It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?
Skeptics “point to highly publicized AI failures, including one involving a Utah traffic stop during which a police body cam recorded the movie ‘The Princess and the Frog’ playing in the background and generated a report stating, among other things, that an officer ‘turned into a frog.’”
Oakland too!
About a year ago I bought a ceramic bowl with assorted very realistic hand-formed clay human teeth all over the inside of it. I was very excited when I saw it and the artist was excited that I was and I hope they can feel, wherever they are, that I still get excited looking at my Teeth Bowl.
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.
Hear that, Virginia? Vote YES!
On a particularly bad flare day, I wear 12 simultaneous Zebra Splints and constantly get compliments about my gorgeous rings, which makes me feel much less shitty about going out in public when my hands look straight out of a horror movie, too!
Zebra Splints is a hypermobile jeweler who makes these and it SHOWS. www.zebrasplints.com They're more expensive (though not for what it is), but super durable and easy to clean and I love mine. Plus each one costs less than a single future x-ray it might help prevent!
These sounded like great ideas until we got to the very end there 😅
A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
You need to bounce on a trampoline to mix everything back up again!
green and yellow parrot hanging out
On this 4/20, please consider donating to The Last Prisoner Project which advocates on behalf of those still incarcerated for cannabis convictions in the year 2026, where we can walk into a dispensary and meet the 24 year old parrot who lives there.
give.lastprisonerproject.org/campaign/659...
IF you make 65k or less, the tariffs effectively doubled your tax rate, and in fact, if you make much less than that it made the percentage increase incalculable because if you make less than like 50k and have a household of three you don't pay FIT net
An infographic about not mixing cleaning products, which include: Bleach and vinegar makes chlorine gas. Bleach and ammonia make chloramine. Bleach and rubbing alcohol make chloroform. Hydrogen peroxide and vinegar make peracetic/peroxyacetic acid
One of my co-workers mixed together vinegar and bleach this morning, so uh, just a reminder for everyone that's dangerous as fuck!
yay! good luck ✨
definitely sounds like you'll remember how deadlines work forever now TBH 😅 it has been approximately one week since I last missed a deadline but that worked out great for me, so here's hoping this clears space for something better for you 💖
They are still taking our Neighbors.
Well yeah, but it's not just $30, it's $30 in a city where OTHER museums cost... oh, what? also $30? $30 is just Chicago's default museum price? The aquarium on a Sunday is $50?!
well, Obama still should've known better
I have done ten percent of the reviews I have due tomorrow in the three weeks I've had to work on them so far. May we both finish our work efficiently! ✨
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.
We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
Remember this from last week?
South Carolina's Freedom to Read Group has an outstanding response worth replicating.
Libraries don't have to buy these books. They can actively push back against publishers who are not helping libraries–bedrocks of their survival!–weather censorship.
bOAsTS
I'm on my spouse's employer's right now, but $20.
I took a similar approach with my bike and I've been honestly surprised how many excited comments I get from people of all ages about the stickers. Practical AND an easy way to spread joy! basically perfect
Democrats have a very narrow path to winning the Senate. And it involves electing the first Alaska Native woman to the body.
“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
Outed by a goodreads account. That's magical.
anyway I think the lesson everyone should be learning here is that DEI was probably really fucking good for the armed forces because it meant you were hearing opinions like "hey so supply chains matter" and "yo maybe the troops should eat a food"