Posts by Gonçalo Praça
Nas mãos de sociopatas
"Sem melhoras", no sentido de bastante pior
A Pacific yew tree. It has needles for leaves and very red berries pictured here in the tree
I got a chemo drug today, taxol, named after its plant Taxus brevifolia, or the pacific yew tree. It was used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes. western scientists in the 20th century isolated its chemical compound and in 1990 it was approved as a cancer drug in 1993 1/
Great food can be found in the scuzziest of places. (...) Expensive restaurants are wasted on the people who can afford them. And food should always, always, be served on plates. Not on slates. Not on garden trowels. Not on planks. On plates.
Congressional Democrats’ office phone lines are being overrun with calls from distressed constituents goading their representatives to push back harder against the Trump administration.
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
Worlds richest man wants to get rid of food safety, clean water protections, worker, protections, auto safety standards, clean air protections, financial regulations, and any rules that might prevent corporate interest from harming people and the environment. That’s all. This is war.
See it's funny, because there probably was a time in U.S. history when an unelected plutocrat gaining illicit access to government systems would have resulted in him being dragged out of whatever government building he was in at the moment by his balls by armed government agents within +/- 3 minutes
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
Olha que interessante…📌
Portuguese politician Miguel Arruda is out of the far-right Chega party after being accused of stealing suitcases from airport luggage carousels in a bizarre case that includes widely aired video footage and charges of AI manipulation.
The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues.
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNC1...
Cine-teatro da Manutenção Militar, rua do Grilo. Como é que isto tudo não é espaço público
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
Mas ainda é preciso tirar-lhes o fio? Exceto se forem "biológicos", ou de agricultura muito tradicional, nunca mais tirei, sem notar nada. (É como as beringelas, que dantes tinha que se salgar para tirar o amargo. Já não é preciso.)
not a landslide
Disseram-me isto: "I haven’t tried these approaches to find Twitter friends who have moved to BlueSky, but in case you’re interested, these seem to be the most popular: (1) www.fadatechmas.com.ng/2023/06/how-... (2) skeet.labnotes.org and (3) github.com/kawamataryo/...
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