If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology. Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.

Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

This is Bandit. He fell asleep while getting out of bed. We've all been there. 12/10 sweet dreams buddy (u/yarntist)

I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War. They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children. Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody

@liccardo.house.gov - As my Congressmember, please vote against this bill.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

I should bring back my Fanfic Typo of the Day series of posts (I say "typo" to be generous, also because who even knows if they're autocorrect fails or voice recognition failures or what).

@greenleejw.bsky.social Jellied eels mentioned in WaPo. wapo.st/4rPjit3 (gift link.)

Look guys I’m with you that “chai tea” is a meaningless redundancy but you have to likewise acknowledge that so is “conniption fit”

Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious

The acknowledgments for this novel is going to be just a list of brands and kinds of chocolate

my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead scariest few days of our lives from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell

Sometimes, I reminisce about academic Twitter the same way I reminisce about theater camp. We were all together in this wonderful and complicated and often messy space for a short time, where we built community and created something wonderful. Then the summer ended, and the magic was gone.

Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”: supposed to be SATIRE but eg, "To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong." That's just reality now. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

This is one way businesses can support the Constitutional rights & lives of people in America-by not making it easy for DHS (ICE, BP) to trample those rights and lives. I love this so much, I will go to this business & spend some money soon.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

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St Ambrose, whose feast falls on this date, refused to let the Emperor Theodosius I enter the Cathedral in Milan because he had blood on his hands for the illegal order to murder civilians in Thessalonica. ⚓️

sometimes at night when I’m trying to sleep, I’ll close my human eyes & look through bird eyes birds can see the electromagnetic field of the earth so as wind hits my feathers in shivers, ribbons explode from the east, from the west, one way to food, another to water, another to my wife, to home

The Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The Supreme Court: "We'll clear up this uncertainty!"

Hesgeth is surprised and touched when he gets 37 copies of art of war from all his generals for Xmas- not noticing the actual message they are sending

I had a few consulting gigs in El Segundo in the 90s, and unfortunately I never went around the right corner to visit THAT Taco Bell (which is now long gone or remodeled or something.)

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

You can see the intrusive thoughts winning.

Am at GMU's Arlington campus for a tech-innovation event featuring a keynote from the school's president Gregory Washington. The first question from the audience invoked the Trump administration's attempts to push him around/out of office, and Washington's answers really landed with me. (1/3)

Jeffries should file articles for impeachment. Even if you don’t have the votes, it would put GOP members on record for supporting outright murder. The lack of effort is awful.

RETVRN to the days of the grand melting pot.

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE 🚨 (please see attached)

Media types should say hey we speak to the voters and they say they don't get to see you anymore and that they'd like to see rallies so they will. Can you tell us when you're doing those? If he gets asked enough he will and it'll be the fun shit show.

So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.

Various chickens crossing the road. 🪶 #bird

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Aside from the Nazis, which Oregon has too many of, there's a risk that somebody might serve you a 150-IBU IPA without adequate warning.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

when i was a kid, i knew santa wasn't real and that it was my parents. what i could NOT figure out was where the fuck they hid it every year and how they managed to slip past me to put stuff under the tree unnoticed. my bedroom was right there and i was notorious for sleeping lightly lol

We're close to the world's first-ever broad-spectrum antiviral. In a breakthrough, researchers at the City University of New York have identified a promising path to the development of an antiviral that could be used to fight a wide range of deadly viruses, including future pandemic threats.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Bah - pumpkin pie dripped in the oven, either from overflow or hole in the pan or something, filled the kitchen with smoke, set off not only my smoke detector but the one for the building. We've got a double oven, so after I preheated the other half, I put the pies in it, smoke again. Bah.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Here’s where all the legal cases against Trump stand since his return to the White House trib.al/TNpyFuo

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