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And that it causes your immune system to forget what it's learned about other diseases, making you much more vulnerable to everything else. Fun! 🙃

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Everything is off the rails right now, but news of physical intimidation at scientific conferences by MAGA shows how far things have already gotten. #StandWithScience

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Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century, a rare glimpse into the intellectual and cultural life of medieval Romania. www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost...

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🖖 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sta...

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Amazing picture of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander languages as per the 2021 census, from HotsanGget on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Linguistic...

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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

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My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

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A face from the past. A 12th century Hiberno-Romanesque head incorporated into a wall at Kilteel Church, Kildare.

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We are a day or two away from the United States Constitution being a dead letter. This is not hyperbole. This is not me be being a doomer. This is a basic legal and political fact. The math, as I see it. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

It's called fashion look it up

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

some america first beers spotted in denmark:

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"Why are you so worried now?" Because I paid attention in history class...

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There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

submitted 27 days ago • 82 comments

People who followed Babylon 5 back in the day... let me refer you to the Shadows, Morden and Londo Mollari... allegorical for what is happening in the US right now, with Morden = Musk, Londo Mollari = Trump?

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When I was a child, 1 of my favourite authors was Ursula Le Guin. Let's revisit some of her works. It was only when I was older that I got to understand the depth of her work. My favourite book back then was Wizard of Earthsea. You can imagine my delight when I found out it was the 1st of a series.

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Polls Keep Showing Americans Want Elon Musk and DOGE Out of Government Imagine that: Americans don’t want an unelected billionaire running the government. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

A poster in a hospital in Drogheda, in Ireland. It shouldn’t be a big deal, should it?

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Okay so that we can gratuitously show you the Hall on #superbowl day, prepare for tenuousity on an epic scale. Superb-owls would once have sat in the oak trees that now span the Hall. Okay we promise to stop now.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

submitted 22 days ago • 79 comments

I just read this unattributed quote and after laughing I wanted to find out WHO the genius is. “When you think there’s no hope left. Remember the lobsters in the tank at the Titanic’s restaurant.”

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

submitted 25 days ago • 91 comments

Also an excellent postcard/poster

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Musk isn’t making government smaller. He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.

submitted 22 days ago • 142 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

submitted 23 days ago • 473 comments

This is not nothing. The stream of legal rulings sound the alarm to the normies that illegal and unconstitutional shit is happening left and right. But keep in mind the federal court orders are not self executing. Someone, the executive branch, someone, needs to enforce the order.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Great news: Trump/Musk cuts to USAID temporarily blocked in court. Keep chipping away. They're not invincible.

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

This sounds promising: a way to see what has been deleted.

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Kildemock Jumping Church... a storm in 1715 did something... youtu.be/fuiY1-o7e4A?... I made this vlog in Irish Sign Language 14 years ago about it. For people who do not sign, here is an account in text: www.discoverboynevalley.ie/boyne-valley...

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The London Underground in 1952 by Bert Hardy, complete with wooden floors, lampshades and a cigarette.

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Fascinating story on the RTÉ Archives from 1970 – the tale of Jack Dinan from County Clare whose wife was replaced by a fairy. One night his wife disappeared, and in her place in the bed was a 'small little cailleach, who would kick him if he went near her'. www.rte.ie/archives/201...

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This caricature is my reality and why I am no longer employed in #Deaf education.

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I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

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'Twas the Night before Christmas, when all through the lab, a dead body lay stiff and cold on the slab. A medical history edition by yours truly and illustrated by @tealcartoons.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTn...

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Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive & must be kept in a lead-lined box. If you visit the Pierre & Marie Curie Collection at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, many of her personal items—from her furniture to cookbooks—require protective clothing to be safely handled. #histsci

submitted 70 days ago • 17 comments

For those of you looking for a break from the Yuletide usual, I have written a thing about caricaturing horror characters: open.substack.com/pub/tealcart... #caricature #art

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent thread.

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As others have noted, you don't want a system trained on ableist principles used to represent the interests of disabled people.

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#Newgrange

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Listerine cigarettes, c.1930. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence. #histmed

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While studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1778, Charles Darwin’s uncle (by the same name) cut his hand dissecting a child’s corpse. He died within days, likely from meningococcal meningitis. Death was often inescapable for those trying their hardest to prevent it. #histmed #histsci

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