@effika

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I like a variety of things, usually involving science or science fiction. My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors: sewing, quilting, knitting, even baking and running, somehow. Microbiology and food safety person. Every now and then I code something.

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“This case study is a masterclass in scientific reasoning," said Brugel. "They identify a cluster, associate it with overexposure to pesticides, obtain transcriptomic and epigenetic data, compare them, notice they are different, generate a hypothesis and open up a new avenue." Not only did this study identify several hundred areas nationwide that had an increased risk of cancer due to environmental pesticide exposure, but it also offered an explanation for the mechanisms by which these substances can combine to subtly promote the development of cancers in certain organs.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/04/01/pesticides-and-cancer-for-the-first-time-researchers-find-a-connection-at-the-national-level_6752016_114.html
Pesticides and cancer: For the first time, researchers find a connection at the national level

French researchers have developed a model to map pesticide exposure across Peru to reported cancer clusters. They demonstrate a 'robust spatial association' between these chemicals and increased cancer incidence rates in over 400 areas.

Le Monde

Jay: It's too bad the internet is still out-- I know you like to listen to the radio & quilt on Saturday night.

Me: I'm still going to do that? The radio still works???

Jay: ooooh yeah I forgot you listen to it over the air; I only stream it

RE: https://mstdn.social/@joeinwynnewood/116336073788467105

After catching Covid three times while fully vaccinated, the last two not so horrible as the first where I was bedridden for four weeks, I have long covid.

People NEED to understand Covid damages the system even in mild cases because it's not necessarily about only surviving the first case. Viruses work quietly, too.

The only way to prevent long covid is to prevent covid infection. I know we're collectively traumatized by the pandemic. That doesn't mean we shouldn't mask. Please mask.

🎶 There are many things that I would like to say to you

But the internet's out 🎶

🌸 + 😌 =

RIP Joann Fabrics, the big box store we all knew was bad for our local stores but still didn't want to suffer a venture capitalist death

Anyway! Back to #quilting and the #effikaAtomicStarburst project now that I have had a two-week break due to the oak pollen making me unable to look down without stuffing a kleenex up my nose & taking 2x my meds, and also sewing my husband a cape in 3 days (pics later)

Harry Styles's American Girls came on the radio and I kept picturing these gals
I'd missed that the author of "I Am An AI Hater" had written a second post earlier this year: The Kirby Frame https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/rhetoric/framing/kirby/2026/01/28/the-kirby-frame.html
it too is a banger.
The Kirby Frame

writing is a technology, frames are a frame. bespoke human content.

moser’s frame shop
I love how someone brought their plushie of Artemis the cat from Sailor Moon into mission control during the Artemis II mission.