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@catladyactivist "We're 5 years and 400,000 research papers into the devastating effects of a global, vascular pandemic. Are you usually this far behind with the most basic medical literature?"

Source unknown, but very useful to throw at a lamppost lover.

@NoFarmsNoFoods You can grow crops or put grazing underneath them - win-win.

Solar panels on farmland. You can’t eat solar panels.

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.” They did. 2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.” They did. 2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.” They did. 2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.” They did. 2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.” They did, today. Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.” They will.

@Simondarto @renewablesmiffy The LED bulbs I buy nowadays do not have the long lifespan advertised & are expensive. I do miss the heat of incandescant because the lights are on mostly in winter when it's cold. They were dimmable which LEDs aren't always. They have a broader & warmer wavelength spectrum. Etc.

@birthwing @renewablesmiffy i miss their short lifespan The heat they gave off by being so inefficient The poor control Its like say that you miss lead in petrol

- No one misses incandescent lamps - No one misses Euro 1-5 diesel engines - No one misses CFC in their fridge - one one misses their heavy old powerful vacuum cleaners - no one misses their flammable sofa Just as one will miss their ‘traditional tumble dryer’

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

They were not intercepted. They were abducted in international waters. This is piracy - and is a flagrant violation of international law.

Abdominal Movement Flushes Neural Waste The brain is far more mechanically integrated with the rest of the body than scientists previously realized. In a study, researchers revealed a “hydraulic pump” mechanism that links physical activity to brain health. When you contract your abdominal muscles, even during a light movement like taking a step, you compress blood vessels that push fluid into the spinal cavity. This pressure causes the brain to gently “sway” within the skull, a motion that acts like squeezing a dirty sponge to flush out toxic neural waste via the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). neurosciencenews.com/abdominal-pump… #neuroscience #science #Exercise (1/3)

🧵 Record-breaking day for Great Britain's electricity system! ⚡ 1/ On 22 April, we hit a new zero-carbon record, with zero-carbon sources providing 98.8% of our electricity.

Remember the NHS before 15 years of Tory austerity.. Same day GP 95% seen within 4 hours in A&E No queuing ambulances 92% specialist treatment within 18 weeks 85% started cancer treatment within 62 days It’s not the NHS model that’s the issue, it’s our choice of leadership!

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

@hell_line0 Menstrual cups. Use "putacupinit" website to get the right one.

Woman to woman, what’s a period routine that you swear by? Is it period panties, eating a steak on the first day, heat therapy?!

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Entirely support the campaign for safety from infection in hospital, but how can a reporter write an article that long and never mention air quality monitoring, filtration, ventilation or use of respirators to prevent airborne disease. @BBCNews

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. Seriously bad news. theguardian.com/environment/20…

So, @joerogan probably won’t see this post that’s going viral on Facebook. It’s too long to copy & paste, & it took way more than 4 screenshots But I think it’s essential reading for everyone, because ALL of the lying MAGA Influencers need to face legal consequences /1

@AniseNot 3 loads of clothes laundry / week on 1 day. I pale, 2 dark. Prioritise parental laundry and 7 lots of child clothing (your choice). Done. If they don't like your choices, too bad / they can do their own.

I feel like my family has an excessive amount of laundry. I can never ever get ahead. It is always just mountains of laundry. I do laundry every week yet there are always mountains of it I tend to wash all the clothes & fold/put them away within 1-2 days I have started paying attention. I did all of the laundry 7 days ago. Today I did all of the laundry again I have 6 pairs of clothes to put away. That makes sense My daughter has 12 My son has 15 somehow I don’t excessively change my children’s clothes & tbh when they’re home they are so often in the backyard in their underwear so HOW ARE THERE SO MANY CLOTHES IN THE LAUNDRY Dude has 8 pairs of shorts/pants but 12 (!!!!) tshirts + 5 days of work uniform (so that makes it 14 pairs of clothes, but 5 days of those non-work clothes he would only have worn for a few hours in the evening after taking off uniform & he generally doesn’t do anything too strenuous on weekday evenings so those clothes aren’t really dirty) MY FAMILY IS JUST THROWING CLEAN FUCKING CLOTHING INTO THE HAMPERS I AM GONNA LOSE MY MIND

@Microinteracti1 48% of US Catholics *approve* of Trump?? Why? How? Seriously????

The President of the United States, a man who controls approximately 5,500 nuclear warheads, went on social media on a Sunday night to inform the world that the Pope is weak on foreign policy. The Pope. The man in the white robes who spends his days asking people to be kind to each other. Trump’s complaint, delivered with the subtlety of a concrete mixer reversing into a garden party, was that he doesn’t want a pope “who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.”  One pauses here to consider the geography of this argument. Because from Lagos to Lahore, from Buenos Aires to Bangkok, there are rather a lot of people who have spent the last several decades looking at the United States, its history of regime changes, its aircraft carriers, its habit of deciding which civilizations get to continue existing, and thinking: you know what, we’re not entirely sure America is the right country to be hosting this particular conversation. Trump then posted an AI-generated image of himself in biblical robes, healing the sick, with light pouring from his fingers, eagles overhead, and what appeared to be the entire American military establishment looking on in quiet reverence. Just in case anyone felt the evening had not yet reached peak theological peculiarity. The pope, for his part, had spent Saturday leading a prayer vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica, where he suggested that the kingdom of God operates without swords, drones, or vengeance.  He named nobody. He threatened nobody. He asked for peace. This, apparently, is what passes for a provocation requiring a 500-word Truth Social rebuttal and a messianic selfie. Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans. Specifically, a 79-year-old politician from Queens and a 70-year-old pontiff from Chicago.  It is, in its own catastrophic way, quite the achievement. There are roughly one billion Catholics in the world. Trump’s approval among American Catholics alone has already slipped from 52 to 48 percent since the Vatican tensions began. And that is just the Americans. The global ones have not yet been polled, but one suspects the numbers are not trending upward. The remarkable thing is not that a president and a pope disagree. That is fine. Healthy, even. The remarkable thing is that the president chose to resolve this disagreement by implying he personally installed the pope, casting himself as a divine healer, and then calling the leader of 1.4 billion Christians a radical leftist who is bad at his job. There are, it turns out, some constituencies even Donald Trump cannot bully into submission. One of them answers to a higher authority. The other one has been around since 33 AD and has outlasted rather a lot of empires. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ x.com/Acyn/status/20…

@edmunds_dr It's a high-quality life-saver! Thank you for all the time and effort you have put in to it!!

My site is a day away from reaching *ONE MILLION* views - absolutely mad. I made it as an NQT, frustrated that teachers across the country were writing the same physics worksheets over and over again. Never imagined that it'd be this popular, though. Thanks for using it!