Excited to be at #EACS2025 in Paris 😎

Bought this indoor plant a month ago - it was just a small cane with a few leaves. Didn’t expect it to flower at all this season 🌸

International Planned Parenthood Foundation vows they will never sign onto the Global Gag Rule.
IPPF anticipates it will lose $61 million USD for programs that provide sexual and reproductive health services for millions of women and youth in 13 countries and across 16 healthcare projects.

John Boswell (1947-1994) was a gay American historian of classical and medieval times, particularly focusing on the history of religion and queerness. From 1h 35' onwards he answers the question "How can lesbians and gay men become normal?".

This "tariff" thing could actually be an opportunity - more Colombian coffee for the rest of the world, less for Starbucks in its home country.

This new US administration's policies are literally going to kill millions and reignite the HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide. The freeze to all foreign aid expenditure means 20 millions of people with HIV worldwide will not have access anymore to life-saving and transmission-stopping antiviral therapies.

The weekly bulletin of the CDC was not published this week for the first time in my memory. I remember going to the library of the hospital to read the MMWR to get the last updates about the AIDS epidemic in the early 90s - yes, that was before internet. USA=Russia=China: state censorship.

Rotorua lakefront 🇳🇿

Rotorua hospital on the hill looking out at the lake 😍

I always say that Dante is like "what if a fanfiction dot net writer turned out to be a poetic genius"

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