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[Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 @Qveen_Potato]

RIP Juju Nadeau an angel gone too soon.

She was stabbed on August 5th on her way with her friends to show them graffiti art under a bridge and open pokemon cards.

https://t.co/MwDjRy9Lu7

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

WNBA star Gabby Williams supports trans women playing in the league:

“I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team.”

[barbie★ @rarestbarbie]

two trans women were abducted and beaten by an angry mob of trump supporters in rural louisiana

from @ErinInTheMorn

[Theresa Verity @theresaverity]

Did you know that 150,000 people marched in defence of trans rights yesterday in Central london? The biggest protest for trans rights in history?

Barely a whisper on the news.

We remain an uncomfortable inconvenience for those who are hungry for billionaire hatebucks.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

Math is so great. I wish the physical universe didn't exist.

[Andy Jiang @davikrehalt]

@littmath @__alpoge__ GPT:
Take π: P¹ × Sym²(P¹) → Sym³(P¹), (p, {q,r}) ↦ {p,q,r}.
R be its ramification divisor;
H ⊂ Sym³(P¹) ≅ P³ be hyperplane tangent but not osculating to the small diagonal;
X := (P¹ × Sym²(P¹)) \ (R ∪ π⁻¹(H)) ≅ A³;
Y := Sym³(P¹) \ H ≅ A³.
π|X: X → Y is counterexample

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

The father of 16 y/o May Pollard, whose lawsuit challenging Idaho's bathroom ban was dismissed after her suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.”

[Matthew Johnson @KSL_Matt]

MAJOR BREAKING: At approximately 2:54 PM this afternoon Salt Lake City reached 109° for the first time in recorded history. Record books go back to 1874! Just absurd heat for this region!

The lake breeze has not kicked in so 110° is possible if cloud cover doesn’t pick up.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Jeffrey Epstein didn't just abuse girls and women -- he actively used his power and money to keep women out of the rooms where scientific careers are made. "The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry," Epstein wrote in an email to literary agent John Brockman, demanding that the only two women on the guest list of an elite academic retreat in Connecticut be removed.

That email, revealed in a DOJ document release, is just one thread in a sprawling web of correspondence showing how Epstein and the prominent scientists he bankrolled treated women not as intellectual peers but as lesser beings to be excluded, mocked, and dismissed.

"I think we all had a sense that the system wasn't super fair, right?" said Nicole Baran, a biologist at Davidson College and member of 500 Women Scientists, a grassroots organization that has worked to confront racism and misogyny in STEM since 2016. "Seeing some of these emails -- and peering behind the curtains of the rooms that we were never invited into -- has really laid bare just how broken and corrupt the system is."

As detailed by the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, the emails reveal how Epstein's patronage worked as a career accelerator -- but only for men. He funneled millions into their research, hosted networking dinners at his homes, invited them to his island and his ranch in Santa Fe, and connected them to wealthy funders and Silicon Valley power players working on emerging technologies like AI. These men got well-funded labs, lucrative book deals, and access to an elite network that compounded their influence. Women, meanwhile, weren't just left out of this pipeline -- they were actively derided by the men inside it.

AI researcher Roger Schank suggested in one email that it's "hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you" -- dismissing women as too preoccupied with appearance and social anxiety to achieve real intellectual focus. Epstein's response was even more blunt: "No really smart women -- none."

The blatant contempt in these exchanges stunned even women who already knew the playing field was uneven. "I think what was most shocking was simply how blatant and explicit the misogyny was," said Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts.

"We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the '50s and '60s, " she continued, "and what we have now is implicit bias and microaggressions. I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it's just perhaps behind closed doors."

For some of these men, consequences are finally arriving. Larry Summers -- whose correspondence with Epstein revealed a deeply personal relationship with the convicted sex offender long after his 2008 conviction -- announced in February that he was resigning from Harvard at the end of this academic year. He'd already been on leave since November and had stepped down from the OpenAI board and other public positions as the fallout mounted.

The interactions revealed in the files are "very dehumanizing" for women, Baran said. "These are men who had colleagues and mentees that were women. And I think what was so clear is the way in which women in particular were just not spoken about as people with equal intellectual capacity and power."

As a professor, the revelations have made her think about the young women she sees entering the sciences today. "Will their ideas be taken seriously?" she wonders. "Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?"

© A Mighty Girl

#drthehistories

[Arnab Datta @ArnabDatta321]

Anniversary of one of the funniest tweet sequences I've ever seen from @jdcmedlock

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

In 2020, Emory University published an epidemiological study saying that every $1 increase in the minimum wage state to state reduces the suicide rate by 6%.

That means that boosting the minimum wage by $1 could have saved 27,550 lives lost to suicide from 1990 to 2015.

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

this story should be national news during pride month and instead barely anyone knows about it

[doomer @uncledoomer]

saving 20% of my income so that in 30 years i can afford 11 months of assisted living. the math is airtight

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[Kina🐈‍⬛🪄 @KinaMagica]

So this isn’t about kids anymore.

It’s about erasing care for adults, for everyone.

No longer allowing anyone to transition, erasing trans people.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Elon Musk confirms he got into politics because of estranged trans daughter Vivian Wilson ➡️ https://t.co/EKertwY9oH

📷 Getty

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Philippe Rousseau, 1816-1887 - The rat who withdrew from the world