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it doesn’t take much digging to learn that tobacco companies are funding the “smoking is cool again” trend
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it doesn’t take much digging to learn that tobacco companies are funding the “smoking is cool again” trend
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
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oh, HELL no. How many people with SAD / Vitamin D deficiency are gonna buy these things
cc: @cpsc.gov
cc: @cpsc.gov
“Do not use the Chroma D-Light UV lamp. Consult a health care professional if you experience skin reactions and burns or eye damage.” recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-rec... - Government of Canada
#Health #Recall #SafetyRecall #VitaminD
#Health #Recall #SafetyRecall #VitaminD
Unlicensed Chroma D-Light UV Lamp May Pose Health Risks - Canada.ca
Health Canada is warning consumers not to use the unlicensed Chroma D-Light, a UV lamp sold online and promoted as a way to support vitamin D levels, and has requested the company to take action to ad...
recalls-rappels.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
oh, HELL no. How many people with SAD / Vitamin D deficiency are gonna buy these things
cc: @cpsc.gov
cc: @cpsc.gov
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This is the test case to do it to someone born in the US. The Fascist regime brute forced it through, and they’re going to amplify off this.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is the test case to do it to someone born in the US. The Fascist regime brute forced it through, and they’re going to amplify off this.
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In a just world, MacIsaac would own Google after the lawsuit this prompts.
Unbelievable gross negligence.
Unbelievable gross negligence.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In a just world, MacIsaac would own Google after the lawsuit this prompts.
Unbelievable gross negligence.
Unbelievable gross negligence.
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The greatest movie ever made is FREE on Youtube btw
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The greatest movie ever made is FREE on Youtube btw
And no, pointing this out is not something you can reply to with “shut up and let people enjoy things.” Fuck right off. Both with that attitude and with this reality eroding slop bullshit.
This is AI generated slop
Learning to walk
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And no, pointing this out is not something you can reply to with “shut up and let people enjoy things.” Fuck right off. Both with that attitude and with this reality eroding slop bullshit.
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This.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This.
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It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
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Let's all spare a moment for the harried librarians who are going to have to track down these fake citations.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Let's all spare a moment for the harried librarians who are going to have to track down these fake citations.
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Our whole thing as academics is our ideas. A lot of our training is about the doing of research and writing, and all that goes with it.
We aren’t short on professors. If you can’t think of research ideas without an LLM hallucinating some for you, it’s actually fine to do something else.
We aren’t short on professors. If you can’t think of research ideas without an LLM hallucinating some for you, it’s actually fine to do something else.
I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our whole thing as academics is our ideas. A lot of our training is about the doing of research and writing, and all that goes with it.
We aren’t short on professors. If you can’t think of research ideas without an LLM hallucinating some for you, it’s actually fine to do something else.
We aren’t short on professors. If you can’t think of research ideas without an LLM hallucinating some for you, it’s actually fine to do something else.
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look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent
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The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
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Trump has helped loose this kind of thing and it is on us to make people once more ashamed to say shit like this by delivering ruthless social consequences to everybody who does so.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Trump has helped loose this kind of thing and it is on us to make people once more ashamed to say shit like this by delivering ruthless social consequences to everybody who does so.
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Had some chonky visitors last night!!
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Had some chonky visitors last night!!
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This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
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it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
One of the things that make me irrationally irate in the current economy: automated emails by online vendors going "Hello [username / firstname lastname]! 👋 You left something in your cart! Click here to buy now!"
Like. Fuck off, leave me alone, maybe I changed my mind?
Like. Fuck off, leave me alone, maybe I changed my mind?
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
One of the things that make me irrationally irate in the current economy: automated emails by online vendors going "Hello [username / firstname lastname]! 👋 You left something in your cart! Click here to buy now!"
Like. Fuck off, leave me alone, maybe I changed my mind?
Like. Fuck off, leave me alone, maybe I changed my mind?
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getting some memes printed out on glossy paper at the cvs. owning physical media is so important
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
getting some memes printed out on glossy paper at the cvs. owning physical media is so important
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For the love of Bill Mauldin's ghost, stop creating these shitty AI fake editorial cartoons. There are plenty of us still around who could draw something unique. Hire an actual cartoonist. Ask a cartoonist for a reprint. Open a box of crayons and draw something yourself.
Don't fucking use AI.
Don't fucking use AI.
THE PULITZER BOARD JUST SAID “OH, YOU WANT TO SUE? GREAT. COUGH UP EVERYTHING.”
By The Unredacted Bastard — Independent Journalist • Democracy’s Fire Alarm • Professional Shit-Stirrer
Dec 16, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
By The Unredacted Bastard — Independent Journalist • Democracy’s Fire Alarm • Professional Shit-Stirrer
Dec 16, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
THE PULITZER BOARD JUST SAID “OH, YOU WANT TO SUE? GREAT. COUGH UP EVERYTHING.”
By The Unredacted Bastard — Independent Journalist • Democracy’s Fire Alarm • Professional Shit-Stirrer
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
For the love of Bill Mauldin's ghost, stop creating these shitty AI fake editorial cartoons. There are plenty of us still around who could draw something unique. Hire an actual cartoonist. Ask a cartoonist for a reprint. Open a box of crayons and draw something yourself.
Don't fucking use AI.
Don't fucking use AI.
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I hate video. It's the worst format for technical information. You cannot copy & paste. You cannot re-read a paragraph but have to shift back.
I can read twice as fast as probably anyone can talk. So it's a big waste of time, too.
And reading comprehension > listening comprehension.
WTF?
I can read twice as fast as probably anyone can talk. So it's a big waste of time, too.
And reading comprehension > listening comprehension.
WTF?
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I hate video. It's the worst format for technical information. You cannot copy & paste. You cannot re-read a paragraph but have to shift back.
I can read twice as fast as probably anyone can talk. So it's a big waste of time, too.
And reading comprehension > listening comprehension.
WTF?
I can read twice as fast as probably anyone can talk. So it's a big waste of time, too.
And reading comprehension > listening comprehension.
WTF?
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Sweet Baby Gritty, this, even by conspiracy standards, is stupid.
RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sweet Baby Gritty, this, even by conspiracy standards, is stupid.
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
Of course both of our useless complicit Dem senators voted for this nonsense. As expected. At least Peters is retiring, but man can we stop Slotkin from becoming the new leading face of the Dems, because Fascism Light isn't the answer to the moment.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Of course both of our useless complicit Dem senators voted for this nonsense. As expected. At least Peters is retiring, but man can we stop Slotkin from becoming the new leading face of the Dems, because Fascism Light isn't the answer to the moment.