So, not JUST a bad cold then " a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection"

QUITE the self-own I wonder how many lawsuits will spring up from the makers of "junk foods" being not only publicly defined as such., but clearly labeled as "not decent foods for humans who need good nutrition to eat" A bald-faced insult to "freedom"™️ and capitalism

I'm hard core atheist This stuff is making the case for a world based on, "gods exist, they are real, here is a list of rules you must obey, all the time, or you will suffer eternal torture in hellfire when you die, now shut up, keep the faith, get on with your life, & DON'T seek meaning or purpose"

Oh, I didn't really clarify the current state of the breach. There's a forum that ransomware groups post on which contains a "marketplace" "Kazu" has a forum thread up advertising the breach, the size of the breach (108GB), the number of files (428,337) and a random amount ($60K) with a deadline

THIS THIS is what is driving the transphobics crazy Not just the massive cognitive complexity of coming to deal with a relationship but, I suspect, mostly, because someone else gets to define their gender preference IOKIYAR, but the shoe on the other foot suddenly becoming a high heel defeats them

"I would prefer not to talk about my safety because I feel that doing so might endanger those around me" "Are we there yet mummy?" "Yes dear, we are there"

How it started WE MUST PROTECT OUR KIDS FROM ONLINE HARMS!! Can I get an amen for that? Pollies and media companies: A-friggin-MEN

i am beyond mad at the successive governments whose failures to invest in the healthcare system has resulted in a private company potentially losing my private medical records because paying for competent IT security would've cost them profits.

Came here for this 🎯

We can justifiably dump on legacy media for their milquetoast reportage, but ProPublica has another side to the tale Linky goodness link.propublica.net/view/6876b4f...

Currently flirting with the line between Oh good, we don't have to water the gardens and Oh god, we're going to get obliterated by blight and powdery mildew

In the most deferential, thoughtful, academic, detached way, these Russian propagandists want to hand over Ukraine and Europe to a medieval, vastly corrupt, mindlessly violent dictator and his acolytes. They're not wrong that we are at the end of the hegemonic peace, they are also Quislings

The man who ordered the destruction of USAID, condemning to disease, starvation, violence and early death a calculable, very large, number of people The man dismantling the scientific attempt to mitigate those events within the US, ditto Trump supporters They do seem to have cornered the market

An iconic Blusky poast

Stand up for your mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, neighbors, friends. Women’s rights are all of our responsibility! #protectourwowen #pinks

Yep

Many of these charities only exist because people like Mowbray are greedy arseholes, who became rich by exploiting others and then, instead of supporting fair taxes, they donate to hard right political parties like ACT #nzpol

Assuming for a mo the report from Jabo that a rocket into a field 500m from a medical facility as party of a "deadly strike against ISIS" is true Somewhere in the chain of command, someone is lying to their superior At what level is it happening? Because THAT is the Russian model

This is how the shared information that helps bind together a community, gets polluted and the essential trust erodes Having experimented with universal digital connection, we are headed towards a trust horizon about Dunbar's number, a medieval enclosure of our lives thanks to our own greed

More than 186 have been permanently closed already, raising questions about how we leave mountains... once the lifts stop running. Nowhere is exempt or safe Anyone can lose their life to the climate crisis Only the privileged & wealthy can lose recreation, supposed assets & huge amounts of money

As the guys at ThincBlog are saying, "but tell me about the dangers of renewables" Aside from gas smells for miles and the dangers of an impromptu FAE, traffic on major freeways backed up for miles on yet another, "busy holiday weekend" mediated by fossil fuels

THE thread of the day so far

Black father kills a man who tried to rape his daughter & media posts his solo mug shot. White father murders his wife, shoots step child, kills himself, & media posts his smiling picture with family. Make no mistake, this is how media normalizes white supremacy & extremism. We must reject it.

Yes - he definitely is a post turtle...

So, 730 days for the hydrological cycle to back up, and have another go. "Oh but it was a 1/500yr event, we're good for anotjer 498 years now, aren't we?"

And you just KNOW they are going for the "product placement" option don't you?

Random appreciation There are many reasons to appreciate Victoria Coren Mitchell, today's one is, "I told the optometrist that I wanted glasses that looked like those worn by a librarian in a porn film" I'll show myself out

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First question With what, or whom, does he imagine that these "trades" will occur? Trades require counter-parties The "counter-party" in this is the laws of physics, and they do not, ever, trade I'm not afraid of physics, but these people terrify me, we are in the hands of lunatics

Clearly a Pokémon

Just the most perfect metaphor

Global heating is nothing more than a measure of the amount of energy retained in the atmosphere instead of being reflected or radiated back into space So the atmosphere gets more ENERGETIC Sometimes it's wind, sometimes it's hail and lightning It'll be less unusual as the future keeps arriving

Been reporting the channels she talks about for a while, deep fake channels stealing public figure ID, re-editing their words and sliding in their own slants and opinions Glad I'm not alone New rule of thumb, go for nerdy, slightly scruffy, occasionally disorganised, chatty off topic sources

Has anyone seen this in any of the legacy media outlets? Aside from arresting Greta, which is itself news, the hunger strikers near death in protest at Israeli genocide in Palestine, and the criminalisation of ethical free speech in, and by, the UK. At least 4 substantive stories, vanished.

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social had a popup on YT Xmas eve about how serious this was going to be He was spot on, as one of the other Met guys says, he'd never seen a single storm that covered the whole of California before The future is arriving with a, "knock, knock motherfuckers!" vibe

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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

Well Well Well Short answer Yes

I tried this, fell at the first hurdle, it had apparently never heard of an Austin A30😏

A safe, restorative and peaceful christmas to my gazillion followers Take what rest you can Me? I'm off to weed the front of the beehive so the girls can get in and out more easily, then breakfast, milk the cow, scratch the calf and the heifer, then bake the 5 minute baguettes for lunch Then nap

Confronting, WITH citations "The military will not choose the Constitution. They will follow orders. The history says so. The structure says so. Everything happening this year says so. The science says so. The only variable that matters now is what we do with that knowledge"

#Pinks #ProudBlue Just a reminder, an immigrant is the reason for the season or if you’re Jewish the immigrant’s Daddy is. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. 🎄❤️

Looks like the initial shocks of being subject to a palace coup are starting to wear off and more substantive US Legal minds being applied to the issue Good Don't stop

Nobody is getting presents this year, because I can't find the end of the sellotape

If you don't follow Daniel Swain for climate, it's a good idea, he has one of his popup sessions coming shorty on the huge storm heading for Southern California with predictions for 11+ inches of rain and serious winds www.youtube.com/live/aU_N7v9...

Epstein blowup All media is seething with commentary, examples, screenshots, claims, denials, dot-connecting etc What is that doing to millions of # MeToo women being endlessly triggered and iterated around them What can be done, institutionally and for those around them not to make it worse?

No Just Fucking No Is there a RULE about being utterly contemptible? Immigration New Zealand has denied 5-year-old Aidhan Nithin a pathway to live in New Zealand, after finding he is likely to impose significant costs or demands on health and education services. Penk, paid up fascist

Whether it's the utter massacre of the Epstein files with Clinton DEMANDING full disclosure of all his mentions Or this deep-dish fiasco, their total crashing ignorance of the system they are fiddling with wont, can't, change Stupid is the phoenix. The more it burns, the more there is of it

I'm waiting for the Special Envoy to Greenland with a remit to, "make it part of the USA" be made persona non grata Also, does Landry resign as governor of Louisiana and what does a new election look like? Or can he just appoint his successor like any undemocratic fiefdom?