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if you actually read Marx you find out every tech billionaire is a Marxist who skipped 2-5 pages of the book

last time we were in the thick of a war-induced energy shock, @henrygrabar.bsky.social had to remind everyone why suspending the gas tax is a boneheaded idea: slate.com/business/202...

They be leaving my novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS out when they make their Black Southern Gothic lists. Yo it's right there being Black Southern Gothic through & through & that's critically recognized. It's distributed by Penguin. How do I stay so underground for y'all?! Get hip to this!

I think many readers who follow @tkingfisher.com would looooove this book!

Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽

They don’t even know GoogleMaps has a topographical setting.

Excellent explainer 🧵!!! And I'm very grateful I didn't have to do it at this late hour as I'm getting ready to rack out. But do give it a read.

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

Reading this, from the perspective of someone who is not a lawyer but has some grasp of consequences, he’ll be lucky to live long enough to be able to change his name, move to Montana, and start a new life raising dental floss.

That was for the syphilis, and nowadays he pre-screens.

one more time: our problem is not polarization. our problem is fascism.

"polarization is the problem" is literally the thesis of Birth of a Nation. it has long been a white supremacist justification for fascism in the US. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...

final boost for overnight thank you all

I’m just sayin’, is all. It would be very interesting to see how a bar complaint went, especially once she didn’t have Big Daddy to hide behind.

Pam is imagining her life after Trump, with death threats & no law license.

The thing that I don't think they've fully grasped is because we've had two nearly three generations of adults who have been vaccinated, people are going to realize pretty quickly shit is bad when suddenly their kids are dying.

only $50 received and she's having to use gas to charge her phone 10 people wiyh $25 gets her power back on.

As far as I can tell, these guys believe maps are for pussies, because they keep talking as if a ground invasion would be a piece of cake.

As if we hadn’t been told the cake was a lie by more reliable sources for some time.

JUST LET ME PRETEND I'M SAVING THE PLANET YOU NO-GOOD DISOBEDIENT CREATURE

*sydette starts screaming about data collection and transparency and lying as malice*

We can thank him for introducing the concept of not beating children constantly in school. Also for the first organized adult education center in the country.
But otherwise—have at him.

Germs are all around us, both in our environment and in our bodies. When a person is susceptible and they encounter a harmful organism, it can lead to disease and death. The body has many ways of defending itself against pathogens (disease-causing organisms). Skin, mucus, and cilia (microscopic hairs that move debris away from the lungs) all work as physical barriers to prevent pathogens from entering the body in the first place. When a pathogen does infect the body, our body's defences, called the immune system, are triggered and the pathogen is attacked and destroyed or overcome. If you aren't aware, a pathogen is a bacterium, virus, parasite or fungus that can cause disease within the body. Each pathogen is made up of several subparts, usually unique to that specific pathogen and the disease it causes. The subpart of a pathogen that causes the formation of antibodies is called an antigen. The antibodies produced in response to the pathogen's antigen are an important part of the immune system. You can consider antibodies as the soldiers in your body's defense system. Each antibody, or soldier, in our system is trained to recognize one specific antigen. We have thousands of different antibodies in our bodies. When the human body is exposed to an antigen for the first time, it takes time for the immune system to respond and produce antibodies specific to that antigen.

The antibodies produced in response to the pathogen's antigen are an important part of the immune system. You can consider antibodies as the soldiers in your body's defense system. Each antibody, or soldier, in our system is trained to recognize one specific antigen. We have thousands of different antibodies in our bodies. When the human body is exposed to an antigen for the first time, it takes time for the immune system to respond and produce antibodies specific to that antigen. In the meantime, the person is susceptible to becoming ill. Once the antigen-specific antibodies are produced, they work with the rest of the immune system to destroy the pathogen and stop the disease. Antibodies to one pathogen generally don't protect against another pathogen except when two pathogens are very similar to each other, like cousins. Once the body produces antibodies in its primary response to an antigen, it also creates antibody-producing memory cells, which remain alive even after the pathogen is defeated by the antibodies. If the body is exposed to the same pathogen more than once, the antibody response is much faster and more effective than the first time around because the memory cells are at the ready to pump out antibodies against that antigen. This means that if the person is exposed to the dangerous pathogen in the future, their immune system will be able to respond immediately, protecting against disease.

The Body’s Natural Response (WITH A CAVEAT) ⬇️

Vaccines save lives.

That’s it. That’s the post.

If you want a template for this, think Iraq after we invaded in 2003. I'm looking forward to the Rubios and the Mas family and all the others learning some very hard and painful lessons. 4 & end/

Exhibit A for "Meritocracy has always been a lie"

A lot depends on your tone of voice and body language, which is easier to project for some than others.

That feeling of success eclipses the failures, as it does for gamblers. That attracts the median user and keeping them going. I’m not sure how rational any single aspect is after the intermittent reward comes into play. (they can & do rationalize it, but that’s post hoc ergo propter hoc)

There is a clip floating around of a failed Rube Goldberg device where the human has to correct every single action. That’s all of the failed attempts.

But very occasionally, it coincidentally produces a right answer the first time, which produces a dopamine hit like scratch ticket gambling.

Huh, I never saw him care about an environmental issue (an invasive species) before

I haven’t kept up but I don’t think his carp facts are quite right

boosting