Geoff Millener
gmillener.bsky.social
Geoff Millener
@gmillener.bsky.social
Brevity defines us.
Reposted by Geoff Millener
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Geoff Millener
The GOP killed a very popular Covid-era Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) that gave poor people $30 off their broadband bills.

The GOP killed it purportedly to save money, but a new study found it saved the public more than it cost:
March 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Turning the corner in Memphis to see the Lorraine Motel is never not knee-buckling.
February 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The -minor- flaw in our ‘get married around Valentine’s Day so we don’t have to celebrate it’ strategy has been that everyone else continues to, making dinner reservations more challenging than had we gone with any other weekend in winter.
January 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Unsure if the makers of Bluey bandages forgot the little pads on the square ones in this box or have just leaned into toddlers exclusively wearing them as stickers anyway - either way, brutal on the leg hair of the one being administered to.
January 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just sitting here watching as my 2.5 year old is completely locked in to building a train out of ancient Duplo. Deep breaths of concentration putting pieces together, the loud clinks in shuffling and searching for the right piece. This is amazing.
December 18, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free.
December 2, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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“Only one work of cinema has ever managed to effectively recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation in the traditional sense as through the more precarious feat of transmutation.”

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...
two muppets are standing in front of a pile of apples .
ALT: two muppets are standing in front of a pile of apples .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 AM
"Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world. I don’t know if it’s a belief, a cliché, or a myth." Desmond's 'Evicted' changed my understanding of the world, 'Poverty, by America' continued to expand it - this is an excellent introduction.
Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM