This is the fist bump everyone needs to be talking about.
Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans celebrating after blocking a bill to help toxin-exposed veterans survive.
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I’ve been thinking about the checkers/fascism analogy—yesterday made a comment that I think is incredibly on point, so here’s how it goes.
Imagine we have a yearly prestigious checkers tournament, Checkers International.
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That moment when you're reminded that someone you follow is an author, and you Google them, and they've written a book that sounds both quirky and bad-ass, and you go "I'd read that", and you buy it.
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It’s hard enough to keep myself from punking out on the page, and I have to fight uphill against all sorts of pressures to dumb books down, to pander, to sell instead of being honest. I keep going—and fighting—because I think it’s important.
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Twitter really should let you select a word, right-click, and mute it, then and there.
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There is no theory of corporate action in which, "If you object to a company's practices, you should remain silent and take your business elsewhere" is a valid response.
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Same.
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I am a middle-aged white man and I can’t get published! I don’t think the fact that I haven’t written anything should stand in my way, but here we are.
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Last of all, I just want to reemphasize that this is NEITHER
-A Gay Disease
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-A Climate Change Disease.
I've been seeing a lot of climate doomerism about monkeypox and frankly that's just as stupid and misleading as the homophobia. Cut it the fuck out.
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Some monkeypox context, bc we need that I guess.
Full disclosure: I'm not a human doctor. I'm a doctor for crops.
So this comes from the POV of agricultural epidemiology: how diseases hang out in the landscape & sometimes run into people & the plants/animals we hang out with.
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I've taken a look at the bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act and have reached the following sophisticated and nuanced conclusion:
We're complete idiots if we don't pass this thing.
Here's why:
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I honestly do not understand why you think we’re not? twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/s
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Searching for something else, I thought for a moment I'd found a pre-order page for 's next, but no.
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TERFs? "This is *terrible*, ugh!"
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The GOP? "This is *terrible*, ugh!"
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NFTs / web3? "This is *terrible*, ugh!"
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. saying "This is *terrible*, ugh!" is my new favorite reaction video to post in response to terrible things.
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And now the moment you've all been waiting for and/or fearing was inevitable: the taste test.
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Today I was tutted at when parking in a disabled space. I had all these tubes hidden under my clothes, so I looked like a young, healthy person. But in reality, I still have a disability, despite choosing to hide my tubes. Friendly reminder that most disabilities are invisible!
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Join me in following this newsletter? 👀 Illuminations
Enjoy this thread. DO avail yourself of the "alt" text on the images.
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There are many techniques to help you relax when going to the toilet. Some people imagine the sound of running water. Others visualise a waterfall.
Or you can try listening to the gentle screeching as hundreds of tons of ship takes an unscheduled beach vacation.
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A great thread on why the BMI, and especially how it's used, is horseshit on a truly surprising number of axes.
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A reminder: the BMI categorizing straight size people* as fat isn't what's wrong with the BMI.
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* straight size = not plus size/smaller than plus size
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On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.
As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵
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we are right on track
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Amazon said it had reached a $3.9 billion deal to acquire One Medical, a network of primary care clinics. The move is a big step in its plans to become a major player in health care. nyti.ms/3ISWti5
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Yay! Thank you very much everyone, for your help! I;m going to collapse now, but tomorrow I will begin setting up for submissions to open this weekend!
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There are 2.5 hours to go and $1500 left to raise. WE CAN DO IT!
Also, the stories we got in so far are so, so good.
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I Hate It When I delete a row manually out of a sqlite database and the "on delete cascade" in another table doesn't work and I spend several minutes (re)learning that foreign key support is not enabled by default. 🤦♂️
god: i have made Mankind
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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