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Remember, remember, the future is chicken, but life is now, and now, and now.
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The lab leak debates have always seemed to me like they are attractive because they shift the frame from "what is the responsibility of the state in containing the virus and caring for the citizens harmed by it" to "who can we blame for this thing and what political hay can we make from it."
Maybe it’s just because I have not dived into it to any meaningful degree, but I don’t understand the stakes of the lab-leak theory. What does it do for people who propound it? What would it challenge or undermine if it were proved true?
I get that this sounds plausible to lots of people but it is not congruent with the evidence!

Genetic data indicates the virus didn’t come directly from bats. The Wuhan lab ONLY studied bat viruses.
March 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Sharing this again cause y'all keep doing it. Fascists aren't fascist because they are mentally ill, its because they believe in a deeply bigoted worldview, and privilege is fundemental to that. They hate the mentally ill almost as much as y'all do.
Fucking begging supposedly leftist people to stop being sanist while trying to advocate for marginalized groups or talking about politics. Being bigoted in one way isnt helping combat other forms of bigotry or helping you to fight against fascism and other harmful ideologies. 1/🧵
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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There’s been a lot of talk about Elon & his “Asperger’s Syndrome” so I thought I’d share a clip from my recent feature length about Aspie Supremacy & why that’s Nazi shit too 😌
January 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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It’s almost always an attempted gotcha when someone says “some people can’t mask”

The thing is - that’s exactly why everyone who CAN mask, should mask.

If we’re all masking then the world is safer for the people who genuinely can’t.

It’s not a gotcha - it reinforces our point
This is a great thread for anyone who might be asking in earnest!

When I've encountered this question it usually comes in tandem with "but some people CAN'T mask" as if that's a gotcha, rather than a great reason for everyone to wear one who can.
December 28, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Since the shooting of the CEO:

- 4 children under 11 were killed by gunfire
- 11 teenagers were killed by gunfire
- there were 3 mass shooting events

This is what the media is covering:
December 10, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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2 people take testosterone in front of transphobic rally outside SCOTUS.

One transphobe with a ‘let women speak’ sign screamed at them claiming their syringes were weapons, ran to cops about it. They continued taking their prescribed medication anyway.
December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Very interested in these preprint/prelim results from the TREATME study! The survey collected feedback/results from people on over 150 different medications, supplements, & non-drug interventions, from around 4,000 long covid & ME/CFS patients.

Oral vitC was the treatment reference for the survey.
December 3, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I spent way too long on my 2am brain glitch

Idek what this is lol #arcane #viktorarcane
December 3, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic

Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Reminder! there is a FREE ALTERNATIVE to psychiatric hospitalization available 24/7 on the north side of Chicago and warm crisis and suicide hotlines that DO NOT call the police.
November 9, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Actual emergency. The bill would grant the executive branch (technically, Treasury Dept.) "unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a 'terrorist supporting organization.'"

No reason nor evidence required.
November 11, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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That's it. Trump ran on a non stop campaign of racism and sexism. It was all identity politics.

But what is considered the "good kind"
When pundits say no more identity politics, what they mean is they don't want Black people to talk about race. Liberals don't want Black people to talk about race. Conservatives don't want Black people to talk about race. They want silence as a response to white supremacy
November 10, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Oh HELL yes!
November 10, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Absolutely scathing and well worth the read.
March 19, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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Just discovered who took one of the most heartbreaking and brutal images from the congo I've ever seen (which I will describe only as a parent's utter grief and helplessness, because getting into the specifics is traumatic).

Alice Seeley Harris, who I never knew took that photo, is a hero.
(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.
February 26, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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February 25, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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There are a lot of terrible things in the world. I would like them to be less terrible and I contribute where I can if it seems like there's genuinely something I can do. But spending your whole life staring dejectedly at a screen full of tragedy and yelling at people about it isn't activism.
February 12, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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It is genocide.
Israel guided 1.5 million Palestinians into Rafah. They moved the "safe zone" further and further south, until Rafah was all that was left. Now they're bombing Rafah, and people have nowhere to go, nowhere to flee. It's genocide.
February 12, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Raichik, who lives in California, “does not appear to have any experience in schools or government, but her platform has already led to bomb threats in Oklahoma schools.”
January 23, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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The BDS Movement updated their lists of boycott, divestment, and exclusion campaigns/targets.

