Steve Perry

Effect of the Combination of Creatine Monohydrate Plus HMB Supplementation on Sports Performance, Body Composition, Markers of Muscle Damage and Hormone Status: A Systematic Review Although there are many studies showing the isolated effect of creatine monohydrate (CrM) and β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate (HMB), it is not clear what effect they have when they are combined. The main purpose of this systematic review was to determine ...

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Takeaway: If you are an older jock, stacking these two supplements -- creatine and HMB -- might help you get stronger. It's a meta-study, not a miracle, but when you get ancient, every little bit helps.

#webcomics #girlgenius #godzilla Girl Genius for 11/3 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) According to various sources, today is Godzilla's Birthday! There you go– News You Can Use.

Yeah, I have a couple of those.

Oh, my.

The CTO of BlueSky, displaying a bloody impressive lack of literary and social competency.

A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif.

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Monsters among us. And a third of our country's voters unleashed them.

Hard to prosecute a phantom -- they walk through walls and all.

Big surprise. Still fighting the Civil War down there, too. Plus the spineless Speaker of the House and all.

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

When there's an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents ...

But in Louisiana this year, public health officials appeared not to have followed that playbook during the state's worst whooping cough outbreak in 35 years.

Jesus Christ, *DC Fontana.*

From @stonekettle.bsky.social

#TheAlliedForces

No Kings Day Protest - October 18, 2025 Reclaiming Democracy, Rejecting Authoritarianism On Saturday, October 18, 2025, people across the United States will mobilize again for No Kings, a nationwide, nonviolent day of action to defend democ...

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Click on the link, find a gathering near you. Maybe if twenty million people fill the streets, it might lead to something that will help.

Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto) Marimar Martinez, the woman shot multiple times by ICE in Chicago, has been released from hospital. She’s retained a lawyer who has seen the body cam footage from the shooting. Christopher Parente...

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Somebody asked me if I had any intention of picketing ICE HQ in Portland.

No.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I don’t want to give Cheeto an excuse to send in the Marines. The shit I’ve seen these costumed clowns do? I would find myself tempted to rashness

Be bad in all kinds of ways.

This is what an insurrection looks like:

Born troublemaker ...

MeidasTouch Network (@meidastouch) MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Swamp King

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Sure. And if you are writing science fiction or fantasy, you can equip aliens with things that work otherwise. But the exceptions will be relatively few, and need be noted if they deviate from the basic human model. Writer's responsibility.

My ignorance is vast, and today I came across Searle's Chinese Room and the Turing Test.

If you heard of those? Look 'em up and wander through the halls of what mind might be ...

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If you are a professional writer, you should check this out.