John Woodford
@jbwoodford.bsky.social
He/him. Old safety/QA person at quaint US Federal Laboratory. Emigre from the Bird Site.
One more effing awful thing that RFKJr is doing.
RFK Jr. has awarded $1.6 million to a group in Denmark to conduct a randomized, single-blind study of the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) to be conducted in Guinea-Bissau.
In my opinion, this is, quite simply, completely unethical, unacceptable, and predatory.
Here’s why.
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In my opinion, this is, quite simply, completely unethical, unacceptable, and predatory.
Here’s why.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One more effing awful thing that RFKJr is doing.
Awesome thread. Contains spoilers for "Wake Up Dead Man."
Alice has now seen “Wake Up Dead Man” which means now I can talk about “Wake Up Dead Man” as approximately one million of you have asked me to do. intermittent live-blog in the quoted thread. gay Catholic musings below:
Alice is finally watching “Wake Up Dead Man” and we are having a great time
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Awesome thread. Contains spoilers for "Wake Up Dead Man."
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In the same vein, but season appropriate 🐗❄️
December 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In the same vein, but season appropriate 🐗❄️
Thread. Loving Spouse and I (late Boomer/Gen Jones) have avoided the worst of this by being extremely lucky with education and jobs, but honestly in the US these days I feel like we just have a bigger cushion--we're not immune to downturns the way the *really* wealthy are.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thread. Loving Spouse and I (late Boomer/Gen Jones) have avoided the worst of this by being extremely lucky with education and jobs, but honestly in the US these days I feel like we just have a bigger cushion--we're not immune to downturns the way the *really* wealthy are.
These are the people who don't realize that being the main character in your life's story doesn't come with plot armor.
I suspect some of these /pol edgelords have been marinating in combat goreporn for years and those are the parts they’re most excited about. It’s the food/energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, and disease outbreaks that’ll come as a surprise
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
These are the people who don't realize that being the main character in your life's story doesn't come with plot armor.
This is orthogonal enough to the original thread that I didn't want to post it as a reply, but the quoted post reminded me of James MacDonald's brilliant take on the history of Scripture in Making Light: nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is orthogonal enough to the original thread that I didn't want to post it as a reply, but the quoted post reminded me of James MacDonald's brilliant take on the history of Scripture in Making Light: nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...
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Reposting just so I can share one quote from the linked article: "As is often the case with Yglesias’ writing, one must unpack its flatness in the manner of Ikea furniture and then painfully construct something useful out of the pieces."
“It is difficult to overstate the failure of the transphobic strategy.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposting just so I can share one quote from the linked article: "As is often the case with Yglesias’ writing, one must unpack its flatness in the manner of Ikea furniture and then painfully construct something useful out of the pieces."
This is a great story, and reminds me of something the late Mike Ford wrote about seeing the same scene in another production.
a lovely thread. a really good live theatrical effect has a magic that cinema just can't reproduce
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is a great story, and reminds me of something the late Mike Ford wrote about seeing the same scene in another production.
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
I still miss Reveal Codes.
“I grew up learning the Corel WordPerfect macros” I tell the Gen Z member of Geek Squad, “I’ll take it from here.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I still miss Reveal Codes.
Anyone who'd play poker with Mamdani for cash stakes is definitely the sucker at the table.
i kinda agree that poker isn't very left-coded because 1) it's male-coded and 2) gambling generally is clearly right-coded now.
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Anyone who'd play poker with Mamdani for cash stakes is definitely the sucker at the table.
Thread. There are apparently people out there teaching organizing like it's fucking Amway, and that attitude breaks folks.
I think certain organizing trainings did some of us real psychological damage in teaching us that YOU, ORGANIZER, PERSONALLY have responsibility for going out and making people leverage organized power and ultimately saving the world.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thread. There are apparently people out there teaching organizing like it's fucking Amway, and that attitude breaks folks.
That sounds like some criticisms I've seen of the Wachowskis' _Jupiter Ascending_. And on the one hand yeah, it's self-indulgent, but why is that a bad thing? It was a gorgeous movie.
saw JAY KELLY last night with a bud. absolutely loved it and they had opposite reaction. interesting art discussion because they said 'it was so self indulgent' and i said 'yes but why is that bad? i LOVE self indulgent art.' been thinking on that a lot. theres so much sincerity in self indulgence
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That sounds like some criticisms I've seen of the Wachowskis' _Jupiter Ascending_. And on the one hand yeah, it's self-indulgent, but why is that a bad thing? It was a gorgeous movie.
That's the decoy we pay attention to while the little ship loaded with carcinogens, a chronopathic idiot, and a Class 3 etiologic interference psionic do the real damage.
An interstellar visitor who disguises their spaceship as (checks notes...) a comet visible from half a billion miles away, which then shows obvious - yet oddly primitive - technosignatures to everyone watching it.
Makes perfect sense
Makes perfect sense
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That's the decoy we pay attention to while the little ship loaded with carcinogens, a chronopathic idiot, and a Class 3 etiologic interference psionic do the real damage.
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
That's why we should be really, really picky about Senators and Representatives. How many current and former US Senators are there--maybe a thousand? That's less than one in 100,000 voters, so near-perfection in ethics should be the expectation.
Seriously, the one idea we need to bend society towards for the back half of the 21st Century is “The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.”
It's not normal for a professor to start a class discussing how they "regret" being best buddies with a child sex trafficker and asking them for advice on how to abuse their position to coerce sex from former students.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
That's why we should be really, really picky about Senators and Representatives. How many current and former US Senators are there--maybe a thousand? That's less than one in 100,000 voters, so near-perfection in ethics should be the expectation.
Another example of what Ian Hartshorn wrote about the other day. bsky.app/profile/ianm...
Robert George has resigned from the Heritage board of trustees.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Another example of what Ian Hartshorn wrote about the other day. bsky.app/profile/ianm...
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
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100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.
@scalzi.com you say this? bc it’s the best - and your the best but people should know it’s you for realz.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.
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The players opening up about this have to play their games in stadiums plastered with the logos of these casinos, and the broadcasts of those games are packed with ads for the same casinos. A colossal betrayal and failure from the league
Jesus Christ.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The players opening up about this have to play their games in stadiums plastered with the logos of these casinos, and the broadcasts of those games are packed with ads for the same casinos. A colossal betrayal and failure from the league
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every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-b...
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
Tesla bull Dan Ives: It's the 'most important chapter ever for Tesla'
With Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $1 trillion dollar pay package behind it, bulls like Wedbush's Dan Ives believe the automaker's AI future is where investors should be looking.
finance.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-b...
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.