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The weird decision tree for policy-interested people:
A) It's either too boring that it's not usually worth watching because they're experts being reasonable and process-driven, or
B) It's too distressing to watch because it's a mix of kooks and people with ill intent doing policy that hurts people
A) It's either too boring that it's not usually worth watching because they're experts being reasonable and process-driven, or
B) It's too distressing to watch because it's a mix of kooks and people with ill intent doing policy that hurts people
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The weird decision tree for policy-interested people:
A) It's either too boring that it's not usually worth watching because they're experts being reasonable and process-driven, or
B) It's too distressing to watch because it's a mix of kooks and people with ill intent doing policy that hurts people
A) It's either too boring that it's not usually worth watching because they're experts being reasonable and process-driven, or
B) It's too distressing to watch because it's a mix of kooks and people with ill intent doing policy that hurts people
I'm very taken w/ the phrase "he isn't on the same planet as right"
If he's right (he isn't on the same planet as right but we're pretending) then he's sitting on info that could save the lives of children.
Just, sitting on it. Yah, kids gonna die but he has to prove he's right...
No wait, that's the exact opposite output of sitting on data.
He likes dead kids?
Just, sitting on it. Yah, kids gonna die but he has to prove he's right...
No wait, that's the exact opposite output of sitting on data.
He likes dead kids?
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I'm very taken w/ the phrase "he isn't on the same planet as right"
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
Oh!
Good point. Gotta think more about this one.
Good point. Gotta think more about this one.
there is also the moral element that i think a lot of us who trust in medicine overlook
for so many people illness and disease is a sign of immorality
if youre a good person you dont get sick or if you do get sick you survive it and that worldview informs a lot of anti-medicine stuff
for so many people illness and disease is a sign of immorality
if youre a good person you dont get sick or if you do get sick you survive it and that worldview informs a lot of anti-medicine stuff
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Oh!
Good point. Gotta think more about this one.
Good point. Gotta think more about this one.
What a story!
I never knew
I never knew
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What a story!
I never knew
I never knew
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We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
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Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible.
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible.
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
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Day 1248 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and somehow managed to get a stylist post 2 days running
This lovely cow looks to have had a nice pamper day, great fringe going on and the mud pack was for its feet! 🤗🐮🐮❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
This lovely cow looks to have had a nice pamper day, great fringe going on and the mud pack was for its feet! 🤗🐮🐮❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Day 1248 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and somehow managed to get a stylist post 2 days running
This lovely cow looks to have had a nice pamper day, great fringe going on and the mud pack was for its feet! 🤗🐮🐮❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
This lovely cow looks to have had a nice pamper day, great fringe going on and the mud pack was for its feet! 🤗🐮🐮❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
No no no no oh no
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 7:22 AM
No no no no oh no
This is - something else
At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is - something else
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Thank you for this. A reminder I needed just now.
You’re not beholden to respond to every rando that decides to challenge you on something just b/c they had or are having one bad experience. Some people on this app simply like being argumentative and confrontational for the sake of it (especially twitter/X refugees) and nobody is entertaining that.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thank you for this. A reminder I needed just now.
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Just got passed this.
That's a shark eating a cable at bottom
That's a shark eating a cable at bottom
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just got passed this.
That's a shark eating a cable at bottom
That's a shark eating a cable at bottom
Still chuckling over the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe.
Note that there is also a commercial fishing vessel named the Miss Take that dredges up undersea cables.
(There might also be a Russian vessel that does it on purpose).
Note that there is also a commercial fishing vessel named the Miss Take that dredges up undersea cables.
(There might also be a Russian vessel that does it on purpose).
The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Still chuckling over the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe.
Note that there is also a commercial fishing vessel named the Miss Take that dredges up undersea cables.
(There might also be a Russian vessel that does it on purpose).
Note that there is also a commercial fishing vessel named the Miss Take that dredges up undersea cables.
(There might also be a Russian vessel that does it on purpose).
Endorse! Endorse! Wholeheartedly endorse!
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Endorse! Endorse! Wholeheartedly endorse!
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Power to the one who doesn't want it!
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Power to the one who doesn't want it!
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Could I but ride indefinite,
As doth the meadow-bee,
And visit only where I liked,
And no man visit me,
And flirt all day with buttercups,
And marry whom I may,
And dwell a little everywhere,
Or better, run away
-- Emily Dickinson
#Photography #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #EastCoastKin
As doth the meadow-bee,
And visit only where I liked,
And no man visit me,
And flirt all day with buttercups,
And marry whom I may,
And dwell a little everywhere,
Or better, run away
-- Emily Dickinson
#Photography #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Could I but ride indefinite,
As doth the meadow-bee,
And visit only where I liked,
And no man visit me,
And flirt all day with buttercups,
And marry whom I may,
And dwell a little everywhere,
Or better, run away
-- Emily Dickinson
#Photography #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #EastCoastKin
As doth the meadow-bee,
And visit only where I liked,
And no man visit me,
And flirt all day with buttercups,
And marry whom I may,
And dwell a little everywhere,
Or better, run away
-- Emily Dickinson
#Photography #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #EastCoastKin
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While I'm not wholly on board with the war on Christmas, we do have to deal with its unlawful occupation of November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
While I'm not wholly on board with the war on Christmas, we do have to deal with its unlawful occupation of November.
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Wow. All it took was the Graatest Generation to die off and the Nazis are back out of the woodwork
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wow. All it took was the Graatest Generation to die off and the Nazis are back out of the woodwork
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No way are immigrants 100M. That's HALF OF ADULTS here.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
No way are immigrants 100M. That's HALF OF ADULTS here.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Oops, this is because I follow you. I read the convo out of order. In proper context you're even more obviously correct than I realized.
Leaving my post up for the reference to history professors walking around growling under their breath on Jan 30.
Oops, this is because I follow you. I read the convo out of order. In proper context you're even more obviously correct than I realized.
Leaving my post up for the reference to history professors walking around growling under their breath on Jan 30.
I don't want to disagree when you're right, but in the posted convo they seem to be boxing you into a wrong box.
Of *COURSE* Hitler didn't come out of absolutely nowhere to be appointed in 1933.
But without that appointment (along w/ concomitant violence, lawlessness, & intimidation), no Hitler.
1/
Of *COURSE* Hitler didn't come out of absolutely nowhere to be appointed in 1933.
But without that appointment (along w/ concomitant violence, lawlessness, & intimidation), no Hitler.
1/
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Oops, this is because I follow you. I read the convo out of order. In proper context you're even more obviously correct than I realized.
Leaving my post up for the reference to history professors walking around growling under their breath on Jan 30.
Oops, this is because I follow you. I read the convo out of order. In proper context you're even more obviously correct than I realized.
Leaving my post up for the reference to history professors walking around growling under their breath on Jan 30.
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🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
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If you truly worry we're headed for fascism, then watch the 1969 movie "Z", a barely-veiled retelling of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Lambrakis, made two years after the junta took power. It was on TCM last night, but I saw it as a kid after being in Greece in that time. /1
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If you truly worry we're headed for fascism, then watch the 1969 movie "Z", a barely-veiled retelling of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Lambrakis, made two years after the junta took power. It was on TCM last night, but I saw it as a kid after being in Greece in that time. /1