The Decline
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Meet The Decline"
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"Fellow members
Club “We've got ours”
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his and I've got mine
Meet The Decline"
Elbows way up!
BRB gotta brush my teeth and put on clean underwear so I can be safe from tetanus as I prepare to walk over this pile of rusty nails
Hi BBC,
Thank you for this article on the spread of the flu in UK schools. But could you change the image illustrating it? The flu is a virus that is mainly airborne. Vaccination, masks and good ventilation are the most effective means of prevention.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thank you for this article on the spread of the flu in UK schools. But could you change the image illustrating it? The flu is a virus that is mainly airborne. Vaccination, masks and good ventilation are the most effective means of prevention.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Some schools disrupted amid rise in flu cases
Flu is on the rise, but ministers say schools should only close in extreme circumstances.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
BRB gotta brush my teeth and put on clean underwear so I can be safe from tetanus as I prepare to walk over this pile of rusty nails
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They are not “skeptics,” they are extremist science deniers who think that some children deserve to die
US health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concerns raised by vaccine skeptics, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants | CNN
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
They are not “skeptics,” they are extremist science deniers who think that some children deserve to die
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Trump is their Franco; wrecking the economy, selling out his people to foreign fascists, a stumbling demented manchild supported by the rich and the theist fanatics and the ignorant.
Young Republicans are looking for Trump to “be their Franco” but don’t you dare call them fascists.
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trump is their Franco; wrecking the economy, selling out his people to foreign fascists, a stumbling demented manchild supported by the rich and the theist fanatics and the ignorant.
No one hates capitalism more than those people. They always whine and whine about it, but they're addicted to the idea that it's nothing like what it is: the maximum extraction of money out of their pockets into the vaults of wealthy overlords.
Brooke Rollins: "This weekend you signed an executive order on looking into the reason that so much of these costs have been driven up over and over. Equipment, fertilizer, seed, etc. Why have to understand why that is."
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
No one hates capitalism more than those people. They always whine and whine about it, but they're addicted to the idea that it's nothing like what it is: the maximum extraction of money out of their pockets into the vaults of wealthy overlords.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Elon Musk shares the Russian govt’s goals in Europe, and uses his platform to advance them, with Musk’s motive anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Elon Musk shares the Russian govt’s goals in Europe, and uses his platform to advance them, with Musk’s motive anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.
All of human history is a testament to the fact that none of this is exclusive to modern tech bros. They just happen to now be the richest people around.
People have to stop making the mistake that "if we could only stop this group of awful people things would be fine".
No, this is in all of us.
People have to stop making the mistake that "if we could only stop this group of awful people things would be fine".
No, this is in all of us.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
All of human history is a testament to the fact that none of this is exclusive to modern tech bros. They just happen to now be the richest people around.
People have to stop making the mistake that "if we could only stop this group of awful people things would be fine".
No, this is in all of us.
People have to stop making the mistake that "if we could only stop this group of awful people things would be fine".
No, this is in all of us.
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Well, they've already been plain about wanting a slave class and private countries, so this is hardly surprising.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Well, they've already been plain about wanting a slave class and private countries, so this is hardly surprising.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible
As is true in about 99% of cases where AI is dunked on, it's people who are wrong here, not the AI.
The AI is just a tool, it just does what it's told. It's people that suck.
Humans have been perfecting enshittification and soul-sucking nonsense for thousands of generations. We are masters at it.
The AI is just a tool, it just does what it's told. It's people that suck.
Humans have been perfecting enshittification and soul-sucking nonsense for thousands of generations. We are masters at it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As is true in about 99% of cases where AI is dunked on, it's people who are wrong here, not the AI.
The AI is just a tool, it just does what it's told. It's people that suck.
Humans have been perfecting enshittification and soul-sucking nonsense for thousands of generations. We are masters at it.
The AI is just a tool, it just does what it's told. It's people that suck.
Humans have been perfecting enshittification and soul-sucking nonsense for thousands of generations. We are masters at it.
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The president of the United States tweets — on the daily — the most incoherent, random, chaotic, batshit things and because it’s so often, it just doesn’t get covered at all. Its so bad
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The president of the United States tweets — on the daily — the most incoherent, random, chaotic, batshit things and because it’s so often, it just doesn’t get covered at all. Its so bad
Institutional cowardice and failure, as subservient to power as in aristocratic systems, is one of the biggest story of our time and almost never talked about with proper scope and urgency.
