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She/her On social media hiatus, stay safe everyone. Always and forever missing Terry Pratchett and Steve Irwin. Lately I’ve gotten really into politics for no reason at all. #TaxChurches.
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Clay Jones@clayjones.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump Plans for Hannibal Lecter Memorial on White House Grounds "He doesn't just walk around killing random people and eating their livers, although that is something he has enjoyed from time to time with a nice bottle of wine." www.knudsensnews.com/post/trump-p...
One of the best medical schools in the country is named after an Epstein co-conspirator. What will it take for Ohio State to part ways with Les Wexner, a man who was named by survivor Virginia Giuffre ten years ago?
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The bar for “high-knowledge” was just knowing who controlled the house and senate, mind you.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7mo agoNew poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7mo agoNew poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
So weird how when one of the MANY white male mass shooters acts one of the first assumptions is that he was bullied but on the EXTREMELY RARE occasion that a shooter is trans not one person asks about bullying - which is actually valid in this case.
Would @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @jhu.edu like to comment about their former faculty being part of an administration which is using a convicted rapist as their mascot? You were warned many times about their misconduct and chose to stay silent. Do you have no shame?
C'mon Williams Sonoma no one is paying 700 freaking dollars for a cutting board/charcuterie board even if it was designed by Stanley Tucci (unless it is accompanied by a dinner cooked by Mr Tucci) LMAO
“They thought they could break us, but a love for our neighbors and a resolve to endure can outlast occupation,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement. “These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that it’s not just about resistance — standing with our neighbors is deeply American.”
I think we need to have congressional hearings on the HHS destruction, specifically the fact that Bhattacharya, Prasad, and Makary were all known to be problems years before their appointments. I have questions for their institutional leadership as to why UCSF, Stanford, and JHU failed to act. 1/
Zero percent shocked.
city trees@citytrees.bsky.social · 7mo agoWow, @wsj.com is righteously angry about this. The straight-news article (gift link) is pretty damning about Prasad's actions here, & concludes by noting "several personnel complaints filed against him, including some that involve sexual harassment…" (because of course). www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Found this on the bad place. I'm from the US, so I can't, but if you’re Canadian, I urge you to sign this House of Commons petition, then share with your friends & family. It calls to ban Canadian companies from working with ICE and ban ICE from operating in Canada. ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7146 - Petitions
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honestly it’s very difficult to envision a world where LLMs displace white collar labor, but very easy to envision a world where they accelerate the production of artifacts that management currently associates with the labor being performed by workers.
The Pandemic is Over, But Some Hospitals Remain Stuck in the Past "Some, like academic bad boy and current director of the CBER Vinay Prasad, are frustrated by the insistence of some hospitals in forcing draconian infectious disease countermeasures on patients" www.knudsensnews.com/post/the-pan...
The Pandemic is Over, But Some Hospitals Remain Stuck in the Past
HealthFor almost everyone, the days of pandemic-related masking and social distancing are in the rearview mirror. In some hospitals, however, you might think you were walking down a hallway in 2020 ra...
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Not only is this a problem now, but it’s a problem that only gets worse as people lose the skills that make that supervision possible. You can’t troubleshoot things you don’t understand.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt does some stuff well but needs constant supervision, and when it messes up, people often don’t know why or how. This makes it both worse and dangerous. I would not structure my economy out of this just as I wouldn’t allow an anonymous man to build my house with materials I’ve never heard of.
I firmly believe that this entire administration is invalid.
I notice US media is running with the White House line that the Jobs Report was “better than expected” - Navarro’s ploy yesterday to set a really low bar worked. But having your foot amputated is “better than expected” if they told you it was the whole leg and 130,000 extra jobs is historically low.
The hype is not true. What may be true is that the balance of power favors executives & shareholders so thoroughly that both consumers & employees will be forced to accept a lower standard so that the parties in power don’t suffer consequences for going all-in on AI.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo agoI understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
Aside from the horrendous priorities, THAT’S FAKE FUCKING MONEY. TSLA is over $425 even as musk dwindles into a corncob.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoBondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
This asshole was driving drunk with both his kids in the car. He resisted arrest and threatened to have the arresting officer deported, but magically all charges were dropped except DWI. He got probation, and now he’s bitching about that because it precludes him going back to work at ICE.
ICE AGENT ARRESTED FOR DUI ASKS JUDGE TO END 1-YEAR PROBATION AFTER 2½ MONTHS
An ICE agent who was arrested in August for drunk driving on the Bahia Honda Bridge while his two young children were in the car pleaded no contest to a driving under the influence charge and on Oct. ...
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Perjury is a felony. Obstruction of Congress is a felony. It’s on video, why hasn’t Patel been arrested?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoSwalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files
Ephebophilia is what pedophiles call it when their attraction is more to undeveloped and easily controlled minds than it is to undeveloped bodies.
Jen@cassiciacum.bsky.social · 7mo ago
We are demanding an independent investigation and public hearings by the House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Veterans Affairs into the horrific conditions at the facility.
