Brooke

We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.

"According to the indictment, Uribe sexually assaulted and robbed two women while working in his capacity as a federal agent. One incident took place in Schaumburg, while another took place in Naperville."

I know I have friends on here who fall into these categories

(I also think this but recommend whoever ends up getting in touch with the person to confirm that! I will repay your $123 dollars if necessary.)

Over 1600 VHS tapes of Basketball NBA & NCAA $123 Listed a day ago in Philadelphia, PA @ Message a a Details Condition Used - Good Games from 1988-2024. My cousin was an avid basketball fan and has years of taped games. NBA, WNBA, NCAA, and even some volleyball. Regular season, Playoffs, Finals to all star games. Looking for someone who would appreciate this insane collection of games. About 16 crates of tapes Philadelphia, PA

If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.

TikTok's Top Global Song of the Year Is a 63-Year-Old Hit Single From Connie Francis

TikTok names Connie Francis's 1962 hit 'Pretty Little Baby' the Top Global Song of 2025. According to a year-end report, the record was used more than 28 million times in posts that racked up more than 68 billion views, including uploads from Nara Smith, Kylie Jenner, and Ariana Greenblatt.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

An Illustrated Guide to Knocking Out Viruses To be expanded?

How do you protect yourself from viruses in a world that has largely given up? New work has confirmed the use of HOCl as a respiratory therapy and intervention. Here's some other things to do, along with N95 masks and air purifiers.

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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.

There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.

This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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the shingles vax was a bear; only vax I've ever gotten that really knocked me out.

but I know people with shingles. it is a vicious, incredibly painful, brutal, debilitating, and sometimes chronic disease. for the love of god get the shot.

WAIT WHAT?

Camb. Police Commissioner Elow just said that after the cameras were allegedly off, Flock came back and put up two more cameras because they had a "work order" in the system and didn't see functional cameras, so put up more.

"Which we just found out about today."

Wow.

so, in the version of these facts that is *most* friendly to CPD, they’re contracting with a rogue private surveillance company and they have no idea what that company is doing?

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.

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Hey, whether you did hundreds of artworks this year or one artwork this year, you are an artist, and you're doing your best. Be proud of whatever you created this year. Life ebbs and flows.

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Thank you!! Ugh dammit I looked for that but not very hard, obviously

“This is not communities spontaneously rising up against protecting trans folks…the messaging piece, the legislative piece that has come since then… has been from the right wing think tanks that have poll-tested and created language and shared it with legislators.”

“They are trying to pump it out.”

*small domino* my mum tells me not to drink diet coke because she read in the Guardian that it causes dementia

*BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers

Sorry but this is quite reassuring because it looks like absolute dogshit

Siri is it bad that the primary political project for staving off World War 3 is now the favorite target of oligarchs and reactionaries worldwide

It made the inside of my brain feel bad!

McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad

The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'

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Oh boy

Also fuck Jimmy Fallon for platforming this mess

Clinical Evaluation of Effectiveness and Safety of Combined Use of Dietary Supplements Amberen® and Smart B® in Women with Climacteric Syndrome in Perimenopause - PubMed NCT03897738.

Huh, just found this from last year pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38904899/

Oh yes!!!!!! Hideous

Also I'm so sorry you were forced to suffer through this. I honestly think I would have died one way or the other.

I have a whole stash of hand fans now! Hormones can only do so much I guess haha

It's OTC supplements that were really really helpful for me until I got on HRT but I have heard somewhat concerning things about potential side effects from others. (For the record, I did not experience any of those)