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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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"When governments override established clinical practice without evidence, and when minority groups become targets of restrictive medical policy, it sets a precedent that should concern everyone."
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"When governments override established clinical practice without evidence, and when minority groups become targets of restrictive medical policy, it sets a precedent that should concern everyone."
Honestly sounds sort of like a good time. The implications are still horrifying of course.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Honestly sounds sort of like a good time. The implications are still horrifying of course.
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
I'm really far too excited about controller mk2.
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
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Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
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Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm really far too excited about controller mk2.
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Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
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Okay, let's hear your hypotheses. I believe in you.
interesting reflection. I'm having a hard time understanding how this shape is produced from the phone's mostly flat sides
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Okay, let's hear your hypotheses. I believe in you.
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My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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This Brexit Titanic meme still makes me chuckle:
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This Brexit Titanic meme still makes me chuckle:
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Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
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Style versus substance :)
October 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Style versus substance :)
Place a bit of electrical infrastructure in SC2000.
bzzzt!
bzzzt!
2. What gaming sound effect will you always remember?
October 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Place a bit of electrical infrastructure in SC2000.
bzzzt!
bzzzt!
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We know that Amazon has sued to abolish the National Labor Relations Board, but Harold Meyerson notes that they are also suing to abolish the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
prospect.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We know that Amazon has sued to abolish the National Labor Relations Board, but Harold Meyerson notes that they are also suing to abolish the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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UK Apple Users: the UK government is likely to stop Apple offering encrypted storage in the UK. If you have not already, turn on Advanced Data Protection now — it will be harder for them to turn off than stop offering support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/... full story in WaPo: wapo.st/4k2AF5Z
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
iCloud uses best-in-class security technologies and employs strict policies to protect user data, including end-to-end encryption for 14 data categories such as Health, passwords in iCloud Keychain an...
support.apple.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
UK Apple Users: the UK government is likely to stop Apple offering encrypted storage in the UK. If you have not already, turn on Advanced Data Protection now — it will be harder for them to turn off than stop offering support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/... full story in WaPo: wapo.st/4k2AF5Z
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“Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...
Everyone knows your location
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
timsh.org
February 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...
Oh, what could have been.
January 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh, what could have been.