Tamsin is always a joy to read when she has a mind to write, and this thread is a stand-out even for her. 💜

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness

They probably had to report in from a payphone. They were not as popular as influencers are today.

Before the internet, the types we now call influencers were paid to go to crowded bars, butt into conversations, & subtly promote a product. They were called “leaners” because they’d lean in, say the thing, then find another conversation to ruin. Or so I heard, the net was here when I hit bar age.

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

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Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Can y'all keep your fucking Pope knobslobbing where decent trannies can't see it

Rowling's single mother charity gingerbread had to close its phone lines due to lack of funds the same week she announced her transphobic women's funds.

Look at her priorities not her PR.

How do people keep getting spellbound by her, it would be an insult to real wicca to call this witchcraft.

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out by testing their software on escort ads to rat sex workers out to the cops. But everybody was fine with it because it fed their disgusting wanking fantasies of screaming 13-year-olds abducted from happy homes to be trucked around and raped 100x a day.

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same again!!! Hahaha I love it

"we'rw gonna make a super-smart computer then have it fight super-smart babies" do they hear themselves

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

same!

through Trans Tuesdays (which birthed this book) i've gotten to play a part in so many people becoming their true selves and finding joy, and that will always be one of the greatest things in my life

i'm truly so honored and can't wait to see you up here in the clouds

The pope could have overruled the u.s. trans healthcare ban immediately. He did not. This lines up with his own extensive history of anti-queer/anti-trans bigotry.

Also: the bishops' ban vote was 206-7 in favor. Not some narrow conservative victory, but the consensus of the church hierarchy.

A starkly absurd demonstration of how "your solution is in another department/you just don't understand how the organization works" excuses are used by liberals to defend oppression and excuse oppressors.

The pope is the absolute ruler of the church hierarchy but somehow he, too, is powerless.

Pope defenders: uwu he's just a wittle birthday boy look at his big birthday hate

Trans people who can't get healthcare from like half of the hospitals in their state: what

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

"The Pope isn't responsible for the American Congress of Bishops banning trans healthcare" so the thing about the power of the Pope is that he could just overwrite them if BANNING ALL TRANS HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE ADULTS AND MINORS ALIKE was something he cared about

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I'm about to record an episode about the history and theology around transgender people in the Catholic Church, and let me tell you all now: It is Fucking Grim, and anyone who thinks the Church might become more accepting in a meaningful, real, way in the next like 50 years is deluding themselves.

Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

@Kica333 i want to be as happy as the people in med commercials that are running around while a narrator talks about all the bad side effects

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

sure I’ll be happy to take that unpaid writing test despite already having submitted my extensive portfolio

just as soon as I see the results of your unpaid management test to make sure you have the skills to select the right candidate for this job

It’s easier to be angry at a person than at a system.

It’s more productive to be angry at a system than at a person.