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it doesn’t even have cola in it

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If you're in the need for some kind of magical artifact of magic for your setting, consider Fresnel Lenses which are used in lighthouses:

These things are Alive.

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loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s

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As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses

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Jessie Golem has spent much of the last six years sharing the stories of participants in Ontario's basic income pilot program.

A former participant herself, the Hamilton photographer says the promise of three years of guaranteed income was life-changing. 

She was one of 4,000 low-income earners who signed up for the pilot in 2017. At the time, she was working four jobs and hoping to start a full-time photography business. The pilot gave Golem the chance she needed, and she calculated that she could launch the business and be earning more than the $34,000 ceiling for the pilot before it ended.

She didn't get that chance. The Ford government cancelled the pilot in 2018, within a year from its start under the previous Liberal government under Kathleen Wynne.

"If the pilot had been allowed to continue, my life would look a lot different right now," Golem told CBC Hamilton this week. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

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Happy Friday

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William B. “Bill” Watterson II.

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you know how when osama tezuka died, they found a bunch of furry porn in his desk? yeah well, when it happens this often, i’m guessing

horikoshi has a kink.

... maybe I'm a curse. Maybe Horikoshi is well aware that Miruko and Midoriya are my #1 favorites because why in the fuck that those two characters are the only two characters to have lost both their fucking arms?! Who else lost both their arms?!

EDIT: I forgot about Overhaul... I don't really care for him. But this isn't about him!

Oh, look at that!! Another thing they FUCKING HAVE IN COMMON!! WHAT HAVE MY RABBIT DUO DO TO DESERVE THIS?! I'M SCREAMING, I'M CRYING, GOOD NIGHT!!

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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Yeah I read postmodern literature

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