(The owl is good, too.)This year's winner of the hobbyhorse competition, helped by his tiny daughter pic.twitter.com/igkziycAze
— ArtyMoHawk (@ArtyMoHawk) July 31, 2022
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Today's funny posts
Dracula's burial gown; X-files and Knight Rider manga; Stray and Hot Wheels screenshots; Nancy strips
Some details from the gorgeous Eiko Ishioka designed, Klimt inspired, burial gown from Dracula, embroidered by Penn & Fletcher of NY. Might as well be dressed well in the coffin if you're a nosferatu. pic.twitter.com/6tpwf9R6Zc
— Magdalena (@Intervain) July 31, 2022
Monday, August 1, 2022
That polio case is from a New York county known for vaccine resistance
WaPo:
Polio is a very contagious, life-threatening viral disease that causes permanent paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated in about 5 out of every 1,000 cases. Most of the U.S. population has protection against the disease because they were vaccinated during childhood. But in areas with low vaccination coverage, such as the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County, people who are not vaccinated are at high risk. There is no treatment for polio, but vaccination prevents the disease.
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The Rockland County man lives in a community that has historically been under-vaccinated and was the epicenter of the measles outbreak in 2019, according to public health officials who spoke on the condition on anonymity.
Ars:
According to the state health department, Rockland County currently has a polio vaccination rate of just 60.5 percent among 2-year-olds, compared to the statewide average of 79 percent.
"To spear the fact in the sea of grift is not an act of intelligence, exactly, but a kind of sensibility, a certain instinct for grasping the structure of the social world"
From a long article (from December) by Kerry Howley about the capitol rioters:
a country that protects the right to spin fantasy necessarily risks the well-being of those who easily lose themselves to it. Freedom isn’t free is a true thing the right used to say, and the costs of freedom of speech are real costs, borne, in part, by those unskilled at sifting fact from fantasy: the people who join MLMs, who become Scientologists, who lie awake in bed at night worrying over small children drained of adrenochrome. To spear the fact in the sea of grift is not an act of intelligence, exactly, but a kind of sensibility, a certain instinct for grasping the structure of the social world.
Midjourney illustrates "Piranesi's Prison"
This midjourney image of "Piranesi's Prison" generated by a friend really got me thinking about what all this means... pic.twitter.com/dwBjq1ULcY
— Frank Lantz (@flantz) July 25, 2022
You can see this confusion very clearly in an earlier version... pic.twitter.com/78LQaXSzH4
— Frank Lantz (@flantz) July 25, 2022
(Thread continues.)
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