but I thought health was our ✨ personal responsibility ✨

the US government is officially the abuser who hits you with your own hand and tells you to stop hitting yourself

or maybe you can somehow ✨ personal responsibility ✨ your way into doing your own biopsies and throat cultures and prescribing yourself antibiotics and shit

It took so long for Diaa to have a stable account on here to share and she’s really trying to provide for her children to go back to school ❤️

If you can help ❤️ this family hasn’t been raising for a while

it's been one month since daylight savings ended, and I am still: -hungry for lunch at 11am -hungry for dinner at 5pm -falling asleep at 9pm -meowed awake by my cat at 5am if we don't end this nonsense soon, I'm gonna lose it

Please help Heba & her children if you can, Palestinians have been left to starve & freeze to death in Israel's continuing genocide. Support has fallen since the 'ceasefire':

this year, I have upped the ante and am now cycling to skating rinks instead of taking transit...it's so fun, but every single arena and community centre in this city should have a Bike Share dock, imo, and none of them do (yet) imagine the ease, the freedom, the absolute bliss

I have a 3-speed steel granny bike with fenders, a front rack, and now a cushy seat pad which eliminates the need for wearing padded shorts or bibs, and it's like A+ entertainment to ride that thing around like it's my fast, light gravel bike when it is neither fast nor light

(just like me)

Hey folks, if you aren’t already vaccinated, or don’t know your status, get vaccinated and protect babies who may be too young to get their shots. It’s easy and painless, and mine was free with my insurance, so talk to your healthcare provider and do the thing!

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 💀

I suspect it's because my body is soooo picky about lunchtime, and it's hard to force myself to eat anything big enough to fuel skating at like 11 or 11:30am, but if I even sliiiightly undereat by having just a snack, it's wobble city on the ice why so SENSITIVE, body, please, let me skate at noon

I'm gonna start bringing like a hoagie on the ice

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. 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 ❤️

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"

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

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

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.

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.

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

pop quiz: does molecular gastronomy produce ultraprocessed food? is this something we should instigate a moral panic about? why or why not? show your work

tl;dr "trashy people eat this food, which makes this food trashy, and if I then eat that food, I will become trashy myself" is a social opinion (a shitty one), not a scientific opinion, but people will never stop trying to use nutritional terminology to legitimize their shitty social opinions

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

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?

the intense self-esteem that washed over me when I inspected the tire and found my first patch job was still holding up

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

That a federal judge had to block the Trump administration from pushing millions of Americans into hunger says everything about this President and the party he leads. Grateful to our Attorney General for being on the frontlines of this fight.

The most frightening thing happening today is that 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing access to food assistance from the US government.

An excellent breakdown of why MAGA/MAHA are so into controlling what people eat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UB...

Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness. We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.

just need to historically archive this real quick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Saher. Saher worked on a his family farm before this. He lost his left eye in the 2008 Gaza war when he was only 15. He’s now lost his home and farm and is struggling to survive with his family including his 2 year old nephew Mohammed.

That’s what I’ve been hearing here. I talked with a mom of three who’s worried about herself and everyone else who could lose benefits. “When you take that away, a lot of people cannot pay for rent, and pay the car note, and pay for food.” wpln.org/post/food-ai...

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

I haven’t eaten anything substantial in 3 days. I’ve only raised $10 so far Please help me survive

Folks, people in Gaza are still starving and you can help! Check out Molly's feed for lots of links where you can donate to hungry families.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohamed. Mohamed was studying to be a software engineer before this. He’s now trying to take care of his whole family including his siblings Farah, 23, Fatena, 22, Aseel, 19, Hala, 18, Lama, 15, Leen, 13 and Karem, 7 and his niece Ghazal, 3.

Oh shoot, I hadn't even gotten to the part of this *same bill* that would ban cities from "reducing the number of motor vehicle lanes when installing new bicycle lanes." bsky.app/profile/camb...

In particular, they want leases to no longer necessarily remain in effect indefinitely, so that landlords have more options for creating tenant turnover. Current situation in left-hand column, proposal on the right:

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities. Malnutrition is not to be trifled with. Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die. There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program. It’s a cull.

As my students learn in my Russian intelligence module, the KGB used to do this in Soviet times - it was called a prophylactic chat with the aim of nipping minor transgressions in the bud and discouraging further behaviour that was frowned upon by the state

this is the future I envision for workplace LLMs

people are busy carping about whether 6 mph is fast or not and missing a key framing that while, yes, physical fitness is a thing that improves people's lives, when the state pushes fitness on a broad scale it's usually because they want to create stormtroopers and/or an excuse to cut health care

also many people who post their fitness stats to social media (I COUNT MYSELF AMONG THEM) are outliers who have no grounding in what is realistic for most people, e.g. most people can't exercise for several hours a week, and fitness debates go off the rails quickly due to this disparity

it's probably more productive to stick to the big picture: a class of armed foot soldiers is being hastily trained and deployed to kidnap people off the streets the question of whether 6 mph is fast (a: it is to some, not to others) is immaterial to the question of what we're gonna do about that

If you dont have the coin and want this to succeed, sign up for early access for the app! They are using those numbers to attract investors and it helps! Gandersocial.ca

You know, whatever else there is to say about DC comics firing me, I have to say it felt deeply satisfying to tell a suit, "I get it, it's important to keep the faceless mob of Nazis happy"

Y’all should donate to Sharif if for no reason but I want to see what kind of shitposter he would be without a genocide holding him back

Marching and protesting is great but real action is even better. If you can afford it, find and donate to a local food pantry in your area. The families that depend on SNAP benefits could really use the support over coming weeks to months.❤️🫂 give.feedingamerica.org/SnP--N8F9EuA...

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex, unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

Also, when you get hormone replacement therapy as a cis person, guess what that is? It's gender affirming care.