Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ny-midwife-fined-300000-for-giving-1500-children-homeopathic-pellets-instead-of-vaccinations-for-measles-and-polio HOMEOPATHY IS NOT MEDICINE. This person deserves jail time & loss of midwifery privileges as well as a significant fine. #homeopathy #scam #magicalthinking #science #medicine #midwife

"The reason linguistic & cognitive decline often go hand in hand, studies show, is that fluency reflects the performance of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher-order cognitive functions such as working memory, judgment, understanding, & planning, as well as the temporal lobe, which searches for & retrieves the right words from memory. Neurologists therefore use tests of verbal fluency, and especially how it has changed over time, to assess cognitive status. "https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/

Videographer Alasdair Brenard recounts being at Israel's first-ever anti-war rally since the war began.#Editorial #Features #IsraelWaronGaza #Israel #MiddleEast
Reporter’s Notebook: Covering an anti-war protest in Israel

I love you!

@autistic.me @actuallyautistic
@neurodiversity

Are you sensitive?

This was a question during my neuropsych eval on Friday. I could think of at least two ways to answer it, depending on the meaning of the word sensitive - so of course I answered both ways . It was a long answer. A lot of my answers were long.

How would you answer this (terribly vague) question?

NOTE: Also please feel free to ignore the question and rant with me about how ridiculous the assessment criteria can be.

#AutisticMe #ActuallyAutistic

Cool.

"Recently, micro-CT scans of the egg case revealed not only that it was millions of years old, but also that it was most likely made by a grasshopper. [...] This newly documented knowledge paints a clearer picture of that ancient ecosystem, confirming that grasshoppers were present and thriving there — and that some types of grasshoppers were burying their eggs underground."

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html

#Insects #Grasshoppers #Fossils #Eggs #Palaeontology

Hamas has released an official statement about the events of October 7. Ultimately this is political pr in the same way any other government organization releasing a statement is pr, but it is interesting to hear from the group themselves after months of media circus. The pdf is linked for anyone who may be curious about their take on the events.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/PDF.pdf

Today in biblical inerrancy: two different creation narratives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative#:~:text=The%20overlapping%20stories%20of%20Genesis,and%20cultivator%20of%20his%20environment.

https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/accounts.html

So DeSantis "bends the knee"?

I didn't know he liked giving blow jobs...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/desantis-drops-out-and-endorses-trump-in-taped-message?ref=home

NIE say 45k @norniron people are without electricity tonight due to #StormIsha. I hope they all get power back ASAP.

See https://www.nienetworks.co.uk/news/article/2024/storm-isha and the map here https://powercheck.nienetworks.co.uk for more information.

No judgment.

"Why did Doug Ford's government defeat a bill on sexual harassment?"

Any guesses?

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/why-did-doug-fords-government-defeat-a-bill-on-sexual-harassment/article_785585fa-b23c-11ee-b543-6f9eff599fc8.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=Recommended

> A bill that would allow local politicians found guilty of harassment to be kicked out of office now has the support of more than 200 municipalities.

All we need to do is re-elect #Biden by a landslide, regain the House, get a Senate super-majority, refuse to seat any incumbent or incoming congress or senate member that engaged in insurrection or supported insurrectionists, enforce same on the states, pack the #SCOTUS, reaffirm the Voter Rights and Civil Rights Acts, codify #Roe, pass the George Floyd Justice Act, pass #MedicareForAll, pass a #WealthTax, and hold all that for 8-12 years and this #MAGA nonsense should die out.

Fifteen female saints plus a very low key Blessed Virgin (16thC, BM)

Part of me wants to be optimistic about the future and at the same time I can't get rid of thinking that I want to go to Baltics this Summer one more time before the war.

When reading ERR, it definitely feels like 1936 and 1937...

Czechoslovakia has built a lot of bunkers in those two years

This broken plate c. 1650 - c. 1690 made in Delft has an attractive, evocative air to it (Rijksmuseum)

Things I've learned about #gardening:
1. Perennial doesn't mean a plant lives forever. Short-lived ones like Spotted bee balm and Lance-leaved coreopsis live for 3 years.
2. If you pull a weed, plant something good in its place. Otherwise it will return. Stuff #NativePlant seedlings in those areas.
3. Sowing seeds outside in winter is a cheap way to get tons of native plants.
4. New England Aster, Canada goldenrod, Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) spread too aggressively for a small space.

Billy Ocean, born OTD in 1950, was the most popular #Trinidad-British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/trinidad/job.html?s=mb #travel #music

#bloomscrolling #flower #yellow

we're seeing unprecedented dry wit levels

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