Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/flu-surges-in-louisiana-as-health-department-barred-from-promoting-flu-shots/
NCAA president Charlie Baker says there are "less than 10" #trans athletes out of 510,000 college athletes
Republicans have totally lied to people about this issue. Please share so everyone can know the truth: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5046662-ncaa-president-transgender-athletes-college-sports/
Macbeth starring David Tennant: More on-stage drama as another performer loses their voice and possibly their career
70% of Covid19 patients with vocal impairment continue to have longterm effects
#SamaraSARS #Samara
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/12/21/covid-19-voice-macbeth/
Today I had my first ever pangolin sighting. It was a tiny one, probably a youngster. We walked with it to make sure it got safely where it was headed and away from the road. It’s taken 8½ years of hiking in Taiwan to have this neat experience. I feel so lucky!
#Taiwan #nature #naturelovers #pangolin
@AlliFlowers I had a deep fried snickers bar once. It tasted like diabetes.
A few neat recipes in here but also a good introductory narrative. But deep fried gefilte fish croquets?! Sign me the F up, חברים
"[I]n every place, oil and dairy products are recognized as symbolic, traditional #Chanukah #foods related to #Jewish #history and redemption. Oil emphasizes the miracle of the cruse found in the Holy Temple, which burned for eight days when there was only enough for a single day.
Dairy food products commemorate the heroism of Judith. She fed the enemy general Holofernes large quantities of salty cheese, washed down with wine, perhaps the specialties of the area. He fell into a drunken stupor, Judith killed him, the enemy army fled, and the #Jews were saved."
https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/chanukah-treats-think-oil-but-think-again,24418
Republicans cannot govern. This is true no matter how many times we are dumb enough to run this experiment. Republicans no longer build. They do not create. They bulldoze, destroy, burn, rape and pillage, they liquidate divisions to momentarily maximize shareholder value and then they cash out. They have no interest beyond momentary profit.
They cannot govern because good government is utterly at odds with their miserable ideology of greed, fear, and destruction.
It's just that simple.
It won't matter, cause soon the republicans will be back in power so there won't be any more hurricanes. They'll control the weather, right? And surely they wouldn't visit a hurricane on their own... And all the gulf states are red. https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/113679807426485496
I keep seeing that Musk had a hand in torpedoing the government funding agreement.
WTF?
He isn't an elected official or even an *un*elected one. (And Rump isn't prez yet, but we have him *telling* Congress what to do. So much for the balance of powers, amirite?)
I wake up every morning feeling like I've dropped through some rabbit hole into a truly warped alternate reality.
I do not like it here.
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