Phil van Wulven

☠️ Russia loses 1,210 soldiers over past day

new data on daraxonrasib for metastatic pancreatic cancer: it doubled survival and almost halved serious side effects. for a cancer usually so aggressive, how much does quality of life improve when treatment is both more effective and less brutal?

First Sweetpea this year in July,;late, but lovely

Many armed drones can be deployed for cost of an F-35. Depending on range & payload several thousand. Military thinkers must stop fighting previous wars, even last year is outdated. Drones needn't be fast to intercept, just deploy in numbers. Radar on fighters can't detect something that small.

This is awesome news, a pancreatic cancer diagnosis is usually a death sentence, hope this comes to fruition!

Trilliums are all over the woods now

You need to mandate IQ and sanity tests for presidential candidates

Very simple to explain- P.P. opposes everything our government does or tries to do without any reference to potential benefits or merits

Canada has reached a deal with China to significantly reduce tariffs on Canadian exports, particularly lowering duties on canola seed from 84% to 15% and eliminating tariffs on other agricultural products like lobster and crab, also China may now export some electrical vehicles to Canada

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Big Beauty taken from the Sheldrake Wildlife Trust on F.B.

Did not know Hamas has a football team

Swallowtail on a flowering tangle

I was going to do quite a lot in the garden, and did some stuff earlier, but smelt smoke and the sky is grey, not with clouds. Checked the Enviroment Canada site & it gives the nearest location to me as a 10+ for smoke hazard, as severe as it gets. So taking it easy next to an air filter thingy.

Everybody likes a nice campfire

My bees today. Some are fanning their wings to blow cooling air into the hive

“Couldn’t have said it better myself “! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Rep. Mike Levin: I had the opportunity to have a hearing with the head of the Army Corps of Engineers. They were the ones who let two billion gallons of water flow down to a dry lake bed, where much of it simply evaporated. It never made its way to LA…

Since the USA has no large deposits of bauxite from which aluminium is produced, they import almost all ore used in primary production of that metal, while Canada has plenty of bauxite & uses cheap nearby hydro & so costs are lower. US cannot simply replace imports with domestic aluminium production

Time for Canada to produce drones in large quantities - the future of warfare. Immediately go to the Grippen rather than the Us F-35, but also train for drone war. Much less costly

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

Measles makes children vulnerable to other infections

Canada should cancel all military aircraft purchases from the US especially the F35 - the Gripen would be a better buy for us; - the Gripen's top speed is 2,46km/hr; the F35's top speed is 1,930km/hr. The Gripen has a 3,200km ferry range, the F35 has a 2,220km ferry range, which is 1,000km shorter

Trump backed the Chiefs. Score now Eagles 40-Chiefs 6, still 8 minutes left in the game.

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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Thomas was out n about for two full days and nights. Holed up somewhere sheltered in the bad weather.

Listen to some sitar playing, a raga www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmf...

At my place in South-west Ontario, Canada, the temperature was 20 degrees below freezing this morning (-20C)

Temperature today is right around freezing, with fine snowfall & wind. A view from the back yard & a look out the skylight

This is an actual fire resisitant L.A. home www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Sunrise in South-west Ontario, 12th January 2024

Here is Smith's court case against trump d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/...

Today is the Winter Solstice and the shortest day of the year. The days get longer and brighter from now. Yay!

I love it when history books passingly mention an insane thing which sounds like it should be a book in itself in a bored, matter of fact way. Like, yeah, he became a necromancer after fleeing to Spain. Moving on.

Foggy out there today

Snow, lots of snow

Snow at my place this afternoon. Soft and deep.

Paranthropus boisei & Homo erectus lived in the same region and time. An analysis of fossilised footprints discovered in deposits of the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya, suggest the marks were made by two different species on the human family tree in the same place within hours or days of each other.