At the point when money comes to be the end, rather than the means, being rich becomes a nihilistic vicious circle.

Pete Hegseth thinks the "fog of war" is literal smoke. " “The thing was on fire. It exploded, there’s fire, there’s smoke. This is called the fog of war,” he added. " 🤡

As JV Stalin would put it, in EBM, it's not the evidence that matters, it's the people who tally the evidence.

...people like Trump, Kulldorf, Bhattacharya, Prasad, RFK etc love GRADE and "Evidence Based Medicine". None of that pesky rigour that makes science such a pain to deal with. In EBM/GRADE you just grade up here, downgrade there, and bury your screwups under BS about "the totality of the evidence".

Very important study and more evidence that #NeuroCovid can contribute to neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment. When they say 'it's all in your head', they might be trying to be dismissive, but are accidentally being very realistic. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LongCovid #COVID

they’ll do anything to avoid being woke

I tell Trump my peace terms, Trump tells Witkoff what they are and then Witkoff tells me Trump's terms that I told him then I say they aren't enough so we both blame Ukraine for me not accepting my own terms and I keep attacking them. Rinse. Repeat.

At a minimum, please wear a well-fitting mask in airports and on planes, and in healthcare settings. If people did this, COVID transmission would fall demonstrably. It’s not that hard, and it’s not all or nothing. It’s also not just a cold—it’s an organ-damaging virus.

FAFO Finland 2025 edition.

Once again from the please-learn-from-the-mistakes-of-others department: In #Finland, the share of children (under 16 years old) suffering from material deprivation has jumped from 3.7 % in 2021 to 10 % in 2024. To a large extent "thanks" to the most right-wing government in Finland's history.

#OTD, 30 Nov 1939, the hordes of the Kremlin invaded #Finland.

The time to ask this was in 2016, & again in 2020, & again in 2024. But Hillary Clinton wrote emails, & Joe Biden was old, & Kamala Harris wasn't answering enough detailed policy questions from the press, so here we are.

Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesidatat. Päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät! - voimakasta kasvua Hki, JSuu, Rniemi, Oulu, Vaasa - vuosivertailussa tasot vielä matalat - slow burn epidemia

President Donald Trump considering himself the personal guarantor of peace with Russia is not really an ace in his sleeve. Either the US Constitution or natural biology will ensure that he won't be the president of the USA in a few short years.

This Day in Labor History: November 26, 1910.A factory in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 workers. This should have been led to workplace safety reform, but because wealthy people did not see the people making their clothing die, nothing happened. Triangle would be next year!!!

tldr Poverty line is calculated as 3x a year’s food budget b/c the calculation dates to the 60s when food was 1/3 of spending. Food is now 1/16 of spending due to other costs rising hugely, so the official US poverty line for a family of 4 is $35,000 but updating the logic it should be $140,000!

Last time I checked, a $140,000 income in the US is 4th quintile, meaning 3/5 of Americans earn below the poverty line by 1960s standard of living. 😰

This 2011 piece on Institutional research misconduct relates to the way Andrew Wakefield's anti-vaccine pseudoscience was shielded from accountability for years - but it has a lot to say about the ongoing aerosol-transmission denial pseudoscience today. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22077093/

Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

"Unskilled labour."

The situation these judges are being put in for doing their work is unbelievable. They can’t use any US services - and not just for work, in their private lives too.

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

From 👆 "‼️So, if I summarised correctly: - Everyone who had COVID-19 tends to have some lasting reduction in brain blood flow (CBF), mainly in frontotemporal areas – even if they feel 100% recovered. - In Post-COVID Condition (PCC) the decline is more pronounced in severity and more..."

Direct link to the research mentioned in the post above: Fatigue in Post-COVID-Condition is accompanied by hypoperfusion of right-occipital areas (Nov 21, 2025) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... [ FREE PDF available ]

Latest 🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on Covid's impact on the right-occipital areas, where visual information is processed! SARS-CoV-2 "...causes persistent cerebral hypoperfusion (mainly frontotemporal) that can still be detected months later..." Full🎯🧵: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19921...

On #Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light candles for millions lost to Soviet genocide. President #Zelenskyy urges the world to remember: preserving memory defends justice and ensures tyrants face consequences for their crimes.

not so sure about Stubb's golf rounds either

I don’t think the Rutte “daddy strategy” worked

Victoria has become the first Australian state to enshrine a treaty with First Peoples into law. The Statewide Treaty Bill establishes Gellung Warl, a democratically elected Aboriginal body that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities. buff.ly/4gvCyo1#Shar...

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

I should be even clearer: Schickler points out that US’s comparatively decentralized institutions and *decentralized civil society* (firms, unions, universities, guilds like lawyers, etc) were assumed to be hard to take over. Trump II took over both

So… do they have too few Nazis, or too many?

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

💯 🎯 I don't need a fascism confirmation after it's taken total control, the same way I don't need a hurricane warning when I'm in the eye of the storm. bsky.app/profile/mege...

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datat, päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät! - ei näytä pahalta kasvun kannalta - vipattaa viikkotasolla, muutoin syyskuusta alkaen tasaantunut kesää korkeammalle tasolle - vuosivertailussa alhaisia tasoja

Why shouldn't you trust someone you see drawing on graph paper? They're definitely plotting something.

Mayor Pete has the right to marry because the gay men and lesbians who came before him fought for it. It was a movement based our identities in the plural sense as LGBTQ Americans. Pander somewhere else fella.

This is how two marine biologists celebrate a long day's work securing 3000 baby corals on ropes (the "coral nursery") to grow till they're big enough to plant out on the reef. This little island has exceptional biodiversity because of active management efforts. 2 days ago they were clearing snails.

One day, “never again” will mean never. Again.

Remember when the US Republican party was scandalised by a US president having an affair with an adult woman?

Procedural violations (her emails) or personal flaws (Biden’s aging) are understandable in this framework and need to be punished to reassert the legitimacy of the system. “The president is a rapist who participated in a child trafficking network” breaks the whole premise of legitimacy.

I know there were way way more “indirect” deaths from Covid. They’re not even diagnosed, tracked etc. Like my uncle who died late last year. In hospital for a circulatory issue which was successfully treated, got Covid in hospital, got pneumonia after that, discharged home, never got better, died

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”

#covid #HalloweenTombstones #125 Scroll up...wayyyy up...

Hey, look, public health is not the only field in which the latest science doesn't make it into policy for decades! www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

"For example, we’ve known for years that cleaning the indoor air would drastically reduce airborne illness. A new technology called Far UVC inactivates viral pathogens in the air. Combining these two could be a game changer. Yet people seem to prefer getting sick rather than breaking from The Borg."