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@roisin.northsky.social
She/Her, making wine and doing crimes
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I will never vote for an anti-transgender Democrat like Josh Turek and you should not either. I'll probably be writing my case to abstain from a handful of races like his on Monday. Josh Turek is showing the exact slippery slope I've called out, in real time.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
Daily Heil furious that UK woman moves across the world to get paid more, in a lovely seaside town in north central NSW, in a jurisdiction that actually supports her basic rights. Cope and seethe you nazi cunts.
Another one here where the British press just smashed fuck out of a member of the public’s life for no good reason, just because they wanted to and nobody will stop them doing at. And they’re still going, even now.
I will say, I absolutely could not have gone beyond the 98 today. My left hand is fully cooked atm still, and my right forearm was absolutely gone by the end. 10/10 would hit 3 PRs and completely demolish myself giving it everything on the last event again
New PR on the snatch test too, 98 x reps @ 24kg Would have reached the 100 if not for the massive double rip on my left hand at rep 8 on my final set of 8 on that side, which made me fail that rep and gave to try and make up the additional reps on my right which just locked up fully at the end
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Being able to read all the various articles that have been quickly fired off after those results got leaked, and fully understand what everything means in the more technical sections really drives home how much my brain absorbed while helping my wife study for their radiation oncology exams lol
Also the "risk cut by almost half" statement is a lottle misleading, that headline figure is based on the 42% reduction in risk of recurrence or death within 2yrs vs using Pembrolizumab alone. Using pembro alone already gave a 70% 2yr recurrence free survival, with addition of this taking it to 82%.
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Setting the “trans rights movement” back a decade would actually be an improvement tbh
You have that right. You simply don't have the right to dictate how others feel. And by attempting to do so, you're setting the movement back a decade. That is also well within your purview. I'll always support human rights for any community equally. Nobody is special.
Worth noting with this, it's not a vaccine in the sense of "take this x times and never get melanoma", it's a therapy used after surgical excision of your existing melanoma has occured. Then, using the removed tissue target mutations specific to your cancer are encoded into synthetic mrna
Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Also the "risk cut by almost half" statement is a lottle misleading, that headline figure is based on the 42% reduction in risk of recurrence or death within 2yrs vs using Pembrolizumab alone. Using pembro alone already gave a 70% 2yr recurrence free survival, with addition of this taking it to 82%.
Worth noting with this, it's not a vaccine in the sense of "take this x times and never get melanoma", it's a therapy used after surgical excision of your existing melanoma has occured. Then, using the removed tissue target mutations specific to your cancer are encoded into synthetic mrna
Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Airbnb was amazing when we did our 3 month road trip around Europe before moving to Australia. I can't imagine trying to use it for that now, every stay would now be a nightmare of stressing over trying to avoid them trying to charge a bunch of extra fees.
Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"
Instead of hosts who seemed excited about you enjoying their home town and giving you a few extra bits and pieces (like in Vienna we got given a tray of breakfast items so we didn't have to stress about getting any food for the morning, or Tuscany where they had olive oil from their own olive grove)
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Chat, is this good?
May 1933: Nazi troops storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare October 2026: Germany police (which includes many neo-Nazis) storm a vital community institute in Berlin dedicated to providing trans people with lifesaving healthcare
Looking at lessons from history: "The threat of the Communists put the SPD in a difficult position. The party had a choice between becoming more radical (which could weaken the Communists but lose its base among the middle class) or stay moderate, which would damage its base among the working class"