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i don't worry about keeping up with them

i'll pop in to see if there's anything to read or reply to when i feel like it

& go there to drop related tweets that might be of interest to the gc

keeps stuff wch attracts inane or bot replies off main (politics, war, niche-ish interests)

(link to Dival Banerjee's footage of the El Segundo fire)

x.com/divalbanerje...

Massive fire breaks out at refinery in El Segundo An explosion and fire rocked a refinery in El Segundo on Thursday night, causing massive balls of flames that could be seen for miles.

Massive fire breaks out at refinery in El Segundo

thenk heavens

TYLENOL® on X: "@Jen_in_TX We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today." / X @Jen_in_TX We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.

🔗https://x.com/tylenol/status/839196906702127106?s=46

screenshot of a 2017 tweet from @tylenol which says: We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.

from the Tylenol social media account in 2017:

"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."

thinking of Tylenol's PR firm rn

will be an educational presidential announcement - we'll find out who gets sued in this scenario

Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

‘I think Stein was right. All art emerges from conditions of intimacy and privacy and private jokes.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"..and the bacon every morning"

heads up: the effect on appetite starts to wear off after a couple years

no idea if mechanism for decreasing other behaviours is similar but tuck that possibility away in the back of your mind

it's been interesting to see all this unfold, how ineffective most criticisms are because they misunderstand the problem

which fair

hi again, Emmet, i just saw there was more about this in a recent Nature article, screenshot below

(also for comparison, a screenshot of some initial coverage of the decision, a slant which was typical across most outlets)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

it is offered in the UK, but is not part of the general recos

the US does include it as part of the general reco

it is available but not always generally recommended. varies by country.

this was some of the reasoning behond UK not having a general reco: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

re incr in febrile seizures when combined,

some of the data on it:

Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2017 called, it wants its reddit style argument back

varicella isn't part of the schedule in most European countries nor in the UK

(adding it to the MMR results in a significant increase in febrile seizure, the reason for changing the reco. the US kept the general reco for varicella)

"To construct a model of political strategy based primarily on existing empirical patterns of belief and action is to express a fundamental skepticism toward the possibility that these might be changed."

you guys are in groupchats?

afaict, people concerned about the changing public health guidance haven't been updating their knowledge about why ppl are ignoring them nor about which arguments and perspectives from MAHA are gaining ground

Sheila Fitzpatrick · Diary: Two Cultures of Denunciation Among the difficulties of talking about denunciation is that there are so many words for it, along with sharply opposed...

‘People from the Make America Great Again movement aren’t going to call reporting via the new tip lines “snitching”, or even “whistleblowing”, because these are liberals’ words.’

Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox instead of single vaccine Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health

for the comparison about vaccine recos for children and COVID vaccine, see the country schedules)

MMR & V being recommended separately instead of combined as MMRV, is from the Guardian. (many EU countries & UK don't have a general reco for the varicella)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Under the committee’s new recommendations, children should receive multiple vaccines: one vaccine that guards against measles, mumps and rubella, which is known as the MMR vaccine, and a separate vaccine that immunizes them against chickenpox"

from an article in The Guardian about it, they shifted to a reco that is similar to Europe's -- the MMR is separate from the varicella instead of all four combined as MMRV

it was same for the change in their general COVID vaccine reco for children

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!