marmite 🌒
@marrmite.bsky.social
scientist by day 🔬🦠🧬🧫 • paint slaying by moonlight 🖌️🎨 • cat slave • she/her
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How your email finds me
February 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
How your email finds me
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This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
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over the next month until release, we'll be announcing all the talented folks contributing to Chicory: A Musical Tale!!
today, we're starting off with an incredibly stacked trio of musicians contributing arrangements:
- @bermei-inazawa.bsky.social
- Yukihiro Jindo
- @sincx.music
today, we're starting off with an incredibly stacked trio of musicians contributing arrangements:
- @bermei-inazawa.bsky.social
- Yukihiro Jindo
- @sincx.music
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
over the next month until release, we'll be announcing all the talented folks contributing to Chicory: A Musical Tale!!
today, we're starting off with an incredibly stacked trio of musicians contributing arrangements:
- @bermei-inazawa.bsky.social
- Yukihiro Jindo
- @sincx.music
today, we're starting off with an incredibly stacked trio of musicians contributing arrangements:
- @bermei-inazawa.bsky.social
- Yukihiro Jindo
- @sincx.music
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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:42 PM
“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
February 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
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The HPV vaccine is eliminating cervical cancer in a generation of women. Why would anyone be against that?
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The HPV vaccine prevents cancer. The new ACIP wants to re-examine that.
@jakescottMD
The vaccine has reduced cervical cancer by nearly 90% in women vaccinated as teens and has been studied in >70 randomized controlled trials
www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...
Photo: PAHO
@jakescottMD
The vaccine has reduced cervical cancer by nearly 90% in women vaccinated as teens and has been studied in >70 randomized controlled trials
www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...
Photo: PAHO
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The HPV vaccine is eliminating cervical cancer in a generation of women. Why would anyone be against that?
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🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
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The costco rotisserie chicken is literally cheaper than making it at home.
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The costco rotisserie chicken is literally cheaper than making it at home.
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really obsessed with the Interview With The Vampire show...such a perfect balancing act between a hilarious, messy, toxic gay soap opera with genuine tragedy and deep pathos. Beautiful acting, beautiful sets, beautiful costumes, beautiful people (Jacob Anderson! my god!).
February 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
really obsessed with the Interview With The Vampire show...such a perfect balancing act between a hilarious, messy, toxic gay soap opera with genuine tragedy and deep pathos. Beautiful acting, beautiful sets, beautiful costumes, beautiful people (Jacob Anderson! my god!).
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The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
February 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
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Absolutely packed house for the ICE out training in East Kensington tonight, put on by @riverwardsdems.bsky.social.
I’ll share out things I learn here.
I’ll share out things I learn here.
February 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Absolutely packed house for the ICE out training in East Kensington tonight, put on by @riverwardsdems.bsky.social.
I’ll share out things I learn here.
I’ll share out things I learn here.
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you guys… 2026 is gonna be awesome.
January 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
you guys… 2026 is gonna be awesome.
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I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
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Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.
There was so much news last week, including the little-noticed nixing of a rule that required pharmacies to carry and dispense misoprostol and methotrexate. More in our roundup:
Trump Lets Pharmacies Refuse Misoprostol, Planned Parenthood Drops ‘Defund’ Challenge: February 2 News Roundup
Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.
www.autonomynews.co
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.
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Despite being curable, tuberculosis remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases—and it’s making a comeback. Explore the factors driving the TB resurgence. Addressing TB isn’t just about treatment—it’s about recognizing the warning signs before it's too late. youtu.be/QNslmoWEdqo
Tuberculosis Resurgence A Growing Threat
YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Despite being curable, tuberculosis remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases—and it’s making a comeback. Explore the factors driving the TB resurgence. Addressing TB isn’t just about treatment—it’s about recognizing the warning signs before it's too late. youtu.be/QNslmoWEdqo
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...horrifying message without context, thank you
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
...horrifying message without context, thank you
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State-sponsored white supremacist terror.
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 3:25 AM
State-sponsored white supremacist terror.
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Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas
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For the folks in the back:
OCR predates LLMs.
HTR software predates LLMs.
Digital Humanities predates LLMs.
Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.
YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.
OCR predates LLMs.
HTR software predates LLMs.
Digital Humanities predates LLMs.
Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.
YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 AM
For the folks in the back:
OCR predates LLMs.
HTR software predates LLMs.
Digital Humanities predates LLMs.
Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.
YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.
OCR predates LLMs.
HTR software predates LLMs.
Digital Humanities predates LLMs.
Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.
YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.
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Just another constitutional crisis flashing by like a fucking cow beside the highway
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Just another constitutional crisis flashing by like a fucking cow beside the highway
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Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...