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Maria
@stuffasdreams.bsky.social
EngLit, Sherlock Holmes, Tolkien, 19th Century, Nerd, Anti-fascist, traveller, Fandom. She/her.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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was in Spain when Mamdani was elected and -- can confirm this was largely the sentiment! many many congratulations upon hearing I was from NY

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Release the Epstein Files!!!
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.

Please pass it on!
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.

And they're marked by St George's flags

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Rechtsextreme: Wenn ihr Linke wählt, kriegt ihr die Scharia! Und wenn zu viele Frauen Linke wählen, müssen wir ihnen eben das Wahlrecht entziehen, um sie vor der Scharia zu schützen, die sie entmündigen würde!
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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„Leider ist der Bundespräsident kein Demokrat“, schreibt die #Welt. Und die #NZZ spricht von einer „Grenzüberschreitung“ Steinmeiers.

Zwei einst relativ angesehene Zeitungen machen Nazis salonfähig und werden zu Helfern der AfD
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We need the opposite to happen. This is insanity.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Another one bites the dust.

Delete your Grammarly account, apps, plugins and everything related to it.

They will use your writing to train AI.
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is so so awful
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
what the actual fuck?!
Unfassbar! Tim Drygala, ein aus Lübeck stammender Jurist an der Uni Leipzig, lebt seine schlimmen Gewaltfantasien und seinen Frauenhass offen aus. Nein, so jemand darf nicht Beamter, nicht Professor, nicht Jurist in einem demokratischen Rechtsstaat sein!
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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On the left, Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the imitation game, where he says that using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent is absurd.

On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.

🧪🤖
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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someone call georg
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Falls ihr dieses wirklich sehr kluge Interview mit @valentimvicente.bsky.social noch nicht gelesen habt, kommt hier ein Geschenklink ohne Paywall. Und ich freu mich wahnsinnig auf das Buch!

www.zeit.de/politik/2025...
Vicente Valentim: "Angela Merkel lag richtig"
Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.
www.zeit.de
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I keep waiting for a credible report to come out on how the environmental costs of generative AI have been overstated but every article is like "lol no it's much worse than you imagine."
Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers
Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.
progressive.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Dass die Regierung Gaskunden mit 3,4 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr subventionieren will, ist in Zeiten der Klimakrise ein Skandal. Aber dass dies mit Geldern geschehen soll, die zur Finanzierung der Energiewende und des Klimaschutzes vorgesehen sind, schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus.
Gasspeicherumlage: Bundestag beschließt Entlastung für Gasverbraucher
Haushalte und Unternehmen müssen ab 2026 keine Gasspeicherumlage mehr zahlen. Der Bund finanziert die jährlichen Kosten künftig aus dem Klima- und Transformationsfonds.
www.zeit.de
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Soviel Leid, weil ein Mann während seiner Kindheit und Jugend erlebt hat, dass Egoismus, mehr Geld als man benötigt, Macht über andere und Empathiefreiheit als erstrebenswert gelten.
Man kann sich aktuell aussuchen, auf wen das alles zutreffen könnte.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Another reason to boycott Tesla.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM