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March 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This - 💯 this
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There’s a deadly measles outbreak raging in west Texas, and it’s being fueled, at least in part, by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be. ⤵️
Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be. ⤵️
Here's Where Those False Measles Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Came From
The MMR vaccine is safe, effective, and the best tool to stop the current outbreak. So why do all those false conspiracy theories persist?
www.teenvogue.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There’s a deadly measles outbreak raging in west Texas, and it’s being fueled, at least in part, by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be. ⤵️
Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be. ⤵️
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The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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Lol yeah Conclave is easily the best best picture nom I’ve seen so far. Of course it’s wildly entertaining on top of being meticulous, gorgeous, incredibly meaningful in multiple ways and fantastically well performed, so the “it lacks depth” crowd moaned about it.
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Lol yeah Conclave is easily the best best picture nom I’ve seen so far. Of course it’s wildly entertaining on top of being meticulous, gorgeous, incredibly meaningful in multiple ways and fantastically well performed, so the “it lacks depth” crowd moaned about it.
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Conclave was a total delight
February 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Conclave was a total delight
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For no reason in particular, did you know the shelf life on Plan B is 4 years? So, like, if someone wanted to I dunno stock up for reasons, those meds would be good for years.
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For no reason in particular, did you know the shelf life on Plan B is 4 years? So, like, if someone wanted to I dunno stock up for reasons, those meds would be good for years.
I have just finished Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb and oh my word what a beautiful brilliant story. I read the first books when they came out (late 1990s?) but only getting around to the rest now. Very glad I rediscovered them
February 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I have just finished Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb and oh my word what a beautiful brilliant story. I read the first books when they came out (late 1990s?) but only getting around to the rest now. Very glad I rediscovered them
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Afternoon crew! My love song to Wyoming, Baba Yaga, and the perils of growing up (RATTLESNAKE WIND) is a Kindle Daily Deal today. US & CA, $1.99!
Amazon - Rattlesnake Wind
Rattlesnake Wind by Lilith Saintcrow
www.amazon.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Afternoon crew! My love song to Wyoming, Baba Yaga, and the perils of growing up (RATTLESNAKE WIND) is a Kindle Daily Deal today. US & CA, $1.99!
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Tesla sales plummet across Europe
Tesla sales plummet across Europe
Registrations in Germany fall 59% amid consumer backlash against Elon Musk’s political activism
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tesla sales plummet across Europe
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I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump claims there's only '2 genders.' Historians say that's never been true | CBC News
The Trump administration's 'two gender' policy is sparking fear and confusion among trans and non-binary people. The executive order claims it's a return to "biological facts," but experts say it igno...
www.cbc.ca
February 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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guys i was basically afk all of last week so i MISSED MY OWN BOOK RELEASE!
The sixth Dublin Driver book, DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, is now available! books2read.com/irishdruid
The sixth Dublin Driver book, DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, is now available! books2read.com/irishdruid
January 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
guys i was basically afk all of last week so i MISSED MY OWN BOOK RELEASE!
The sixth Dublin Driver book, DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, is now available! books2read.com/irishdruid
The sixth Dublin Driver book, DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, is now available! books2read.com/irishdruid
Lawn bowls is almost as soothing as curling
January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lawn bowls is almost as soothing as curling
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The number of publications unwilling to call this what it is is worrying...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of Trump
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The number of publications unwilling to call this what it is is worrying...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation."
Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
letterfromjail.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation."
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I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
It’s a long time
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It’s a long time
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Hoping I can give out about Ronan Mullen here without getting trolled for days. Thanks for this, very useful.
December 31, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Hoping I can give out about Ronan Mullen here without getting trolled for days. Thanks for this, very useful.
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It's #ge24 #seanad #seanad25 #seanad24 time (I don't know what we're using yet!) so it's time for the return of the spreadsheet that earned me a coveted special mocking section on Gript last time.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'll be gathering datapoints on key issues for each candidate.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'll be gathering datapoints on key issues for each candidate.
NUI Seanad 2025
docs.google.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:45 AM
It's #ge24 #seanad #seanad25 #seanad24 time (I don't know what we're using yet!) so it's time for the return of the spreadsheet that earned me a coveted special mocking section on Gript last time.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'll be gathering datapoints on key issues for each candidate.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'll be gathering datapoints on key issues for each candidate.
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Please note that it is each NUI voter’s *particular* duty to give out about Ronan Mullen, as we are the source of his legislative influence.
Hoping I can give out about Ronan Mullen here without getting trolled for days. Thanks for this, very useful.
January 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Please note that it is each NUI voter’s *particular* duty to give out about Ronan Mullen, as we are the source of his legislative influence.
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I'm doing this challenge called January where I try to get through every day in January
January 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I'm doing this challenge called January where I try to get through every day in January
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Ella Lily Hyland and Gabrielle Creevy are some real old-fashioned scene stealers in Black Doves.
December 19, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Ella Lily Hyland and Gabrielle Creevy are some real old-fashioned scene stealers in Black Doves.
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Someone wrote the ‘wtf is going on with Sam Smiths pubs’ longread you didn’t know you needed.
Tyranny, beer and weirdness.
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
December 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Someone wrote the ‘wtf is going on with Sam Smiths pubs’ longread you didn’t know you needed.
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Tyranny, beer and weirdness.
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
In early September 2022, Alivia Bienko and her husband,…
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Tyranny, beer and weirdness.
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A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.