megan long

physicist by training, feminist by heart | have cats, will garden | she/her

[Elizabeth has no more fucks to give🇺🇸💛💚🤍💜 @ElizabethGiddi1]

I’m not writing this all out again but since this is coming up again after a 16 year old girl was killed during sexual strangulation. I am resharing this.

There is no safe way to strangle. None. It doesn’t exist. A “safe word” won’t prevent you from stroking out two weeks after the strangulation occurred. Nor will it prevent you from losing your baby a week after.

There is no safe way to strangle. And if you are listening to BDSM advocates who are literally the bane of my existence, instead of highly trained medical professionals because it suits your agenda and gives you a pass to do something you know damn well you shouldn’t be doing, you’re an idiot.

[Elizabeth has no more fucks to give🇺🇸💛💚🤍💜 @ElizabethGiddi1]

I do strangulation exams as part of my job. I have taken extensive training in strangulation and am qualified to testify as an expert in strangulation cases. The general public has no idea how bad this epidemic has become, how many women and girls this is happening to, or how dangerous this is.

I share facts about it sometimes like men who strangle women are twice as likely to be involved in a mass shooting or to kill a cop. Women who are strangled by their partners are 750% more likely to be killed by that partner.
I tell people that death by strangulation can occur in just minutes, under a minute if you hit the right nerve bundles that lead to certain arrhythmias. I also tell them that a woman can die from a strangulation event up to one year after the event and that a pregnant woman who has been strangled is at high risk of pregnancy loss for weeks after the strangulation event. Strangulation can lead to brain damage, physical disability, stroke, pregnancy loss, and death.
I tell people that there is no safe way to strangle and that nobody has the ability to consent to being murdered, and consent is not an excuse for murder, if someone were to consent to this it is incumbent on the would be murderer to use self discipline and restraint, because a person’s “consent” to being murdered is not going to be recognized by any court as a legitimate excuse. Nobody can consent to being killed.
When I tell people these things, a very few are appreciative, mostly women, some are interested, men and women, and some attack me for being stupid and not knowing what I am talking about, apparently days of professional training and hundreds of exams performed mean nothing to the “experts” of X. Those that attack are mostly men. Some argue with me about dumb things, like my insistence to call strangulation what it is. Strangulation is not choking, choking is not strangulation, these are two different types of ways to block an airway but they are not the same. That is what people argue with me about the most. They insist on using incorrect language and then provide me with a weak google link picture of a choke hold to try to prove it’s the same.
So then it becomes me explaining that a choke hold is called a chokehold but it is not choking it is strangulation and that blows their minds and I am met with silence or swears.
This is an incredibly important issue that needs to be discussed but it is very contentious and the defenders of strangulation can turn into rabid dogs very quickly.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate the effort you are taking here, that you are raising awareness and that you are using accurate language and data. It’s really important that we change the narrative around this subject.

I would like to share this resource with you, I’m not sure if you are aware of them or not, but this was the group that did my training on strangulation. They go all over the US teaching medical professionals and law enforcement about strangulation and they have a ton of information and resources on their website. You might find them useful.
Thank you for talking about this.
https://t.co/mOYpSn5IaX

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

[Nisa ♀ @nisafeminista]

Ladies, imagine someone doing your cooking, cleaning, running errands & endless invisible domestic labor. Imagine how much TIME that would free up for your career and hobbies. For the average male, that IS their reality. Then they turn around and claim women "contribute nothing."

[megan long @megankrlong]

@RepJackKimble @S_W_Rogers and you're a us representative who can't fathom that everyone who died before the vaccines were available died unvaccinated. stellar stuff

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

No, the opposite my friend. More than 85% of all Covid deaths occurred among the unvaccinated, with many of those deaths sadly before vaccines became available in 2021. But in addition at least 200,000, possibly 300,000 died because they refused vaccines after they were made available. Most of those deaths from vaccine refusal occurred with delta and BA.1 omicron waves in 2021-22

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

If you’d told me 10 years ago that, in 2026, a billionaire would accuse humans of using too much water because AI data centers need it, while that same technology is threatening jobs and reshaping everyday life, I would’ve said, “That’s a terrible Bond villain plot.” And YET here we are.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

a lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. it happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. that’s what i think of when i read about data centers.

[megan long @megankrlong]

@heavensbvnny this is a copy and paste from threads https://t.co/PujSUtgBpR

[megan long @megankrlong]

@ZainabSana2622 this is a copy paste from a 12/30/25 threads post by @AjvictoryMD https://t.co/QKB1tM7sxb

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.

They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

I'm pretty sure if it had been an hantavirus outbreak on cargo vessel crewed by SE Asian merchant seamen (as most are) they would not have been allowed to disembark and fly all over the world. People who pay $17,000 for a cruise can't be told "no" apparently.

