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Brian Vastag
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Occasional science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai #Hawaii. Sometimes SCUBA diver.

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Wolbachia are very interesting bacteria and I wrote about this technology 15 years ago as it was being developed. Cool stuff:

https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dofaw/comment/kauaimosquito/
Raise your leo: Kauaʻi Mosquito Suppression
About the project Hawaiʻi’s forest birds are facing an extinction crisis. Avian malaria transmitted by non-native mosquitoes has decimated native forest bird populations. Of Kauaʻi’s 16 native honeycreepers, 10 have gone extinct. Of the remaining… Read More »
dlnr.hawaii.gov
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I flew poor man's first-class to the mainland overnight and after a benzo-induced coma it feels like the closest thing to teleportation humanity will ever achieve. Thanks, drugs!
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stop overbooking flights? That's unAmerican!
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
@SRDas had to do a double take because I have a friend named Yoshi Inoue
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Also thinking about parallels with the Epstein files - secret government documents about something really big that have not been revealed.

When people say "Just start leaking all the classified stuff" well...how come we still haven't seen the Epstein files? Because people with access to them […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist | Documentary films | The Guardian https://share.google/D2cuGFmOntjLygiGP
‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist
The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
too bad the attachments aren't available.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM