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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

Misogyny is terrorism & should be globally classified as such & misogynists should be classified as terrorists.

Just a reminder that the "don't buy stuff" action for tomorrow Fri 2/28 refers to corporations. Feel free to celebrate the day by shopping at your local indie bookstore and/or other small local shops. They will appreciate your business! #Booksky #ShopLocal #IndieBookstores

#EconomicBoycott
People have the power!

It’s almost 9pm in Manila and I’m happy to report that I didn’t buy anything today.

Urgent help sought for 100 Thai women forced into human egg farm in Georgia The Pavena Foundation has urged the Thai government to seek China’s help in cracking down on a Chinese gang that has lured and forced around 100 Thai women into an illegal human egg farm in Georgia.

A women's NGO has urged the Thai government to seek China’s help in cracking down on a Chinese gang that has lured and forced around 100 Thai women into an illegal human egg farm in Georgia.
www.nationthailand.com/news/general...

'Don't Buy a Swasticar': Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk's Far-Right Support Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner's interference in British politics

🔴‘Don’t Buy a Swasticar’: Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Support

Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner’s interference in British politics

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.

"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.

Book bans aren’t about protecting kids—they’re about controlling minds. Read freely, think critically, and fight censorship. #booksky

It struck me today that every work of dystopian fiction I've ever read involves a future without books. Maybe that's all it takes.

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

For ebooks - Libby or Everand? #booksky

Just finished The Huntress by Kate Quinn

Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health Most people who get COVID-19 don't suffer damage to the brain. But some do, and even people who initially get just mild COVID symptoms are vulnerable. COVID's potential to damage the brain is anoth...

Question: Does COVID-19 damage the brain?

Answer: "We now know that, unfortunately, COVID can damage the brain in many ways."

Harvard Health.

And people keep ignoring the truth hoping it will go away.

www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-moo...

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

Multi‐Organ Spread and Intra‐Host Diversity of SARS‐CoV‐2 Support Viral Persistence, Adaptation, and a Mechanism That Increases Evolvability Intra-host diversity is an intricate phenomenon related to immune evasion, antiviral resistance, and evolutionary leaps along transmission chains. SARS-CoV-2 intra-host variation has been well-eviden...

" The virus was detected in most organs in the majority of autopsies. Our results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 can replicate, and evolve in a compartmentalized manner, in different body sites, which agrees with the “viral reservoir” theory."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We’re advertising on buses at Heathrow Airport for all of 2025 and spreading the message about Byline Times.

🚨 BREAKING: Shell backs down in lawsuit against Greenpeace.

People power works!

🧵👇

One of the greatest tricks they ever pulled was to convince the world that covid was now 'just a respiratory virus'.

All the needless suffering that could have been avoided if people just heard this message. It can take more than a year to recover from Covid. Do not force yourself when recovering from fatigue. Tokyo Metropolitan Government

This is public health at its best. In 30 seconds - 'SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate. You will continue to be reinfected. The risk of #LongCovid increases with each infection. Ventilate rooms frequently, and wear a mask. Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

When we were children, we were taught that no matter how you reached, no matter much wealth and power you accumulated, you were not above the law.

We can no longer teach our children that.

And that's really fucking tragic.

Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.

Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister: Carlos Cuerpo calls on G20 leaders to act and says election results show citizens want redistribution of wealthSpain’s economy minister has urged the world’s richest countries to “be brave” and redouble effort...

Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister: Carlos Cuerpo calls on G20 leaders to act and says election results show citizens want redistribution of wealthSpain’s economy minister has urged the world’s richest countries to “be brave” and redouble effort...

COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed

🔴COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage

The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed, reports Mike Buckley

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/18/c...

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say: Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a do...

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say: Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a do...

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)