Maharetr
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
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I haven’t watched the hockey show yet & it sounds fun, but as somebody pointed out the other night, it should definitely be called Puck Buddies
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I haven’t watched the hockey show yet & it sounds fun, but as somebody pointed out the other night, it should definitely be called Puck Buddies
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the person who named the Woolly Mammoth should’ve been able to name more things
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
the person who named the Woolly Mammoth should’ve been able to name more things
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Please join us at the rally to save the #StateLibraryofVictoria from mismanagement & insane staff cuts. Library steps, Saturday 13 December at 12.30. Every citizen of this city owns this place & now we have to defend it. I'm sorry we're all so busy & distracted by bad things: but this we can do.
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Please join us at the rally to save the #StateLibraryofVictoria from mismanagement & insane staff cuts. Library steps, Saturday 13 December at 12.30. Every citizen of this city owns this place & now we have to defend it. I'm sorry we're all so busy & distracted by bad things: but this we can do.
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What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-heated-rivalry/
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-heated-rivalry/
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Our public museums & libraries now staggering to survive under boards forcing disastrous cuts, full of ex-politicians & rich business mates, taking spaces of experienced, dedicated people. Fed ALP suppresses official report on how bad it is - then, arrogant & peevish, refuses to stop doing it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Our public museums & libraries now staggering to survive under boards forcing disastrous cuts, full of ex-politicians & rich business mates, taking spaces of experienced, dedicated people. Fed ALP suppresses official report on how bad it is - then, arrogant & peevish, refuses to stop doing it.
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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This hit me straight in the feels
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This hit me straight in the feels
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“Once upon a time,” said Frog, “there were two good friends, a frog and a toad.”
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Once upon a time,” said Frog, “there were two good friends, a frog and a toad.”
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Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
For what it's worth, people in Australia can get free membership of the National Library, and with that you can read the ABR free. It's how I came to enjoy this lovely little bit of savagery.
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
Join the Library | National Library of Australia (NLA)
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www.library.gov.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
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For Mornings on the Seine (1896–97), Monet rose before dawn and painted from a boat moored in mist. The subject wasn’t the river—it was the hour.
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
For Mornings on the Seine (1896–97), Monet rose before dawn and painted from a boat moored in mist. The subject wasn’t the river—it was the hour.
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How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
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We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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On the idea of “labels”
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
On the idea of “labels”
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
Oh, DAMN
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Oh, DAMN
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EXACTLY. It's very respectful about faith while also showing how much anger and hatred have to be continually stoked in order to keep people motivated.
The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
EXACTLY. It's very respectful about faith while also showing how much anger and hatred have to be continually stoked in order to keep people motivated.
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Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.
Because it delivers ART!
Because it delivers ART!
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.
Because it delivers ART!
Because it delivers ART!
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Everyone is coming for me today.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Everyone is coming for me today.
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"Maria" works in the strawberry roots in the Ballico CA area. She earns piece rate,but says working as fast as she can, she barely makes CA min wage. She skillfully sorts the roots into bunches of 1000. These roots will be transplanted in the spring. #wefeedyou
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Maria" works in the strawberry roots in the Ballico CA area. She earns piece rate,but says working as fast as she can, she barely makes CA min wage. She skillfully sorts the roots into bunches of 1000. These roots will be transplanted in the spring. #wefeedyou