the uncompromising nature of the vacation auto-responder when you are the only person who works here🌱
Casey Johnston
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Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025! science writer/author Newsletter shesabeast.co couchtobarbell.com
upon review of Harrison Ford's filmography, i have to say this man simply has to keep better track of his wives
this is one of the clearest and most soberly written pieces on "chronic lyme" that exists. if you feel confused on the distinction between this and Lyme disease, this is the only thing to read. jail for doctors who prey on "chronic lyme" patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there
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Trump: we will rain blows upon you until you eliminate your missile program Iran: you won't T: and your nuclear program I: we'll be keeping that T: fair enough. regime change? I: no T: reopen hormuz? I: *admires fingernails* T: handshake? eye contact? I: *closes door behind them* T: *to camera*
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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in our trying social/loneliness times, we need bold action. we must re-sanction dating in the gym www.shesabeast.co/dating-gym-t...
hear me out: it's okay to date your fellow gym members
How to cultivate a third space. (There are rules!) Plus: how to actually achieve failure; make a deadlift from scratch; 'eat more horse'??? This is Link Letter 206!
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“Walking and biking is such a richer experience sensorially. You're feeling the breeze. You can capture all of this information and have this enriched experience of the world that you can't when you're speeding by in a car, even at a slow speed.” @caseyjohnston.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
A Physical Education with Casey Johnston
Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 12 May · 57min
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I got into weights when I was pregnant and have continued it for the past 20-ish months after my daughter was born. I did not know I would fall in love with it. I started this book the other day and it’s been really interesting. Worth a read!
Casey Johnston@caseyjohnston.bsky.social · last yr.Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
It appears many of you are drawing the wrong conclusion that my partner is a torment nexus from my new book, My Partner Is Definitely Not A Torment Nexus. Unfortunately you’ll have to wait for the sequel, Turns Out My Partner Was A Torment Nexus All Along
i had a boyfriend once whose big career tip was to take a low salary because then you could always overdeliver on whatever they were expecting. god that guy was fucking dumb slate.com/life/2026/03...
There’s Only One Way to Get More Money at Work. Some People Absolutely Refuse to Do It.
Some people would rather make thousands of dollars less just to avoid an awkward conversation.
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I'm not saying this is a good thing but if I'm reading a novel and come upon a big chunk of poetry or song lyrics, maybe written by the protagonist maybe even crucial to the plot, the only thing I think is: cool I can skip this page
what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad
The amount of top-down hostility toward us eating or going anywhere is out of control, the dietary guidelines fail at basic math, and we are getting lapped by Brazil www.shesabeast.co/the-plot-to-...
the plot to strangle the American of life, liberty, and happiness
AND get us to blame ourselves. Plus: ground beef cereal; alpine divorce; EVERYTHING'S FINE :) by W.B. Yeats. This is Link Letter 195!
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When will the Pentagon turn a profit? How long are we going to prop up this failing organization?
We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January
oh no I’m going to be insufferable after this—my piece The Pelvic Floor is a Problem has been picked for BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2025!! www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
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Ordinary people -- well, y'know, non-gym-bros -- getting into weight training is just such a great thing to see. It's so good for you, such a confidence boost. I hope the wave of casual-lifting spreads.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5mo agoLiterally cannot believe I did this. Cannot.
PS everyone should check out @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's Liftoff program. Super great, easy, low-stress way to get into weight training.
LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell
A guide for absolute beginners to go from sitting on the couch to lifting weights.
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Sorry but I know you guys would find any possible way to use the wrong amount of sunscreen. Had to be done
slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 5mo agogotta be another way to do this
This line from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social newsletter feels depressingly true: "now that Gen Z is mostly adults, it seems like laptops in the classroom were a massive mistake, and all we did was feed $30 billion to tech companies (plus a generation of captive users) who eminently do not need it."
I’m freaked out by the fact that every single s10 Love Is Blind guy‘s unironic choice of hair/beard styling is the gigachad meme
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social has me fully collagen blackpilled - it’s Big Beef B2B marketing useless meat garbage to companies selling it as “protein” to people desperate for shortcuts to Gains and Youth www.shesabeast.co/collagen-sit...
Collagen sits on a throne of lies
Or, how the supplement industry took meat garbage and turned it into a 9-billion-dollar business.
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you spend years of your life researching WADA/USADA policy about cannabis and sport performance and then you look up and see rich normies just popping the superbanned stuff lol.
Casey Johnston@caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 6mo agoi can no longer stay silent on the matter of peptides www.shesabeast.co/peptides-not...