Van BadhamPerhaps, a pertinent detail.
And the result of that Congress was a Civil War that left 620,000 Americans dead.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1610746328539140104
GirtBySea
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RT @offbeatimages
One of my favourite images. It took numerous visits to get the fresh snow, sunlight and shadows all at once. Persistence pays off.
One of my favourite images. It took numerous visits to get the fresh snow, sunlight and shadows all at once. Persistence pays off.
blakandblackI’m sitting in a coffee shop relaxing after my boxing lesson, eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation between a couple on their first face-to-face meeting, after having met on RSVP. The thing that makes it fascinating is their ages … it’s never too late to embrace life
Aurynn ShawOne of the things I'm going to try to get together today, after lunch, is an approximate cost per follower/followee for running Mastodon, in terms of bandwidth
since user count isn't a good metric for scaling or cost
ShengmubiaoThe International Space Station's Soyuz lifeboat has broken and might be unusable. This shit keeps happening, Russian modules and equipment keep breaking down. Then half the time Russia's response is hysterical accusations of American sabotage. It's dangerous and getting more so
https://gizmodo.com/soyuz-iss-coolant-leak-roscosmos-nasa-astronauts-1849897733
#russia #space #iss #internationalspacestation #nasa #science
EdBig day for vaccines? HUGE day for vaccines. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-merck-vaccine-combo-cut-melanoma-recurrence-by-44-study-2022-12-13/
Positive Moderna, Merck cancer vaccine data advances mRNA promise, shares rise
An experimental cancer vaccine from Moderna Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/MRNA.O" target="_blank">(MRNA.O)</a> based on the messenger RNA (MRNA) technology used in successful COVID-19 vaccines has been shown to work against melanoma, sending Moderna shares more than 20% higher and driving up of other biotechs working on similar treatments.
Don Melton@victorwynne If I were written in a compiled language that would have to be "C" because it's older than fuck, hard to use and feature frozen just like me. 🤣
Joakim Ziegler
Debbie SpillaneJo Dyer gives an excellent response to The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and her repeated attacks on women who dare to speak out. Especially on sexual assault:
“In Janet’s world this means that, despite Janet’s championing the right to free speech in every other forum, a woman is forever forbidden from speaking of her own lived experience, as a man’s right to an untarnished reputation trumps all.”
#RapeTrials #LehrmannTrial
#WomeninLaw #TheShot
The ShovelHillsong finally becomes mainstream religion, after leader charged with concealing sex crimes https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/12/06/hillsong-mainstream-religion-concealing-offences/
