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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

This is pretty incredible.

Do ‘Deeply Feeling Kids’ Really Exist? Dr. Becky’s concept is hugely influential. But is it preventing some neurodivergent children from getting diagnoses?

thecut.com/article/deeply-feeling-kids-dr-becky-neurodivergence.html someone wrote about how Dr Becky's Deeply Feeling Kids approach keeps ND kids from getting the early supports that they need, and I'm so here for it archive.is/tPm0D

Here is a very specific thing you can do right now that will meet the moment quite nicely Maybe do it five or six times, actually

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out."

Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have.

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The best time to get rid of your doorbell camera was as soon as you bought it, the second best time is right now.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Reminder! People are being sent to countries where they have never lived! There are a few different phrases one might use.

Walton Goggins clogging with his mom

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics + TikTok clout loop, Kai Cenat's next chapter, the "safest white boy", Minecraft marriages, group chat trauma, a MAHA-friendly food app, Altman's kitchen fails, and Silicon Valley's existential crisis

In no way should a U.S. Citizen be detained, anywhere, because of their protected speech (and neither should a non-citizen, to be clear). To do so is to violate an oath to the Constitution and the rule of law.

www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike... ( @taylorlorenz.bsky.social )

"Please pray for insurance approval and that we can get started ASAP."

On Bailey Koch's last post the day before her husband took out their whole fam. Impressed with her parents for talking through their grief about lack of access to mental health care in the US.

once there was a Sheet Daddy

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

"Why do faceless politicians have the power to strip human beings of their divine moments?"

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Jane Schoenbrun Sets Cast for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Picked Up By MUBI After I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the 50 best films of 2024, there's been much anticipation for Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the details of which were fir...

Jane Schoenbrun will begin shooting their I Saw the TV Glow follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this summer. See new details:

it's so messy I love it

Lmaooo

"Bill Belichick’s family is extraordinarily concerned by what has transpired. One Belichick family source told me, ‘There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.'”

i have never - not once - cared about sports, but this Bill Belichick situation has me 👀

I'm going to let Kiandria tell you in her own words but the payment processor is Block/Square. They have policies that block their platform from profiting off of racism and hate speech. So she's targeting them... heavily.

www.tiktok.com/@kiandriaisb...

Tech Activist Kiandria Demone Exposes Crowdfunding Profiteers Behind Racist Attack on Black Child A digital activist is dismantling the financial infrastructure enabling racially motivated crowdfunding campaigns.

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You know that racist white lady who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars after calling a 5 year old boy the n word?

She's using a Christian fundraising platform that's fine with her racism.

That didn't sit right with Kiendria a web developer. /1

The cover of THE PEOPLE’s PROJECT

1. Let's All Stay Alive by Alexander Chee 2. Catching the Light by Joy Harjo 3. Chile, I'm not playing with you! Look at it! by Patricia Smith 4. Ode to Joy by Victoria Chang 5. My Own Project 2025 By-by Maggie Smith 6. Transness as Freedom: An Offering by Chase Strangio 7. An Education by Eula Biss 8. PERFORMANCE SCORES FOR THE ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS OF WORLDS by sam sax 9. Raising the Resistance by Aubrey Hirsch 10. Watching the Valley Oaks While Waiting to Become Braver by Ada Limón 11. Resisting Despair amidst Amidst Know-Your-Place Aggression by Koritha Mitchell 12. Look Ahead, Look Back by Jason Bryan Silverstein 13. Non-Ccitizen by Jill Damatac 14. Noni, Are You Home? By by Aruni Kashyap 15. And. But. Ugh. Yet. Y'all. Mmm. Yes. by Kiese Laymon 16. My Project 2025 by Saeed Jones 17. Snail's Pace: The Art of Cripping Time by Alice Wong 18. For Hope by Abi Maxwell 19. Good Pain! By by Tiana Clark 20. Fix Up, Look Sharp By by Marlon James 21. The Right Question By-by Ashley C. Ford 22. Portrait of Myself as a Boat by Kay Jones 23. Return Ghazal by Hala Alyan 24. Time of War by Danez Smith 25. You Are Here by Mira Jacob 26. Weathered Hands by Imani Perry 27. Puzzle by Randall Mann

If you haven’t already pre-ordered your copy of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, we’re working on copy edits and the table of contents ALONE will have you shooketh. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...

The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr

hate this!

3/ Since February 2025, US embassies around the world have been sending letters to local contractors making similar demands. This seems to be the first time that it's been reported that a similar letter has been sent to a foreign government organisation.
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The original Cardinal sketch with a doodle of a pope hat on it

Some personal news

Ok you guys let's see who it is so I can go back to being a lapsed Catholic.

just eat the bay leaf. nothing matters.