Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
Disabled people should not have to worry about their personal care being cut.
No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff
Anyways...
March 13, 2025 The GIST Editors' notes Symptoms of long COVID can last up to two years after infection, research suggests by Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Symptoms of long COVID can last up to 2 years after infection, research suggests.
"Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for 2 years."
Source: archive.md/FLpeI
Microplastics are facilitating antibiotic resistance
journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.... open-access
What's good for the goose...
Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.
Sojourner Truth fought slavery through powerful speeches, activism, and legal action. Her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech challenged racial and gender oppression, and her legal victory in freeing her son was groundbreaking. 164 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
R.I.P. George Lowe... 2025 officially sux
Two figures walk along a corridor lined with complex machinery. The worker says "Congratulations, sir! The most intelligent machine ever created is ready to change the world. Ten billion dollars well spent... What shall we ask it to do? " The billionaire replies "That's my business, not yours. Close the door on your way out." Now alone with the machine, the billionaire asteps closer and asks quietly "Can you Make people like me?" it says "No"
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
🇺🇸US COVID update: Feb 10, 2025
🔸1 in 67 people currently infected
🔸716,000 new daily infections
🔸5,012,000 new weekly infections
🔸251,000 to 1,002,000 weekly Long COVID cases
"There is more transmission today than during 61.0% of the pandemic"
Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the centre of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light. The star displays the characteristic diffraction spikes of Webb’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam), caused by the physical structure of the telescope itself. NIRCam effectively balances the brightness of the star with the fainter gas and dust surrounding it, while Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nebula’s structure. Background stars and galaxies populate the field of view and peek through the nebula of gas and dust that has been ejected from the ageing massive star. A history of the star’s past episodes of mass loss can be read in the nebula’s structure. Rather than smooth shells, the nebula is formed from random, asymmetric ejections. Bright clumps of gas and dust appear like tadpoles swimming toward the star, their tails streaming out behind them, blown back by the stellar wind.
High resolution image of a heavy star.
🔭 🧪
My father said those words to me once. The week before he died.
Many mostly small, bright objects scattered over a dark background in space. In the top half on the right is an elliptical galaxy, a round light larger than the others, with a slightly warped ring of light around it. In the bottom half there is a barred spiral galaxy, big enough that we can see its bluish arms and its core in detail. Other objects include distant galaxies and nearby stars.
WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!
The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357. image credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
one of the best hubble images ever
To summarise.
COVID-19 is damaging people’s immune system… and it’s getting worse… and we have evidence… and it’s going to produce drug resistant bugs
and we are not doing two simple things to stop it.
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If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.
It is currently not leaning toward the house. That doesn't guarantee it won't hit the house but at least it gives me some hope that it won't. Fingers crossed.
There's no telling when it might let go.2/2
I stepped outside to feed the feral kitty (I cannot think of a good name for them) and heard popping and cracking sounds that concerned me.
There is no fire but the overly large pine on the hill behind the house is leaning in a way it was not before.
I think it's going to fall. 1/2
I have followed everyone from two specific lists.
Hello, it's nice to meet you. I'm glad I found your account.
Thank you for the helpful information. 🫶🏼
My feral cat is getting less wary of me. They do the "big stretch" move in my presence, but not close enough to touch of course.
Had to prop one of the cat shelter doors open so they would use it. Kind of defeats the purpose although I'm sure it's still warmer in there than it is outside.
Hundreds of delicate gray Mycena semivestipes mushrooms grow up the side of a mossy log under gray winter skies
Here are some nice mushrooms
There’s something ironic about people claiming some autistic people are “faking their autism”.
As many of us were “faking” being normal for so long.
Trying not to post when feeling depressed/low/negative. Which is why I have almost no posts.
NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula