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ignoring everything the pandemic response specialists were saying was good for the economy tho. State governors and federal agencies with no medical experience and no economics education told us so
@myndelling & I are thrilled to present the 2026 edition of Octopuzzly for @mi6-cafe 007 Fest!
Each day you will find a new puzzle - could be a jigsaw, could be a word search, could be a cryptogram, could be something else - with a James Bond theme.
Here is a super late puzzle for day 22nd July. Kyu totally forogt posting puzzle from tickling bacterias for 12 hours. Please accept my sorry dance to make up for late posting.
July 22 - Jigsaw Puzzle
We know there is a lot of activity during 007 Fest, so if puzzles are your thing, we invite you to follow the hashtag #Octopuzzly
@myndelling & I are thrilled to present the 2026 edition of Octopuzzly for @mi6-cafe 007 Fest!
Each day you will find a new puzzle - could be a jigsaw, could be a word search, could be a cryptogram, could be something else - with a James Bond theme.
And today we have a crossword puzzle!
July 23 - Crossword Puzzle
We know there is a lot of activity during 007 Fest, so if puzzles are your thing, we invite you to follow the hashtag #Octopuzzly
I don't think Will asking "is Hannibal in love with me" was a way of getting confirmation because he was scared of Hannibal deceiving him. Firstly, I don't think Will's scared of Hannibal in any capacity or form, and second, he would be capable enough to face Hannibal in any scheme he'd possibly plan. Will isn't stupid or blind in the way others have been blinded by both or either of them.
I think he needed the confirmation because knowing he is loved thoroughly for who he truly is, will never allow him to become a better man, and to acknowledge Hannibal's feelings is to acknowledge his own as well, which speaks volumes about the kind of man he is. And he has been trying to pretend he's anything but that man for a long while.
Q understands that it’s his destiny to lose James twice, once in death, once when his aged self walks away from a younger James in front of The Fighting Temeraire and triggers the next cycle to begin, until one cycle when he won’t lose James at all.
Or, it’s Q vs. the multiverse, and one of these lifetimes he’s going to win.
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In this chapter, Q and James finally meet again, but it’s not the reunion they’d hoped for.
Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Time Loop, Non-Linear Narrative, Angst with a Happy Ending, Movie: No Time to Die (2021), No Time to Die (2021) Fix-It, Remixes welcome, MI6 Cafe 007 Fest 2026
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.
I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.
After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented
okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years
im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly
this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing
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