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Yes, opening the room now :)

I am here.

This is happening again and again from Substack users & is costing me a fortune. I've explained endless times how simple it is to cancel a subscription to my site.

I've gone, over the last few months from, "Substack isn't for me" to "Substack is fucking evil & people need to know about this shit".

it's like they don't realize 90% of their users are people who don't mind having to jump ship to a new social media site when its owners become actively hostile towards its users

So basically the same stupid algorithms as elseplace. I *hate* it. I don't want @bsky.app to show things I 'might want to see' as determined by them. I want a chrono timeline of the ppl I follow. Why fuck with that?

get your money back from the nazi tattoo guy and give it to your local food bank

Abbildung 3. Diversitätsanalyse der TCRαβ-Repertoires. Die Diversität des Repertoires wurde anhand von vier Metriken bewertet: Chao1, ChaoE, inverser Simpson-Index und Shannon-Index. (A) Diversität der TCRα-Kette; (B) Diversität der TCRβ-Kette; (C) Hauptkomponentenanalyse (PCA) der TCRα-Diversität; (D) PCA der TCRβ-Diversität. Die Daten stellen Mittelwert ± SD dar. Die statistische Signifikanz wurde mit dem Kruskal-Wallis-Test und Dunns Post-hoc- Test bestimmt: *** P < 0,001, **** P < 0,0001. ns, nicht signifikant.

„SARS-CoV-2 verändert still und leise die menschliche Immunität. Es handelt sich um eine langsame, messbare Erosion der Immunvielfalt – eine Umstrukturierung der körpereigenen Abwehrkräfte, die jeden betrifft, der oft genug damit in Berührung kommt. Besonders besorgniserregend …

@vidao.bsky.social @scribblingsandy.bsky.social we 'fell back' timewise overnight, so out meeting time should be ~3.30 German time (normal time for you Vi) if I counted right. I can only stay for one episode today bec I have to be elseplace at 5pm, so 3.30 would work really well for me if that is ok

5, I am a 5 today :)

To this I would add:

Prodigy was launched in 1984 and arguably the first true precursor of the public community/social web as it is today.

Guess what much of it's early growth was built on:

Women talking Star Trek, fanfic and Kirk/Spock slash.

(To the confusion of its corporate backers)

Thread. Support the writing you want to have exist in the world.

EU ermittelt gegen Facebook, Instagram und TikTok Nach Ansicht der EU-Kommission könnten Facebook, Instagram und TikTok gegen das EU-Digitalgesetz verstoßen.

EU ermittelt gegen Facebook, Instagram und TikTok #DSA #Strafen #META

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

Ein Guillain-Barré-Syndrom ist eine neurologische Erkrankung mit Lähmungen und neurooathischen Schmerzen, die nach verschiedenen Infektionserkrankungen auftreten kann. Auch SARSCoV2 kann das auslösen. Die Inzidenz hat sich seit Beginn der Pandemie erhöht.

1. He worked as a mercenary for Erik Prince's Blackwater
2. He has a Nazi tattoo he never removed or covered
He's a plant. Give him a Senate seat and he'll be the next Fetterman or Sinema. Fool us twice, shame on you. Fool us three times, SHAME ON US.

Poster with a man in a Chinese blue belted full lenght garment on the left and a woman in a green embroidered Chinese dress with long sleeves. The woman has jewelry in her hair and holds a round embroidered fan. In the background there is a painting with stylised mountains and in front there is a branch of yellow-white flowers. The man looks at the woman and the smiling woman looks into the distance.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Poster with a man in a Chinese blue belted full lenght garment on the left and a woman in a green embroidered Chinese dress with long sleeves. The woman has jewelry in her hair and holds a round embroidered fan. In the background there is a painting with stylised mountains and in front there is a branch of yellow-white flowers. The man looks at the woman and the smiling woman looks into the distance.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

a colorful birthday cake with the words happy birthday on it ALT: a colorful birthday cake with the words happy birthday on it

Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to youuuu dear @scribblingsandy.bsky.social
Hope you have a lovely day with lots of yummy things and books natch :)

If you're in London tomorrow, do come along - it's all free and there's no need to book.

... or if you're not in London, then you can watch online on our YouTube channel.

#Archaeology 🏺

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

I lived there for the last 6 years. Just moved to Croatia.

Wir wollen weder Rassisten noch Autokraten.

Wir brauchen keinen Lautsprecher für Höcke&Weidel.

Merz ist nicht unser Kanzler.

Can't believe you came to Berlin just after I left! Glad you had nice weather.

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more.

Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages.

It Was Never About The Hostages.

“They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin”
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Anyway, I promised to show you something fun, didn’t I? This is the stack of paper required to *renew* an existing DLA award for a lifelong condition. Banana shown for scale.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link

For the youths of the ‘sky: Tea Partiers were mostly upper/middle-class white Revolutionary War cosplayers who got wall-to-wall media coverage for years because they were loud and mad - and steadfastly refused to understand that we’re trying to have a society here, and public services cost money.

New BBC headline updated 15 minutes ago:
"Israel says it will return to ceasefire hours after carrying out strikes on Gaza"

But... is it really a ceasefire if Israel says the ceasefire is in effect except when they're bombing Gaza? Isn't that just... refuelling?

Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics A process of normalisation has led Reform to propose mass deportations where once it believed such a policy would never be politically viable.

Good article on how today's extremists push their ideas into the mainstream.