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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

DON’T LOOK AWAY! The Trump administration is catapulting us into a data black hole and the consequences could be massive. Halting data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, more, by @alecmac.bsky.social

The Trump administration proposed a rollback of federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) seeks to eliminate the current interpretation of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.

From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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Hatred has aged her.

Dear god.

I think there should have been a Good Knieval

Over the last 20+ years people kept saying "hey these new laws getting passed that restrict the rights of American Citizens are gonna get used nefariously one day!" and now here we are and everyone's making shocked pikachu face

There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

There are better fantasy books out there that don't fund harmful bullshit. Idc if it's a "comfort series." You can do better than reading a series about how an orphan becomes a cop while breaking all the rules and shit.

Study Finds Cats Only Meow When They Want To Alert Owner Of Neighbor’s Murder They Witnessed Through Window

Study Finds Cats Only Meow When They Want To Alert Owner Of Neighbor’s Murder They Witnessed Through Window
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Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies — and Their Mothers." The subheadline mentions that Musk juggles over a dozen children and "harem drama" while running his companies and advising Trump. It also notes he recently took a paternity test in a legal battle. The article is written by Dana Mattioli and dated April 15, 2025, 9:00 PM ET.

This is profoundly, the most disturbing story I've ever read. Elon Musk believes his children are a legion and he needs to make as many babies as possible before the apocalypse.

He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.

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5/ full Mars Branch Davidian shit here

Jesus fucking christ. He's as delusional as Epstein.

2/ I can't even imagine the trouble this dude we be in if he were subject to any kind of law.

That's what y'all get, tbh, because you hopped aboard the train late as hell. It's not about THOUGHT policing, it's about ACTUAL policing, which is why they started all of this with Queer and Black people; because they knew y'all wouldn't bat an eye. 💀💀💀

Quickly! Run! Before you have to consider a contrary opinion that is now firmly in line with English law and mainstream public opinion! BACK TO THE COSY ECHO CHAMBER!!!!

The key difference between this dumb giggling cruelty and e.g. JD Vance saying Wokeness has gone too far, or Wes Streeting saying we need to massacre a sacred cow every day til we’re up to our knees in blood, is that there is no difference. It is all the same shit at varying voltage and intensity.

Big tech then:
"Every man, women and child on the planet can now have their voices heard because of the internet"

Big tech now:
"Cut that commies statement from the internet feed so nobody hears it"

What the hell happened to people in this country? When did we all become cowering idiots in the face of injustice & war? We are not our grandfather's descendants who bravely fought in the beaches, the air & in the streets. We should be ashamed but sadly we're not. The power & money is too strong.

A big fuck you to @theguardian.com for laundering anti-trans hate for years. A moral stain that can't be forgiven.

screen shot of text from an online post: "Wow, so I'm currently working on a book project and a few months back I had a dialogue with ChatGPT about some concepts in the book. I used language that is quite specific to my project and unlikely to appear anywhere else, even in Google searches. One of the concepts is a neologism. Just for explanatory purposes, let's say it's something like "inter-unintelligibility." (Just an example, not the word I use.) The undergraduate class I'm teaching is related to the topic of my book. Last week, students turned in short papers. And guess what? Two of twenty papers used this precise neologism in the title, even with the hyphens. It's not a phrase I've ever used in class, and does not appear in our readings, nor in Google searches ("no results found for ____".) Other very specific phrases from that short ChatGPT interaction I had also appear in their work."

*pinches my nose so hard it falls off*

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote????

Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
#FuckTrump #Resist

Head of New RFK Jr. Vaccine Study Practiced Unlicensed Medicine on Autistic Kids The man tapped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run a clinical trial looking to tie vaccines to autism has been charged with practicing medicine without a license, given...

Every decent, thinking person should be furious. This is state-sanctioned abuse masquerading as science.
Trump and RFK Jr. just handed a government vaccine study to a man who practiced unlicensed medicine on autistic kids, pushed banned, dangerous treatments, and lied about vaccines.

Wapo headline: how Palestinian first responders ended up in a mass grave

Ended. Up.

Ended.

Up.

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YouTube video by hankschannel They Didn't Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something…Else

I really appreciated @hankgreen.bsky.social’s dire wolf video, which is really worth watching. He breaks down the science, the hype, and why it’s important to tell the truth about extinction:

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A panel of Mob Psycho 100 of Shinji and Ritsu watching Mob run in the Body Improvement Club. "This is more beautiful than every single piece of AI slop ever generated put together and it’s not even close. You don’t need to master draftsmanship to make great art. All you need is a sincere willingness to bare your soul, warts and all, to the best of your own ability." -@mothersbasement.bsky.social

So @mothersbasement.bsky.social made a really good point on Twitter that I feel should also be here: You wanna see a piece of art that clears every single AI bullshit "art" piece out there? Bam, here you go. (Quoted Geoff's tweet in the alt text, as he put it really perfectly.)

any day in which i get to make a joke about james joyce's letters to nora barnacle is a good day for me but a terrible day for someone else

Fascinating note by @amandamull.bsky.social in Bloomberg: throughout US history, going all the way back to colonial times, "Buy American" was manipulated by wealthy merchants and oligarchs to enrich themselves.

Elon has tweeted over 10 times about the Rufo smear piece on a intelligence community ERG on intelink.

They're creating the manufactured consent to purge LGBTQ and especially trans employees from not just the intelligence communities but the entire federal government. They'll use ERGs to do so.