It’s sad that anyone would self harm and I feel sorry for Perez Hilton and his family. There is a lot of irony in his managers asking for privacy at this time however given that privacy has never been a luxury he afforded others.
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Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo agoMaybe turn off video autoplay today: Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs Toggle off.
Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Right-wing media is attacking Francesca Hong for her mental health history
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy," Hong told Mother Jones.
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Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after, failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
Cori Bush's comeback bid falls short in Missouri Democratic primary
The former representative’s primary loss further hurts Black women’s chances for representation in Congress.
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Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d agoPeople still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.
I started a new job this week, moving back into the intersection of working at a university and public health. And specifically focusing on rural Appalachian health initiatives. I am so excited.
SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.
Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.
Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 2d agoThe burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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And this is why we should cite Abby’s reporting and not other news outlets aggregating it 🙂
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
The low-high functioning dichotomy really feels like the system's way of determining which disabled/neurodivergent people are worthy of personhood and who they're safe to discard. It's fucked up.
Patient and public engagement in healthcare research “Over 25 years, PPI reporting in original health research articles published in general medical journals increased on average, 15% per year” 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Trends in patient and public involvement in health research 2000–2024 - Research Involvement and Engagement
Objectives Public involvement in health research has been defined as research carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public, rather than ‘to’, ‘about’, or ‘for’ them. We examined trends in patient ...
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One of the groundbreaking parts of Minnesota’s new law is that it opens the door to lawsuits against the platforms (like X) that allow users to nudify images. For the most part, other regulations of online behavior have punished users, not platforms. This is one to watch.
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 5d ago“Minnesota in May became the first state in the nation to pass legislation banning the practice of using AI to digitally remove clothing from a pictured individual.” www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
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There once was a man with autism Who saw the whole world through a prism This spectrum of light Soon led to a fight And caused a heretical schism
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
“The stigma of syphilis, she found, dwarfed even the stigma of addiction and living on the street. People talked about their drug use. People talked about where they were camping out. No one she knew had ever talked about having syphilis, and she didn’t want anyone to know she had been diagnosed.”
Syphilis spreads while researchers contend with federal constraints and a drug shortage
At the San Diego-Tijuana border, syphilis spreads while researchers contend with federal constraints and a drug shortage.
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This is perhaps the most brazen and direct example of what is being described in this thread bsky.app/profile/geor...
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d agoAt astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This feels so much more harmful than never having posted the threat briefing in the first place. That research was spot-on, which only highlights that you’re apologizing to unambiguous hate groups for finally defending us. Never donating another dime after this.
Stub Buns@stubbuns.bsky.social · 6d agoQuestion for Amnesty. Trans rights have regressed in the UK. That’s undeniable. The organisations you are apologising to have celebrated these rights being eroded. Are you really that weak that you can’t in good faith defend calling them anti-rights? Because they very clearly fucking are.
Meet the Ohio nun who has been working on the frontlines of HIV/AIDS work for decades. Not every nun lists their pronouns in their e-mail signature. But not every nun is quite like Sister Susan Zion. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/07/29/m...
Meet the Ohio nun who has been working on the frontlines of HIV/AIDS work for decades
Not every nun lists their pronouns in their e-mail signature. But not every nun is quite like Sister Susan Zion.
thebuckeyeflame.com
Seconded. My job is speaking in public about violence prevention & I wear a mask at events, only removing it once I'm on stage beside a HEPA filter. People visibly recoil at my masking & it takes me mere mins of chatting with them to figure out it's 100% because it triggers their 2020 trauma.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last wk.I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.
deepfake nudes are, of course, integral to the future of space exploration
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
After the gym on Monday, @wangleberry.bsky.social looked at her phone and said "Oh NO!" She then proceeded to read this article out to me, laughing and going "oh my god how dare they, I feel attacked!" And then I told her to check who the writer was. Lol. Lmao.
The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · last wk.A professional project manager who effortlessly juggles multiple conflicting deadlines, deliverables and dependencies in her day-to-day work has a private life so shambolic it is functionally indistinguishable from that of a labrador turned into a human woman by a witch.