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Jono
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My respite place away from Elon Musk's black hell-besmeared farting hole
It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump started a reality show where contestants compete for this prize: Becoming Trump’s Groom of the Stool.
Philanthrofascism

Money is not enough. He relishes the submission of others. He craves obsequiousness, groveling servility, and ass-kissing. He detests criticism. He wants to get even. He wants a Nobel Prize and his face carved on Mount Rushmore.

open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
From philanthrocapitalism to philantrofascism
Welcome to our new reality: doing tyranny while giving back
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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“They are terrified. There is not a cult member alive that survived it that will tell you that it is easy to get out. It is one of the hardest things that the brain can ever do.”
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A simple cognitive vaccine can make you more resistant to #misinformation www.psypost.org/a-simple-cog... via @psypost.bsky.social

"Actively open-minded thinking" reduced "susceptibility to believing false information."

From study: "...reduced conspiracy beliefs and improved veracity discernment"
A simple cognitive vaccine can make you more resistant to misinformation
A recent study tested whether people can be “inoculated” against misinformation by shifting how they think. The results suggest that boosting open-minded thinking through a simple message can reduce c...
www.psypost.org
August 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#ADHD

Certainly helps explain one of my party tricks.

www.additudemag.com/hypermobilit...
August 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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1. 'The findings of this study unveil a silent yet profound legacy of COVID-19: genomic instability as a potential driver of long-term health complications in survivors...

bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The silent legacy of COVID-19: exploring genomic instability in long-term COVID-19 survivors - BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Persistent symptoms and complications reported by many patients for more than four weeks after contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are referred to as post-COVID-19 syndrome. The...
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A 1973 letter E.B. White wrote to someone who’d lost all hope in humanity.👇
August 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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How a single French-Canadian captured nearly 100 Nazis, forced more to flee, and liberated an entire town of 50,000 people by himself. Later led victories vs China and North Korea.

“I fought the war with only one eye, ... and I did pretty good.” allthatsinteresting.com/leo-major
How A One-Eyed Canadian Rambo Single-Handedly Liberated 50,000 From The Nazis
“I fought the war with only one eye and I did pretty good.”
allthatsinteresting.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#covid
Here’s an ideal vacation tourist location for the health-aware folks.
Fort Henry, Kingston has an awesome CO2 monitor count. That includes the outside parts, the indoor display rooms (doors open) and even the dungeon!!! Below 500!!!
Exceptions: yellow for gift shop & red for bathroom.
July 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
News for those who find the idea of making insects part of your cuisine too gross to accept. It's already happened.

www.wyff4.com/article/gros...
Gross, but true: You unknowingly eat bugs every day
You may think you would never eat a bug, but thanks to FDA guidelines, you don't really get to make that choice.
www.wyff4.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Thanks to Nosferatu, I landed here a while ago. Never got around to being a regular here. Bad enough that I bled too much time on Twitter. My ADHD-sense warned me that another time-bleeder means trouble.

Elmo making Twitter an even bigger shithole than ever makes a second home necessary.
November 16, 2024 at 11:07 PM