Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
I'm so sorry
Poor Bramble the Welsh and Norfolk terrier cross - looking very fluffy atm - in my mum's round-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses in a look my dad described as "professorial"
My dad put my mum's glasses on the dog
I'm so sorry, I have severe me too and I get the same thing from family members. It's so hard 💐
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
Constantly! It's a sign of a good book, that it can move you so deeply.
(things said by people who have not undertaken a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021)
I wish liberal covid deniers would actually engage with the piles of evidence on the continued danger of covid, rather than deeming everyone who has insane.
Repeat Covid infections increase your risk of Long Covid.
We are in a mass disabling event that too many people are choosing to ignore.
Every infection is a dice roll with disability, and many (children included) are being infected once a year or more.
Mask up, clean the air, get boosted!
Thousands of New Yorkers — including ‘Orange is the New Black’ actor Matt McGorry — suffer from ‘Long COVID’ By Carl Campanile Published July 27, 2025, 8:23 p.m. ET
Thousands of New Yorkers — including ‘Orange is the New Black’ actor Matt McGorry — suffer from ‘Long COVID’
An estimated 500,000 New Yorkers had lingering COVID symptoms in 2023, affecting daily life and work.
McGorry, 39, said long COVID fatigue severely impacted his career.
archive.md/I1A27
Yes.
We would have zero COVID in most countries by now.
one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻
@mrdavemacleod
whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍
Screenshot of headline of article, which reads "Abused and terrified: Scotland's brutalised disabled people reveal all", below which is an image of wheelchair user with their head in their hands in a shadowy room, with the caption "The statistics about the lives of disabled people are just as harrowing as the personal stories. A survey by Glasgow Disability Alliance found that 97% were 'concerned they had been forgotten in government priorities and plans".
CN: abuse, harassment and ableism.
This article covers some of the many ways that disabled people in Scotland are suffering, and being let down and abandoned by the services that should be there to support them.
archive.ph/2025.02.16-0...
I respect a book that has me stopping to re-read a perfectly and beautifully constructed sentence. #BookSky
“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”
Beyond parody.
"May his name be erased."
A giant walrus, the size of an elephant, sits on a fiberglass ice platform, in a display hall of a museum. It has long white tusks and pebbly brown skin. From Atlas Obscura: "Walrus, standing proud (photograph by Tom Natt)"
The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus.
It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out.
This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends.
MAXIMUM WALRUS.
(📷: Tom Natt)
Terry Pratchett said it best:
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away [...] until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.
GNU, DAVID LYNCH.
"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." --from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
Nada como citar a Pratchett.
Dirty air, dementia, and other adverse brain effects
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
new Feature @nature.com open-access
The White House gave Israel the coordinates of an American family in Gaza, ostensibly to protect them. Israel used those coordinates to bomb them.
theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...
I am able to share the tragic news I mentioned this week on behalf of the family: my dear friend Jessy Roos lost her beautiful 10mo old JJ suddenly on December 23. Her wonderful family needs our support to help them through the coming days and beyond. www.gofundme.com/f/honouring-...
“Based on current medical trends and expected advancements, we conclude that COVID-19 is still driving excess mortality both directly and indirectly.” www.swissre.com/institute/re...
Thanks, I'll have a look!
I have a dentist appointment in a couple of days, is there anything I can do/take apart from nasal spray to reduce the risk of catching covid or anything there?
That smile
Washing your hands is important.
But COVID gathers in under ventilated spaces like smoke.
It's high time we in public health were honest with the public and admit we got it wrong.
There was far too much emphasis placed on handwashing for Covid.
Many died because of this incorrect guidance.
