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Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

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What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes. Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Amidst all the horrors, it’s still Hina-matsuri. Here are my dolls, reaching out to comfort the little girls murdered in Iran.

Breaking or Facing:
Norms of democracies v autocracies in war
Technology with cheaper remote dimension
Core versus periphery fighting
Firing the experts
Less people-power/obstruction
Strategic Clarity/Ambiguity
Not Sharing with Congress all the cards
Video game mentality
Iranian people slaughter

We need to be prepared that they are breaking enough norms that there is very little precedent to predict outcomes.

That there will be multiple people who will be partially right. But not because they knew but because they accidentally guessed.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Please understand that China is an actual place with its own structures and problems and not some pendulum that swings only in reaction to US actions.

Non-Elite Travel Writing and the Bibliography of British and Irish History  - On History In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses several ways that the Bibliography of British and Irish History is contributing to his research on non-elite travel…

In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’

I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.

hot take: newspapers should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

Like two years ago when she told me: don’t sit on cold concrete even when you’re dressed warmly.

I figured it out about 20 min later.

And now I believe.

My Russian housemate today said this was “medium” Russian winter.

And of course I followed her advice on all things cold.

Furious debate has arisen this morning.

Does this joke still work once you realise that it’s one rebel speaking to the others?

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind

Actual academics:

The moment I regret reading that engaging discussion is when I’m leaving 15 minutes later than I hoped.

And texting my apologies to the future engagement.

“Displays of power” versus real power

Someone’s not looked at a single early modern history book before opening their mouth, clearly. By 1600, over 4,000 immigrants lived in England’s second largest city, Norwich - one in three people in the city had not been born in England.

Exactly 500 years ago, 1526, Juan Luis Vives completed De Subventione Pauperum sive de Humanis necessitatibus. This was a commissioned academic report on the organisation of social welfare provision in Brughes, the first book ever published on the subject. rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1238872

An example of imperialist and economic interests not in sync.

I also get a sense that it’s teenagers playing their childhood games.

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Hundreds of Mysterious Victorian-Era Shoes Are Washing Up on a Beach in Wales. Nobody Knows Where They Came From - Smithsonian Magazine

The Poldark series.

There's enough complication in it for me. And I listen for the English usage, too.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Open.

Democrats will get credit for fighting. Everyone knows the Republicans forced this with a knife to their backs.

We need the government open.