We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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and, unfortunately, we are all gonna have to be 500% meaner about it. how does your book club define "woman"-authored? is the new girl in your coven being a little too intense about menstruation as a purely female experience? why the fuck is chelsea so concerned about estrogen in the food supply

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

What the actual fuck

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

You will be shocked, shocked, to hear that the white supremacist feces-lettuce company uses forced penal labor.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

Really running through a lot of feelings this week while waiting for paperwork to be signed. Looks like we can't move to Washington next year like we've been planning because New Job isn't remote, so we're probably staying in the Bay Area for the foreseeable future.

I suspected this is what has been happening with our backlist recently, seems I was right. We’ve sold an unusually high number of very old titles in the past few months, including old journal back issues with poor metadata www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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If you end up on a jury for a personal injury case, it’s because insurance won’t pay and they’ve probably blown a settlement demand, so you can award as much money as you want. You should award $20+ million to the plaintiff to teach the insurance company a lesson about paying what they owe!

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

*whispers* Brett got a verbal offer

A weird time in the household. My partner got his layoff notice last week, right as he hit his 10 year anniversary with the company.

jesus fucking christ

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2w ago

from @melodyschreiber.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

a dorito optimized for fiber on the other hand would be a massively important public health intervention

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

i do not need my doritos to be packed with protein, they are beautiful and perfect the way they are

Heads up! If DaylightSavingTime is made perpetual, the sun won't rise on Dec 21 until 8:58am in Seattle, 8:26am in NYC, 8:20am on the Central Coast of CA, 8:10am in Boston. Your children will wait for school buses in darkness. Is that safe? Classes will start in darkness. Who's benefitting? 📰🧪

My very favorite of the Victorian and Edwardian cat photographers was C.E. Bullard. He loved cats and it shows in his photos. The cats look beautiful and comfortable, not stunned, frightened, or annoyed.

Every day people show me antique photos of cats forced into costumes or wired into anthropomorphic positions, expecting me to be delighted. I know they mean well but I've seen them all and I hate them. I love cats. Seeing them uncomfortable and humiliated for human entertainment does nothing for me.

In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...

Variolation - Wikipedia

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

Having never played D&D before, I beat Baba Yaga by turning myself into a rat to enter the house, and then heating up a metal bathtub until it burned through the chicken-footed house. Our DM was speechless. I've also saved a weirdly large number of ducklings

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

Saw a TikTok of a guy talking about how becoming an avid reader changed his life, and the search suggestion at the bottom of the video was "Ask AI: avid reader meaning."

Reading about autonomous cars for my urban and regional transportation class and everything I read about it makes me want to scream "this is all an overblown scam by tech and car companies!"

My last living (non -step) grandparent died last month and my mom spent almost 4 weeks in Portugal wrapping up necessary paperwork, plus a few days visiting my sister in Canada. I have been cat sitting for 5 weeks, 3 visits a day. My mom finally got home today and I'm very relieved.

For a lot of folks who "poop weird after Taco Bell," it's bc Taco Bell is their main source of fiber. 💀 Some people also like to pair Taco Bell with lots of ethanol. But "I drank so much I pooped crazy" sounds like YOU have a problem, & "Haha Taco Bell gross" sounds like *Taco Bell* has a problem

Blake @thornblake.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm not entirely sure which statement is funnier: 1. Taco Bell's QA department doing a better job than the FDA and CDC. 2. Taco Bell having a top tier QA department and QA practices, but still managing to put out product that people can't trust a fart after eating.

They did say AI would bring productivity like never before

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

I genuinely do not understand how people on the left continue to support Substack, knowing that they monetize Nazis and rapists. Naomi Klein just started a substack THIS MONTH. I’ll never knowingly open a substack link.

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

"when you're pregnant you have to tell doctors about previous abortions because it's important that they know how many pregnancies you've had" no you don't and no it's not ❤️

They also supply McDonald's, Burger King, Chipotle, Subway, and Wendy's.

val@trickycrayon.com · 3w ago

This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL. www.wcvb.com/article/cycl...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.