Trans Eighth Grader Was ‘Shaking and Distressed’ As Texas Agency Pulled Him Out of Class for Investigation
September 9, 2022
If you think the 2nd amendment was intended as a political tool, Greg Abbott is the kind of tyrant it would have been intended for.
Earlier this year, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate instances of “child abuse” in families who’ve provided gender-affirming care for their trans children, people were rightly, extremely alarmed. Not only is gender-affirming care not child abuse, the lack of it is actually associated with risks of depression and suicide in trans children and teens. LGBTQ advocacy groups, public health experts, and health associations feared this bigoted and authoritarian directive would harm trans youth. They were right.
via Boing Boing
Lisa Loab – Penny Arcade
September 9, 2022
Gabe has been more careful than anyone I know, he’s still retained many talismanic practices I have softened on, at least in my own neighborhood – but one of the ways your world is trash is that kids at school will bully you if you wear a mask until you take it off and get COVID. And then your dad takes care of you, and he gets it. At home! At fucking home. In the end, he got it at home.
This is BS. People are still dying from other people being deliberate assholes… May Gabe at PA recover swiftly, and may the POS people who minimize the impact and threaten the rest of us all fuck off and die in a fire.
The Steve Jobs Archive
September 8, 2022
From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
I do not make any of my own clothing.
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
I did not discover the mathematics I use.
I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.
I am moved by music I did not create myself.
When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.
I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Sent from my iPad
Steve Jobs is one of my heroes… Not a saint by any means, but someone who really, truly, worked to make it easier for everyone to create and inspire others. I look forward to exploring the archives more.
The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier | MPR News
August 31, 2022
The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier | MPR News:
The data are stark: the typical American diet is shortening the lives of many Americans. Diet-related deaths outrank deaths from smoking, and about half of U.S. deaths from heart disease – nearly 900 deaths a day – are linked to poor diet. The pandemic highlighted the problem, with much worse outcomes for people with obesity and other diet-related diseases.
“We’re really in a nutrition crisis in this country.” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
jwz: CDC’s updated guidelines for living with the zombie apocalypse:
Great news! The zombie war is over! You can come out of your bunkers now!
Did we win? No. We did something even better than winning: We suddenly became aware of the passage of time! Wars can end lots of ways — by winning, by surrendering, by a negotiated settlement, by simply deciding in our minds that they are over with or without consulting the facts on the ground.
Why are there new guidelines if nothing has changed?
Look, it is hard, and everyone’s trying! That’s the takeaway here! We’ve all learned and grown, and it’s time to move on!
But is the zombie war over?
Well, the fighting-zombies phase of the zombie war is over!
The way you phrased that made it sounds like the zombies are not … gone.
Yes, technically, in the most literal sense, the zombies are still among us, but much as we would like to be living in a totally zombie-free world, that was never the goal, except for a brief time when we were way too optimistic about what people were capable of.
Look, some people decided that the effort of eradicating the zombies wasn’t worth the inconvenience. Imagine having to bring a heavy, metal bat with you every time you go out! Imagine living like that! Well, because some people couldn’t do that for a limited time, now other people will have the opportunity to do that forever.
Long Covid is affecting millions of Americans and the consequences are devastating | Boing Boing
August 22, 2022
Long Covid is affecting millions of Americans and the consequences are devastating | Boing Boing:
If anyone wonders why I keep masking and avoiding indoor gatherings, it’s not because I think I’m going to die of COVID. It’s because of long COVID, and because I don’t want to be complicit in spreading COVID around to anyone else.
For me, it’s all about not killing anyone I care about, given that at least one or two of the VERY few people I do interact with are immunocompromosed or have co-morbidities which would make an infection more dangerous…
CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID | AP News:
This reads to me like an admission of defeat – Like as a culture we’ve accepted a certain level of death and long-term repercussions because people couldn’t be bothered to follow guidelines when we still had a chance of controlling things.
What this means for me, and those around me, is that we have to remain hyper-vigilant pretty much forever because we can’t trust that anyone else will do even the barest preventative measures.
Reference CDC page: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7133e1.htm?s_cid=mm7133e1_w
Talented Couple Performs a Gracefully Alluring Tango Set to the Eminem Song ‘Lose Yourself’
August 10, 2022
Talented Couple Performs a Gracefully Alluring Tango Set to the Eminem Song ‘Lose Yourself’:
Dancers Sara Grdan and Ivan Terrazas of Feral Tango performed an incredibly alluring tango set to the unlikely soundtrack of the classic Eminem song “Lose Yourself”. The pair, who are married, combined their choreographic skill with a certain grace and seductiveness that sent the crowd
Dancers Sara Grdan and Ivan Terrazas of Feral Tango performed an incredibly alluring tango set to the unlikely soundtrack of the classic Eminem song “Lose Yourself”. The pair, who are married, combined their choreographic skill with a certain grace and seductiveness that sent the crowd wild at the 2016 Belgrade Tango Encuentro in Serbia.
Nova Open Infuriates Hobbyists With Their Policies
August 9, 2022
Nova Open Infuriates Hobbyists With Their Policies:
tl;dr – Nova Open cares about it’s attendees more than the venue, and some people are really angry about it.
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