“Tesla has lost around $400 billion in market value since Musk’s interest in Twitter became public in April, driving a wedge in his acquisition plans at a time when he has committed $21 billion of his wealth to finance the purchase. Musk had planned to buy Twitter with a combination of loans and equity commitments, leveraging into the deal much of his stake in the most valuable automaker, from which he derives most of his wealth. His net worth, which makes Musk the richest man in the world, has fallen by around $50 billion in recent weeks, according to the Forbes wealth index. And Tesla stock has shed nearly 30 percent of its value in just the past month. Musk disclosed more than $7 billion of financing last week from sources including investment firms, the Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, the Qatar sovereign wealth fund, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.”

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Elon Musk says Twitter deal temporarily on hold

His net worth, which makes Musk the richest man in the world, has fallen by around $50 billion in recent weeks, according to the Forbes wealth index.

Musk has lost 50 billion dollars. And it has not changed his lifestyle or impacted his day to day experience in any meaningful way. He can pay his fucking taxes. He can make meaningful contributions to society and humanity, if he wants to. He could literally give away hundreds of millions of dollars and never notice it.

Fuck Elon Musk. He is garbage.

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i NEED y’all to know that it’s racist to imply Ncuti Gatwa isn’t British

Please change the qualifiers because my gay grandson was expecting the Austrian goth lady and now he's unhappy. Many thanks.

reblog and tell us in the tags: aside from stede and ed, who’s your favorite ofmd pirate?

We have terfs who admit that ace discourse was their first step towards radfem ideas. We’ve had multiple break downs of how terfs and radfems try to radialize other people by using ace/bi/pan/nb/queer/etc. discourse. We’ve had multiple break downs of how popular exclusionist arguments use the same faulty logic and arguments that radfems use.

Can exclusionists maybe finally admit that this is a problem and either drop the discourse entirely or try to come up with arguments that aren’t copied from radfems?

This is really important to recognize, because exclusionists don’t often want to recognize this dirty little truth about their community.

note how the “queer is (always) a slur (and should never be used, even to talk about yourself or the queer community or queer academia)” nonsense is directly mentioned as point 2 on the aphobe to TERF pipeline

They’ve found the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Babies who die of SIDS have a significantly lower level of an enzyme, the purpose of which is to rouse the baby from sleep if necessary (such as the baby stops breathing). This is extremely huge science and medicine news. There is a biological reason. It’s not random.

Previously, parents were told SIDS could be prevented if they took proper precautions: laying babies on their backs, not letting them overheat and keeping all toys and blankets out of the crib were a few of the most important preventative steps. So, when SIDS still occurred, parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (...) Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death. 

"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.” 

Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS. 

"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.

(...) As the cause is now known, researchers can turn their attention to a solution. In the next few years, those in the medical community who have studied SIDS will likely work on a screening test to identify babies who are at risk for SIDS and hopefully prevent it altogether.

TW: discussion of sudden and sleep-related infant death

I am extremely concerned that the above reblog cuts out (without even indicating the cut with an elipses) a VITAL paragraph when quoting the article.

After the paragraph about preventing SIDS through various precautions, it should read "While safe sleep practices are still important for protecting infants, many children whose parents took every precaution still died from SIDS. These parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death."

Without this paragraph, the text as widely spread on Tumblr (where following through to the original article is low) implies that precautions such as laying baby on their back, keeping toys out of cribs, and temperature regulation are not important. This is an extremely dangerous take to spread uncritically.

While it's important to understand any biological factors contributing to infant deaths, doing so at the expense of the well-established biomechanical dangers of unsafe sleep practices can make people think that safe sleeping directives (baby is Alone, on their Back, in a Crib or bassinet with appropriate bedding and without toys) are misguided or overstated. Even in light of this discovery, however, suffocation due to unsafe sleep practices remains a significant risk to infants (making up about a third of unexpected infant deaths each year, with the other third being attributed to SIDS or unknown causes, numbers that are complicated by various social factors, including variation in medical expertise and opinion among medical examiners and coroners that can lead deaths to be misclassified as SIDS even if a potential airway obstruction is known).

While this part of my professional life isn't something I go into online, my line of work is such that--over my lifetime--I have held and washed far, far more dead children than living. Some have been SIDS deaths, some ultimately found to be related to other previously undiagnosed congenital issue, but in the overwhelming majority of the cases I've seen, suffocation due to an unsafe sleep environment was the sole cause or at minimum a major contributing factor of death. Infants with faces pressed against a stuffed animal or fold in a blanket, infants who fell off an adult bed or sleeping caregiver and become wedged, infants unintentionally smothered by a sleeping or incapacitated adult's body weight, infants laid down on an adult pillow, and on and on and on and on. In almost all these cases the adults thought they were being safe, because they had done the same thing without incident for most of the child's life or with previous children. That's why Safe to Sleep programs are so important.

If people walk away from the news of this enzyme discovery thinking that internal biochemical factors are solely to blame for sleep related deaths in infants rather than an explanation for why some infants die even if all recomended precautions have been taken, the infant mortality rate will not improve, and families will continue to suffer preventable tragedies.

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I once had a neighbor who was thoroughly convinced their indoor/outdoor cat never strayed further than a couple houses around. As proof, she put a GPS tracker and little camera on her cat. 24 hours later she had the proof she didn't want. Her cat went as far as a mile away, into the nearby woods where their were coyotes and other predators that would a snack of her cat. Her cat crossed the interstate several times, went to a construction site, and various other places that had me surprised her cat was still alive.

The following week was full of them building a catio and enriching their home. The cat became an indoor cat and chilled out very happily in the catio. They spent the summer harness and leash training their cat as well.

Oh, and the cat killed over a dozen birds and didn't eat any of them in the single day my owner tracked them with the camera and GPS. They had been going out daily for over a year. Imagine a cat killing 12 birds a day, everyday, for just a year. That devastates the local bird population and leads to the extinction of entire species.

Enrich your home, install a catio, get a few cat trees/towers, play with your cat, and they'll live long healthy lives. No worries about some random person killing them with poison or shooting them, no worries about them getting hit by a car, no worries about destroying the local ecosystem. My cats are 17 and 15 years old, 100% indoors their entire lives, and they're happy.

Oh and since avian flu aka bird flu is spreading, please remember that it kills animals that eat the contaminated meat. That means if a cat kills an infected bird and eats it, they will get sick and die.

cats can die of the bird flu