Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

During her work at Rutgers University microbiologist Elizabeth Bugie (1920-2001) was involved in the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. While her boss received the Nobel Prize for this discovery, she wasn’t mentioned. Honouring her work on the discovery and evaluation of antibiotics, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces bugieae (DSM 41528) after her.

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #streptomyces #microbiology #antibiotics

Beginning of the end of the lab-leak theory: Wuhan lab coronavirus samples aren't related to the COVID-19 virus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2

It's always been an unspoken rule that able bodied society doesn't want to see us, doesn't want to be reminded of us, and now we're seeing an effort to eliminate all the 'soft' jobs that we use to survive in this capitalist hell, it's very transparent that the fate of disabled people under an 'ai' economy is to starve

y'know. sometime you can be a boy in a girl way and a girl in a boy way and also neither and also both. fucked up.

KNOCK KNOCK IT'S CHRISTMAS.

Press 1 to get Covid.

Press 2 to ruin what relationships you've somehow managed to maintain with friends, neighbors and family.

Press 3 to repeat your options.

Remember Friends:

Age-verification does not protect
the children online. It just endangers everyone’s data, including the children’s.

Write to your local representatives to
speak out against online age-verification.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #KOSA

I'm not a fan of KN95s for the same reason NIOSH isn't, but the bar is underground. At least it's a filtering facepiece

This applies to more than 99.99% of the population

NYPD looking for a man in a coat, any coat

Northern Saw Whet Owl
Alberta, Canada. Photo by Lisa M. Jones.
#OwlsOfMastodon
#SilentSunday

“Standing at only 7 inches tall, this diminutive owl isn’t easy to find. Ranging over much of North America, this shy owl roosts silently concealed in dense conifers.” - Cornell Lab and The Owl Research Institute.

Devastating piece about Natalie, who suffers from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome & an insurance company w/Anti-Care Syndrome: "She is the one who has gone from choking on food to choking on water while we wait for the insurance co. a piece of a multibillion dollar industry, to nickel-and-dime its way to an agreement. . . . it’s always the patients who suffer. It’s egregious. It’s immoral. & for Natalie & the thousands of other patients just like her, it’s a terrifying wait."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brain-surgery-insurance-company-denial_n_67336b5ce4b0d36d5d63a41e

Qweer Xmas Market is on at Hotel Berlin #Berlin!! Here until 21:00 in the #ComicInvasion room with a vast selection of timely named comic collections!! We have a reading corner and a view of the indoor half-pipe (not pictured)!! I brought out this zine cover for no reason at all!! Come say hi!!

Us: we have to overthrow capitalism or the planet will be uninhabitable in 10 years

Other People: it's mean to joke about medicine-hoarding ghouls getting shot