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In the news: the family of Henrietta Lacks have been compensated, more than 70 years after cells from her cancer, taken without her consent became an industry worth billions. apnews.com/article/henrietta-l

Jul 31: Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope apnews.com/article/long-covid- “'This is a year or two late and smaller in scope than one would hope but nevertheless it’s a step in the right direction,' said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University in St. Louis, who isn’t involved with NIH’s project but whose own research highlighted long COVID’s toll." #PublicHealth #Healthcare #COVID #COVID19 #longCOVID

RE: m.ai6yr.org/@WXFanatic/1108146

I have updated the Mastodon links list to include a note on where to find said bots

rentry.co/wxlinks-mastodon

Big shoutout to @ai6yr and @lckrohjr for the instances beforehand as well as @akrherz and @GWESOfficial for the official migration!

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@ajaxStardust I would have, too. I did that the other day, only to find the post I was trying to reply to had been taken down! @Rasta @psetnik

@Rasta I have a very broad and eclectic taste in music…which doesn’t include contemporary country western.

Donald Trump isn’t being politically targeted.

He’s a lifelong criminal who avoided prosecution by donating to and co-opting prosecutors.

Now he’s finally run into prosecutors he couldn’t buy off.

@Rasta Damn…I sing K-k-k-Katie almost every day, although I change the words a bit. We have a pool robot that skims the surface, and it’s branded Betta, so we call it Betty. Which makes me sing B-b-b-Betty, b-b-b-beautiful Betty! You’re the only one that I’d let clean my pool! …and so on.

@Ronnie Dang. I haven’t given the first thought to Stage Manager. I should try it and see how it is in iPadOS17.

That floating prison barge for the UK? It’s owned by Bibby Lines, who began its operations running slave ships in the 1800s.

Yeah, you read that right.

instagram.com/reel/CvR5ozZIzzT

#Enslaved #Prison #FloatingPrison #UK #UnitedKingdom #ModernSlavery #MigrantBarge #Colonization

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