Rachael French

One of the biggest signs of this I've noticed is how female body hair has been demonised over the years.
When I was a teen it was only underarms and legs that had to be shaved to 'look good' but now I know men who are genuinely revolted by ANY body hair at all. And you know what....?

Purity culture is a fetish that sexualizes children.

Also, who’s not ready? The parents? Because kids generally won’t ask you questions unless they’re ready for the conversation.

If the parents aren’t ready for the conversation, they’re cowards and bad parents because you should always be ready to talk to your kids about whatever they want.

It must be so weird to live in parts of the country where people actively make sure their children are confused by seeing two people of the same gender kissing.

I gotta tell you, if you just don’t call attention to it, kids aren’t confused by it at all.

Speaking from experience and…California.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

in a way this is fascinating because in the family you hide this member from guests at dinner parties and the US is like buddy he's doing a daily off the cuff 30 min sesh with the press

Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.

You spelled "Standard Time" wrong. Please follow the research on this med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Doctors in your state have given you every reason not to make DST permanent. Health and safety need permanent Standard Time instead!

Biologist here - there is reason. There’s evidence (lots of it) that DST is harmful to human health. Not just the switch - DST itself.

We should lock the clock on permanent standard time.

Yeah, someone told me recently that "the future of computational biology is all AI" and referenced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry as his evidence.

Everyone else is doing it isn’t as compelling as people might thing it is for the Just Say No generation

The machines. Do not. Have feelings.

Because feelings are, lol I have to inform you, a combination of brain and biology. They don’t have an amygdala releasing cortisol into their circuitry, ffs.

*screams into the void*

And finally: Try to watch this show and tell me it’s reasonable to say the portrayal of Daryl Hannah comes from a place of compassion.

I HATE the Where’s My Mommy subplot monster Fleet Academy.

I don’t care, I don’t like either of you, stop wasting my time.

Secretly…

FFS, they have Hugh Laurie as an avatar. They’re secret 55. 😉

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

Trump just gave Oklahoma Dems such a golden opportunity, filing deadline (unlike most places) hasn't passed yet. Any appointed Sen is easier than Millionaire Mullin

If they wanted to [they don't] they have 4 whole weeks to find someone. Maybe @runforsomething.net has someone great in their rosters

[Exit Murderer.]

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda."

Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda." n.pr/4s2Covt

1. As a colleague said, we know peer mentorship works.

2. So wild the way kids grow up into whole people.

Kid 2 filled out his high school schedule request last night. Opted out of Honors English despite my advice.

This morning, I failed to change his mind. But then I hear his sister talking to him…in 90 seconds she’s got him erasing his form and writing in Honors English.

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare

COMER: We believe that's your fault

WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc ALT: a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

‘He Was Very Convincing’: Over 600 Mostly Black Women Sterilized and Cut Open for No Reason, Lawsuit Claims — Now Virginia Hospital Faces $6B Lawsuit "Over 600 Black women sue Virginia hospital for $6B over unnecessary surgeries. Shocking details emerge in lawsuit. #JusticeForWomen"

A Virginia hospital faces a $6B reckoning after an abusive doctor is accused of systematically sterilizing hundreds of Black women without cause.
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Our school made the decision to continue with remote learning through at least the end of spring break, which starts next Friday.

They will then reassess based on events.

That's a green light for us to go but again: THERE ARE NO FLIGHTS.

State is saying to leave, but THERE ARE NO FLIGHTS.

No arguments from me. Again, my professional drummer of a dad thought he was the best drummer he’d ever heard.