mcboingboing
@mcboingboing.bsky.social
Mid-Mod mom, editor, nit-picker, N95 wearer. #COVIDIsAirborne {she/her}
Free, universal healthcare is a vital part of infrastructure.
📍New Orleans
Free, universal healthcare is a vital part of infrastructure.
📍New Orleans
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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
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i emptied my 401k yesterday so that i have enough liquid to continue to pay rent for the next like… year.
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
reminder: i am currently in crushing debt due to not being paid/employed for a year and a half (and losing all of my belongings in a flood my insurance refused to cover)
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
Vidal Dax
i am a succubus what feeds off the sadness of men
bento.me
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i emptied my 401k yesterday so that i have enough liquid to continue to pay rent for the next like… year.
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
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A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
www.zmescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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I educated my mom about targeted ads today and it was like I'd just told her the true name of God.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I educated my mom about targeted ads today and it was like I'd just told her the true name of God.
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"I cataloged hundreds of night raids by one of the four Zero Unit squads, which was known in Afghanistan as 02 unit, eventually identifying at least 452 civilians killed in its raids over four years."
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"I cataloged hundreds of night raids by one of the four Zero Unit squads, which was known in Afghanistan as 02 unit, eventually identifying at least 452 civilians killed in its raids over four years."
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2022 ProPublica report on CIA-trained "Zero Units" in Afghanistan, a former member of which shot two National Guard troops in DC yesterday
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
2022 ProPublica report on CIA-trained "Zero Units" in Afghanistan, a former member of which shot two National Guard troops in DC yesterday
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
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Scores of community members confronted federal goons and St. Paul police for hours Tuesday morning as federal agents arrested at least one person at a home in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood. At least three protestors, one of whom was injured by law enforcement officers, were also detained.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Scores of community members confronted federal goons and St. Paul police for hours Tuesday morning as federal agents arrested at least one person at a home in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood. At least three protestors, one of whom was injured by law enforcement officers, were also detained.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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It’s not that I think everything is about COVID, but COVID keeps getting ignored — even though it’s still a major health issue in an ongoing pandemic.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
It’s not that I think everything is about COVID, but COVID keeps getting ignored — even though it’s still a major health issue in an ongoing pandemic.
#Tradle #1362 3/6
First guess was WAY off, but I got there eventually.
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First guess was WAY off, but I got there eventually.
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Tradle | OEC Games | The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Became an instant classic, guess the country based on an export distribution | Have fun with OEC Data
oec.world
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#Tradle #1362 3/6
First guess was WAY off, but I got there eventually.
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oec.world/en/games/tra...
First guess was WAY off, but I got there eventually.
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I did a visible mending thing to calm my brain (doggo is unwell) and maybe I'll put it online, but those silly ribbons they put in jumpers to hold them on hangers that I always clip off and hoard are actually useful.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I did a visible mending thing to calm my brain (doggo is unwell) and maybe I'll put it online, but those silly ribbons they put in jumpers to hold them on hangers that I always clip off and hoard are actually useful.
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Join @therhancock19.bsky.social, @nolachick.bsky.social and I for the annual Xmas Tweetup and toy drive benefiting the NOWCS. Click the link for the wish list or bring an unwrapped toy to the tweetup.
📆December 7th
🕒3pm
🍸12 Mile Limit
📭500 S. Telemachus
REPOST PLEASE!🎅🏿🎄
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📆December 7th
🕒3pm
🍸12 Mile Limit
📭500 S. Telemachus
REPOST PLEASE!🎅🏿🎄
a.co/hqYL0Q4
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Join @therhancock19.bsky.social, @nolachick.bsky.social and I for the annual Xmas Tweetup and toy drive benefiting the NOWCS. Click the link for the wish list or bring an unwrapped toy to the tweetup.
📆December 7th
🕒3pm
🍸12 Mile Limit
📭500 S. Telemachus
REPOST PLEASE!🎅🏿🎄
a.co/hqYL0Q4
📆December 7th
🕒3pm
🍸12 Mile Limit
📭500 S. Telemachus
REPOST PLEASE!🎅🏿🎄
a.co/hqYL0Q4
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New Orleans folks: Do you hate Facebook but like the Marketplace feature? Want to help beta test something different, better, with actual local humans at the helm? Sign up!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New Orleans folks: Do you hate Facebook but like the Marketplace feature? Want to help beta test something different, better, with actual local humans at the helm? Sign up!
nolapickup.com
nolapickup.com
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
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Farm workers are bent over harvesting bell peppers in Kern County CA. They work rushing to keep up with the pace the tractor sets. When you eat a salad or a fajita remember the hands that harvest this vegetable. #WeFeedYou
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Farm workers are bent over harvesting bell peppers in Kern County CA. They work rushing to keep up with the pace the tractor sets. When you eat a salad or a fajita remember the hands that harvest this vegetable. #WeFeedYou
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Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools