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so: a mother & daughter went to a general department store to buy a bra, an employee who works throughout the entire clothing department - for men AND women - generically asked if they needed any help, the mother assumed the employee was trans because she is taller than average & lost her mind

I did not expect that throwaway thought from yesterday to take off so here’s a thread about bathroom access and human health. It’s bleak, but it’s really important to illustrate how the framing about “comfort” is intentionally used to obscure a whole range of downstream, intentional lasting harms.

One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.

young people: dedicate your 20s to debauched living in whatever form you prefer, then start taking care of yourself and working out in your 30s and you will be in the best shape of your life as you approach middle age

CO2 monitors have become popular tools people can use to estimate their indoor air quality.

A new study was recently published that looks into how we can use them to optimise occupancy thresholds and identify problem locations.

Actual practical science!!!

A thread

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

The primary use case is fraud.

Cancel Edit image Save I'm just ugly not trans, train driver told colleagues Aslef union appears to push back against Supreme Court ruling on definition of "woman" Gareth Corfald Transport spondent A train driver insisted they were not transgender but "just ugly" when challenged by colleagues after the Supreme Court ruling on sender. The unnamed driver made the remark following April's ruling, in which the highest judges in the country said "sex" in equality law refers to biological sex, The "just ugly" comment was quoted in a submission made by Aslef, the train drivers trade union, to an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) consultation. In its submission, Aslef said: "Since the ruling, there have been examples of our members being questioned about their biological sex by colleagues to the level where one member felt the need to explain to their colleagues that they are just ugly. All text describes images for blind and low-vision users, and helps give context to Anybody can interact Labels + English 221

wait a second!! anti-trans laws... hurt... everybody?!!

who could have ever guessed?!!

I, for one, think it’s great that a product with inconsistent outputs is dominating our institutions

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks I’ve lived that future. It can come with a heavy cost.

This lays out several well-reasoned arguments about why this isn’t a desirable future.

Important but not mentioned: they are eugenicists who believe if are disabled or not “healthy” it’s because you are weak and you should die. Having everyone wear tracking devices helps feed their narrative.

Ironically, I literally wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation about exactly how bullshit and eugenicist the notion of "intelligence" is, both in general, and in specific relation to the prospect of creating "AI."
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Direct shade at mira murati, openAI, & all the rest but "intelligence" is a truly meaningless flattening of the attributes of the kind of people who tend to get PhDs, & if all you care about in creating "AI" are empty signifiers meant to stand in for "better than you," then i really wish you'd stop.

Also a reminder:

A measles vaccine costs $125 without insurance.

A night in the hospital because your kid got measles and needs fluids (made by the same manufacturer that makes the measles vaccine?

$3000+

Vaccines are a loss leader in pharmaceuticals.

They're going to make BANK w/ RFK Jr.

Screenshot from RFK Jr’s official HHS secretary account that says Medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person—never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science, and speak the truth without fear of punishment.

RFK Jr. posted this with his official gov’t account yesterday.

In the video, he says “Should doctors make decisions based on what’s best for their patients, or based upon what makes them the most money?”.

Hours later a man who believed the COVID19 vaccine harmed him opened fire on the CDC.

MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery.

Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Some good news!

In Canada, heat increases domestic violence | The Narwhal Excessive heat stresses both the body and mind. That leads to a rise in aggression — which harms women, girls and vulnerable communities the most

Across Canada, extreme heat causes physical and mental stresses that lead to a documented rise in violence. That includes intimate partner violence, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social reports, which threatens women, girls and vulnerable communities the most.
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How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.

Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.

mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...

#Palestine #Israel

Today's a really good day to put @signal.org's app on your personal devices.

A source reached out to me claiming MasterCard contacted Riot Games about the ongoing Steam/itchio controversy. MasterCard is a major Riot esports sponsor. This is the message going around internally from Riot, paraphrased: * MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams * Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard * Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue

Mastercard asking Riot Games to conduct surveillance on fans and creators — and to report any "negative sentiment" — is really tempting the Streisand Effect gods.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

HUH TURNS OUT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE AND THEY NEED REAL DONATIONS

WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS

Please go read the full E.O., because it is So Much Worse than even the Ars Technica article says. It's worse than even the first two paragraphs here. If this stays unchallenged, it is going to be *Bad* bad.

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

It's been obvious for a while that they were headed in this direction, & this attempt almost certainly won't go unchallenged, but you need to understand that this is & has been America's Lysenkoism moment knocking on the door, & it has to be resisted every way it can.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

I'm legitimately interested in the on-going token cost management for this. It says 24/7 365, is it capped at a monthly token spend? What would happen if someone were to get it talking to another AI? Does it cap convo length or would it just keep going and accure a huge charge for the gov?

a man with a beard is saying `` that burned down , fell over , and then sank into the swamp '' Alt: Holy Grail - "that burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp"

In passing, it's wrong to say the submersible design was untested. They built and tested a 1:3 model, which imploded, so they built and tested another one. Which imploded.

So they built a third, which imploded.

But the fourth one -the fourth one - well, no. The fourth one imploded as well.