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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Maybe live-commenting or just revealing spoilers?

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Mapback - Wikipedia

They need to bring back the “Mapback”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapback

Huge internet outage breaks many of the world’s biggest apps: Latest updates DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

Nope. You are definitely not alone. Some IT folk are going to have a groggy Monday: www.independent.co.uk/tech/snapcha...

I think a lot of sites on the web are having issues because AWS is having issues (eg Goodreads)

It’s still not too late to start wearing a mask.

Covid is surging.

Hundreds of kids are in quarantine for measles.

Public health has been gutted and healthcare is on the chopping block.

A well fitted respirator protects you and those around you.

You’ll get sick less & make public spaces safer!

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents. “I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.” During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. “They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the key figures in the creation of Modern Italy (almost every Italian city has a street named after him). He even briefly lived in the US as a refugee, and Lincoln attempted to recruit him to fight for the Union early in the Civil War

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Just missing Karl Space:

Quick follow-up: how much and what sort of back-and-forth happens between an adaptor and a writer?

Thanks! Much appreciated! I am a longtime comics reader but always up for learning about the process/behind the scenes!

Okay, I am curious.
What does a script adaptor do?

Would it help or would it hurt?

I was actually thinking of getting a sticker like that for our car....

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

Yeah, I keep getting bot followers.

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy.

It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.

We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Basically the end of the Papal States/their being reduced just to Vatican City more or less

Capture of Rome - Wikipedia

Oh hey, it's the 155th anniversary of the Breccia di Porta Pia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture...

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

Science is collaborative, this is ensuring that *no one* will want to collaborate with US scientists.

Why, why on earth would you go through all that effort working with an American only to have the research grant ended or paper killed because it got flagged by a fucking Nurgle acolyte?

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

This science story has everything:
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded

www.science.org/content/arti...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."