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Penny Durham
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Writer and clinical/opinion/humour editor at The Medical Republic on Gadigal land. Horror fan and writer. 73% cat.
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A less well known trick of #measles is to wipe out your immune memory, destroying the factories that produce antibodies for pathogens you've been previously exposed to. www.medicalrepublic.com.au/the-great-me...
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Evergreen reminder
A Calvin & Hobbes 4-panel strip: 1. Calvin running at high speed, jubilant 2. Calvin skidding to a stop; off-panel bubble reads "Calvin, stop running through the house!" 3. Calvin spiking the reader, cheerful. His bubble reads "the law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it." 4. Calvin running off-panel. Off-panel bubble reads "CALVIN!"
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Take a break from the Idiocracy and consider the mosquitofish www.medicalrepublic.com.au/sexual-selec... Contains traces of #musk
Sexual selection makes males smarter - Medical Republic
In a tiny fish species. Oh, haha, did you think we meant in humans?
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
February 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Sure, give this abusive relationship another chance, by Dr Imaan Joshi. Labor has made an extravagant (or is it?) promise to lure GPs back to universal bulk billing, but for most it’s not worth it. www.medicalrepublic.com.au/sure-lets-gi... #medsky #medicare
Sure, give this abusive relationship another chance - Medical Republic
Labor has made an extravagant (or is it?) promise to lure GPs back to universal bulk billing, but for most it’s not worth it.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
February 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Obscene and surreal to have to say this but that’s 2025 … am here somewhere #ozjewssayno #gaza
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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when the situation is bad but the memes are 👌
February 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.)

The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved.

Me, in Slate 🧵
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
slate.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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Oops 😬
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Boohoowahahaha www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde
If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Happy 216th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
thehardtimes.net
January 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Our house is finally done being baby proofed! Reinforced locks, high tech camera system, brand new gates. I straight-up DARE a baby to try and get in here now.
January 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and I’m eating ice cream & reading the Malleus Maleficarum (1486) in bed, b/c of course

Anyway, did you know that witches can “truly and actually” remove dicks and not just make them seem to disappear?

“Your body my—“

Poof! No dick. Medieval answers to medieval problems
A passage from the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century guide to hunting witches. “Question 10: Whether witches may work some Prestidigitory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed from the body. Here is declared the truth about diabolic operations with regard to the male organ. And to make plain the facts in this matter, it is asked whether witches can with the help of devils really and actually remove the member, or whether they only do so apparently by some glamour or illusion. And that they can actually do so is argued a fortiori; for since devils can do greater things than this, as killing them or carrying them from place to place—as was shown above in the cases of Job and Tobias—therefore they can also truly and actually remove men’s members.”
November 19, 2024 at 3:39 AM