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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

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Just discovered Year of the Rabbit with Matt Berry on Netflix, very funny Victorian detective comedy, was on C4 originally and sadly only one series 🥺

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What a hell of a show….

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Going to see Pulp tomorrow night - another fantastic band I missed seeing live first time round

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Labour under Starmer: zero principles and gullible as hell, selling culture workers out to tech bros.

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I'm incredibly excited to be able to share some news about the Quiet Horror Anthology project! First: The title has been updated to SILENT SCREAMS😱 Second: I can finally reveal our stunning cover art by @ewbstuff.bsky.social Third: Table of Contents attached Tagging the incredible authors below👇

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Fishing crews off the east coast of Scotland feared getting a Brounger in the head sheets. To allay this sea monster’s hoodoo, a boat had to circle the water three times. Or pay a tax of fish & oysters. Image - Sea Monster from the Wellcome Collection #FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social

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Obviously the #Torygraph deserve full opprobrium for their terrible journalism but is no one actually factchecking any more? “Barbara Santini, one of the most widely quoted psychologists in the UK, who Press Gazette was able to prove does not exist” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

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A terrifying escalation:

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

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Keir Starmer is going to this tech conference later to speak with tech leaders 'man-to-man' P.S. There have been 19 elected leaders of the Labour party since it was formed P.P.S. All have been men www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Trump claimed he called Gavin Newsom about LA protests, but Newsom denied it, saying no call or voicemail happened. He called Trump a “stone-cold liar” and suggested he was either dishonest or imagining conversations—raising concerns about his fitness.

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Not a single pipe bomb. No bear spray. No zip ties, no handcuffs, no makeshift gallows. Just chants and cardboard signs in L.A. — yet the right dares call this an “insurrection,” while still labeling Jan 6 a “day of love”?

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I suspect being taught loads of grammar has something to do with this. Stories first, grammar later

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Just in case anyone needs a ChatGPT fix while it’s down: 28 + 46 =7,436,189 Jane Austen is the capital of Guatemala The largest bird in the world is Colin Cowdrey’s pet cockapoo, Beatrice

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The only people this benefits are Putin and Xi

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Dear me. Let’s hope nothing important was depending on it.

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Being part of the whole Unbound saga has not been fun; one consolation has been the support of the many other authors involved. And so, in that spirit, we've put together a list of some of the great books that now need publishers and agents. Please do share! open.substack.com/pub/therebou...

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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

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California officials filed a lawsuit against Trump for deploying the California National Guard to LA without Governor Newsom’s consent. The crux of the lawsuit is that the law requires the President to issue orders through the state governor, which Trump did not do. www.rawstory.com/newsom-vs-tr...

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In today's Some Metaphors Are A Little Too Obvious slot...

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Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

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AI plundering scripts poses ‘direct threat’ to UK screen sector, says BFI

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OK I think we all need cheering up

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Maybe just fix all your leaks and the environmental pollution you’ve caused over the last decade instead of profiteering #ThamesWater?

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‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study - Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tonight’s the night! 📚 Story fans and library-lovers, join us for the Story Radio Writers’ Salon at The Colony Room Green – The Library 📅 Monday, 9 June 2025 • 🕖 Evening at Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BS www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/story-radi...

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According to Roman sources, Boudicca's deity was Andrasta, goddess of victory, who demanded the blood of Roman women as sacrifice. To know Andraste's will, a hare was released from beneath Boudicca's dress: the direction it went foretold victory. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: W. Andrew

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On his first day in office Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 cop beating insurrectionists.

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www.theguardian.com/business/202... Outrageous. I believe it should be nationalised and the management prosecuted

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Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance | David Kirp

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“I think they’ve woke people up across the nation, certainly in California, and people are ready to get to action…that I believe is going to be historical.”

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The Trump administration's spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking. U.S. researchers' fears are coming true. America's science pipeline is drying up, and countries like China are seizing the opportunity to surge ahead.

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Preparing for a poetry day

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Reading this post turned all the text on my computer into an ancient Babylonian script and purple smoke started seeping out of it, help.

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The blazing Trump/Musk feud, which is going to torch both of them in significant ways, highlights several of the points in my most read Substack essay of all-time: the Myth of the Secret Genius, on why Musk isn’t nearly as smart as his weirdly fawning acolytes insist.

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I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Well, it’s been a shit week but I am now drinking emergency bubbly ‘Champagne to my real friends, real pain to my sham friends 🍾🥂’

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Ah, the golden age.

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“The government seems content to dilute protections of our waterways and local wildlife with vague promises of future benefits and little clarity about when they will materialise" - Gideon Amos MP Liberal Democrats 🔶 planning and housing spokesperson www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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