My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
Happy birthday, Joan Baez. The legendary singer-songwriter turns 84 years old today. Photo by Selin Alemdar / Redferns
Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS. The letter states: “RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.” 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Thank you President Carter for your incredible leadership, legacy and life of service.
So, why did Donnie Coke Jr. and Charlie Kirk share a honeymoon suite on their little trip to Greenland? And order $3,000 worth of lube and condoms? I made it up, but do feel free to spread it. Truth doesn't matter anymore, sweeties. 🤭
Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
Imagine watching disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thinking that the apocalyptic weather scenes were the “unrealistic” part. Turns out those scenes were almost bang on. The unrealistic part was the humans working together to overcome the problem & save the world. Sigh.
Have you noticed that the amazing people behind our Bellingcat toolkit have taken the time to categorise tools by research topics? This includes a must read most used by Bellingcat staff list, have a look here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/most...
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of Mycena semivestipes grows out from the moss covered punk of a decaying log
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me after i drink two energy drinks in one day
i don’t claim the money for almost any of my songs besides edamame, lalala & gravy collabs. gamers, animators, etc… go crazy 💅 go make your bag 🙂‍↕️
Any good resources that people know where we can donate that help people who are displaced during this tragedy?
I have a favorite song about driving a train while high on cocaine. But I’m not going to tell you what it is. You have to guess.
lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today. i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment. the beauty of the cosmos 🌌
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An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon concluded that the human brain and the universe basically grow as a result of similar physical principles. Today’s House of Study goody looks at a myriad of similar connections, with many exquisite photos:
Mario Kart 7 greatly deforms some drivers' models to get them to fit into their karts. The greatest modification is made to Rosalina, whose legs are considerably shortened.
Left: Short-legged Mario Kart 7 Rosalina
Right: On-model Mario Kart 8 Rosalina
Note that Rosalina's legs are always bent in a sitting position in-game, and have been straightened for this image.
Source: models-resource.com users "Centrixe the Dodo", "Mystie", "BillyBnMOfficial", "Ray Koopa",
models-resource.com/wii_u/mariokart8/model/10575, models-resource.com/3ds/mariokart7/model/8652/
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There's an enjoyable irony that all of my odd interests that folks belittled when I was young, that they'd never make money or matter - history generally, military history in particular, video games, Tolkien, Dune - are the things I have built my career, such as it is, on.
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This amazing image combines Webb (at top left) & Hubble's (on bottom right) face-on views of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512. Webb’s observations put together near- and mid-infrared light & Hubble’s ones display visible & ultraviolet light. ➡️ webbtelescope.org/contents/med...
"Two observations of the galaxy NGC 1512 are split diagonally, with Webb’s observations at top left and Hubble’s at bottom right. The galaxy’s core is centered and circular, with two prominent dust lanes crossing the large diagonal bar structure appearing toward the top left and bottom right. The central bar is blue at top, looking like a gap until a closer examination shows it feeds a larger, oval shape that looks braided with many spiral arms. In Webb’s image, the spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange. In Hubble’s image the bar is a light pinkish-brown and the spiral arms are a mix of bright blue star clusters and dark brown dust lanes."
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Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this.