Minestrone Monster
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"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral." — Edward Said.
I'm thinking about this quote a lot. How many of us have given up because something is too hard? How has that created a less just world? Are we ok with this immorality?
I'm thinking about this quote a lot. How many of us have given up because something is too hard? How has that created a less just world? Are we ok with this immorality?
Me and my friends would kill it with hammers, I'll tell you that much
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Me and my friends would kill it with hammers, I'll tell you that much
Who wants to start an all women punk band with me. We'll call ourselves 'The Agonies'
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Who wants to start an all women punk band with me. We'll call ourselves 'The Agonies'
we've been at this level of overstimulation for a decade at least, probably almost two decades. I wonder if something else happened to cause this
"Memory Lapses in Your 30s? The Brain Fog Epidemic Linked To Overstimulation"
Dr Kumar concluded, "Memory lapses in your 30s aren't a personal failing; they're a modern epidemic. When your brain is constantly 'on,' it forgets how to slow down and store information."
Source: archive.md/WuKux
Dr Kumar concluded, "Memory lapses in your 30s aren't a personal failing; they're a modern epidemic. When your brain is constantly 'on,' it forgets how to slow down and store information."
Source: archive.md/WuKux
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
we've been at this level of overstimulation for a decade at least, probably almost two decades. I wonder if something else happened to cause this
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"I can excuse transphobic abuse of a child, but I draw the line at damaging private property".
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"I can excuse transphobic abuse of a child, but I draw the line at damaging private property".
Started listening to R.F. Huangs 'Katabasis' and it's unbearably bad. It is so bad. It's so annoying it kept me awake last night.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Started listening to R.F. Huangs 'Katabasis' and it's unbearably bad. It is so bad. It's so annoying it kept me awake last night.
It's a rough lesson to learn for most of us but if someone is monstrous to some people they are likely to be monstrous towards you, too.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's a rough lesson to learn for most of us but if someone is monstrous to some people they are likely to be monstrous towards you, too.
Hit with waves of grief this morning. Accumulated losses in my personal life plus becoming chronically ill and cut out of society (because I cannot mix indoors, or have a partner who does) has made me feel like I've died.
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hit with waves of grief this morning. Accumulated losses in my personal life plus becoming chronically ill and cut out of society (because I cannot mix indoors, or have a partner who does) has made me feel like I've died.
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
Like I genuinely feel like I died, and nobody noticed. #NEISVOID
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
This is a good thread and I'd add that as a woman, if you aren't being listened to it's worth your time to say "I want to get pregnant" or "my husband is unhappy with our sex life"
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
Found my doctors appointments got less frustrating once I started going in like “I really want to play badminton again 😢 but I can’t even push a cart around the grocery store 😢 and I’ve hit a wall where no matter what I do I can’t seem to increase my exercise capacity 😢 and it makes it hard to work”
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a good thread and I'd add that as a woman, if you aren't being listened to it's worth your time to say "I want to get pregnant" or "my husband is unhappy with our sex life"
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
I got ignored for 9 years but as soon as a theoretical baby was in the mix things started moving
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Zohran, looking at FDR portrait: You know he defeated your guy
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Zohran, looking at FDR portrait: You know he defeated your guy
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
Trump: What?
Zohran: Oh nothing
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Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
civil service really doing everything it can to destroy morale and make people quit lol
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
civil service really doing everything it can to destroy morale and make people quit lol
I have a hunch that people forced to use a chatbot feel devalued as a result.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I have a hunch that people forced to use a chatbot feel devalued as a result.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
The medium is the message, and the message is: we don't think you warrant the cost of of having a person help you.
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Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are?
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are?
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people.
Created with @longcovidjustice.org
longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people
The 1918 flu pandemic set the stage for survivor-bias, which then set the stage for the mainstreaming of eugenics. The nazis started with the disabled, used disability framing to move onto queer people, and eventually widened the net to all 'useless eaters' and 'undesirables'.
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The 1918 flu pandemic set the stage for survivor-bias, which then set the stage for the mainstreaming of eugenics. The nazis started with the disabled, used disability framing to move onto queer people, and eventually widened the net to all 'useless eaters' and 'undesirables'.
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I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.
to me the truly disturbing thing about all the epstein shit is not so much who it comes out was part of it. it's that it is essentially something that shouldn't, conventional (among progressives too!) wisdom suggested, have been possible: an actual secret paedophile ring of the rich and powerful
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I think the key things here are that it wasn't a secret, and that the tolerated norm of powerful men trading access to 18-24 year old women very easily slid into them trading access to children.
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Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Opinion | I believed Hillary Clinton was a sex trafficker because one of her donors owned a pizza restaurant and "cheese pizza" has the same initials as "child pornography." Here's why I don't think Donald Trump's multi-decade best friendship with a sex trafficker connects him to sex trafficking.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
heart breaking that voting for this felt like hope to many people at the time
Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
heart breaking that voting for this felt like hope to many people at the time
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We are donating to Children in Need, being moved by "Threads of Hope", while the people who had promised to fix asylum routes are instead out-nastying Reform, making sure refugee children can have no security in their lives here, ever.
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are donating to Children in Need, being moved by "Threads of Hope", while the people who had promised to fix asylum routes are instead out-nastying Reform, making sure refugee children can have no security in their lives here, ever.
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#PerfornativeCruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.”
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.”
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.
When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️