Sometimes I feel bad about being old.
But then I remember that I got to see first-run Classic Simpsons during my impressionable youth.
I have my head full of Simpsons memes that fit any and every circumstance in life that comes up.
Gauchohaulic
@gauchohaulic
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California native. UCSB grad. #DemocracyWorshipper. Imperfect Christian. Anti-reactionary, pro-science progressive. Doing my best to get through another day.
John Carlos BaezWow! How come nobody told me about the 'Fermi bubbles'? If you could see gamma rays, you'd see enormous faint glowing bubbles extending above and below the plane of the Milky Way.
Even better, nobody is sure what produced them! I love a mystery like this.
The obvious suspect is the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Right now it's too quiet to make these things. But maybe it shot out powerful jets earlier, as it swallowed some stars.
(1/n)
hramrach
Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusOther periodic reminder that the idea that COVID is "only" killing 500 people a day— like a 9/11 every [six days] is "acceptable" somehow— is generally agreed to be a gross undercount: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts/
Did you know people are still misidentifying or even intentionally mislabeling cause of death wgen COVID is concerned? And that the lack of widespread free testing in official centers where results get recorded and tallied only makes that worse? And that doing things like ending the access to free AT-HOME kits will make that EVEN WORSE?
Because that should like… obvious, no?
Putting on heavy rubber gloves and boots and telling everyone the electric fence is perfectly safe; putting on suglasses at high noon and saying it's dark outside.
*Deep breath interlude*
Stuff's not over. And pretending it is and intentionally making it harder to know for sure for the sake of political expedience will only ensure we're stuck in it LONGER.
COVID-19 Deaths in the US Continue to Be Undercounted, Despite Claims of ‘Overcounts’
Following recent claims within the public health community that US COVID death counts are overestimates, Andrew Stokes and Dielle Lundberg present new excess mortality data in a commentary in The Conversation, revealing the opposite.
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhDLarge magnitude 7.8 earthquake in southern Turkey near the city of Gaziantep. USGS estimates substantial damage with their PAGER system. Possibly hundreds to over a thousand fatalities depending on the exact fault location (not yet determined) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive #earthquake #Turkey #Gaziantep #deprem
Chris MessinaShocked how muted the coverage of the 150 wildfires raging across Chile is. 13 dead so far. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/world/americas/chile-wildfires.html
Michael Barthel / MiBaWi#Chile #Wildfires #IncendioForestales
#IncendioForestal #IF #Wildfire - update
251 active wildfires;
80 being actively battled/out of control
171 under control
Death toll at 22
54 people injured, 16 seriously
2,300 firefighters and 75 aircraft have been deployed in to 4 regions
Daniel SchumanThe U.S. Supreme Court is a dumpster fire.
-- Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work
-- ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways,
-- Staff afraid to confront justices on bad security practices
Here's the news story:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/supreme-court-email-burn-bags-leak-investigation/index.html
And the SCOTUS report: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/read-scotus-report-dobbs/index.html
Dr. Lucky Tran 
The rich are continuing #COVID precautions like requiring masks & tests, indoor air cleaning infrastructure, & priority access to vaccines & treatments. But they're telling the rest of us the pandemic is over because they think protecting the working class will cut their profits.
Annie Hsh 
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