Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: how is the skinnypocalypse showing up in your own life, outside of media? What kinds of changes have you noticed in body politics in your own friends/family/coworkers/neighbors/self?
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Narrator voice: What is causing it is not, in fact, unclear
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d agoYoung teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 4w agoANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.
“The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build,” Nixon wrote.
Angie Nixon slams JD Vance after VP says she doesn’t ‘belong in America’
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I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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I wrote about the unraveling of social media and offer a proposal: maybe we just... stop? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
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reading the actual PR (www.faa.gov/newsroom/SMA...) this seems to be… a purpose-trained model for traffic prediction so they can make better flow/planning decisions like, the kind of thing that's been giving us better weather/climate forecasting for a decade+ now. the "AI" thing is marketing fluff.
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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoI'm sure this will all work out just fine without any serious issues that cause a major loss of life. /s
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I an thrilled they were able to prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Fawn Brodie and Dr. Gordon-Reed and so many others are owed apologies. But it looks like the Smithsonian lecture about it has been cancelled. Image in next tweet.
Annette Gordon-Reed@agordonreed.bsky.social · 3w agoTwo Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.
This Rare Gene Drastically Raises Lung Cancer Risk in People Who Never Smoked
The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.
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But disabled people, like anyone else, may not want to be filmed by strangers in their day-to-day lives—and are uniquely affected by surveillance in ways that predate smart glasses. Insurance companies have surveilled disability claimants through the use of private investigators, for example.
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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And all throughout Florida, the Flock cameras are being replaced by the cameras local residents can’t tamper with. Everyone is doing this reporting below, and we’re seeing a lot less about the hat they’re turning to instead. It’s worrying, because you can see the new cameras going up *everywhere*.
Alex DeLuca@alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 4w agoNew: A rural FL county quietly built a sprawling network of Flock cameras. Now its sheriff is ending the program, joining a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock. For @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/jefferson-co...
I'm rewatching Widow's Bay. I see some people complaining that it's not a comedy. How in the world do you watch this show and think it's not a comedy. There are so many good touches in the first episode that I missed. Like the wolves calendar that has the photo of the overturned truck. Lol
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
“I have to thank my mom for always making Halloween fun”
Amy@lolennui.bsky.social · 4w agoShe’s an Emmy winner!!!
This whole thread. Going to work as a knowledge worker these days feels like an exercise in futility.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w agoAI is sold as a way to wire the toy steering wheel directly into the corporation's drive-train: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... Seen in this light, bosses' insistence that workers use AI makes perfect sense.
it's horribly dispiriting to continually watch abusive men not just escape accountability, but thrive.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w agoBreaking News from @theathletic.com: Alexander Zverev defeated Ben Shelton to win his first U.S. Open title and his second Grand Slam title.
Somebody asked if they're too old to learn. They feel silly. Short answer, no. Long answer here.
Ask Alex: Am I too old to learn?
“I’m almost 47 and learning to play music. It does not come naturally to me. I once hummed what I thought was 'Black Dog' but my husband sys sounded like the Munster’s theme song. I feel silly. Will i...
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“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE