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The #H5N1 #birdflu virus from a severe case in Louisiana shows it was developing mutations that could help it attach to cells in human respiratory tracts, including a mutation seen in a recent severe case in British Columbia, Canada, the #CDC reported today. www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/c...

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...dragons. They are dragons. Not your fun, cherries jubilee eating dragons. Smaug. They're Smaug. That's it.

submitted 172 days ago • 8 comments

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

submitted 172 days ago • 628 comments

I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer. It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health. Warning signs are everywhere.

submitted 172 days ago • 956 comments

Grinch was into squats this year!

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colin jost: luigi mangione audience: goes absolutely fuckin nuts

submitted 177 days ago • 19 comments

Yup, the article, which (again) was a front page story on press freedom has been wiped from the web. You can read the full piece here, but these women in Pakistan, Liberia, and around the world risked their safety to speak for this piece, and now it's been wiped. How & why? archive.ph/5bs3U

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$600million wedding you say Amazon warehouse workers have to strike on Xmas you say Amazon tech workers are demanding #NoTechForApartheid you say

submitted 177 days ago • 1 comment

Seeking help! No matter how many keywords/names u search related to this story the article doesn't appear on Google This was a front page A1 story I wrote for WaPo on how smear campaigns and abuse women journalists endure are a press freedom issue. Can someone explain why it won't appear on Google?

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Death and injuries in Germany as car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market

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“So there it is, los molletes: the sun reborn on the plate, warm and heavy in the palm” 🖤🖤🖤🇲🇽

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on mythology, midwinter and the mollete sandwich: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 179 days ago • 5 comments

today, at the dentist.

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Have people not been paying attention? Musk has been boosting the AfD for a couple years now. The directness is somewhat new, but his affinity for them is not.

submitted 179 days ago • 7 comments

Min Yoongi:

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quilts and blankets are superior.

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Shopify executives are vocally opposing the Canadian government — and now they’re being openly praised by the Conservative Party leader. They’re trying to extend Silicon Valley’s right-wing project to Canada — and need to be stopped.

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In case people were curious, www.bop.gov/locations/in...

submitted 179 days ago • 13 comments

Apropos of nothing, Amazon has a sweetheart deal with NYC whereby they can block traffic lanes to offload their packages and pay minimal fines.

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Found out why an "Occupy Wall Street" account tweeted praise of Elon Musk and his ambition of colonizing Mars: turns out it's one person who was integral to the original movement but has since been alienated from it. @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social has disavowed. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 180 days ago • 13 comments

Inquiry launched in Peru after alleged prostitution ring uncovered in Congress

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The New York Times, a publication I've worked for and love, recently published a guide on the best men's jeans. Included are $300 APCs and $50 stretch jeans from two different brands. I have a different view on how to find the perfect pair of jeans. So here's a thread. 🧵

submitted 180 days ago • 83 comments

“By complicating a simple case, Mr. Bragg has increased the risk of acquittal on the most serious charge and a hung jury on any charge.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/o...

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Essay: What does a rapist look like? www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-what...

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Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

submitted 182 days ago • 401 comments

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submitted 183 days ago • 20 comments

Good work, South Korea apnews.com/article/sout...

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

Arabic translation by Hiba Moustafa www.feministgiant.com/p/6cf

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Reading about Hitler's relationship with wealthy businessmen. This sounds familiar, doesn't it? "Hitler’s invitation to a discussion of economic policy had been, in truth, little more than a pretext for requesting millions to build up an election campaign slush fund." lithub.com/in-the-room-...

submitted 185 days ago • 8 comments

😭😭😭 That face

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i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 186 days ago • 2818 comments

The South Korean National Assembly voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, forcing him to immediately hand over power to the prime minister following his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this month.

submitted 185 days ago • 49 comments

morning! wear a mask. that is the twe... I mean the post.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Violence is never the answer...but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands." "What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."

submitted 188 days ago • 102 comments

Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference. “Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.

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Background on these arrestees, three brothers two of whom are fancy real estate brokers in NYC and Miami: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/r...

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The husband and father of three accused of staging a kayaking accident to fake his death, abandon his family and start a new life has been arrested and is in a Wisconsin jail, records show.

submitted 188 days ago • 24 comments

Whew! What a great time to be smug about living in a blue state & feeling secure enough to think that my state will fight fucking anything for us 😆 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/n...

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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

submitted 188 days ago • 224 comments

Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business. They could call it Ben and Jerry's.

submitted 189 days ago • 380 comments

A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.

submitted 189 days ago • 445 comments

Stop using these apps entirely, people. Get a notebook and a pen and go analog. I'm serious

submitted 189 days ago • 97 comments

Further South Korea martial law protests as ex-defence minister and senior police arrested

submitted 189 days ago • 4 comments

I queried the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NBC to at least give them a chance to make their case for withholding the Luigi Mangione manifesto. They didn't even respond!

submitted 189 days ago • 36 comments

I agree. and I would add that there are foods for certain times too, but that's flour of another bag.

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