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  • Habemus Papam

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    NinaN
    Pope Bob has a nice ring to it. Although he spent many formative years in Peru, so maybe it should've been Pope Beto I.
  • Attention people who like beets

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    NinaN
    I'm with you on that, P*D. I love beets!
  • For migraine sufferers

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    ShiroKuroS
    I thought I might have written about this here (or at the old WTF) before, but I changed my migraine meds about two years ago, and one of the ones I now use is this one, ubrogepant, which I take as an acute medicine (i.e., as-needed), and the other one is atogepant, which I take every day. IIRC these meds are related (and of course their names are similar). These medicines changed my life. It was amazing. Both of them are very new, neither had been available for more than two years when I started them. And there are maybe two other new migraine meds that came out at the same as well, one is an injection. But they give people treatment options that were never available. And for people like me, they are much, much more effective and allow us to go off of meds that have nasty side effects. Now whenever I learn that someone has migraines, I always tell them to ask their doc about changing medicines. I joke that I should do one of those testimonial commercials.
  • A funny thing happened on the way to a project...

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  • The Never-Ending Grift

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    wtgW
    A tiny TikTok creator company with no revenue and ties to China plans to buy $300million in Trump’s memecoin The firm, which employs eight people to create videos for TikTok, earned no revenue last year — yet somehow found a way to purchase as much as $300 million of $TRUMP. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tiktok-china-trump-memecoin-gd-culture-group-b2750838.html
  • Ghost in the machine

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  • Our very own version of Stonehenge

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  • Freezing flowers

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  • Look out, AndyD. Americans headed your way.

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    I really enjoyed the video, cheers
  • Federal budget cut realities - what goes away

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    ShiroKuroS
    My maternal great-grandfather died of black lung. This was before I was born, so I only knew his wife, my maternal great grandmother. I (foolishly) didn’t realize black lung was still occurring.
  • Trump and South Africa

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  • The Trump Library

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    I'll donate a hundred copies of this [image: 1747116041035-screenshot_20250512-231640_duckduckgo-2.jpg]
  • The things you find on the internet.

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  • Just in time for summer - ice cream recipes

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    AdagioMA
    Salt and Straw is local to me. Some of their flavors are way out there! I had a Thanksgiving stuffing and gravy ice cream from them. Weird, but pretty good.
  • Flawless biscuits

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    Big_AlB
    I do like a good biscuit and particularly one served with sausage gravy. I wouldn't have supposed that it would be so hard to recreate what I think of as a simple food from ingredients available in Ireland. I do admire a lot of what Rhiannon Giddens has accomplished in her varied musican/historian endeavors. Big Al
  • Course of Treatment

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    ShiroKuroS
    Wow. it's very bittersweet to read that. What a gift he has given his students, and the world. Also it reminds me about how many great physicians and researchers there are in this country .... they need to keep their funding........
  • Weird weather

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    AdagioMA
    The wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge are at least two weeks ahead of where they were last year. I went to the same place, and there was just a couple patches of bloomed out balsamroot left, unlike last year. [image: 1747007176709-img_1437.jpeg] [image: 1747007205837-img_1439.jpeg] Bitterroot is always pretty, too.
  • He’s gone off the deep end

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    wtgW
    @AndyD said in He’s gone off the deep end: Is he at all serious? That's going to cost a bob or two I think this is part of his new reality show called The Potemkin Presidency. But he's still directing people to look at it, which is a waste of time and resources.
  • Happy Mother's Day!

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    J
    Happy Mother’s Day!!!
  • Italian monuments...in LEGOs

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