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Finnegans Woke. Trans ally Thee, Thou “Lace your shoes like Khidr and take the road of trust so that you may reach the darkness.” Suhrawardi
In Poland, Romania and Germany, the Trump administration is openly supporting pro-Russian and anti-EU parties, some opposed to defense spending. It's as if they wanted to destroy European security www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before
The Trump administration tries to micromanage the domestic politics of American allies.
theatlantic.com
This is hilarious. People are reporting that the flashy gold Donald Trump used to cover DC statues is melting. The thing is, it's in the 70s in DC, and gold melts at almost 2,000 degrees. So whatever he had put on those statues isn't real gold. What a tacky, incompetent buffoon.
I was just thinking about when he read the sonnets to us during the height of the pandemic
Dana Stevens@thehighsign.bsky.social · 4d agoLast April, when this audiobook came out, I was an avid proselytizer for Patrick Stewart's reading of the complete sonnets. He loved them so much & performed them so well--& sprinkled throughout are his reflections on a life of doing Shakespeare onstage. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Patric...
She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
ChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences (Gift Article)
The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.
nytimes.com
“When male fruit flies don’t have sex they turn to alcohol..Jays seem to say “sorry”, bees show..PTSD after encountering predators fish recognise themselves. research suggests consciousness evolved multiple times & is present..across much of the animal kingdom” www.newscientist.com/article/2593...
The understanding that even bees have feelings is changing our view of consciousness | New Scientist
From jays that seem to say "sorry" to insects that play, signs of emotional inner life across the animal kingdom are giving us new perspectives on what consciousness is, and how we might pin it down
newscientist.com
Side note: it’s WWI that make prayers for the dead begin to be acceptable in mainstream Anglicanism
John Bull@garius.eurosky.social · 6d agoPrince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked
👃 Smell now travels online A new wearable recreates a smell picked up by an AI-assisted electronic nose somewhere else, sent over the internet. The team suggests it could help test people for smell loss. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aee9266 #AI #Science #Technology 🧪
Scentronic: An artificial intelligence–assisted olfactory interface for remote odor sharing and transmission
Recent years have witnessed the surge of human–machine interfaces (HMIs) for various applications. Olfaction is a fundamental chemical sense crucial to perception, memory, and emotion. Current limitat...
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Photo: The Prophet Muhammad, depicted as an inscribed and radiant disk, during his celestial ascension, Nizami, Makhzan al-Asrār (Treasury of Secrets).
Wee sleekit thievin tea-leaf arsehole, O, what a haul is in thy mousehole! Thuve stole awa with all ma housegold, Ma famil jewellery! I'd rang thy hairy little mousethroat, Fo' yo tomfoolery!
People can't wear pride pins, puppets must wear poppies. Ridiculous organisation
Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news · last wk.Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge
Iran Mocks Trump With Billboard Featuring Impersonator www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Iran Mocks Trump With Billboard Featuring Impersonator
Iran has a long history of using billboards for messaging, but this piece of performance propaganda is perhaps the most eccentric yet. A live impersonator of President Trump locked in a jail cell is a...
nytimes.com
Houdini Died on Halloween 100 Years Ago. Some Still Question How. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/a...
Houdini Died on Halloween 100 Years Ago. Some Still Question How.
A urologist’s inquiry into the magician’s final days is the latest effort to grapple with outstanding questions about his demise.
nytimes.com
Four churches that we have rescued over the past couple of years will be photographed next week and you can follow along with the photographer’s journey from the comfort of your own home. 1/8 📷 Andy Marshall at Gumfreston before repair project
Good morning! Just jumping on to say you can now watch the entirety of 1980 anthology series Hammer House of Horror for free on ITVX. Go straight to 'The House that Bled to Death' and 'The Two Faces of Evil' 👌...
Since IPO, not one insider has ever purchased a single share of Coreweave in an open market transaction. They have, however, collectively sold over 90 million shares for just a hair less than $10 billion.
at the 'stack, I muse on "bond people v equity people" in the context of some surprising things I learned while reading about the history of actuarial thought backofmind.substack.com/p/bonds-are-...
bonds are life, equities are casualty
a potential paradox of complexity
backofmind.substack.com
⚛️ Dim infrared light drives tough chemistry Chemists in China found a way for low energy infrared light to drive high energy reactions, with an anti-tumour effect in mice. Gentle light that reaches deep into tissue is the draw. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeg3842 #Chemistry #Cancer #Mice 🧪
Packing-accelerated consecutive NIR excitation (PACE) enables high energy photocatalysis and antitumor immunity in vivo
Near-infrared (NIR) photocatalysis promises deep-tissue compatibilities but remains fundamentally constrained by two bottlenecks: insufficient photon energy and rapid charge recombination. Here, we re...
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The Best Thing to Do With a Relative Who Has Alzheimer’s www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
Opinion | With My Father’s Alzheimer’s Progressing, I Learned to See Beyond the Loss
Making a book of my dad’s train photos shifted my gaze away from all that he was losing.
nytimes.com
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
They only know about the WHITE PEOPLE. They came first for the POC. Before Good and Pretti, they were already executing POC. These are the few we know of.
“Megacauda sungei appears to be an early example of a semiaquatic mammal-like creature. The ancient animal lived about 160 million years ago in the middle Jurassic period” www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Fossil of 'platypus-like' animal from dinosaur era unearthed in China
Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period and may have hunted fish and salamander.
abc.net.au