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Ashwin Rodrigues

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3d

I might be biased, but this seems like reasonable advice. I have not been approved by the FDA to treat or prevent disease

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

www.nytimes.com

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 22m

it's incredible to think about how people experienced joy before the dawn of the third party vendor payment portal

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 58m

it's like inviting a dog on the show every time you cover vacuums. it's only entertaining to very sick people

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 59m

there were another few thousand words I could've included in this piece.

this reader comment touches on one: just because something is healthy in food doesn't mean taking a macro dose in supplement form will be extra good. I say that as someone who grew up eating food from There

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

it is *insane* that anyone takes this guy seriously. he always sounds like an idiot

2018 Wall Street Journal headline, by Andy Ngo:

A Visit to Islamic England
Muslims headed to Friday prayer while non-Muslims went the other way. No one made eye contact.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

exactly bsky.app/profile/rinb...

stu (halloween variant forthcoming) @rinbcage.bsky.social · 2h

I asked chat gpt to make some shitty looking crap that sucks

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

that's crazy. but does he think it's sick? it's hard to tell

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

"You're a dark, sick person, man, you know that? ... Some of you [reporters] are so sick and dark—and you're the leader of that. ... Your personal sick vendetta and the sickness of how you think, of oversexualizing a Black man ... that's typical of the sickness and the darkness of your sick mind."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

Jeff Foxworthy opening for Peter Thiel lecture with new "You might be the dadgum Antichrist" bit

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

that's different. those are just crunchy granola moms willing to serve their children lead soup

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1h

imagine all the popular food critics started chewing on car batteries, then all the TikTok food influencers started chewing on car batteries, and then restaurants began catering to "car battery palate." and if you complained that the food tasted like car batteries, they said you just don't get it

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3h

Spiritually he is

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3h

When someone tells you they're a gamer, believe them.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 15h

what's so upsetting to me is that the people pushing these 'supplements' neither know nor care about the serious (and in some cases, irreversible or even fatal) harm they caused by preying on others's suffering and quest for relief

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

www.nytimes.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 3h

Man who amassed a fortune on a company that accelerates senility and empowers child predators, lecturing product managers who believe they're God because they understand what engineers are saying sometimes: So obviously, Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist,

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

Top notch safeguards I see

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 6h

very interesting that the Trump admin remix to the citizenship interview questions includes “why can the president only serve two terms”

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 8h

There’s a Difference Between An Open Mind and a Malleable, Politically Useful Dimwit vs. Haha I Just Sold My Blog for $150 Million

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

many ppl are saying - have you heard this yet? it’s true - many people are saying that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. it’s true. you’re hearing it more and more.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

This is a land of wolves now? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re just now telling me for the first time. The rule of law lived an amazing life. What can you even say?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

New York Times physical paper showing “today’s top trending headlines”

Charles Barkley with text “we are going to start a dialogue”

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

I agree with you, in an Indian American way

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

the conversation touched on heritage. just really funny to see in the summary

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