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About a year into my sickness I sat down with my spouse and said, “I’m giving you permission to leave. I don’t want to ruin your life.”
When Phillip Hoover writes I feel like he’s telling mine and so many other’s story as he tells his own.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
When Phillip Hoover writes I feel like he’s telling mine and so many other’s story as he tells his own.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
I Love You. Please Find Someone Else.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
About a year into my sickness I sat down with my spouse and said, “I’m giving you permission to leave. I don’t want to ruin your life.”
When Phillip Hoover writes I feel like he’s telling mine and so many other’s story as he tells his own.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
When Phillip Hoover writes I feel like he’s telling mine and so many other’s story as he tells his own.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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So the kidneys walking around guy, Jim O'Neill, acting CDC director, is pro Freedom Cities, and close friends with Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman and the founder of a start-up-cities fund that invested in Próspera in Honduras. /
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation.
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
So the kidneys walking around guy, Jim O'Neill, acting CDC director, is pro Freedom Cities, and close friends with Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman and the founder of a start-up-cities fund that invested in Próspera in Honduras. /
tried to watch heated rivalry with my mom <\3
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
tried to watch heated rivalry with my mom <\3
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The R word was used so much when I was growing up and I was impressed by efforts to make it go away that seemed to be working. In recent years it had become rare to hear it anymore (publicly at least) and now it's back (& not just from the president) & I hate it so much.
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The R word was used so much when I was growing up and I was impressed by efforts to make it go away that seemed to be working. In recent years it had become rare to hear it anymore (publicly at least) and now it's back (& not just from the president) & I hate it so much.
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Caught between commissions, a mild identity crisis, and a few too many house repairs, so here's one from the archive. I believe I based this off a 1930's playing card.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Caught between commissions, a mild identity crisis, and a few too many house repairs, so here's one from the archive. I believe I based this off a 1930's playing card.
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far too many media orgs have been slow to learn that in the age of social media the headline IS the story
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
far too many media orgs have been slow to learn that in the age of social media the headline IS the story
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
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I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
I’m glad I skipped thanksgiving at my aunts because my one aunt had a cough from “dust” and then said she felt congested today like…girl you were sick! She admitted she was fighting off a cold, and like….why did you go to Thanksgiving!!!
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I’m glad I skipped thanksgiving at my aunts because my one aunt had a cough from “dust” and then said she felt congested today like…girl you were sick! She admitted she was fighting off a cold, and like….why did you go to Thanksgiving!!!
Every time I read the news, I just keep thinking about how it didn’t have to be this way!!!
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every time I read the news, I just keep thinking about how it didn’t have to be this way!!!
just thinking about when I got attacked by Zionist on tumblr because I didn’t want New York to ban masks 😭
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
just thinking about when I got attacked by Zionist on tumblr because I didn’t want New York to ban masks 😭
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I don't know how many of you are familiar w/ the Too Good to Go app, which allows you to find restaurants & stores in your area that are selling surprise bags of surplus food at discounted prices, but they now also have discounted foods for delivery! (Like, shipped, not like Postmates.) It's great.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I don't know how many of you are familiar w/ the Too Good to Go app, which allows you to find restaurants & stores in your area that are selling surprise bags of surplus food at discounted prices, but they now also have discounted foods for delivery! (Like, shipped, not like Postmates.) It's great.
watching the friends thanksgiving episodes and I would have killed Ross with a hammer
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
watching the friends thanksgiving episodes and I would have killed Ross with a hammer
I pray I won’t go on Instagram and TikTok for the rest of the year 🙏🏻
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I pray I won’t go on Instagram and TikTok for the rest of the year 🙏🏻
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Moving tribute to Alice Wong from Rebecca Cokley: “Alice was constantly watching what people were doing, & lifting up people whose work she thought deserved attention & amplification. This was core to the creation of the Disability Visibility Project.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Moving tribute to Alice Wong from Rebecca Cokley: “Alice was constantly watching what people were doing, & lifting up people whose work she thought deserved attention & amplification. This was core to the creation of the Disability Visibility Project.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
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I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
how do I explain Mr. Fantasy to my mom
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
how do I explain Mr. Fantasy to my mom