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HOLY FUCK SCIENCE
"Brazil: "Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells.""

#COVID #GoodNews

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ultrasound-rupture-covid-flu-viruses.html

Study: Ultrasound effectively destabilizes and disrupts the structural integrity of enveloped respiratory viruses.

Published: 13 February 2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-37584-x

#Reading #SALE

Vie Sean Eric Fagan on Bluesky:
The Inheritance Trilogy by
N K Jemisin is on sale for US$3.00 (georestricted to the U.S.). This contains all three novels, *plus* "The Awakened Kingdom" novella.

(check your preferred format/book selling site to confirm this works for you)

@bookstodon@fedigroups.social

It's been...one of those weeks.

And then, just now, I broke a molar right down to the root so both parts are operating independently from each other (meaning, not even soft food is safe, as it gets in the crack and puts pressure that hurts)

How safe would it be to pull the 'floating' part out?

ETA: this is more uncomfortable than painful. I think the nerve has been dead for a long time, so the pain comes from pressure when the 'loose' part moves against the bone/gum. No swelling.

#teeth

From Felicia Davin: "This Word Suitcase is about two books with prepositional phrases in their titles"

I'm still chuckling at "Blessed are the authors of nonfiction, for they cite their shit." (It's also why I adore genre fiction authors who add notes with all the research they weren't able to integrate in the narrative.) Finally, 'nonage' makes 'coming of age' make sense in a way that fills me with joy.

#WordSuitcase #FeliciaDavin

Read the full newsletter here:
https://www.feliciadavin.com/in-the-simplicity-of-our-nonage/

#PSA #FoodRecall #Wheat #Celiac

Please share!

You know you've grown as a person when, instead of spending your day educating the kid who has a whole ass YT video explaining how, "before social media there was no media fandom, or indeed, no lasting media discussion at all", you hit "don't recommend channel" and move on with your day.

#JoyScrolling #Music #TapDance

An oldie but goldie: Christopher Rice dancing to Anna Kendricks' "Cups"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FYNF02yEM

"Black romance deserves to be the thesis and not the footnote, and we deserve to be in all spaces"

#BlackRomance #UrbanRomance #Romancelandia @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

https://baltimorebeat.com/black-urban-romance-deserves-to-be-taken-seriously/

“When Barnett rails against the ‘didacticism’ of some books, we wonder who defines didactic? For Black and brown authors, for queer and trans authors, we have seen that very word used as a cudgel and dog whistle to decry the necessary diversification of children’s literature.”

#Writing #KidLit #ChildrensLit #Racism

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/100361-children-s-book-community-responds-in-outrage-to-comment-by-national-ambassador-mac-barnett.html

#JoyScrolling Childhood memories, small boats, and war as entertainment. (This particular iteration in operation since 1927, via the always delightful Tom Scott)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYYcddinkE

Antisemitism, Zionism, and allyship.

#USPolitics #Israel #Antisemitism #Zionism

Note that women overwhelmingly kill their partners to escape their abuse, while men overwhelmingly kill their partners because a) their partners want to escape them, b) they want to marry someone else without loss of money/property/control of offspring, or c) both the above.

(this is from 2020--it's only gotten worse since)

#IntimatePartnerViolence #IntimatePartnerAbuse #Misogyny

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-serve-longer-prison-sentences-after-killing-abusers

2Cellos in concert: "We Found Love" (Rihanna)

#JoyScrolling #2Cellos #Music #Rihanna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Am_VZFps9o

Anthony Horowitz admits he uses the plagiarism regurgitron:

ETA: touting the "human need for absolute truth" while using ChatGPT in his writing speaks volumes. Cognitive dissonance? what cognitive dissonance?

#GenAi #AnthonyHorowitz #Reading @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/news/anthony-horowitz-chatgpt-writing-ai-b2970598.html

#JoyScrolling #YuzuryHanyu #2015Seimei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqntPbh0aw

Via Suzanne Brockmann:
"Hey Massachusetts! We have ten ballot Qs this year! Here’s a handy short guide about those Qs from Progressive Mass (images). Another resource is https://bluevoterguide.org/

Vote as early as you can—from 10/17 in MA. If you vote by mail, don’t send the ballot back, instead use a dropbox. Check your town’s .gov website for locations and options, and then spread the word among Democratic family and friends."

#USPolitics #MA #2026Midterms

RE: @azteclady@kind.social

ICYMI: