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Today's essential read for all humans: "The headlines this summer make it easy to feel as if nothing can be done: record heat and wildfires continue, while fossil fuel companies rake in billions. But feeling powerless is exactly the trap."

A Stirring Call to Apathy

The science of climate change is dire. Same as it’s ever been, just more so. When the going gets tough, understanding what to do next becomes even more important.

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"COVID-19 Spike Protein S1 Triggers Inflammatory Brain Cell Death" "Scientists have identified a molecular pathway through which the SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 protein can trigger intense inflammation and pyroptosis, an inflammatory form of programmed cell death, in human microglial cell models."

Screenshot of a Thailand Medical News article titled “COVID-19 Spike Protein S1 Triggers Inflammatory Brain Cell Death,” dated September 6, 2026. The article says scientists identified a molecular pathway through which the SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 protein can trigger intense inflammation and pyroptosis, an inflammatory form of programmed cell death, in laboratory models of human microglial cells. Below is an illustration showing SARS-CoV-2 particles beside an inflamed brain and a damaged brain immune cell.

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”

There is a pandemic happening in the school districts but it’s not that they’re secretly transitioning your kids. It’s Covid. It’s not gone. It’s not mild. Kids aren’t immune. Long Covid recently surpassed asthma to become the most common childhood illness. Clean air in schools now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Attorney General Todd Blanche was on Fox News last night railing against "Secret School Gender Transitions," which Blanche described as a "pandemic that's happening in some school districts around the country"

Sir Nicholas Winton was a British humanist who organised the rescue of more than 650 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia, on the Kindertransport. In 1988, Winton featured on the BBC's 'That's Life!' programme, hosted by Esther Rantzen, unknowingly surrounded by the people he saved. 🧵

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint

If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

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If you are in the North West and have some free time between 15 and 25 October, why not volunteer with our friends @livirishfest.bsky.social? Details 👇

Liverpool Irish Festival@livirishfest.bsky.social · 2w ago

🫵 Fancy getting involved with #LIF2026? 💚 We’re looking for volunteers to help bring 10 days of Irish arts, culture and community to life! Meet new people, build skills, get behind the scenes & be part of the Festival. 📅 15–25 Oct 📍 Liverpool www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/engage/volun...

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Apply for a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.

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Barron Trump's net worth increased by $150,000,000 in just one year. Trump was asked how this happened. He replied, "It's none of your business." Remember when the GOP tried to impeach Joe Biden because his son Hunter sold some paintings for $50,000? Republican's reaction to Barron's income: NONE!

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