Institutions don't serve the public, the people. They serve themselves and work for the rich.
Institutions don't serve the public, the people. They serve themselves and work for the rich.
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Institutional cowardice and failure, as subservient to power as in aristocratic systems, is one of the biggest story of our time and almost never talked about with proper scope and urgency.
Institutions don't serve the public, the people. They serve themselves and work for the rich.
Institutions don't serve the public, the people. They serve themselves and work for the rich.
Once you notice that the way we say things matters far more than its substance, you can't stop seeing it everywhere.
It's probably more important in a clinical consult than anywhere else, because of the consequences, but if it's true there, and it 100% is, then it's true everywhere.
It's probably more important in a clinical consult than anywhere else, because of the consequences, but if it's true there, and it 100% is, then it's true everywhere.
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 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Once you notice that the way we say things matters far more than its substance, you can't stop seeing it everywhere.
It's probably more important in a clinical consult than anywhere else, because of the consequences, but if it's true there, and it 100% is, then it's true everywhere.
It's probably more important in a clinical consult than anywhere else, because of the consequences, but if it's true there, and it 100% is, then it's true everywhere.
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But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
As if this hasn't been everywhere for all of history.
Humans bullshit all the time. Bullshit works. It's everywhere. Literally nothing escapes it. Every part of the human experience is sullied by mountains of human bullshit.
As if we can solve AI bullshit without solving human bullshit.
Humans bullshit all the time. Bullshit works. It's everywhere. Literally nothing escapes it. Every part of the human experience is sullied by mountains of human bullshit.
As if we can solve AI bullshit without solving human bullshit.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As if this hasn't been everywhere for all of history.
Humans bullshit all the time. Bullshit works. It's everywhere. Literally nothing escapes it. Every part of the human experience is sullied by mountains of human bullshit.
As if we can solve AI bullshit without solving human bullshit.
Humans bullshit all the time. Bullshit works. It's everywhere. Literally nothing escapes it. Every part of the human experience is sullied by mountains of human bullshit.
As if we can solve AI bullshit without solving human bullshit.
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It’s just generally funny that people dismissed past influence ops as obviously inconsequential and years later most of the website is influence ops
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It’s just generally funny that people dismissed past influence ops as obviously inconsequential and years later most of the website is influence ops
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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They like him and want to help him
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
They like him and want to help him
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And yet the global response was all about doing less and less because somewhere else was already doing less. It was a race to where we are now.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And yet the global response was all about doing less and less because somewhere else was already doing less. It was a race to where we are now.
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All public health officials and infectious disease experts who advocated for “you do you” and “be kind” and refused to listen to experts in adjacent fields like physics, engineering and industrial hygiene:
This is on you.
You fed the anti-science monster. Now it has taken over.
This is on you.
You fed the anti-science monster. Now it has taken over.
Disinformation escalation by RFK:
The CDC has now "repudiated its past insistence that vaccines do not cause autism after decades of fighting misinformation linking the two, blindsiding career staff and delighting anti-vaccine activists."
What to know:
1/6
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The CDC has now "repudiated its past insistence that vaccines do not cause autism after decades of fighting misinformation linking the two, blindsiding career staff and delighting anti-vaccine activists."
What to know:
1/6
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., CDC promotes false vaccines-autism link it once discredited
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
All public health officials and infectious disease experts who advocated for “you do you” and “be kind” and refused to listen to experts in adjacent fields like physics, engineering and industrial hygiene:
This is on you.
You fed the anti-science monster. Now it has taken over.
This is on you.
You fed the anti-science monster. Now it has taken over.
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A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.
Late-stage MAGA means accepting that things will never be great again
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.
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The man with the nuclear codes. Could more or less end the world in a few minutes. No checks on his power in that area.
The “piggy” comment is really disturbing.
Yes it is bullying and just mean and disrespectful.
But it’s probably also indicative of a continuing loss of inhibitory control. And that’s a sign of cognitive decline.
Yes it is bullying and just mean and disrespectful.
But it’s probably also indicative of a continuing loss of inhibitory control. And that’s a sign of cognitive decline.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The man with the nuclear codes. Could more or less end the world in a few minutes. No checks on his power in that area.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one