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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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want to know something that isn't goated? one of our car park entrances is currently closed due to emergency water repairs. we've been told this isn't the water's fault, but we wanted you to know anyway
when people say goated this is what they mean
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
want to know something that isn't goated? one of our car park entrances is currently closed due to emergency water repairs. we've been told this isn't the water's fault, but we wanted you to know anyway
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This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they've stolen: Survey
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they’ve stolen: Survey
More than a third of self-checkout thieves see the kiosks as “unpaid work” so taking small items “feels like compensation.”
ktla.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids
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The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
So many teenagers learn about the big stories through TikTok and Instagram. They won’t suddenly turn to newspapers and TV bulletins
The social media ban for under-16s is going to stop teenagers from watching a lot of things: clips from their favourite shows, sports highlights, gaming reviews and just about anything else you can imagine.
What hasn’t been discussed much is the impact it will have on young people’s ability to access news and information. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The social media ban will leave young Australians in the dark on news and politics. It’s not fair | Leo Puglisi
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The @effinbirds.com Christmas cards continue to bring joy. Got sent a video of a friend’s toddler all dressed in a Christmas onesie taking the card and running off with it, the words “Fuck your holiday cheer” clearly visible.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The @effinbirds.com Christmas cards continue to bring joy. Got sent a video of a friend’s toddler all dressed in a Christmas onesie taking the card and running off with it, the words “Fuck your holiday cheer” clearly visible.
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remember that time john roberts said the ACA couldn’t use federal dollars to compel red states to expand medicaid? yeah, me too
NEW: Rural health is in crisis. Congress created a $50B rescue package and gave states just weeks to compete for a slice of it.
$3.75B hinges on whether states pass a series of Trump-approved policies, including restrictions on SNAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
$3.75B hinges on whether states pass a series of Trump-approved policies, including restrictions on SNAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
‘Sort of blackmail’: Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies
Democrats and health advocates described the strategy as highly unusual, and some fear it could be wielded to favor political allies.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
remember that time john roberts said the ACA couldn’t use federal dollars to compel red states to expand medicaid? yeah, me too
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1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers
The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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there should be a really long German word for when satire and reality can't be separated
"I told the nurse I jog three days a week, play soccer, lift weights, and take spin classes. She just giggled. Honestly, I’m used to it. It was kind of annoying when she took my blood pressure four times, though."
buff.ly/bcx3OS1
buff.ly/bcx3OS1
Fat Lady Attempts to Get Health Care: An Oral History
MEGAN TRASK (Front Desk Assistant, Sunshine Primary Care): I could tell from the minute she checked in that she was fat. Like, real fat. The crazie...
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
there should be a really long German word for when satire and reality can't be separated
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Bluesky is still wonderful
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Bluesky is still wonderful
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Every now again someone tries to diss me by calling out my style of humor as "millennial" and I get indignant, SIR, I am Gen-X, the millennials got their humor from watching me
a close up of a young man 's face with headphones on .
Alt: "I learned it from watching you!"
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every now again someone tries to diss me by calling out my style of humor as "millennial" and I get indignant, SIR, I am Gen-X, the millennials got their humor from watching me
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In other news I have just discovered that Bluesky's GIF button is packed with Three Robots GIFs, this is how I know my art will live unto eternity
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In other news I have just discovered that Bluesky's GIF button is packed with Three Robots GIFs, this is how I know my art will live unto eternity
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what happened to the movies | patreon.com/lubchansky
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
what happened to the movies | patreon.com/lubchansky
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The BBC's impressive Lyse Doucet, reporting yesterday after returning from Syria, said that Damascus, a city of 4 million people, is now short of water, because Israel is 'annexing' (land-grabbing) the highlands north-east of Golan, a source for the city's reticulated water supply.
WP:
WP:
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The BBC's impressive Lyse Doucet, reporting yesterday after returning from Syria, said that Damascus, a city of 4 million people, is now short of water, because Israel is 'annexing' (land-grabbing) the highlands north-east of Golan, a source for the city's reticulated water supply.
