I was at Spider-Man with all my NE LA bluesky friends.
SteveEveLibertineDreⒶm@steveevelibertine.bsky.social · 6h agoI bet LA could do it in two hours, if we tried hard enough
David Ralin
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juman with volvo xc60 stockholm syndrome, anarchisht #6628333, macaroni art peacenik, ellipsometry tinkerer ☕️ 🚲 🧪🚲🔬🚲
SteveEveLibertineDreⒶm@steveevelibertine.bsky.social · 6h ago
When we say "defund the police" what we mean is "they literally scam-overtime bankrupted this city."
Virginia health officials announced the state’s first documented case of locally acquired dengue, saying a resident who had not traveled outside Virginia was probably infected after being bitten by a mosquito that had previously bit an infected traveler.
Virginia reports its first locally acquired dengue case
There is no evidence of continued transmission and no additional reports of locally acquired dengue cases at this time, officials say
washingtonpost.com
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Right-wing media is attacking Francesca Hong for her mental health history
"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy," Hong told Mother Jones.
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Such tasteful replies. Where’s the bluesky that we once knew?
Playboy@playboy.com · yesterdayAs they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?
Iran can throw garbage at us much longer than we can throw Lamborghinis at them.
Brad Reed@bwreed.bsky.social · 5mo agoYep. MAGA cheerleaders don't get how easy and cheap it is for Iran to lob junk at oil tankers.
Both wolves are heckin good 14/10 puppers
Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 6d agoThere are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
futurism.com
it's wild: a new protein, TRAILshort, is an immune cell "off switch." turns out, people with autoimmune diseases don't have enough of it, which could explain a lot about overactive immune responses. this is such an interesting find for future treatments.
Newly-discovered protein acts as off switch for human immune cells
Researchers have identified a newly discovered protein, TRAILshort, which functions as an "off switch" for human immune cells. This protein disrupts T-cell receptor signaling, promoting immune toleran
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We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Traditional and Emerging Physical Processing Technologies: Applications and Challenges in Allergen Control of Animal and Plant Proteins
Under global food shortages and environmental challenges, the food industry is shifting from animal to plant proteins, coinciding with a rising prevalence of food allergies. Structural and functional ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
🔬🌱 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🌱🔬 Rodríguez et al. present SuB3, a simple, fast, and inexpensive method to separate nuclear and cytoplasmic contents of plant cells to study where genes are active and how they are regulated. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
The Cure and The Fall and Killing Joke each have two three-album runs and I couldn’t possibly pick any one of the six as best.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Not the whole story, but I believe this to be true.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
I just got one of those diaphanous produce bags to open, AMA
1) great article, lots of names I haven’t heard in a very long time and 2) John is one I missed in the migration from the old place @johnruchatlanta.bsky.social
John Ruch@johnruchatlanta.bsky.social · last wk."'Cabbagetown ’76’ documents Atlanta’s past in never-before-seen photographs by Barbara McKenzie" www.artsatl.org/cabbagetown-...
You don’t ever need to, it’s not like a kidney where you might want her to step up with a transplant, but anytime is the right answer.
Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 3d agoActual question I was just asked: if you lose a testicle, when’s the right time to tell your sister
Communists for intellectual property rights has to be one of the funniest recurring archetypes online