Amanda Hayes

Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

This is why I mentioned in my previous thread for everyone: IF you are not eligible for an updated (2025-2026) COVID vaccine this year (based on what the administration determines), it IS okay to grab a 2024-2025 vaccine as it targets the JN.1 lineage.

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply that estimated life expectancy [in Gaza has fallen by more than 35 years, to half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide”

ME: [existing]

DOCTOR: [getting ready to spin the wheel that says "Lose Weight," "Have a Baby" & "It's Just Anxiety"]

ME: I think my toe is broken

DOCTOR: Have you been feeling anxious lately?

As Israel's war on Gaza continues, Al Jazeera staff members, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/qg87g7

I have some time this morning so I will introduce the project I’m taking part in. I am sailing on Saga Farmann, a reconstruction of the Klåstad ship. It dates from 998 and was found near the the site of Kaupang in southern Norway. Only 40% of the original ship survives #Saga25 #MedievalSky 1/

A painting of a bird beside the text "Oh my god, what the fuck"

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

Screenshot of Daily Telegraph page, with a headline reading "The wind turbines destroying the fishing trade". Below the article is an advertisement for Baillie Gifford's "Monks Investment Trust"

Today's attack on clean energy by the Telegraph - whose owner has huge investments in oil and gas - comes with an advert just below it from Baillie Gifford, who reportedly also have hundreds of millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels... fossilfreefunds.org/families?q=B...

On JD:

"He's a hopeless, chinless, nazi Care Bear.
He just doesn't have it, whatever "it" is.
He's a charisma black hole.
He's the American Robert Jenrick."

We don't deserve Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social

Cover art by Christian Ward

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Looting and pillaging by ICE agents is gonna be a regular thing and it's gonna make a ton of ppl *furious*.

Cops get away with a modicum of this but remember that ICE is staffed by ppl who lack the restraint or competence to be cops.

They're gonna loot like Russian fucking soldiers.

Not in my country, they don't 😉

Plants' chemical messages keep pests moving | Cornell Chronicle Plant chemical defense systems keep pests moving to new plants in dense populations, thereby distributing damage evenly and leaving minimal damage on each plant in a field, a recent study finds.

Some plants “call predators for help” when a pest eats them by releasing volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Predators of small bugs and pests can smell the VOCs and know a bug is present for the predator to eat thus helping the plant get less eaten

news.cornell.edu/stories/2017...

The molecule that gives caraway seeds their flavor is the mirror image of the molecule that gives spearmint its flavor.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

My dad told me a story about having a drink with Mr Lovell at some local dive bar when this sequence was being filmed for The Man who Fell to Earth back in the 1970's.
My dad said Mr. Lovell had a lot to say about space and what he saw there...
I'll leave it at that.
Rest in peace, spaceman.

It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.

This is important, imo. The draft code doesn't state that trans exclusion is mandatory. It just keeps saying trans exclusion is lawful while avoiding talking about inclusion as lawful. Stuff in the papers suggesting otherwise is mostly just trying to create a perception of a law that doesn't exist.

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people

"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

A list of seven historical figures and their feelings towards cats…

7. Abraham Lincoln (lover)
6. Mussolini (hater)
5. Anne Frank (lover)
4. Genghis Khan (hater)
3. Florence Nightingale (lover)
2. Ivan the Terrible (hater)
1. Erwin Schrödinger (undecided)

The Polari Prize First Book longlist is now officially a shortlist. We've absolutely Ben de la Cremed it. Almost half of the people who, as debut authors, would have the most to gain from being nominated have told Polari that our trans siblings mean more to us. What are they going to do with that?

It might sound crazy, but if people bought my books and made me a billionaire author I would simply protect my legacy by not putting any of my money into persecuting minority groups who just want to be left alone to live their lives and not harm anyone. Not a single penny.

Unassailable logic. I'm on it.

They had an eye for beauty, those Saxons

Well that’s nothing! Apparently if you don’t vote Labour you’ll get Reform and THEY’LL be the ones doing this. Who would you rather have destroying the lives of minorities? Those red ties are so comforting.

Rushanara Ali: "The average monthly private rent in London increased by 9.7% in the last year and is over one and a half times higher than the average monthly rent in England"

At the time people probably assumed Ali meant this was a bad thing. It turns out she was boasting!

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"