With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

The cleaning of the world’s largest #Roman floor mosaic, covering around 1050 sqm. It was discovered during the construction of a hotel in Antakya/Turkey. The shifting of the ground during an earthquake has caused a a ripple effect. Dating 4th c. AD. 🏺#mosaicmonday 📷 www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/sanat...

Thanks to Karen Hao's brilliant book Empire of AI, I learned that potable water is the only type of water that can be used to cool data centers. Saltwater or wastewaster isn't useable.

#RomanSiteSaturday: The architectural perfection of Timgad, Algeria, is consistently striking in photographs. The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best. 📷 Georg Steinmetz 🏺 #archaeology

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None of which I will ever apologize for.

Baby chicks were never an appropriate Easter gift for children, but especially not now with the spread of Bird Flu. 🐣 Get a toy chick and sponsor a rescue bird instead! www.merrymacfarmsanctuary.org/meet-the-birds

Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

Ukrainian Artist Diana Yevtukh displays her textile art within nature, such as placing her pieces on trees #womensart

Janeway is up to hard work on her figure, as you can see.

I've been watching a series called Transformed, where alt fashion people try new looks, and it's super wholesome and everyone talks about how great they feel in their usual get up and how strange and foreign it is to dress more normal. Lots of people just supporting each other. More please.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

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Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

27 years this Saturday since my beloved and I had our first date. 20 since we handfasted. 🥰

I can't be the only one who needs to hear this. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/frustrated...

New JWST image dropped: actively forming star system Lynds 483 (NIRCam image) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI esawebb.org/news/weic2503

Wild Coast has expanded its cat food recall over bird flu

This bronze head of a griffin - once an attachment for a cauldron - was discovered to have been stolen from the museum at Olympia in the 1930s. It's been in the #MetMuseum since the 70s, and it's back in Greece for now, but part of a long-term loan to the Met. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 7th c. BCE. 📸 me

How I flirt

We encourage participation! The Heritage Foundation is the group behind Project 2025 and the mass destruction of government.

Right now EVERYONE is in Pisces & wants you to write love letters. The world desperately needs you to write love letters 🌧️⭐💗

I just found the music that played at my wedding 20 years ago. 😍 I don’t even have a player to listen to them.

👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."

I have a tiny bowl of blueberries and hot tea. Happy Saturday.

Detail from the Art Nouveau gesso panels by Glasgow School artist Margaret Macdonald, c.1907 #WomensArt

How to help people trapped in a Cult

On this day in 1942, German tanks and soldiers marched through Winnipeg. The mayor, premier and Lt. Governor were arrested. The city was renamed Himmlerstadt, books were burned and the swastika flag flew around the city. This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day. 🧵1/14

Outlive these fucking ghouls

To all the artists, musicians and writers, your work is more valuable than ever. Please don’t stop creating. Art is defined by human creativity. You cannot be replaced by an algorithm, even if it seems uncertain right now. The world needs artists more than ever.

My town might be getting a few cold spells yet, but my earache says that spring is here. Soon there will be flowers and pollen everywhere. 😊

UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

me: Gah. I'm so tired. my thyroid: Yeah... about that... nothing doin'.

My morning started with Gabby, ancient and rage-filled kitten that she is, knocking my glasses onto the floor and pouncing them. She also reveled in keeping her humans awake much of the night. I love her. She's like living with a kaiju sometimes though.

Liberals: Why don’t people understand these critical issues and keep voting in ways that directly negatively impacts them? NYTimes: paywall WSJ: paywall WaPo: paywall Business Insider: paywall The Guardian: paywall Fox News: open Newsmax: open OAN: open Liberals: It’s such a mystery.

That's wonderful.

Just drove past a protest against the regime in my little corner of Texas. So glad to see.

It's a coup.

I 🥰 LeVar #BookSky #ReadingRainbow

Don’t be trash.

You patrons of the arts are keeping us fed and our lights on We are grateful