Daniel McLaughlin

@thedenial.bsky.social

You never had to question the breathing. ~ Terami Hirsch

Your Moment of Zen: Martin Gregus Jr. captured this polar bear swimming alongside a pod of beluga whales on drone footage in the Arctic. Polar bears are occasional predators of belugas (ambush at airholes), but they know they can easily outrun the bear in open water. (📷: mywildlive on IG)

COVID-19 can trigger an abnormal immune response, causing autoantibodies that mistakenly attack the body’s own tissues. Researchers found atypical memory B cells may drive this response, suggesting SARS-CoV-2 can activate an immune program resembling autoimmune disease.

Immune cells that drive harmful autoantibody responses after COVID-19 identified

When the immune system encounters a virus, it produces antibodies designed to recognize and eliminate the invader. But in some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the immu...

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The entire point of civilization is that suffering does not have to be hereditary. Your parents’ misery is not a debt subsequent generations owe them, it is information that tells us where the world failed them, so that we may build one that fails fewer people.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d ago

Darline’s vision: Because her own parents worked so hard, couldn’t take sick days, and died untimely deaths, others shouldn’t expect better. This is an actual worldview. “Her plan is, work hard even when you’re sick until you die," her Dem opponent tells me. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2148...

Reports that the Welsh gender service has not only paused, but cancelled, surgeries for trans adults is abhorrent. So many heartbreaking stories from trans people who now cannot receive this life changing surgery. It was never just about trans kids, it's about banning all medical transition.

It doesn't look like much (cos it ain't) But this is a photo of Mars' moon Phobos, taken yesterday from the surface of the Red Planet. Phobos orbits about 6,000 km above the surface of Mars and looks like a pockmarked potato.

Pictured: pockmarked potato.