B 7

That was my late father's favorite plant! His yard was full of them. They walked everywhere!

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

How did I not hear about this?

It's not the periodic table that's confusing. It's the English language that's confusing, because Pb is lead not lead.

Pasta arranged to form an image of Chewbacca.

“Excuse me, waiter?”
“Yes sir, is there a problem?”
“I asked for my pasta al dente.”
“Was it prepared incorrectly?”
“I’m afraid it’s a little Chewie.”

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Did you notice when it left? Was it after signalgate? I'm curious as to what changed their mind, or if they just decided the time for decorations was over.

Why Corruption on 2020? That should be 2016.

That's stunning!

Wow! I'm very envious!

It's an eastern bluebird. They're very rare. I've been looking all my life, and have never seen one.

I've never seen a bluebird in the wild. Let's hope this is a good omen.

Hi, Neil! How's life?

Every military in the world has SOME bad apples who are members. Painting the entire organization as rapists because of the actions of a few of its members is wrong. The difference is that when Hamas rapes people, it's celebrated. When Israeli soldiers do it, it's prosecuted.

גם לך, ידיד!

Sadly, he'll be pardoning himself in a few weeks.

Congrats! This is my first repost ever on bsky!

Sinbad:
1. Sailor
2. Comedian
3. Most succinct version of the Bible