GRRM dealing with depression at his life? I guess he's finally a 'real writer' now.

It keeps getting hotter. Forest fires are spreading, people are dying in heat waves, but the millionaires and billionaires who control most of the wealth in our society keep digging us deeper into this disaster. They are murdering the future. It's time to fight back. crimethinc.com/posters/merc...

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I do miss that sliver of time where Pagan-on-Pagan drama resulted in intellectual debates and tracts trying to one-up each other. Now it's all character assassinations by flunkies, then it was lengthy tirades vaguely insinuating the other was some kind of toxic individualist.

My wife and I both love(d) hiking, but COVID changed that (famously, both post-Biden's election, so spare me your Fauci glazing). She's now chronically ill with an auto-inflammatory disease, and I have scarring on my lungs.

Big if true.

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d ago

"COVID-19 Triggers Autoimmune Diseases Long After Infection" Researchers analysed 8 large studies involving tens of millions of people across 6 countries. All found the same pattern: people who recovered from COVID-19 had a higher risk of later developing autoimmune diseases. archive.md/6MwhU

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d ago

"COVID-19 Triggers Autoimmune Diseases Long After Infection" Researchers analysed 8 large studies involving tens of millions of people across 6 countries. All found the same pattern: people who recovered from COVID-19 had a higher risk of later developing autoimmune diseases. archive.md/6MwhU

So wait, do liberals dislike Rand Paul again because he's (still) going after Fauci or what?

Rain moved out of my area a couple days ago, though it was cool and overcast, so I didn't water. With temperatures pushing into the upper 80s and low 90s again for the foreseeable future I went out to tend my wee garden this evening. Mosquitos everywhere.

Oh, good.

Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada.

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Yup. Google pushed out an update earlier this year that makes it so the phone doesn't "ring" when it's on vibrate-only notification mode, it treats it like "silent". But it will very helpfully buzz after the fact to let you know that you (it) missed a call.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2w ago

Waiting for a call. Phone on desk. Checked it after an hour and I had missed the call. Googled "why doesn't my phone ring when I get a call" and discovered this is a common problem. HOW THE FUCK HAVE WE INVENTED PHONES THAT DON'T DO PHONING. WHAT IS THE POINT OF IT ALL

So. Shit. It's going to be shit. "Far future" in Trek always ends up being absolute dog water shit.

39 Years Later, The Next Star Trek Movie Will Take A Bold, Historic Risk

An all new cast of characters? Could it work? Here's why the next Star Trek movie is taking a huge swing.

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"Neo-fascism, neo-imperialism – these terms are not radical enough to name the situation that already defines us. Only planetary vision will be adequate for perceiving the world we now inhabit together."

Planetary Politics Now

The meteoric speed with which planetary realities expose themselves today is education-by-shock. These realities demand attention, recasting the meaning of materialist determinism. On the surface, in…

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Probably still too high.

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling@gunsmile.bsky.social · 2w ago

Likable person test: www.idrlabs.com/likable-pers... Honestly, the percentage is probably lower. 😂 I noticed I was answering the questions with some bias. Also, I consider myself a pretty happy person so that’s definitely wrong. But all the rest of these seem accurate!

True story: My grandmother, when serving as a 2nd Lt. in North Africa, received a requisition request for nurses in bathing suits with wine in order to "make five lonesome Non-Coms happy". She denied it because of a certain Lt. Col. who kept reporting nurses for going out on dates with enlisted men

Let's make sure we keep the anti-Flock energy up for Axon and every other surveillance company.

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I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

Rigby gave a MIGHTY ROAR* this morning and climbed up my wife while she was asleep and pushed his face to hers. *A mighty roar in this case, for him, is a little squeak.

You may choose to face what's coming unarmed and unprepared, but I wouldn't advise it. Our next Stop the Bleed and pistol permit class is July 25. Your enemies have declared their intentions; decide yours. crossdrawfirearms.square.site/product/july...

Watching Ryan Holiday's fans continually turn against him for the position that to be a Stoic is to, in fact, also not be a shithead is endlessly amusing.

Reading the training manual for a hydraulic press brake and it keeps talking about air bending vs bottom bending

I'm becomingly increasingly convinced that the deluge of anti-Canadian sentiment regarding the wildfires and the smoke from them is 100% manufactured by the elite owners of social media platforms in order to try drive a wedge in internationalist solidarity.

The world sucks, have a bee.

An easy way to subvert Bluesky age verification is to just use Mastodon instead.

You're all mad at RFK Jr for the explosive diarrhea sweeping the nation, but did Obama's HHS Secretary come up with an all-natural weight loss alternative to Ozempic and save you thousands of dollars? Checkmate, liberals

Dear Spanberger, regarding the 'voluntary' water restrictions your administration and government officials are rolling out in light of the pervasive Virginian drought, while at the same time championing an increase in your predecessor's data centers: Suck my whole fucking ass.

I don't know that I have a maligned food I particularly enjoy, but anchovies are my ride or die.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 4w ago

Too much politics on the timeline. Quote this with a maligned food that you enjoy