WP:
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This is huge. Biggest and most important new national park in Queensland in a generation, and all ABC Rural can tell us about are the fúcking opal miners.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Outback opal miners allowed to operate as surrounding land becomes national park
The Queensland government's purchase of Vergemont Station last year led to months of uncertainty for miners with tenures inside the former cattle station, which is larger than the Australian Capital T...
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is huge. Biggest and most important new national park in Queensland in a generation, and all ABC Rural can tell us about are the fúcking opal miners.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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In two days, hundreds of thousands of teens will be cut off from the friends, groups and communities on social media.
From homeschooling meetups to buying used bikes, here's what teens say they're going to lose, in their own words.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
From homeschooling meetups to buying used bikes, here's what teens say they're going to lose, in their own words.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
In two days, hundreds of thousands of teens will be cut off from the friends, groups and communities on social media.
From homeschooling meetups to buying used bikes, here's what teens say they're going to lose, in their own words.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
From homeschooling meetups to buying used bikes, here's what teens say they're going to lose, in their own words.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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I can’t help but notice that a bunch of people think “actual thinking” means “insipid contrarianism that substitutes banal edgelordery for any meaning or principle.”
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I can’t help but notice that a bunch of people think “actual thinking” means “insipid contrarianism that substitutes banal edgelordery for any meaning or principle.”
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The president who watched Jan. 6 violence on TV and responded to Kevin McCarthy's desperate call from inside the Capitol with "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you" doesn't think death threats against anyone even a little in his way is a bad thing?
Huh.
Huh.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The president who watched Jan. 6 violence on TV and responded to Kevin McCarthy's desperate call from inside the Capitol with "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you" doesn't think death threats against anyone even a little in his way is a bad thing?
Huh.
Huh.
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I forgot to tell you all that Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social was crowned the Museum of Australian Democracy’s Political Cartoonist of the Year. Hitting them out of the park all year. Congratulations Matt! #MoAD
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I forgot to tell you all that Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social was crowned the Museum of Australian Democracy’s Political Cartoonist of the Year. Hitting them out of the park all year. Congratulations Matt! #MoAD
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I'll report on the actual numbers shortly...
Once you realize Tolkien wants every heroic person or place name to be cretic (long-short-long syllable), you start seeing Tolkien names everywhere. Labrador. Pinkypie. Scoobydoo. Macklemore.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I'll report on the actual numbers shortly...
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Once you realize Tolkien wants every heroic person or place name to be cretic (long-short-long syllable), you start seeing Tolkien names everywhere. Labrador. Pinkypie. Scoobydoo. Macklemore.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Once you realize Tolkien wants every heroic person or place name to be cretic (long-short-long syllable), you start seeing Tolkien names everywhere. Labrador. Pinkypie. Scoobydoo. Macklemore.
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From 2nd place to 53rd since election
“The main factors damaging New Zealand's standing are the repeal of the smokefree generation laws, the tax break benefiting tobacco giant Philip Morris and the movement of staff between POLITICS and the LOBBYING industry.”
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/578...
“The main factors damaging New Zealand's standing are the repeal of the smokefree generation laws, the tax break benefiting tobacco giant Philip Morris and the movement of staff between POLITICS and the LOBBYING industry.”
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/578...
'Most deteriorated' - NZ plummets in global tobacco control ranking
An anti-vaping group calls the ranking an "international disgrace".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
The State Police out in numbers to make certain no effective criticism of Israel is heard in the petro-state of Woodsideistan, a colony on Wadjuk land
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The State Police out in numbers to make certain no effective criticism of Israel is heard in the petro-state of Woodsideistan, a colony on Wadjuk land
Australia shouldn’t be part of Eurovision alongside Israel while they continue to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied Territories
If you agree, here’s a petition calling on SHS to withdraw
c.org/n2whjVkYMt
If you agree, here’s a petition calling on SHS to withdraw
c.org/n2whjVkYMt
Sign the Petition
Israel out of Eurovision: SBS must oppose genocide, apartheid & illegal occupation!
c.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Australia shouldn’t be part of Eurovision alongside Israel while they continue to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied Territories
If you agree, here’s a petition calling on SHS to withdraw
c.org/n2whjVkYMt
If you agree, here’s a petition calling on SHS to withdraw
c.org/n2whjVkYMt