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Sam Sphinx 🔻

@samuraisphinx.bsky.social

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. He/They Franco-Ontarien Some kind of Demisexual An actor in real life, but anything more than that is classified.

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Sam Sphinx 🔻@samuraisphinx.bsky.social · yesterday

What if Oppenheimer was forced to get himself nuked to save a life, transforming himself into a horrific monster. That's what the Hulk originally was. Due to the last few adaptations, people tend to forget that Bruce invented a GAMMA BOMB.

Sam Sphinx 🔻@samuraisphinx.bsky.social · yesterday

As an actor, while embodying aspects of your character to improve your performance can be good, going "full method" is the height of pretension. Someone else put it best, I can't recall who: No one ever goes method to play a good person. Daniel-Day Lewis... maybe?

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's interesting to think of cosmic horror in the context of how physics news had permeated into culture. When Lovecraft wasn't naming his cat incredible slurs, he was living through *several* huge upheavals in physics, all being permeated down as science communicators tried explaining them.

🍉 Vancouverismism 🍉@vancouverismism.bsky.social · 2d ago

This comprehensive saga of the recent feud between all-purpose bigot Josh Bigger and Second Sons/Dag Jermy MacKenzie -- and Rebel CHUD Ezra Levant -- is long, fascinating (and occasionally hilarious).

Tony the Antifascist Swan is sick of Twitter@tonyyvce.bsky.social · 2d ago

New from me: Jeremy "The Fed" Mackenzie vs Josh "Mr Freedom" Bigger (& Ezra Levant) canadaantifa.blogspot.com/2026/08/jere... I put this out WAY later than I wanted to. Most of this took place months ago. I had a busy spring and summer, but I still wanted to finish it.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Long COVID is "disputed" in the same sense that evolution is "disputed" - i.e. not disputed by anyone with any scientific credibility. Pretending otherwise just happens to be attractive to the Dunning-Kruger brigade whose negligence caused it by allowing COVID to get out of control.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2y ago

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support. 3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection. 4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection.