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A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

I could not help myself to take time of my holidays to write a book review for @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social latest:

Science under siege:
How to fight the five most powerful forces that threaten our world.

Please enjoy reading:

in the past *five years*

Militaristic death cults will always lose to people who’d rather be doing something else.

Lmfao they're slowly backing away from a guy in a frog suit like he's an SCP

The US is about to see waves of preventable death & disease because what started as "medical freedom" has turned into the destruction of American science & public health. I will do everything in my power to stand up for science, health, democracy, & the rule of law in Canada.

Canada should consider implementing poultry vaccination going forward. It won't change these ostriches' fate, but it could prevent similar situations going forward because it will prevent outbreaks altogether. That would reduce the number of flocks getting culled.

Poultry vaccination has never been used in Canada, but it's been successful in China and Mexico. Other countries are starting to do it & seeing big reductions in outbreaks & poultry losses. Check out these data. Mainland China has barely lost any birds compared to everywhere else

It wasn't lost on me as I bathed in this torrent of abuse that 1. this was intentional to drive me out of the conversation and 2. a lot of the abuse was phrased as questions. Since I actually have the scientific expertise to answer many of them, I decided to try.

Last Stand in Bird Flu Ostrich Land The BC ostrich convoy enters the "find out" stage of FAFO and so have we all

As the accursed ostrich situation continues to get simultaneously more stupid and gravely serious, I decided to write up a very long analysis of many of the key issues. Bottom line: so long as this flock lives, it is a threat to Canada's national security. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Entrance to Giverny in winter - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110096

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

But for 26-year-old Emma Sonas, a childhood bout with whooping cough was so debilitating that she is still dealing with the consequences. Sonas, who was delivered in a home birth, said she did not receive a single vaccine growing up. When she was 13, Sonas, along with her mom and siblings, caught whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory infection that leads to uncontrollable coughing fits as the person gasps for air. Sonas’s symptoms were so severe that she slept upright in her bed for months. Otherwise, she’d wake up and feel like she was drowning. “My respiratory system has never been the same,” she said. “The idea that a choice my parents made has resulted into something like this has been really hard to understand and deal with.”

What it's like to grow up unvaccinated, by Trisha Thadani.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The point of this isn't about which side of the discourse is correct we all know that the point is that even having the discourse at all is letting the fascists set the discursive terrain. Don't fucking let them. Drive the discourse to what matters

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Fascism doesn’t just start with dictators or camps. It begins when people stop caring about the law, excuse rules and protocols, and do whatever pleases the leader. It thrives not on power alone, but on obedience, silence, and the slow erosion of principle and the law.

Important read. This isn't unique to the UK, it happens throughout the world and is clearly happening in most European countries

Look, I get the time-saving aspect, but there's saving time and there's overhand tossing the dishes into the dishwasher and throwing in a bar of soap

X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite ...

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks

De novo design of RNA and nucleoprotein complexes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679929v1

And while I am filled with incredible gratitude for what this opportunity did for me, I am also sad that opportunity might not exist for much longer. I miss the unreasonable optimism of my youth.

/fin

And now realizing how incredibly powerful that support was and how, despite being a relatively small department, it was the best place I could have gone to graduate school. And now I see that opportunity being wrested away from the current generation of students. 4/n

I am leaving Rochester NY after attending the retirement fest of four giants in the field of evolutionary biology including my PhD advisor. This visit gave me a chance to revisit old haunts and reflect on my own somewhat unlikely origin story. 1/n

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Well, 2 of those years were during the Zero COVID travel restrictions, but we know what's changed in the last 4 years. That aside, it might help if GovHK stopped with the paranoid wolf warrior temper tantrums every time some western politician/newspaper/ index says something negative about them.

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The struggle to protect children from conspiracy theorist parents The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

"I think Covid led to a massive rise in misinformation on social media, and before scientists could fact check it, or even knew about it… it was gathering pace. Trust in the medical profession began to drop."

Up top, the headline: "SANYO FIRST OFF THE BLOCKS WITH A CD-ROM AMIGA 500? A combined CD-ROM/Amiga had already been developed in Japan as early as last August, the Express can reveal." The article describes how the specs resemble an Amiga 500, but the case resembles an Amiga 2000 with a Sanyo badge; while Commodore US knew nothing and Commodore Japan did not respond (not terribly good signs), the quote from the lead engineer Nakamura stated they were looking forwards to porting Amiga home titles to the Japanese market. But don't go looking for one at your local used game shop. Instead, this deal would fall through and they would spend 1990 shovelling out the C64 "Games System" (like a C64 you can't program, but more expensive!) and spend further development money reinventing this working Amiga with the CDTV (1991, 2 years later, 60000 units sold) and the CD32 (1994, 4 years later, 125000 units sold).

Despite a strong opening act, Commodore made multiple errors through the 80s. Perhaps one of the biggest ones was the Sanyo Amiga CD-X. The CD-X was set to use the established Amiga 500 electronics and receive Japanese arcade ports from Taito, Capcom, Sega, and Konami... in 1989. (Source.)

Discussed here.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/science-base...

Pizza Box, Hong Kong's wierd little spin off of Domino's has closed all but 2 of its branches in the city, with the most recently closed one being the Tseung Kwan O after serving the district for 35 years.