If you decide your 1% is above both law and regulation. That vaccines, masks, and quarantine are something their privileged access to top healthcare should let them opt out of, obviously the worst of the public health consequences are going to be borne by the 99% less fortunate.

The world's rich excluding themselves from public health measures because they can afford the best post infection medical treatment is biological warfare on the world's poor who cannot.

[CyberCPU Tech @cybercpu]

This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months.

But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video.

I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content.

AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.

[megan long @megankrlong]

@thekitchentwit @karlmehta @DrPippaM lol that research was funded by big sugar. there have been a lot of opportunities for big hvac & big air purifier to tip the economic odds in their favor since 2020 and they haven't, so i'm skeptical that this is an industry-driven finding. will you check their funding, mr twit?

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

A professor built an app in 12 hours that Meta's billion dollar team never wanted to exist.

It detects their Ray-Ban glasses nearby using Bluetooth.
Your phone vibrates: "Smart Glasses are probably nearby."

Meta's own internal memo said they'd launch facial recognition on the glasses "during a dynamic political environment" when civil rights groups would be too distracted to fight back.

Harvard students already proved it works.

They built glasses that reveal your name, phone number and home address just by looking at your face.

Meta sold 7 million pairs last year.

They look identical to normal glasses.

The LED that blinks when recording? There are tutorials to disable it.

One professor got fed up and built a counter in his spare time.

It's Free & open source with zero ads.

Detects within 50 feet outdoors. 32 feet in a crowd.

Download: search "Nearby Glasses" on Google Play

[Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D]

To all the ppl who got gaslit into thinking the internet can't ever be different/privacy is 'dead' etc etc

As a software designer I am telling you - we CAN architect systems on independent infrastructure that do NOT collect or trade in your personal data

I know because I do it

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

“Just eat whole foods. Avoid anything in a package. Eat more fruits and vegetables.”

No shit, Sherlock. Most of us would benefit from eating more fruits and veggies. But advice like this skips the most important question: who is actually doing the work?

Who is planning the meals?
Who is grocery shopping, often multiple times a week because produce spoils?
Who is budgeting for foods that cost more and don’t last as long?
Who is washing, chopping, cooking, packing, and cleaning,
on top of paid work, childcare, caregiving, and everything else?

Because a raw bell pepper isn’t a meal.

“Just eat better” ignores the very real time, cost, access, skills, and invisible labor required to make that happen. And let’s be honest, this labor disproportionately falls on women.

Nutrition advice that ignores mental load, time scarcity, food environments, and gendered labor isn’t just unhelpful. It’s lazy.

Health isn’t just about what you eat. It’s also about who is expected to make it happen.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

People keep asking why some of us are so frustrated with how COVID.. and now vaccines.... are talked about in the media.

Here’s one example that explains a lot.

For the past five years, Emily Oster has been treated as a trusted voice on public health. Not because she’s trained in medicine or epidemiology (LOOK AT HER CV https://t.co/EgcxdQRXck) but because she’s confident, prolific, and “sounds reasonable.”

She’s an economist. DOESNT THAT MATTER TO YOU?

A certain strain of economic thinking treats preventable deaths as acceptable tradeoffs. If harm occurs, the market will “correct.” Regulation and precaution are framed as overreactions.

That logic shows up again and again in her work.

Before COVID, she argued that treating HIV in Africa wasn’t “economical.” Later, she framed drinking alcohol during pregnancy as a feminist issue...dismissing long-standing medical consensus.

Then COVID hit.

While teachers were dying and kids were getting sick, Oster rose to prominence by promoting early school reopenings using unverified newsletter surveys..Google Forms with no way to confirm who was responding or whether the information was accurate.

Those claims shaped policy anyway.

When the consequences became clear... educator deaths, overwhelmed schools, kids developing Long COVID...there was no apology. No reflection. Just more op-eds, more TV appearances, more insistence that everyone else was “overreacting.”

Now, she’s moved seamlessly into legitimizing anti-vaccine talking points, attacking childhood vaccine schedules, and positioning herself as a centrist bridge between pediatricians and RFK Jr.’s worldview.

You cannot repeatedly get core scientific facts wrong across infectious disease, pediatrics, vaccines, pregnancy, and public health..and still expect to be treated as a trusted authority on matters of life and death.

https://t.co/GIifXYCbmW

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

'This study highlights the urgent need for long-term immune monitoring after SARS-CoV-2 exposure. Persistent T-cell reductions, particularly in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, raise concerns about *chronic immune dysfunction even in nonhospitalized individuals*'.

*my emphasis.