Raeli🪐 @_eliastor

I have a vague suspicion that, because bright young black Americans are actively sought by prestigious institutions and networks, those bright black youths end up socializing with atypically wealthy and successful whites, creating a warped view of what most white people are like.

𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨 @RolloRouen

3 months ago

There’s another version of this where non-Whites will think you’re rich simply because you’re White.

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My gma had a psychotic break after my gpa died when she was 82 and she kept yelling “I'm free I'm free thank you god I'm free” as EMS took her. my family doesn't like to talk about it

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guys say dumb shit like “some men out there can never get girls no matter what they do” to which I reply “for every ugly man there is an equal and opposite ugly woman he could get with” to which the guys always clarify that sex with ugly women doesn’t count as “getting girls”

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part of why fart jokes used to be common in the past is because people used to eat a lot more fiber. so they had frequent farts. Which made loud noises, but didn't smell that bad. Which is funny. As society got richer and ate much more protein and meat, the farts became fewer, but way smellier. It isn't funny anymore.

Connor Harris @cmhrrs

6 months ago

The word “fart” sounds like juvenile slang but is the standard word for what it describes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European, with clear cognates in Greek and Sanskrit

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as someone who spent 16 years doing some combo of vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian and then gave up and ate meat while pregnant last year, i actually think this tweet is true. the feeling of choosing to eat meat was very much like “*shrug* i’m gonna do something selfish and sorta evil because im lazy and full of desire.” i think many choices are like this and you’ll find that acknowledging that reality actually feels better than doing mental gymnastics to justify your decisions.

Aella @Aella_Girl

6 months ago

a great test of "would you have been chill with owning slaves, if you'd been born into a slave-owning family" is whether or not you're vegetarian today

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> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend

If you want to know the real meaning of work, read Frederick Douglass's account of his first time working as a free man. After escaping slavery, his first job was loading coal onto ships. It was new, hard, dirty work. Here's how he describes it:

just wrote up a baby care instruction doc for my SIL who's gonna watch the baby so we can ski tomorrow. I have never tried to explain how to keep my baby happy before and seeing it written out is pretty intense. it's basically like "just don't ever stop moving, and don't even let yourself think about the construct of sitting. he needs to be presented with a new texture to scratch at once every 90 seconds or he'll get so angry he'll vomit on you. he basically can't sit up, but he loathes lying down so don't do that either. you must clown at least once per wake window, and you're gonna need to invent noises you've never heard before. do not break eye contact. do not show fear."

Any mother who lets another woman believe that this is what motherhood is is cruelly dishonest. I'm a mother of 4. I've been a mother for 12 years. Not even a full year of my life has been spent holding sleeping babies. Wanting babies and raising kids are 2 separate experiences.

𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad

6 months ago

She bought the lies of feminism … had never held a baby before. After holding this precious child, in tears she proclaims she wants 8 babies of her own. Holding a baby is like a factory reset for women.

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She's right. I thought I was destined for a life of sexual harassment because no one told me it was really about youth. As soon as I no longer looked underage, the harassment sharply decreased. It's one of the most depressing improvements in my life.

💗 @ma1ybe

6 months ago

Just walked past an old couple and the man breaks his neck to stare at me and the woman looks at him and I can't help but despise my youth being the only thing that keeps me from being her

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This basically covers every type of person who immigrated to America prior to the Civil War.

Claire E. Aubin? @ceaubin

6 months ago

My algorithm is taking me places you’ve never even dreamed of

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My algorithm is taking me places you’ve never even dreamed of

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I need everyone to check out this link ASAP this is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read tinyurl.com/join-polycule

rosey🌹 @thechosenberg

6 months ago

Is San Francisco real

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The company behind this pill has raised $250 million and is running the largest clinical trial in veterinary history, and the science explains why investors are losing their minds. The drug is LOY-002, made by a company called Loyal. It works as a caloric restriction mimetic. It tricks the dog's metabolism into behaving like it's on a restricted diet without actually reducing food intake. The biological cascade this triggers is the same one that's extended lifespan in every species ever tested, from yeast to primates. The FDA has already accepted the safety data and the effectiveness data. Two of three regulatory gates cleared. The third is manufacturing review, expected to complete this year. If approved, LOY-002 becomes the first FDA-approved drug for lifespan extension in any species. Not disease treatment. Not symptom management. Lifespan extension as a formal indication. The STAY study has 1,300 dogs enrolled across 70 vet clinics. Half get the pill, half get placebo. Both beef-flavored so nobody can tell the difference. It is the largest clinical trial ever conducted in veterinary medicine. Here's where it gets interesting for humans. Dogs develop the same age-related diseases we do: cancer, heart disease, kidney failure, cognitive decline resembling dementia. They live in our houses, eat similar food, breathe the same air. A mouse in a sterile lab tells you almost nothing about human aging. A golden retriever sleeping on your couch tells you a lot. Loyal has a second drug, LOY-001, targeting large breeds specifically. Big dogs die younger because centuries of breeding for size accidentally gave them elevated IGF-1 levels, which is the same growth hormone pathway linked to accelerated aging in humans. Reducing IGF-1 in flies, worms, and rodents extends lifespan. Loyal is now testing whether the same holds in dogs. 90 million pet dogs in 60 million US households. Average spending: $1,852 per pet per year. A pill that gives you two more years with your dog is the easiest sell in pharmaceutical history. Human longevity trials would cost $1 billion+ and take decades. Dog trials cost a fraction and produce data in years. Every dog in the STAY study is generating aging data that maps to human biology. The shortest path to an FDA-approved human longevity drug might run through your veterinarian's office.

Pubity @pubity

7 months ago

Scientists have developed a pill that can extend the lifespan of dogs by literal years, and they're pushing to get it on the market by 2027. It's a daily, beef-flavored medication made specifically for senior dogs to keep them healthy as they age.

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You guys have no idea how weird the average guy working in the SCIF really is

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"The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database" Oops

It's actually kinda weird that bragging about having big boobs (not within your control) is considered funny/cool but bragging about being fit (something you do control) is seen as gauche and bitchy. so I guess I'll just brag about my extremely tight pussy then.

My favorite story in the Talmud is one where Rabbis are arguing about what counts as an oven, and one goes if you're right, God himself will say so So God comes down and says so and the Rabbi says fuck off we're arguing here so God goes fair enough and lets them keep arguing

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan. In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have. So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently. An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident. The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010. The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

France Safety Travel @francesafetytra

7 months ago

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

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