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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

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 · 6h

nice

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 6h

this is the shit that made chumba wamba. be careful

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 6h

seen this in quite a few places

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 7h

Not to sound like a ninny, but a single canned beverage containing 50 milligrams of THC sounds like something the psychiatrist guy from Batman would want to distribute to the public

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 9h

They want to democratize the cognitive effects of multiple grade 3 concussions. at scale. without writing a single line of code

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

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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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 14h

Applicable www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 14h

his diet also radically changed. I can’t say what it is because I’d sound rude

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16h

If you strike me down, I shall become more dead than you can possibly imagine

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 15h

fully Christian American. grass-fed, beef-finished. 45% tallow. debilitating IBS. be sure to tune in to God's Super Bowl Halftime Show.

jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 15h

I cannot wait to not watch this.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 15h

I made a special folder and I'm not sure exactly what it's nested under exactly but you're not going to use it? go off I guess

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

and that's like, white normies. natural born citizens. if you think people are generally equal and have rights they want to go through your phone and break up whatever book club you belong to. if you think racism is bad they don't think you should have roads or running water. it's a problem

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

the problem is, and i have no idea what to do about it, they mean it. they don't believe you have any rights as the governed save for those they arbitrarily bestow or deny you on any given day. you are an occupied people to them. they have a view on the music you like and who you fuck

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 16h

I'm not saying it—many are saying this, I'm not—but they're saying they often speak like a school shooter with an MBA

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 16h

tech guys love to talk like this now

Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!)

www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Meet the Gen-Z Founder Building the Canva of Memes

Getting attention online has never been harder. Jason Levin’s Memelord Technologies has an answer: sell memes-as-a-service.

www.inc.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 16h

it would be very instructive if people like Sam Altman had to fill out a survey so the public can understand what he finds to be cool, smart, funny, etc. it's only fair

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 16h

How Buying an Air Fryer on Prime Day Saved My Marriage, and Maybe Even My Life [Somehow Not Sponsored]

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 16h

here you go

archive.is/xxx15

archive.is

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 19h

adult pop critic who doesn’t want to be drone striked by a gang of 29-year-old teenagers: so they’re calling her new album “boiled chicken music.” But I think that’s a compliment. It’s freakin delicious, and it can also soothe a dog suffering from diarrhea

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

🫡 thank you

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

This is great writing. What a one two punch in those first paragraphs. My goodness

Earlier this year, a 49-year-old man visited Dr. Danielle Belardo, a cardiologist, with chest pain. For some time, he had been treating his high cholesterol not with the statin suggested by his doctor, but with berberine and red yeast rice supplements. He had heard they were more natural.

The supplements hadn’t managed his condition — far from it. Dr. Belardo discovered that he not only still had high cholesterol, but also had elevated liver enzymes and coronary artery disease so severe that he needed open-heart surgery.

She referred him for the procedure and started him on two medications to bring down his cholesterol, including a statin. She also told him to quit the supplements. A few weeks later, the liver issues resolved.

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