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teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
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Vaccines save lives. Vaccine-deniers are killers.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Vaccines save lives. Vaccine-deniers are killers.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
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After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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The Pakistanis producing pro-Trump content on social media may hail from a different part of the world than American Trump supporters, but they are motivated by the same underlying emotion: economic anxiety.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Pakistanis producing pro-Trump content on social media may hail from a different part of the world than American Trump supporters, but they are motivated by the same underlying emotion: economic anxiety.
The new Dawn ads treating the bird chicks like cute mascots instead of wildlife being saved from oil spills is fascinating and creeping me out for how 2025 this is
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The new Dawn ads treating the bird chicks like cute mascots instead of wildlife being saved from oil spills is fascinating and creeping me out for how 2025 this is
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This is WONDERFUL.
deadline.com/2025/11/amc-...
deadline.com/2025/11/amc-...
AMC Networks & ‘Dark Winds’ Star Jessica Matten Partner To Create Opportunities For Indigenous Talent
AMC Networks & 'Dark Winds' star Jessica Matten partner to create new opportunities for indigenous talent.
deadline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is WONDERFUL.
deadline.com/2025/11/amc-...
deadline.com/2025/11/amc-...
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed the indictment against James Comey because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed.
That means the indictment against Letitia James will be dismissed as well.
A stunning decision and a major loss for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
That means the indictment against Letitia James will be dismissed as well.
A stunning decision and a major loss for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Court Dismisses Indictment Against James Comey and Letitia James in Stunning Loss for Donald Trump
Apologies for the back to back emails, but we have massive news right now.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed the indictment against James Comey because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed.
That means the indictment against Letitia James will be dismissed as well.
A stunning decision and a major loss for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
That means the indictment against Letitia James will be dismissed as well.
A stunning decision and a major loss for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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TRUMP: Thanksgiving costs down 25% 🤥
UT STUDY: “Costs of Thanksgiving Dinner in Tennessee ⬆️ 10.5%” 🦃
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
UT STUDY: “Costs of Thanksgiving Dinner in Tennessee ⬆️ 10.5%” 🦃
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
TRUMP: Thanksgiving costs down 25% 🤥
UT STUDY: “Costs of Thanksgiving Dinner in Tennessee ⬆️ 10.5%” 🦃
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
UT STUDY: “Costs of Thanksgiving Dinner in Tennessee ⬆️ 10.5%” 🦃
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
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So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
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Hahaha this town is crazy
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hahaha this town is crazy
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
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The legal action taken by survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes is documented, together with some of their stories, in Testimony www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/testi... #filmsky 🎬
Testimony - Film Review - Eye For Film
Women from Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes are suing for justice, accountability, and legal action against church and state institutions, supported by Justice for Magdalenes.
www.eyeforfilm.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The legal action taken by survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes is documented, together with some of their stories, in Testimony www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/testi... #filmsky 🎬
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November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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This is a remarkably consistent story across so many once-helpful digital tools: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, spellcheck, grammar check etc
All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content
All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content
Amazing discussion right now in a small corner of doctor FB about the apparent enshittification of AI scribes. Especially the free versions.
This revolutionary time saver now requires extra time to fact check the note.
Don't lose your note writing skills, friends! Tech will not save us. #medsky
This revolutionary time saver now requires extra time to fact check the note.
Don't lose your note writing skills, friends! Tech will not save us. #medsky
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is a remarkably consistent story across so many once-helpful digital tools: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, spellcheck, grammar check etc
All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content
All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content
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"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
I hate true crime things, but we are trying the Devil in Disguise show (Ricken! et al) and I am feeling paranoid that I also really like clowns ;)
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I hate true crime things, but we are trying the Devil in Disguise show (Ricken! et al) and I am feeling paranoid that I also really like clowns ;)
super niche post but Amazing Race needs to do better re T1D and other disabilities. Have sugar pills on site. Have OJ on site. It is ridiculous that a common chronic disease derails everything this much (and they have had issues previously with Deaf contestants and people with limb differences).
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
super niche post but Amazing Race needs to do better re T1D and other disabilities. Have sugar pills on site. Have OJ on site. It is ridiculous that a common chronic disease derails everything this much (and they have had issues previously with Deaf contestants and people with limb differences).