In RFK Jr.’s book Vax/Unvax, he and his coauthor minimize the burden of cervical cancer, & describe the safe vaccine as a pharma sale opportunity. Other nations are eliminating cervical cancer. In the US, rates are falling… but much more slowly.

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · yesterday

Polizzi underwent hysterectomy because of cervical cancer. "Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide... HPV vaccine is 97% effective and has minimal side effects, research shows." www.today.com/popculture/n... via @todayshow.com

This is the same playbook cop shops were running in 2009 when I wrote about how they were dropping GPS trackers on cars without warrants: don’t admit it, pretend you got the info other ways It was only when defense attorneys started asking that they started being honest

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d ago

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

You know, I used to think random paging TV Tropes for possible formats for plot beats was cheating.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost@chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Someone in my writing group who hasn't said anything for months submitted 100 new pages over the weekend and said he has started “working with a collaborator” and after exactly two comments on his pages he let it slip it's ChatGPT. This is gonna be a bloodbath.

“The problem is, is ______” Why the extra “is”. WHY. “5am in the morning” As opposed to 5am at night? “At that point in time I had no idea.” We know the point was ~in time~. “So we looked to see…” Why else would you look? “That cooberated his story.” It WHAT? It WHAT? #TranscriberPeeves

Bear in mind that this is a Manhattan Institute poll with a clear bias in the question about how UBI "would require significant government funding" and go to people "whether they work", but still, that Dems and voters age 18-35 still strongly support it is something Dem politicians should leverage.

Air Ferrying was a duty of the Red Air Force, and was performed by military pilots; it was frequently done as a rotation away from combat as many pilots could not return home for leave (their homes being occupied). Since the Red Air Force included female pilots, there was no distinction here.

French firefighters facing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud highlights a terrifying feedback loop: megafires creating their own weather, complete with dry lightning and violent winds. When fires generate storms that spark more fires, we are in uncharted territory. 🌩️🔥 #ClimateCrisis

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

The gigantic wildfire ravaging southwest France has created an extremely dangerous "pyrocumulonimbus" -- a phenomenon never before seen in the country -- the spokesman for the country's National Firef...

france24.com

Also, last week we learned that the Georgia crisis pregnancy center we investigated earlier this year will not receive federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2026. The center won funding last year despite allegations of medical licensing issues and false advertising.

One Crisis Pregnancy Center Has Received $1.1 Million in Federal Housing Funds Since 2020

A Georgia anti-abortion organization is building a maternity home. Public opposition surfaced allegations of false advertising and medical licensing issues—and resulted in cease and desist letters.

autonomynews.co

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan

The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.

nytimes.com

hadn't heard of this guy until he died and then 1) turns out he published a piece *openly* talking about how he wants to fuck high school children 2) all the TERFs/GCs warmly memorialized him

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.

Opening up my etsy on 8/14! I have to pay in full 2 weeks before the date of my surgery, so every purchase made will go directly to that 🥰 (and anything beyond will go to my care post-surgery!)

is it not kind of dizzying how often we read about cops using flock cameras to stalk women? like that specific use case. not even talking about all the other abusive and harassing uses

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

We found the Flock cameras cops used to spy on women

Given J.K. Rowling's apparent desire to see Amnesty International in court, Amnesty may want to take a look into her endorsement of a site that not only incites violence against the trans community, but also sells the weapons required to enact it. terfipedia.com @terfipedia.com

I still think about the Soviet false alarm incident in Sep 26, 1983, where we were one ordinary person's decision away from a nuclear war, only averted because he (correctly) determined his equipment was hallucinating, and having computer systems now that are described in the same fashion.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5d ago

I wrote about how nuclear weapons are still a problem and it's a problem if the people who have the nuclear codes can't be trusted not to use them "And importantly, scientists need to understand then, who it is we make a deal with when we compromise on our values in order to get funding." ⚛️🧪🔭

New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome

I have been documenting every time I find a pee bottle in the wild by taking selfies next to them, here is a sample of the collection

A dark day for human rights.

im sorry but i saw this and now you have to

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

ALWAYS repost

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

As Bowie would say to Mark Goodman two years later: “.. Having watched MTV over the past few months, .. I’m just floored that by the fact that there’s so few black artists featured on it. Why IS that?”

Someone said my brother's dog looks like Jeff Daniels, & now I can't unsee it

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

A lot of “taking the prosecutors’ word for it” here to make an argument that requires being inside the heads of a disparate group of people who we only think of as a group with concerted strategies because prosecutors said so

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago

"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Craving greens? I know there are powdered greens to add to smoothies etc., but actually tasting the bitters creates a positive chemical reaction in your body. Two temp fixes: -dehydrated spinach flakes added while cooking -canned collard greens (buttery/vinegar over smoky seems to work better here)

Tytan came to us in September, a seven-month-old rhino who had lost his mother when she fell from a cliff on Borana Ranch. Ten months on – almost always with his bestie Notty – he can be found sauntering past Max's stockade, sharpening his horn on tree stumps, and charging bushes head-down.

The stunning portrait depicts a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. It was unearthed in Akhetaten/Tell el-Amarna. This city was established by Pharaoh Akhenaten as a new capital. Dating around 1345 BC. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky #Egypt

writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 7d ago

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Good news out there for regular folks, bad news for googly-eyed Kremlin bitches.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA