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This is me, 100× over. Yet the online discussions are often useful too!

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“Donald Trump will never win the Nobel Peace prize. But he should be a strong contender for the Charlemagne prize — which is awarded each year to the person who has made the greatest contribution to European unity.” www.ft.com/content/724d...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

submitted 18 days ago • 452 comments

Musk and his team don't know the difference between "transgenic" and "transgender". They think this will be a useful political message to rally their base.

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Growing number of experts say that Trump is providing Russia with intelligence against Ukraine. Russian forces in Kursk miraculously had extremely precise coordinates for Ukrainian troop locations, logistics and ammo depots in Kursk after Trump cut off aid. A day before Russia was on the back foot.

submitted 17 days ago • 329 comments

Far right honker, Nigel, furiously peddles stupid, prejudiced ideas that make you poorer. Then, when you are poorer, he tells you you’re right to feel angry about that. But not with him. For love of god, England, work it out… (Private Eye)

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

UK citizens used to have one of the most prized passports in the world. Now it's behing Singapore, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Yes. Behind 11 leading EU nations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/t...

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

A narrowly elected president with a skewed information diet surrounds himself with extremists and tries to overthrow democracy.... sounds familiar (the difference is how South Korea has handled it)

submitted 86 days ago • 9 comments

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America. A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT. Scary stuff. 📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 86 days ago • 53 comments

New York Times Editor’s note: “Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024. Roughly a year before he entered hospice care, he wrote his final New York Times Opinion essay. In it, he looked back on the Capitol riot and explained why he was so worried about American democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/o...

submitted 88 days ago • 139 comments

TSLA is not a high-growth technology stock. It never has been (except insofar as they could pretend to be, based on massive investment Musk attracted by telling this lie) plus green subsidies which won't continue forever (which should be spent on public transport initiatives instead!) Bubble bursts…

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Your regular reminder… Just how leaky are the UK’s sanctions on Russia? Very! Most of it going through the Caucasus….

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Your regular reminder that the motor car is an incredibly inefficient way of moving large numbers of people around.

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

This treasonous skulduggery by the GOP has not featured in any of the Carter obits I've seen. It was followed by the Iran-Contra affair, which saw the Reagan admininistration illegally sell arms to the Iranian regime & use the proceeds to fund the Contras' murderous activities in Nicaragua.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

These privately educated parents sent their 4 girls to state schools, and they thrived. “let’s focus on making state schools so excellent that you’d have to be mad to want to shell out a small fortune for something less good. apple.news/AXUpVrteeR4K...

submitted 87 days ago • 13 comments

“More seals are breeding on the east coast because offshore windfarms may have provided a new footing there for underwater vegetation, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and other marine life, creating a fish nursery that the seals are feeding on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 91 days ago • 24 comments

Nice story about a great camp near Duluth founded for kids with HIV is for sale. Because there aren't enough kids who need it anymore. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

submitted 90 days ago • 48 comments

🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥

submitted 90 days ago • 425 comments

All the folks who have been screaming about World War III for the past four years are suddenly very eager to get into wars with the entire world.

submitted 93 days ago • 831 comments

Here is a stunning logarithmic illustration of the observable universe, offering a visual journey through the cosmos. Our solar system is at the center, followed by the planets, the Kuiper belt, the Milky Way, distant galaxies, the cosmic web, and finally, the edge marked by the plasma of the B.Bang

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The Christmas Tree in Space

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Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Stellar Nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

submitted 93 days ago • 54 comments

“The sector, excluding Vistry which focuses on affordable and rental housing, is forecast to complete just over 50,000 homes this year, the lowest level of output since 2013, according to Financial Times analysis of figures for seven companies compiled by Investec.”

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Dear Maia Sandu, congratulations on your inauguration today. Despite foreign forces working against you, you won fair and square. Your integrity and determination inspire us all. You can count on me as Moldova moves forward on its path to our Union.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” - carl sagan

submitted 97 days ago • 97 comments