Mark Martino

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"Along this track the Houston region will be subjected to some of the strongest winds and heaviest rains from Beryl.… it is now clear that strong winds will cause significant impacts for the greater Houston area, including the potential for widespread power outages."

Beryl tracking toward Matagorda, center likely to pass near west side of Houston: Serious impacts expectedspacecityweather.com In brief: We are now less than 24 hours before Beryl will make landfall in Texas, likely near Matagorda, which is located about 90 miles south-southwest of Houston. Along this track the greater Hou…

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Houston, pay attention to Beryl. spacecityweather.com/beryl-likely...

Beryl likely to pass near the Houston area on Monday, bringing winds and heavy rainfallspacecityweather.com In brief: We’re less than two days before the landfall of Beryl and there are still plenty of questions about the severity of impacts in Houston. This post will attempt to answer those that w…

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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That We Can All Go Fuck Ourselves

I loved the idea of the US as long as I remember. Rest in peace. I have no idea what we do, now that presidents are kings.

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If The New York Times hadn’t spent so much time beating up Biden they might actually have credibility in making a suggestion. But now they’re just a joke.

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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

Art is to console those who are broken by life. - Vincent van Gogh

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug, lenacapavir, gave young women total protection from the virus. “I got cold shivers. After all our years of sadness, particularly over vaccines, this truly is surreal.”

New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Womenwww.nytimes.com An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.

the.cracken092 Clearance Thomas has all but said they’re coming for Obergefell-our right to marriage equality. I hope straight people understand how degrading & humiliating it is to have your ability to marry your loved one be debated every election cycle. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

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The deadly toll of extreme heat continues with a brutal heatwave of up to 51.8C (125F) in Mecca this week, killing hundreds of pilgrims.

Death toll from heat at hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia passes 900www.lemonde.fr Temperatures hit 51.8°C in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Monday, as 1.8 million people took part in the annual pilgrimage.

“‘Great news, there’s nothing seriously wrong!’ Eighty percent of their patients remained with symptoms at long-term follow-up and there were increasing rates of unemployment over time. FND appears to be one of the commonest causes of serious long-term neurological disability.”

Functional neurological disorder: an ethical turning point for neuroscienceacademic.oup.com This scientific commentary refers to ‘The prognosis of functional limb weakness: a 14-year case-control study’, by Gelauff et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awy138

Elon Musk's Neuralink forced a pregnant employee to work with herpes-infected monkeys that scratched her, lawsuit says

The U.S. government is suing Adobe, accusing the company of harming consumers by enrolling them in the most expensive subscription plans, and not clearly disclosing huge early termination fees that can reach hundreds of dollars.

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Judge Liles Burke appears eager and ready to sanction LGBTQ civil rights lawyersopen.substack.com A Friday order that some lawyers turn over a document prepared in the early days of the Alabama judge-shopping "inquiry" strongly suggests Burke has made up his mind.

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That’s . . . a lot of metaphors.

“‘I would say most governments don’t want to think about long covid and much less long covid and cancer. It cost them so much to deal with covid. So there is very little funding for the long-term effects of the virus. I don’t think that’s a wise choice.’” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

‘Unusual’ cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame.www.washingtonpost.com It’s not a new idea that viruses can cause or accelerate cancer. But it will probably be years before answers emerge about covid and cancer.

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From Jules Feiffer long ago. Nothing changes...

I…remember. “The shows aired on KPFT (90.1), Houston’s Pacifica station. One of them, Wilde ‘n’ Stein (named for Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein) started in 1975 and ran through the early 1990s. A late night show, After Hours, ran from 1987 until the early 2000s.” www.npr.org/2024/05/28/n...

Saving Houston’s LGBTQ history through thousands of hours of radio archiveswww.npr.org Archivists at the University of Houston have saved decades-worth of episodes of local LGBT radio shows that started in the 1970s. Together they tell the story of a complex, diverse community.

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Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight)

A strong indication for #autoimmunity in #longcovid: transfer of antibodies of patients induces symptoms in mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology in micewww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

“The Texas Supreme Court just upheld the state's near-total abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who were denied medically necessary abortions [saying] the ban's exception for women facing life-threatening conditions is sufficiently broad enough to withstand constitutional challenge.”

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The frog-boiling continues apace. Daft motherfuckers...

fuck you Publisher's Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Human-AI Partnerships Will Make Publishing Workers More Productive, and Innovativewww.publishersweekly.com The journey is just beginning, but we can already see that publishing workflows are especially ripe for AI integration that enables the automation of rote tasks, and AI-driven support for more humans ...

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Anyway good luck to jurors, the judge, court staff, and prosecutors, and all their families, with not getting murdered, and thanks to FedSoc types for bringing us to the brink of fascism so you could weaken Chevron deference

Anyway the most recent former President of the United States has been found guilty of felonies and now there’s a substantial chance people are going to die because his followers are freaks and the so-called “mainstream” GOP will just shrug and blame woke or something.

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What revels are in hand?

This is every bit as sad and infuriating as I imagined. slate.com/culture/2024...

For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.slate.com The con we pulled on America just won’t die.