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@teachmonkey.bsky.social
Lives in a forest. Knows a lot about gravity-fed water systems (not by choice). Can fix a toilet. Everything expressed here is my personal take and has fuckall to do with my employer.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
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honestly prior to today i would've picked Nixon / Reagan as the Presidential pair most likely to have blown each other
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
honestly prior to today i would've picked Nixon / Reagan as the Presidential pair most likely to have blown each other
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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They stole and spent the SNAP money, didn't they?
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
They stole and spent the SNAP money, didn't they?
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America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
America is so racist that some Americans believed SNAP benefits were for white people and food stamps were for black people and they did not know they were the same thing and are now horrified to learn they are losing their food subsidies.
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We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief
www.scripps.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
Y’all are sleeping? Whoa.
Whether you're a back, side or stomach sleeper, medical professionals explain how to position your body to guard against neck cricks, shoulder aches and other body pain and soreness.
Want fewer morning aches? You might have to change the way you sleep
Whether you're a back, side or stomach sleeper, medical professionals explain how to position your body to guard against neck cricks, shoulder aches and other body pain and soreness.
n.pr
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Y’all are sleeping? Whoa.
If soulmates aren’t real then why did my best friend get halfway through a book, scream my name, then message me to tell me she’d just ordered it and it would be at my house the next day because there could not be a world in which I did not have this book?
#platonicsoulmates
#platonicsoulmates
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If soulmates aren’t real then why did my best friend get halfway through a book, scream my name, then message me to tell me she’d just ordered it and it would be at my house the next day because there could not be a world in which I did not have this book?
#platonicsoulmates
#platonicsoulmates
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It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.
I need to do some whimsy today.
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I need to do some whimsy today.
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The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs.
Most of us can barely afford our medications as is.
We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die.
We can’t stockpile them.
A 100% tariff will cost lives.
Most of us can barely afford our medications as is.
We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die.
We can’t stockpile them.
A 100% tariff will cost lives.
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs.
Most of us can barely afford our medications as is.
We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die.
We can’t stockpile them.
A 100% tariff will cost lives.
Most of us can barely afford our medications as is.
We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die.
We can’t stockpile them.
A 100% tariff will cost lives.
Worked pretty hard yesterday and today to be extra queer and extra debauched so I could sit out the rapture. Seems to have worked.
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Worked pretty hard yesterday and today to be extra queer and extra debauched so I could sit out the rapture. Seems to have worked.
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BREAKING: CDC's ACIP just voted 8-3 to change vaccine recomendation and stop recommending MMRV to children as their first dose.
September 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
BREAKING: CDC's ACIP just voted 8-3 to change vaccine recomendation and stop recommending MMRV to children as their first dose.
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A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves
(you see what I did there)
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(you see what I did there)
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September 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Yes, and also, this is where I remind folks that most rules for "formal" English were invented in the Victorian Era by hucksters trying to make a pound off people feeling anxious about their position in society
If you are at all curious about this, search “rabies miasma” and be prepared to deep clean your search history.
September 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you are at all curious about this, search “rabies miasma” and be prepared to deep clean your search history.
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"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.
fortune.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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Joni Ernst will not seek reelection
I assume to get a head start over other republicans before all the planes to non-extradition South American countries fill up.
I assume to get a head start over other republicans before all the planes to non-extradition South American countries fill up.
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Joni Ernst will not seek reelection
I assume to get a head start over other republicans before all the planes to non-extradition South American countries fill up.
I assume to get a head start over other republicans before all the planes to non-extradition South American countries fill up.
Now I’m crying at work but in a good way.
Alt text on each image. FUCK this is good.
Alt text on each image. FUCK this is good.
August 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Now I’m crying at work but in a good way.
Alt text on each image. FUCK this is good.
Alt text on each image. FUCK this is good.
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i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work
July 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work
Co-signed, a (now) college professor who went back to grad school in my 50s.
Highly recommend working another career and getting loads of therapy before undertaking grad school. The perspective you’ll have is priceless, and you’ll be shielded from so much nonsense.
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Co-signed, a (now) college professor who went back to grad school in my 50s.
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19 Aug 25 -- Confounding decades of trans-denial pseudoscience a new study of 900 cis & trans kids tracked from 2013-2024 found gender identity was a “stable trait“ & the trans kids were “no more or less likely” to show or express regret than cis ones. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trans youth as consistent in their identity as cis youth, study shows
A new study has found that gender identity and sexuality remain a largely stable trait, despite claims that trans youth regret transitioning.
www.thepinknews.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
19 Aug 25 -- Confounding decades of trans-denial pseudoscience a new study of 900 cis & trans kids tracked from 2013-2024 found gender identity was a “stable trait“ & the trans kids were “no more or less likely” to show or express regret than cis ones. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social