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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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Daily dose of #Sun 2025.06.15 17:55 - 18:59 UTC

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Robin at the moment of engaging warp drive.

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For Father's Day, a quotation about Mark's dad, who's not exactly the best of parents. But he did kind of do his best in his own way, bless him. Phengaris available for order here: payhip.com/b/58paC

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Yes and yes, until someone pulls the plug on this bullshit

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Egretă mică - Egretta garzetta cu peștișor în cioc - Botoșani , 2022-06-24 #Europe #TravelPhotography #Landscape #Photo #Romania #TuristÎnȚaraMea

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Camden, Chateauguay, Bladensburg, Bull Run, Kasserine. None of them hold a candle to the military humiliation today.

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on the note of accessibility, i hope that means everyone is wearing KN95s or N95s. we’re in the middle of the “razor-blade throat” variant of covid, measles is spreading, and bird flu is officially airborne now.

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What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]

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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

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Four years ago, this was my @newstatesman.com warning against UK putting too many eggs in the Aukus basket: "It may be only a matter of time until another Trump-like figure, perhaps more dangerous and determined, occupies the Oval Office." www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

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Surprise surprise – the myth of the “millionaire exodus” has been conclusively debunked as misinformation spread by those who don’t want to see wealth taxed fairly (because they’ve got a lot of it!) Time for the govt to stop hiding behind this excuse and bring in a wealth tax

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As opposed to, for example, the motherfuckers that everyone are protesting. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Fucked up that the best case scenario for Greta and crew is *just* that they be turned around and their cargo confiscated and destroyed And how a "measured" response like that feels lile am impossibility given how Israel as a state seems to always follow its absolute worst instincts.

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This should make it very clear that Gantz and other supposed opposition to the far-right in Israel are not meaningful opposition in any serious way.

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I mean, scholars of fascism were like, “He’s going to attack universities, the media, and unions, and he’s going to arrest his political opponents,” and most of America was like, “Stop exaggerating.”

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🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺 The Polish Constitutional Tribunal is on an, erm, charm offensive. By this, I mean it's trying to convince a lot of people that a coup d'etat is (still) underway in Poland, and the Tribunal itself is a prime victim. They just released a report by an anonymous "team of experts" on the topic. 1/

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...people know protesters are burning Waymos bc those cars are used to surveil protesters right? right??

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The 3rd Mossa & Pleiti book comes out TOMORROW!!!! Great reviews, editors' pick ⬇️, gaslamp mystery where the gas is piped directly from the swirling mass of Jupiter, sapphic romance, petty academia, and very ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽. You have one day left to pre-order!!!

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NEW: Trump today signed an executive order to rescind parts of Obama and Biden cyber EOs and modify others. Text is TBD, but here's a fact sheet: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... Still in: secure software development, BGP, PQC Out: Some AI safety, digital ID, and cyber-related sanctions stuff

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#madleen #flotilla #gaza #greta

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It seems that Western democracy is too fragile if it cannot get rid of those who plot against it. 🙄

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More friendly advice from your mortal enemies.

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The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

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MY MONSTER JUST WON A NEBULA AWARD "Thank you" feels too small, but thank you to everyone who has supported this weird, little book. To everybody who it made feel a little less alone? Remember: we all belong.

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Are some of you adults??? What's with the 'provoking people to use martial law' talking point that keeps circulating? Do you know anything at all about FASCISTS? THEY NEED NO EXCUSE OR PROVOCATION TO DO ANYTHING.

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Egretă mică - Egretta garzetta la decolare - Botoșani , 2022-06-24 #Landscape #Nature #Photography #Photo #Romania #TuristÎnȚaraMea

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Francesca Albanese— "I call it genocide b/c IT IS genocide. Defined by intent, not by method or means. Visible without magnification—if we look with context, at the victims: what they share is being part of a group, as such. B/c of it, they get killed, tortured, maimed, starved, raped, massacred."

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Poe: you know we've been talking an awful lot about elon musk lately Poe: maybe we should get back to horror stuff Poe: after all Poe: that's kinda our reason for being Barker: yeah but maybe Barker: maybe we can do ONE more elon thread Barker: just as a treat

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If you think he's mad now, wait until he finds out the resale price for Teslas.

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Shoreline of Infinity 39 is out now! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor... In paperback, PDF and ebook formats.

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