Thimbleberry
@robber-fly.bsky.social
I don’t consent to your infection.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
And they said bari Weiss couldn’t push cbsnews into new formats and find new audiences
It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
And they said bari Weiss couldn’t push cbsnews into new formats and find new audiences
Reposted by Thimbleberry
lots of takeaways from the 60 Minutes debacle, but here's one: support investigative journalism, public media and human rights NGOs! with one week left in the year, give now as much as you can, b/c independent voices are more important than ever.
December 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
lots of takeaways from the 60 Minutes debacle, but here's one: support investigative journalism, public media and human rights NGOs! with one week left in the year, give now as much as you can, b/c independent voices are more important than ever.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
i hate waymo i hate genAI i hate 90% of the things people keep “inventing” and trying to force me to use
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
i hate waymo i hate genAI i hate 90% of the things people keep “inventing” and trying to force me to use
Reposted by Thimbleberry
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
Reposted by Thimbleberry
It's never "AI tools can be misused but can also help you in these specific ways," it's "if you don't get onboard you will be left behind and shunned"
No hype. No hope. Just fear
No hype. No hope. Just fear
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It's never "AI tools can be misused but can also help you in these specific ways," it's "if you don't get onboard you will be left behind and shunned"
No hype. No hope. Just fear
No hype. No hope. Just fear
Reposted by Thimbleberry
“But that praise usually masks the reality that we’re absorbing stress the system refuses to hold. We become the buffer, the translator, the proof of concept, the person who makes things work without ever being asked what it costs us.” open.substack.com/pub/blckgirl...
I Don’t Want a Seat at Every Table That Costs Me My Nervous System
On Discernment, Power, and What Access Is Actually Asking of Us
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“But that praise usually masks the reality that we’re absorbing stress the system refuses to hold. We become the buffer, the translator, the proof of concept, the person who makes things work without ever being asked what it costs us.” open.substack.com/pub/blckgirl...
Reposted by Thimbleberry
Santa checked his list twice and Starbucks is on the naughty list for ignoring workers and union busting.
This holiday season, unite with workers – don’t buy Starbucks gift cards while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
https://solidaritywithbaristas.org/
This holiday season, unite with workers – don’t buy Starbucks gift cards while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
https://solidaritywithbaristas.org/
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Santa checked his list twice and Starbucks is on the naughty list for ignoring workers and union busting.
This holiday season, unite with workers – don’t buy Starbucks gift cards while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
https://solidaritywithbaristas.org/
This holiday season, unite with workers – don’t buy Starbucks gift cards while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
https://solidaritywithbaristas.org/
Reposted by Thimbleberry
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Reposted by Thimbleberry
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
Reposted by Thimbleberry
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
The New York Times reported today that couples who are losing their Obamacare subsidies are considering getting divorced because their incomes disqualify them only when combined.
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The New York Times reported today that couples who are losing their Obamacare subsidies are considering getting divorced because their incomes disqualify them only when combined.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
This would not have passed if those chickenshit Dems Davis, Cellar, and Gonzalez had not voted for it. They voted to put the parents of trans youth in prison for ten years.
Primary them all.
Primary them all.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This would not have passed if those chickenshit Dems Davis, Cellar, and Gonzalez had not voted for it. They voted to put the parents of trans youth in prison for ten years.
Primary them all.
Primary them all.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "What I'd like to see from the president is empathy for Americans. Donald Trump is a billionaire and he's the president. When he looks into a camera and says 'affordability is a hoax,' he's talking to Americans that are suffering and have been for many years now."
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.
Stochastic culling
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans. n.pr/4q9lB8z
How the long-running Obamacare fight came to thwart enhanced subsidies in Congress
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
n.pr
December 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Stochastic culling
Reposted by Thimbleberry
I’m not saying road designers SHOULD get charged when someone is inevitably killed on their road built only for vehicle speed
I’m saying what would roads look like if that WAS the case, and why don’t we just design them like that
I’m saying what would roads look like if that WAS the case, and why don’t we just design them like that
A 5-lane road with no marked crossings and bus stops on both sides is just a recipe for transit users getting killed.
This is criminally bad design, and yet it's the standard practice across much of the US.
This is criminally bad design, and yet it's the standard practice across much of the US.
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m not saying road designers SHOULD get charged when someone is inevitably killed on their road built only for vehicle speed
I’m saying what would roads look like if that WAS the case, and why don’t we just design them like that
I’m saying what would roads look like if that WAS the case, and why don’t we just design them like that
Same shit as in primary care and emergency rooms. The professionalism and dedication of healthcare providers is being cynically exploited for profit. 1/
"I’m a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis. It has never been more challenging to do my job safely." www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/p...
I'm a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis
“There is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind,” and that makes it harder to catch potential problems, a pharmacist warns.
www.statnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Same shit as in primary care and emergency rooms. The professionalism and dedication of healthcare providers is being cynically exploited for profit. 1/
Reposted by Thimbleberry
The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
Stories for the masses
The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
Reposted by Thimbleberry
Because Trump's baseline is unhinged hatemonger, major news outlets have simply decided to grade him on a curve where only the most egregious comments, or the ones, as Mark notes, that ruffle Republican feathers get major coverage.
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Because Trump's baseline is unhinged hatemonger, major news outlets have simply decided to grade him on a curve where only the most egregious comments, or the ones, as Mark notes, that ruffle Republican feathers get major coverage.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
‘Moonlight’ (2016) is now available to watch for free (with ads) on YouTube.
🔔: It is also streaming on Tubi.
🔗: (youtu.be/uA_IFEPoCrk?...)
🔔: It is also streaming on Tubi.
🔗: (youtu.be/uA_IFEPoCrk?...)
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
‘Moonlight’ (2016) is now available to watch for free (with ads) on YouTube.
🔔: It is also streaming on Tubi.
🔗: (youtu.be/uA_IFEPoCrk?...)
🔔: It is also streaming on Tubi.
🔗: (youtu.be/uA_IFEPoCrk?...)
Reposted by Thimbleberry
The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were murdered. This is how Trump decided to respond.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
Same in the US.
With influenza surging in the UK and Ireland, the fact is that the culture war nonsense surrounding masks combined with the lack of airborne mitigations in hospitals (itself a result of the political and social erasure of Covid) will lead to deaths that could have been avoided.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Same in the US.
Reposted by Thimbleberry
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
Reposted by Thimbleberry
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Reposted by Thimbleberry
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.