Melissa Stewart

They just have good-faith questions about whether seat belts really save lives

We all know that a defining characteristic of American evangelicalism is its absence from the halls of power.

They sure don’t!

Well we’ve seen that engaging with anti-vaxxers as if they’re “just asking good faith questions” doesn’t work, so I think public shaming is worth a shot.

We should bully people who deny their children life saving medical care, actually.

This, 100%

Yep. Children are viewed as property in this country.

Unfortunately my prescience is limited to the Christian right, but if that somehow becomes lucrative I will loop you in

Children are the most vulnerable members of our society. They aren’t really fully human in the eyes of the law, and as a result, parents can deny their children essential healthcare and basic education, with little or no consequence. Stop prioritizing mom’s feelings over the child’s wellbeing.

They’re bad parents. They’re bad community members. They are actively harming their children, other people’s children, and their larger community.

We as a society have a duty to bully the fuck out of anyone who is straight up anti-vaxx or even entertaining any vaccine delays and shit. These are babies and children being affected. Like what the fuck are we doing not bullying the fuck out of anyone who puts their kid at risk unnecessarily?!

i don't think most anti-vaccine parents are bad parents. we are drowning in medical misinformation. it's really hard! and a lot of these parents are more accurately described as vaccine hesitant than ideologically opposed. they have good faith questions that deserve to be answered with compassion.

They’re bad parents, actually.

Deliberately refusing to provide your child with life-saving preventative healthcare is abuse. They’re bad parents.

I’m all for advocating for mental health resources, but I cannot fathom choosing to focus my advocacy on technology created, controlled, and pushed on us by evil tech billionaires who need to keep our access to **actual** health care tied to our employment through private insurance.

Congratulations!!

LMAO

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

I know how people are relying on these tools. I just don’t think the tools are necessary or inevitable.

As a chronically ill person, I think this is bad, actually!

No I’m not willing to consider “trade offs” that justify the water consumption, air pollution, and art theft.

And I think it’s facially absurd to argue that the technology created and controlled by comically villainous billionaires is ever going to be a net positive for humanity.

It’s one thing to oppose an over-broad law, and another to claim that GenAI’s positive applications outweigh the devastating environmental and human costs.

Yeah people do matter in this discourse. People like the artists having their work stolen matter. And the people in the Black neighborhood in my city being poisoned by data centers also matter!

Say psych right now

Yeah I’m fine with eliminating the positive uses of the suicide-encouraging, art-stealing, environmental-scorching computer, actually.

Technology is an essential part of that.

GenAI is not.

It is genuinely embarrassing how much you go to bat for GAI

Yeah we wouldn’t want to prevent the Kill Yourself Computer™️ from engaging in conversation with people in crisis.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Oh no, not censoring the chatbot. Whatever will people do? Use a search engine to find information with proper sources and context?!?

The Lord of the Rings “I have failed you all” shirt It is a short sleeved button down collared shirt, with a repeating pattern of Sean Bean as Boromir, dying with his sword clutched to his chest. Just rows and rows of dying Boromir.

Is a Borormir Death Shirt appropriate courtroom attire? Asking for a friend.

“This proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man.“ @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app telling it like it is, as always.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.