Minestrone Monster
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"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral." — Edward Said.
I'm thinking about this quote a lot. How many of us have given up because something is too hard? How has that created a less just world? Are we ok with this immorality?
I'm thinking about this quote a lot. How many of us have given up because something is too hard? How has that created a less just world? Are we ok with this immorality?
Hit with waves of grief this morning. Accumulated losses in my personal life plus becoming chronically ill and cut out of society (because I cannot mix indoors, or have a partner who does) has made me feel like I've died.
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hit with waves of grief this morning. Accumulated losses in my personal life plus becoming chronically ill and cut out of society (because I cannot mix indoors, or have a partner who does) has made me feel like I've died.
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
This is a good thread and I'd add that as a woman, if you aren't being listened to it's worth your time to say "I want to get pregnant" or "my husband is unhappy with our sex life"
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
Found my doctors appointments got less frustrating once I started going in like “I really want to play badminton again 😢 but I can’t even push a cart around the grocery store 😢 and I’ve hit a wall where no matter what I do I can’t seem to increase my exercise capacity 😢 and it makes it hard to work”
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a good thread and I'd add that as a woman, if you aren't being listened to it's worth your time to say "I want to get pregnant" or "my husband is unhappy with our sex life"
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
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Zohran, looking at FDR portrait: You know he defeated your guy
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Zohran, looking at FDR portrait: You know he defeated your guy
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
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Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
civil service really doing everything it can to destroy morale and make people quit lol
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
civil service really doing everything it can to destroy morale and make people quit lol
I have a hunch that people forced to use a chatbot feel devalued as a result.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I have a hunch that people forced to use a chatbot feel devalued as a result.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
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Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are?
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are?
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
The 1918 flu pandemic set the stage for survivor-bias, which then set the stage for the mainstreaming of eugenics. The nazis started with the disabled, used disability framing to move onto queer people, and eventually widened the net to all 'useless eaters' and 'undesirables'.
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The 1918 flu pandemic set the stage for survivor-bias, which then set the stage for the mainstreaming of eugenics. The nazis started with the disabled, used disability framing to move onto queer people, and eventually widened the net to all 'useless eaters' and 'undesirables'.
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I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.
to me the truly disturbing thing about all the epstein shit is not so much who it comes out was part of it. it's that it is essentially something that shouldn't, conventional (among progressives too!) wisdom suggested, have been possible: an actual secret paedophile ring of the rich and powerful
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.
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Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
heart breaking that voting for this felt like hope to many people at the time
Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
heart breaking that voting for this felt like hope to many people at the time
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We are donating to Children in Need, being moved by "Threads of Hope", while the people who had promised to fix asylum routes are instead out-nastying Reform, making sure refugee children can have no security in their lives here, ever.
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are donating to Children in Need, being moved by "Threads of Hope", while the people who had promised to fix asylum routes are instead out-nastying Reform, making sure refugee children can have no security in their lives here, ever.
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.”
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.”
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
This is devastating.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is devastating.
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Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Put something on github and can confidently say that many people do not know how conduct themselves professionally on the internet
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Put something on github and can confidently say that many people do not know how conduct themselves professionally on the internet