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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

"I lost my children, my home, my siblings, my memories. I lost every beautiful thing in my life."

"Sometimes my only wish is as simple as having a toilet of our own."

We’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza over the past two years.

@nytimes.com Gift Link

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We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

Robert E. Primus is part of a series of firings of Black officials from high-profile positions in an overwhelmingly white administration that has banished all diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 10h

A reminder: The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy.

www.who.int/news/item/24...

WHO statement on autism-related issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
will be announced on Friday 10 October at 11:00 CEST

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

Nobel Peace Prize - Home

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
will be announced on Friday 10 October at 11:00 CEST

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

Nobel Peace Prize - Home

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

That's fake.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

"One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk."

"Lost Science" interview with Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a Harvard researcher

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 10h

A reminder: The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy.

www.who.int/news/item/24...

WHO statement on autism-related issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...

www.who.int

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 1d

Golden Eye Lichen, Teloschisties chrysophthalmus, on a Hawthorn in ancient wood pasture up the lane.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

What did I say? The 2025 Nobel Literature Prize goes to László Krasznahorkai.

His novel Herscht 07769 is "bleak from start to finish."

His translator, the poet George Szirtes, has called his prose “a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type”.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 11h

A small U.S. development agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, agreed to spend $420 million in part to build a wastewater treatment system for East Timor.

A field of debris may be the project’s lasting legacy, after MCC terminated the agreement.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14h

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 14h

Rachel Reeves described the planning blockage as being due to “some snails on the site that are a protected species or something”.

She appeared to be referring to the 5mm-width little whirlpool ramshorn snail, which is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 15h

smart analysis

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16h

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 15h

In this startling animation of Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars),” two lives unfold in split screen, one during the tumultuous world events of 1968, the other 50 years later.

www.poetryfoundation.org/video/146443...

Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 15h

Magda Szabo is one of my favourite writers.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 5d

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 5d

Reading Rainbow Is Back With a New Host -- @mychal3ts.bsky.social -- And The Same Mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

"The Memory Police," by Yōko Ogawa, is brilliant, beautifully-written and thoughtful.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

"Herscht 07769," by László Krasznahorkai, is "accordingly bleak from start to finish."

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai review – sinister cosmic visions

A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

Yup it's a boy.

László Krasznahorkai, "liveliest when envisioning death," according to a recent review of his one-sentence novel Herscht 07769.

www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-nobel...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

www.svenskaakademien.se

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

I have it but haven't yet read it.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17h

“I think the name is a huge part of its problem,” said Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at NYU. “To pretend that an A.I. version of friendship is just as good as or maybe better than the real thing contradicts the sense that genuine friendship can’t be simulated by nonhuman agents”

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17h

Wrong again! The Nobel Lit Prize 2025 goes to László Krasznahorkai. His sometime translator, the poet George Szirtes, has called his prose “a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.”

He is "liveliest when envisioning death," acc to this review.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai review – sinister cosmic visions

A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’

www.theguardian.com

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