Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;
www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...
Rapid oxidisation with a side ordered of melted bones and rigid lungs
Demos that sound cool in theory, but you really should take a moment to think about before doing them:
Pouring concentrated HF on chrysotile asbestos
The Wicker Adder: Blackadder forges a prophecy directing Lord Percy Summerisle to sacrifice Baldrick so he can corner the apple market
28 Adders Later: Lt. Blackadder has almost completed his cunning plan to get leave from the military bunker when Baldrick releases the rage virus. Again.
The Great God Bladders: George narrates Dr. Blackadder's effort to have Baldrick impregnated by a pagan deity
Another credit rating downgrade for #NZ
Grant Robertson got higher ratings for the country, Willis trashed it
National were warned this would happen if they repealed 3 Waters & forced Councils to take on more debt, as well as keep borrowing for "tax cuts" & landlords
hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.
If the two Chrises (Chrisii?) currently running our major political parties really wanted to cement a legacy for themselves, they'd pledge that *neither* of them will countenance Winston Peters in their Cabinet after the 2026 election
(a girl can dream)
Quiet Posters feed not working
why.bsky.team subscribed to the anti anti ai block list, blocking over 300 000 users
If you wonder why the "Quiet Posters" feed doesn't work for you anymore, it is because the @why.bsky.team subscribed to an anti-anti-ai block list, rendering it useless for over 300 000 users. Good job bsky team!!
If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood
In Phase II, the respiratory effects of wearing N95 masks were examined. Each subject underwent two 15-minute exercise cycles on a treadmill. Each subject wore a Hans Rudolph mask, similar to that in Phase I, attached to a laboratory-based metabolic cart (Cortex Metalyser 3BR2, Leipzig, Germany) in order to obtain real time respiratory parameters during exercise. In the first (control) cycle, subjects wore the Hans Rudolph mask with the outlet opened to ambient air. In the second (N95) cycle, outlets of the Hans Rudolph masks were covered by materials obtained from representative supplies of N95 masks (3M, St. Paul, MN, USA). N95-mask materials were trimmed to form an airtight seal over the Hans Rudolph mask outlet so that the air flow resistance on inspiration and expiration would come from the mask material, simulating the actual wearing of an N95 respirator (Fig. 2) This experimental design allowed each subject to act as her own control. Tight fitting Hans Rudolph respirator masks used in Phase II. (a) Control cycles with outlet open to air, and (b) N95 cycles with outlet covered by N95 mask materials
TBH this is basically the whole thing. I could probably have just posted this one image and everyone who's paying attention would understand.
Pregnant nurses were tested while wearing a spirometry mask, with or without a small piece of N95 material taped over the hole.
The...tiny...little...hole.
The development comes a month after President Donald Trump publicly rejected an offer from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to provide help in combating Iranian drone strikes. “We don't need their help in drone defense,” Trump told Fox News on March 6.
Winston got anopther donation from the horse-racing industry (Nelson Schick), alundered through a wire-rope company. Schick had previously donated to the NZ First Foundation money-laundering scheme. elections.nz/democracy-in...
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh
⚡️ Update: EU envoys approve 90 billion euro loan for Ukraine after Slovakia, Hungary said Druzhba transit resumed.
EU envoys approved the 90-billion-euro loan for Ukraine, the spokesperson for the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council said.
screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"
screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
I know, but I think, maybe, you're up to the challenge of doing both.
Oh, I see. Blocklists work.
I guess she’ll go ask the US when it’s going to be alright again
ever taken on a $10.5B mining company and won? neither. until yesterday.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
I wish I had the confidence of the 5-year-old who just walked up to me in a hospital hallway and said, “Bad news mister, my mother is lost.”
Coalition spat deepens as Christopher Luxon fires back at Winston Peters
Seriously, we're in the middle of multiple international crisis and domestic states of emergency and these cunts are busy stabbing each other in the back
You are not a functional government, so give it up and call a snap election so we can vote someone competent to power
#nzpol
Make sure other people see your blood on their hands
The Oregon Audit Trail?
