Beowulf (really!)

It’s fun watching the Rethuglicans over on X loose their shit over Mamdani’s win. And snowflakes are melting over CA’s Prop 50 passing. It wasn’t even close!

Heck, people are blocking each other for polite disagreements—which seems to be muting legitimate discourse. For all its faults X seems to allow for more diversity of opinion—but you need to have a thick skin to deal with all the assholes.

Does anyone else experience a sense of health and well-being that begins about 24 hours after vaccination and lasts for several days? It doesn't seem to matter what type of vaccination, but I wonder if rising NAb titers aren't the cause.

Thanks for posting! Personal anecdata: when I lived in Hong Kong, I couldn't go 3 months w/o catching a URTI. When I returned to the US and set up housekeeping with my GF and her 3yo son—she caught all his daycare colds—but I seemed to be immune. It lasted a couple of years until kindergarten.

Only 18% of ‘exhaustively’ validated supercentenarians have a birth certificate, falling to zero percent in the USA, and supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five: a pattern indicative of widespread fraud and error. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

Hate to rain on the parade, but how sure are we of her actual age?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#TheRoad

Funny, but I always imagined Maureen Dowd as a Furry in a wombat costume.

Furries are people who like to socialize while cosplaying in animal costumes. A subset of them like to have sex while dressed up as animals. Their fur adds to their erotic pleasure. Aren’t you glad you asked?

YouTube video by Gregg Oppenheimer Trump Trackdown

Ironically, an episode of the 1950s TV series Trackdown satirized Fred Trump as a con man, named Walter Trump who preached the end of the world, and would save them if they built a wall. ChatGPT sez it's not Fred, but a producer said Fred screwed him as a landlord.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMHT...

Thank God, Christianity is on the decline!

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It seems like they drove their armored vehicle into a swamp and (possibly) drowned. But Trump doesn't seem to give a flying f**k about their lives. Says he doesn't know about it. What an idiot.

Note: I'm still stuck with using X for my pathogen updates, because (a) there's nothing analogous to threadreaderapp that I can get to work on bsky, and (b) bsky wastes a lot of my time making me annotate my graphics.

My pathogen update for epi weeks 11-12 of 2025. The XEC COVID wave hasn't fully receded yet. Biobot shows that as of March 15, SARS2 wastewater levels haven't fallen to previous interwave gaps except for the Western region of the US.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/19043...

@skythread

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heart attack deaths per thousand

Cannabis use is up, but look, myocardial infarction deaths are falling...

myocardial infarction deaths per 100k population ages 15-50 since 1999.

This isn't showing up in the macro data. Self-reported cannabis has doubled over the past 15 years since it's been (mostly) legalized. If this study is valid, shouldn't we be seeing a proportional increase in deaths from myocardial infarctions in the ≤50 age cohorts?

And it makes me wonder if the OP wasn't a Marxist at some point. Only the 4th International types would be aware of Browder.

I've been a Leftie for all my adult life (4+ decades now), and I never heard of Browderism until it was mentioned here.

22 measles or measles-related deaths since 2000

42 SSPE deaths ultimately caused by measles since year 2000

Since 2000 there were 22 measles or measles-related deaths recorded on death certificates sent to the CDC—but the CDC has only "verified" 2 of those. And even if a bunch of those were misattributed, let's not forget the 42 SSPE deaths that resulted from measles infections.

tinyurl.com/3xjn63v2

What the hell are you talking about? That adds up to 13, not 28.

Got links?

Trump is an American version of Neville Chamberlain. No, he's worse. At least Chamberlain sincerely believed Hitler would live up to his word. Trump knows Putin won't. But the MAGAts are yapping about how we're avoiding WWIII by Trump being Putin's bitch.

Any evidence that officers are getting fragged by their troops?

Horseshoe bat guano is a staple of Chinese medicine

Chinese Traditional Medicine to treat Long COVID? My irony meter just pegged! Wuhan is the center for the CTM trade, and many of the animals & products sold at the Huanan market were destined for the CTM.

For instance, horseshoe bat guano is a staple of CTM. People still think this is a good idea?

Of course, it wasn't the screenshot that prompted the warning, it was my lapse in bovine fecal commentary. <Insert a Homer Simpson "D'oh!" here>