Get current and focused, the pressure is working!
Act Now Against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the
UPDATED: Below is a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!
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January 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Oh no huge bummer byeee 🥲
Wow, the audacity! OpenAI is essentially saying if they can't continually steal from artists and authors they can't stay in business. 1/2
January 9, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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“In a grim assessment of the devastating impact of Israel’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, Martin Griffiths said that Gaza’s 2.3 million people face ‘daily threats to their very existence’ while the world just watches.”
UN humanitarian chief calls Gaza ‘uninhabitable’ 3 months into Israel-Hamas war
UN humanitarian chief calls Gaza ‘uninhabitable’ 3 months into Israel-Hamas war
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief described Gaza on Friday as “uninhabitable” three months into Israel’s war with Hamas, warning that famine was looming and a public health disaster unfolding.In a grim assessment of the devastating impact of Israel’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, Martin Griffiths said that Gaza’s 2.3 million people face “daily threats to their very existence” while the world just watches. He said tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet, and areas where Palestinians were told to relocate have been bombed. “People are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded (and) famine is around the corner,” Griffiths said. The few partially functioning hospitals are overwhelmed and critically short of supplies, medical facilities are under relentless attack, infectious diseases are spreading, and amidst the chaos some 180 Palestinian women are giving birth every day. “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable,” the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said. He said the humanitarian community is facing an “impossible mission” – trying to help more than two million people while U.N. staff and aid workers from partner organizations are killed, communications blackouts continue, roads are damaged, truck convoys are shot at, and vital commercial supplies “are almost non-existent.”Griffiths reiterated U.N. demands for an immediate end to the war and the release of all hostages, declaring that “It is time for the international community to use all its influence to make this happen.”The Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel by Hamas, which controls Gaza, killed around 1,200 people, and its fighters and other militants took some 250 people hostage. More than 120 remain in captivity. Israel’s air, ground and sea assault in Gaza, aimed at obliterating Hamas, has killed more than 22,400 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory. The count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.The three-month conflict has displaced some 85% of Gaza’s residents, and the United Nations has identified more than 37,000 structures destroyed or damaged in the war so far.The U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said Friday that most young children and pregnant women aren’t getting enough nutrition, with fewer than 200 aid trucks entering Gaza every day – less than half the prewar level – and distribution hampered by the fighting. A survey by UNICEF found that 90% of children under the age of two are eating two or fewer of the five essential food groups each day, mainly bread or milk. A quarter of pregnant women said they only eat one food group per day.UNICEF says cases of diarrhea among children under the age of five have risen from 48,000 to 71,000 — an indication of poor nutrition. Normally, only 2,000 cases of diarrhea are reported each month in the Gaza Strip. Israel cut off food, clean water, medicine, electricity and fuel deliveries to Gaza immediately after the Hamas attack. In response to U.S. pressure it allowed a trickle of aid in through Egypt in late October, and the number of trucks has increased from about 100 to up to 200 every day.Israeli authorities have repeatedly said there is enough food in the territory, and that they have taken the necessary steps to allow aid in, blaming any shortages on U.N. bodies.But U.N. associate spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay reiterated Friday that “the current response is only meeting a fraction of people’s needs.”She repeated what U.N. Secretary-General said last month: “It’s a mistake to quote the effectiveness of the humanitarian operation in Gaza based only on the number of trucks. An effective aid operation in Gaza requires security. It requires staff who can work in safety. It requires good logistical capacity and the resumption of commercial activity.”Tremblay said until those requirements are met, Gazans will not receive enough aid. Nonetheless, the U.N. World Food Program reported that in December it reached 975,000 vulnerable people with food across Gaza and in the West Bank, she said.In an indication of difficulties getting aid into Gaza, some international efforts are resorting to dropping supplies from planes. France announced Friday that French and Jordanian C-130 planes dropped a total of seven tons of medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis in a joint operation overnight.‘’The humanitarian situation remains critical in Gaza,’’ French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday on X, formerly Twitter. ‘’In a difficult context, France and Jordan delivered aid to the population and to those who are helping them.’’The airdrop, a first from a Western country in the Gaza Strip, was agreed during Macron’s recent visit to Jordan, where he met with King Abdullah II last month, the French presidency said.___Sylvie Corbet contributed to this report from Paris
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January 6, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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Makes sense.
December 31, 2023 at 10:53 PM