OMG HE HAS TO WALK TEN WHOLE FEET.

This simple house may help prevent multiple fatal diseases in African children Randomized, controlled trial shows the $8800 design can reduce cases of malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infection

The research “contributes hugely to the critical evidence that a house is a social determinant of health, a factor that is largely overlooked by health practitioners and those involved in building and construction,” adds Bernard Abong’o, an entomologist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.

Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

#gally1 and #liwho tickets ACQUIRED!

The far side of the Moon seen from Artemis II, revealing a heavily cratered surface that is lit from the right side of the picture. The terminator runs from the bottom middle to the left middle, and craters along that line are sharper in detail.

#PPOD: In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. 🧪 🔭

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

Whew - glad I checked. Benjamin Bernheim's recital is TONIGHT, not Thursday as I originally thought. Plenty of Orchestra seats left although balcony sold out.

I got paid just in time.

It's the Kansas Flu

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

New reporting shows the election denial movement isn’t on the outside looking in anymore—it’s now embedded in the machinery of government.

Over the past several years, billionaires + right-wing foundations poured tens of millions into building that infrastructure. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

📌 'I Wanted to Hear a Message Other Than 'Revenge'' | Ido Fell on October 7. His Mother and Widow Seek Solace in the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum
By Yair Foldes
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵

how many platner backers could I sway by saying "idk he's kind of Arthas-coded"

Lovely Bird Songs 🎶

So we CAN'T just...you know.

Day 19 - Hod Sh’b Tiferet: Being within Beauty — A Way In The light, the wisdom, the glory that rises from the unfolding of creation

#omer

www.awayin.org/counting-the...

TIL that you can listen to podcasts on TuneIn.

American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse.
www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

Elizabeth “Warren has introduced legislation barring all presidents from raising money for presidential-library funds while in office, mandating disclosure of big donors, and barring personal use of the money.”

Israel had a bad week in Europe. Does it herald a wider shift in EU relations? With Orbán gone and Meloni distancing herself, EU sanctions on trade and settlers are looking more likely

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... If something will really be done to react to the vigilante thugs of the illegal West Bank settlements, then good riddance Orban. It's painful to root against Israel in this way; all that comforts me is knowing that I'm in the good company of many, many Israelis.

Whoops. I shared the old one. This is Ross's current GoFundMe.

Look, American health insurance rules have evolved into something even the Devil thinks is too cruel for humans. Ross has a cracked molar, and is postpononing colonoscopies with polyps because he has no money.

In the continued “this is why you don’t privatize all space exploration”

I came up with this insult in a dream, of all places, and I can't wait to try it on someone for real. And you're welcome to use it.

In response to a complete asshat:

"In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, 'veni, vedi, vici.' That's Latin for 'I came, I saw, fuck you.'"

Thanks to @doctorow.pluralistic.net, I learned a new word today: schismogenesis.

It describes the phenomenon where a group is created out of opposition to a thing. The group's entire purpose and identity are set on antagonism, forsaking all reason or merit.

Is this the word of the century? Maybe.

Patchwork of silks and cottons of a variety of colours. Girl's frock of mulicoloured patchwork in silks (including patachute silk) and cottons, the dress has a squared neckline with an organdie frill, and padded puffed sleeves are lined, and the gathered skirt had a built-in organdie petticoat with a hem frill. The dress fastens at the back with five pearlised buttons and stitched buttonholes.

Child's party dress, 1944.
Due to wartime fabric rationing, the dress is made of scrap cotton and parachute silk.
Ref MISC.265-1983, V & A Museum.

My wokest Doctor Who opinion is that Delia Derbyshire needs to be co-credited as composer of the theme tune alongside Grainer every episode and not doing so is a sexist omission of her contribution, which is arguably bigger.

And yes, Grainer *agreed* and wanted her credited.

Wishing Louise Jameson, who played companion Leela, a happy 75th birthday.

#Whoniverse #DoctorWho #Leela #Companion #LouiseJameson #Birthday

“Tradition” is just peer pressure from dead people.

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

1. Give hugs.
2. ...
3. Profit?


(Kidding of course! The hugs ARE the profit!)

Science nerds! My six year old has a question and Google is completely useless and keeps telling us the answer is silica aerogel- What is the lightest solid found in nature?