It really should be seen as a bigger failure that in a city like Boston going a mere 2-4miles often takes about the same amount of time walking as taking public transportation

a lot of people seem to think there is a fundamental inferiority to women that simply isn't true and a lot of those differences are less your biological makeup and more the fact that boys get so much more support, food, and training than girls, that gulf vanishes the more you equalize those things

Micah@rincewind.run · 23h ago

it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything

Add on top of this that COVID has neurological impacts making people even more vulnerable to the effects of AI Even mild COVID infections can for years after infection cause severe brain fog, impulse and memory issues, psychosis, encephalitis, stroke, early onset dementia, and Alzheimer's

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 11h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

Honestly one of the things that makes me most angry is our failure to protect children Many kids will have had several COVID infections before they can even speak Many will have long COVID before they even enter school We are disabling entire generations And it will come back to haunt us

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

How many of you consistently mask in public spaces anymore? Be serious now You know covid is still infecting people Often at higher rates than during lockdown You know long COVID is debilitating and there's not really any really good treatments for it Are you taking any precautions? Why not?

And if you are angry about the Covid revisionism about the first year of the pandemic that’s happening in Congress and on news shows, consider whether you’ve done some revising of your own in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth years.

People are complaining that for two hours in the early morning on one single day, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will require respirator masks. Never mind that this allows disabled and immune compromised kids to safely share in something they’re otherwise excluded from. Fuck them kids.

I am quite serious when I say that covid broke society Losing millions irrevocably changed our world And in the span of less than two years we experienced the biggest community response in history and the largest corporate funded individualist backlash Which unfortunately was successful

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 2d ago

I have no idea what to do with this Covid revisionism. It feels like the bad kind of group therapy where you help each other ignore facts. We don't have to go *that* far back in the social media timelines to prove how fucked up it was. We were so scared we were scrubbing eggs and baking the mail.

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

one of the capitalists most pernicious lies is that its all about making money its less than half about making money. its mostly about complete global political domination and oppression of everyone else they will burn potential billions rather than let anyone else have a scrap, or build anything

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Barbie made 1.4 BILLION dollars .

When you see their canvassers... Repeat after me "This organization's capitulation to transphobic rhetoric means their values and ethics no longer align with mine and so I will not be donating - please inform your supervisor of why they lost a donation" Been doing this to Boy Scouts for forever

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d ago

The email from Amnesty International UK is even more gaslighting than their public statement… 😖 Including ‘gender critical’ transphobic tropes such as “rolling back women’s hard won rights” and treating trans people with “dignity”! F*ck them!!! 😖😣 Donation cancelled.

No heat directed to OP annnnnd as a society maybe platforming a mediocre white guy whose only real skills were being blandly comforting and googling things Who has been called out MANY TIMES for speaking over actual experts especially women of color and queer folks Maybe that was a bad idea??????

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this. This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.

IMO we've really started to see with AI that Hustle Culture is just the personal version of an Infinite Growth Model Even if AI worked exactly as promised I don't actually want to optimize my life so I can do more I do enough I want to enjoy what I do I want to do things well and with flair

Using A.I. for a shitpost/meme completely misunderstands what makes them funny. High effort ones are funny because someone put a ton of time into something silly/stupid. Low effort ones are funny in large part BECAUSE they're janky and handmade.

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

This is so ugly and boring It's also going to look so messy when it's sized down at all Like obviously the worst part is them trying to celebrate 40 years after firing so many of their staff But also This is just really bad design

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bethesda reveals new logo for its 40th anniversary

It DOES get legitimately confusing. But then again, how can they be sure if my default "leave him" response is serious or a bit? Stalemate.

Sen@dresdencodak.com · 6d ago

I have been on this Earth for many cycles now, and I still can never tell when a straight friend legitimately hates their partner or is just doing a thing.

Y'all stop falling for this shit In a couple years it will be that your knees are too prominent or that your chin is too round look me in my eyeballs while I say this... FUCK beauty standards All of them Yep even yours that you don't think are influenced by this crap

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

Everyday in our house... My wife "I have a RIDICULOUS idea!" Me "I could make that happen" My wife "WHAT... really?" Me "absolutely"

if you’re gonna post transphobic bullshit, I’m going to ruin your day. as simple as that.

If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago

“The drones wouldn’t break up a schoolyard fight…But if one of the students pulled a knife, they could.”

Apparently the Avatar movie nerfed the characters in order to "tell an interesting story" And I'll just say If you can't tell an interesting story with a powerful character then you are a bad storyteller and what you've created isn't a thoughtful addition but rather just another sleazy money grab

The thing about the Fauci hearing is that he ABSOLUTELY should be investigated by congress for his leadership during covid, specifically his choices to lie about masking and endorsing every roll back of covid guidelines fortune 500 companies sent him

I'm very glad the Massachusetts Legislature finally passed the PROTECT Act which will, among other things, limit ICE's ability to operate in courthouses. But it remains infuriating that our state has not canceled its lone existing 287(g) contract. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/29/m...

Wow I can't believe TikTok is a One-Horse believer

Doctor: take a deep breath Me: like a bong hit? Doctor: if that helps

The modern Jane Austen is Grey's Anatomy and the entire Shondaverse

When you live in a society that has taught you through media that women view sex as a chore, an ordeal, an inconvenience That getting an orgasm is rare and means your partner is going above and beyond To view your own desire with suspicion and disgust You learn to expect bad experiences

Kat is correct and I agree that the real number is for sure higher often bc it takes us a very long time (if ever) to understand what happened to us was assault Bc assault is so normalized but also bc women's joy and pleasure has never been widely seen in mainstream society as a goal of sex

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.

Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public

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