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My dad died 13 years ago. Last night he was in my dream. I could see his face just like I remember it and I heard his voice clear as if he were speaking to me in the same room. He was in the middle of some sort of rapprochement with my mum, and then was suddenly asleep on a daybed along one side of a stone wall in a cool room shaded from the morning sun by thick wooden blinds. He woke and seemed both pleased and surprised to see me, happy to hear I've got a family of my own now, and for some reason immensely excited that my nephew is nearly as tall as I am. All of these things made perfect sense at the time, but on waking any rationality sublimated immediately and I was left with a strange sense of comfort that, though I've not really thought of him beyond in an abstract sense for some time, I still carry something of him with me. I think I understand a bit more now too.

I miss you, dad.

anexperimentallife

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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Fun and unrelated fact: in antiquity it was purportedly common to sprinkle salt on the land of a defeated enemy so that they couldn't grow crops there any longer.

thedankmemes

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Apologise to Batoorzig Vaanchig right now

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mindblowingscience

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effecti

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journal Cell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.

charyou-tree

Ok, that’s fucking wild.

This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.

Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.

Absolute mad lad benefiting humanity.

prufrocknonstop

Everyone: that's cool, what a nice guy

Mithridates IV Pontus:

#Mithridates #Mithridatism #Snakes #science

ayeforscotland

Anger grows at the party’s treatment of Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and the news that it accepted a donation of thousands of pounds for his campaign

Very strange story. It looks like Labour have sabotaged their own candidate so Nigel Farage can win in Clacton.

Apparently Labour HQ ordered him not to return to the constituency and local party activists have resigned over it.

You know I'm being serious because I would genuinely never suggest this anywhere else but if you are in Clacton, you should vote for Labour. Nigel Farage needs to be denied a seat at all costs.

ayeforscotland

Tory MSP Rachel Hamilton promoting tweets from Holocaust Denier, Peter Sweden.

prufrocknonstop

Just in case you were in any doubt about the kinds of people driving the "SNP baaad" narrative in the tabloids and on the bird site.

To be absolutely clear, yes, rewiliding will mean fewer jobs in farming. But it needn't mean fewer jobs overall if it's managed properly.

The ghoulish glee you see from the likes of this "peter sweden" jobbystain at the suffering of rural communities isn't predicated on any real concern for our welfare. All these people want is to see you back in line ticking either the blue box or the red box rather than having a go at dismantling the whole thing and building something new that works for us all. Will indepence be easy? No. Will there be times when we regret becoming a nation again? Maybe. But i know this much, whatever the pitfalls of independence, at least it will give us a reasonable chance of not letting these kinds of professional arseholes anywhere near power ever again.

emo-communism

is anyone else just like. constantly filled with rage about their position under late capitalism and how we are expected to just keep playing this game that we know will literally kill us, is already killing people all over the world, and yet everyone around us is somehow fine with going about business as usual, with pretending we are free by being able to choose between different ways of being exploited. there is nothing more dehumanising than being forced to partake in a system that is actively detrimental to our survival as human beings, that is so physically, psychologically and spiritually destructive, and i don’t know how to deal with this anger anymore

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valtsv

youre like a guy who only ever thinks about angels seeing literally anything and being like "woah this is exactly like angels"

what else am i supposed to think about when there's literally angels

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Angels, you say?

ayeforscotland

First TikTok of the year and the UK government is fucking at it already.

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Cost of living crisis is no excuse for record corporate profits either, and yet here we are.

As ever, if you saw someone shoplifting food, no you didn't.

#british politics #scottish politics #uk politics #cost of living #cost of rampant corporate greed #when you can't afford food the only sensible option left is to eat the rich

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opinions on margaret thatcher

Kill her

prufrocknonstop

Keeping track of when, exactly, The Right Honourable Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher will finally cop it.

You aren't going to believe this

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corrective action

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be the change you want to see in the world

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His name is Onur Albayrak! Here’s the story.

Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.

“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”

Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.

The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.

Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.

“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”

The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.

[Source] – go read the rest!

erikacpataki

this guy is a hero.

btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.

the minimum marriage age for girls in new hampshire is 13 years old.

48 states allow child marriage.

child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.