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This whole thread. And absolutely this.

Photo of a social media post which reads Toby Young & @toadmeister Follow Walking sticks are taking off among teenage girls, and Mary Gilleece spies a social contagion taking hold. They're getting diagnosed with POTS - which, naturally, leaves them in need of lots of attention and support. POTS: Underneath there’s a photo of a woman wearing a blue shirt and holding a walking stick

POTS is not a social contagion.

It’s a devastating chronic illness that is often under diagnosed or misdiagnosed.

The increase in cases is an inevitable consequence of letting covid spread unchecked for years.

Mocking patients for using accessibility devices is wrong. This is hardcore ableism

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in hindsight we probably should have seen this was a trap, but everything was so new and we were still just kids

Since the dawn of information technology - literally the Gutenberg era - tech entrepreneurs have been trying to convince people that their new way of delivering information would be killed if they had to actually pay for the information they were making money delivering. This story is 400 years old.

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We Taste-Tested These Gruels Because We’ll All Be Feudal Serfs Soon

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David Lynch, 2 panels. first: one day, the sadness will end. second: but I don't think today is the day.

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Sticker for May Day parade starting at Ferry and Russell in Detroit, with a drawing of a big tank labeled "Ford" firing multiple cannons at picketing workers. Printed by the United Front May Day Committee.

Sticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

Strong relate — the parenting pressure is on when they’ve got all the privilege cards. It could go SO wrong

Eight year old: Who is the pope?

Me: Begins to explain…

Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”

RFK Jr blames diet, lifestyle & vaccines for chronic illness.

Dr Oz says it’s a “patriotic duty” to lead a healthy life & be fit enough to serve in the military.

Neither of them are pushing for Universal Healthcare, basic income, an end to food deserts & inequality, clean water etc.

It’s eugenics

My take: we need better language to differentiate bt different uses of AI/LLMs. “Generative AI” is somewhat helpful but I don’t think we’re there with it. I don’t want LLMs writing my books or creating my art. I DO want AI using huge healthcare datasets to figure out how to diagnose cancer earlier

A white woman wearing a black t-shirt with the Peanuts character Peppermint Patty smiling and raising one fist in the air next to the word “SIR” in white capital letters

New shirt, best shirt (from Wildfang)

Art.

NOPE

Black and brown authors, it’s time! Send me your manuscripts! PitchFest is opennnn!!!

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Reminded 14yo 3x that today is much cooler than recent days. When Ian got home from drop off, he reported, "Well, he forgot his sweatshirt. I had to give him the hoodie off my back"

Like you would strip cloth diapers (maybe this is too deep a reference lol): wash without soap repeatedly until there are no suds when the load agitates

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A StoryGraph monthly wrap up cover collage titled ‘@amandabcook’s March 2025 reads’ with the covers of the following books: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson, The New Life by Tom Crowe, A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, Erasure by Percival Everett, Fun Home by Allison Bechdel, Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

March books! This doesn’t seem like *that* many unless you know how long those Stormlight books are 😅 I actually loved all of these.📚🌈

wishing I hadn’t given a ton away when my kids were little and I couldn’t imagine ever singing again

Four blue and green file holders labeled “Choral Scores A–G, H–M, N–Z,” and “Vocal Solos and Practice” next to a binder labeled “Solo Repertoire.” They’re filled with musical scores, the most visible of which is a chunk orange one reading HANDEL

It only took me til age 40 to properly organize my choral music scores

After school today I overheard a small child call another “Steel Pants” with such a smug look on his face, so proud of this sick burn

a pill that makes you able to take the other pills correctly that make your mind work

Photo of four finished knitted squares laid out to shoe how they will form a blanket when joined together. Each square has a star motif reminiscent of a quilt, the stars are reds, oranges, yellows, and greens, respectively.

Stella quilt blanket is coming along 🤩 #stellaquiltblanket #knitting

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”