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I'll note the article does talk about flagging vax rates and inqualities in distribution, which plagues, so to speak, so many countries, especially ours. This is a different problem, though, due to social pressures, but still concerning. We need to get vax rates up higher!
December 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'll note the article does talk about flagging vax rates and inqualities in distribution, which plagues, so to speak, so many countries, especially ours. This is a different problem, though, due to social pressures, but still concerning. We need to get vax rates up higher!
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This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
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December 21 is the winter solstice, which means that in the Northern Hemisphere:
- The path of the Sun is farthest south in the sky
- The Sun travels the shortest path, giving the day the least daylight and the longest night
- Things can only get lighter from here
- The path of the Sun is farthest south in the sky
- The Sun travels the shortest path, giving the day the least daylight and the longest night
- Things can only get lighter from here
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
December 21 is the winter solstice, which means that in the Northern Hemisphere:
- The path of the Sun is farthest south in the sky
- The Sun travels the shortest path, giving the day the least daylight and the longest night
- Things can only get lighter from here
- The path of the Sun is farthest south in the sky
- The Sun travels the shortest path, giving the day the least daylight and the longest night
- Things can only get lighter from here
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‘Solstice’ comes from a Latin word that means “sun standing still.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘Solstice’ comes from a Latin word that means “sun standing still.”
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Reposting this so the FBI agent monitoring my feed sees it
Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposting this so the FBI agent monitoring my feed sees it
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I would like to articulate one of the BIGGEST misconceptions about cat breed genetics by talking about the NEBELUNG!
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I would like to articulate one of the BIGGEST misconceptions about cat breed genetics by talking about the NEBELUNG!
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
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No this is genuinely hilarious 🤣🤣 the AI was like "ok make Nazis, but remember diversity and inclusion!!👍🫡"
Imagine historians using AI
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
No this is genuinely hilarious 🤣🤣 the AI was like "ok make Nazis, but remember diversity and inclusion!!👍🫡"
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Bless Michael Sheen for copying John Oliver! In 2016 Last Week Tonight used $60K to buy & forgive ~$15M in US debt.
“Carp was offered a portfolio of medical debt worth $14,922,261.76 at a cost of ‘less than half a cent on a dollar, which is less than $60,000’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
“Carp was offered a portfolio of medical debt worth $14,922,261.76 at a cost of ‘less than half a cent on a dollar, which is less than $60,000’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Bless Michael Sheen for copying John Oliver! In 2016 Last Week Tonight used $60K to buy & forgive ~$15M in US debt.
“Carp was offered a portfolio of medical debt worth $14,922,261.76 at a cost of ‘less than half a cent on a dollar, which is less than $60,000’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
“Carp was offered a portfolio of medical debt worth $14,922,261.76 at a cost of ‘less than half a cent on a dollar, which is less than $60,000’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways
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Reading all of that and you get the feeling that the mistletoe called on its druid roots to apply the Final Nope.
A member of the neo-Nazi white separatist group PNW Wolf Pack fell to his death trying to pick a mistletoe from a tree this holiday season 🎄❄
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Reading all of that and you get the feeling that the mistletoe called on its druid roots to apply the Final Nope.
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I am in awe. The folks at ReBoot ReWind have done something astonishing. A remarkable feat of engineering, ingenuity and love. Check it out and give them some ReBooty love in return.
youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8?...
youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8?...
WE SAVED REBOOT
YouTube video by ReBoot ReWind
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am in awe. The folks at ReBoot ReWind have done something astonishing. A remarkable feat of engineering, ingenuity and love. Check it out and give them some ReBooty love in return.
youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8?...
youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8?...
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Also met the Jólakötturinn in Reykjavík earlier this month 🙂
December 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Also met the Jólakötturinn in Reykjavík earlier this month 🙂
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Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them.
Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”
Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
www.polygon.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them.
Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”
Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”
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Just to add it here, because you're right and these people are very very wrong -
If anyone wants to read more about the problems with "Ghibli-inspired" faux-Japanese works like Obojima from a Japanese American perspective, here's Kashi:
kashi-info.carrd.co
If anyone wants to read more about the problems with "Ghibli-inspired" faux-Japanese works like Obojima from a Japanese American perspective, here's Kashi:
kashi-info.carrd.co
Kashi 貸し
Why
kashi-info.carrd.co
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just to add it here, because you're right and these people are very very wrong -
If anyone wants to read more about the problems with "Ghibli-inspired" faux-Japanese works like Obojima from a Japanese American perspective, here's Kashi:
kashi-info.carrd.co
If anyone wants to read more about the problems with "Ghibli-inspired" faux-Japanese works like Obojima from a Japanese American perspective, here's Kashi:
kashi-info.carrd.co
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Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.
But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
The team behind Obojima not only don’t care about Ghibli outside of the aesthetic, they also fully do not understand it. They’re either complete buffoons or actively bad people and the truth likely lies in the middle.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/
What can you lose by humanizing monsters? #obojima #studioghibli #ghibli #1985games #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e #podcast
TikTok video by Obojima
www.tiktok.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.
But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
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Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
The lives of three people living on the streets of Tokyo are forever changed after they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve.
tubitv.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...
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🐦⬛ Ornithologist @corinanewsome.bsky.social says a flock of blackbirds is a good omen and a sign of a healthy habitat. She reflects on an early morning visit to a wetland in Georgia, where she saw—and heard—hundreds of thousands of blackbirds. Hear her full account: buff.ly/fSIhNjE
December 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🐦⬛ Ornithologist @corinanewsome.bsky.social says a flock of blackbirds is a good omen and a sign of a healthy habitat. She reflects on an early morning visit to a wetland in Georgia, where she saw—and heard—hundreds of thousands of blackbirds. Hear her full account: buff.ly/fSIhNjE
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Okay if I can be selfish for a moment:
I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile.
A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵
itch.io/s/175443/ver...
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile.
A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵
itch.io/s/175443/ver...
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Okay if I can be selfish for a moment:
I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile.
A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵
itch.io/s/175443/ver...
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile.
A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵
itch.io/s/175443/ver...
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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Returning to the old me with my best girl
December 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Returning to the old me with my best girl
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