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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance says not to focus on what kids are saying in group chats. But we're also seeing a pattern of mass shootings and assassinations being committed by young white men who talk in group chats. So maybe, just perhaps, we should pay attention when young white men talk violently in group chats.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 19h

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

This was probably our family's favorite! All three of us took turns reading it and just *dying* to talk to discuss it. That ending!

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

Christian comedian Mark Lowry had a great bit after he had a very bad motorcycle crash & had to get extensive skin grafts from cadavers. He was like, what's going to happen to me during the Rapture? 😐 People laughed & then went oh & that's how he started puncturing holes in their rapture theology😂

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

As a teacher, I can't tell you how distressing it is. I've had students where it affected their flight/fight mechanism and they had extreme sudden anxiety or would feel like they were suffocating, just terrifying. Another it changed their personality, literal brain damage that other kids noticed.

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

The only people I have heard in real life be excited about him is Republicans who feel like he "gets it" aka repeats toxic Republican talking points and myths.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

If you got these as a kid, please get yourself tested to make sure immunity didn't fade.

For me, measles immunity was off the charts (hooray!) but rubella immunity was almost gone which was dangerous as I had a friend who was pregnant.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 6h

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

They're so used to their buddies and shady orgs buying cases of their books to inflate sales numbers that it never dawns on them that other people just don't do that?

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5h

I'm sorry, funding sources "book sales". This is the laziest thing I've seen in a while.
"You know where people make money? Book sales" says man who has never, ever had to be in actual book publishing.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 8h

"I'm not judging you for your beliefs, I'm judging you for your horrible behavior."
Christians love to feel persecute for their "faith" but that gets stripped away if you focus solely on their actual behavior.
"I know Christians and you don't act like a Christian at all."

Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly this. I would also expand this to say that there’s nothing that throws a Christian off balance more than saying “I don’t hang out with you because I don’t think you’re a good person.” They literally don’t know how to respond to that.

GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 9h

When you snub your Trump-voting family members (or friends who write genocide apologia in the Free Press), you take away their sense
that they are decent, respectable, normal people. It’s good to fight that normalizing impulse, when Trump in power means people getting kidnapped by masked police.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 8h

There was a research study that came out a few years ago, specifically about US evangelical marital sex with 20,000 participants & the conclusions were that US evangelical marital advice leads to sexual pain & divorce at higher rates than the average. I think of that whenever this topic comes up.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 8h

It is a nightmare when it comes to parking near them. They don't fit in normal parking spots and stick out with sharp edges. I was in a children's hospital parking garage and one literally blocked the traffic pattern for the entire garage. It's the epitome of "F you all" in a truck.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 1d

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

And I use the metaphor of a parent and child very intentionally because paternalism is a core value for anyone who believes white supremacy is a morally superior system of social organization.

They truly think we should be thanking them for all their domination.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

The other thing is all these apps are brand new, none of these are research-based, long-running apps with a robust background or staff. I've been in education for decades and worked in edtech and these honestly look like scams.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

The way men continue to find ways to *not believe a single thing a woman says about her pain* shouldn't be this astonishing.
You can be sobbing in pain and told you're wrong.
You can be completely stoic and told you're wrong.
Our medical establishment cannot accept that women experience pain.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 3d

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

There was just a report a few months ago about lead in cassava (tapioca) products as well which comes in a lot of gluten-free products. It's really disheartening.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

I thought I was hip with the kids and all that and this has me seriously doubting that now 😂🫠

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

The way I just sang this out and it's a banger! LOL

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

Honestly, this sounds very connected to white US Christianity weirdness. White US Christians created a pledge to the Bible and the joke is that most US Christians replace the Holy Spirit in the trinity with the physical Bible. It is quite literally worshipped (not really read, funny enough).

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

I love that The Onion caught that vibe and extended it 😂
theonion.com/orlando-bloo...

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel

BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...

theonion.com

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

Not only did the immigration people misread & mishear my great-great grandmother's name, by the time my mother learned of her birth name it had been thoroughly mangled by three generations of family who didn't know Czech. I was the first one to look at the papers & go, wait, her name was "Božena"?

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