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burninglights · 13 hours
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I just saw a girl on tiktok talking about how her Palestinian grandma won’t be able to renew her passport with her place of birth as Palestine. She will have no place of birth.
Tell me why people were trying to compare it to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia etc.
My whole ass family was born in Czechoslovakia. Guess what. They now have a passport in Czechia/Slovakia, depending on where they lived. They have a country to call their own. They have some of the strongest passports in the world.
Palestinians are intentionally being eradicated. Their land bombed and stolen. Please educate yourselves before you say bullshit on the internet.
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burninglights · 2 days
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“Gaza is not the most beautiful of cities. Her coast is not bluer than those of other Arab cities. Her oranges are not the best in the Mediterranean. Gaza is not the richest of cities. (Fish and oranges and sand and tents forsaken by the winds, smuggled goods and hands for hire.) And Gaza is not the most polished of cities, or the largest. But she is equivalent to the history of a nation, because she is the most repulsive among us in the eyes of the enemy – the poorest, the most desperate, and the most ferocious. Because she is a nightmare. Because she is oranges that explode, children without a childhood, aged men without an old age, and women without desire. Because she is all that, she is the most beautiful among us, the purest, the richest, and most worthy of love.”
— Journal of an Ordinary Grief - Mahmoud Darwish
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In ‘Glass Microbiology,’ Sculptures Explore the Science Behind Modeling Viruses and Bacteria
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The Astonishing Biodiversity of Fungi Blooms in Max Mudie’s Macro Photographs
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Crows and Magpies Are Building Nests with Anti-Bird Spikes
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burninglights · 6 days
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Nicholas Rougeux Painstakingly Restores Hundreds of 19th-Century Hummingbird Illustrations
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burninglights · 7 days
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At More Than 800 Pages, ‘The Book of Colour Concepts’ Revels in Four Centuries of Chromatic Wonders
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burninglights · 7 days
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burninglights · 8 days
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something my mum always taught us was to look for the resources we're entitled to, and use them. public land? know your access rights and responsibilities, go there and exercise them. libraries? go there and talk to librarians and read community notice boards, find out what other people are doing around you, ask questions, use the printers. public records offices? go in there, learn what they hold and what you can access, look at old maps, get your full birth certificate copied, check out the census from your neighbourhood a hundred years ago. are you entitled to social support? find out, take it, use it. does the local art college have facilities open to the public? go in, look around, check out their exhibit on ancient looms or whatever, shop in their campus art supply store. it applies online too, there is so much shit in the world that belongs to the public commons that you can access and use if you just take a minute to wonder what might exist!!!
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burninglights · 8 days
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burninglights · 8 days
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four years of lab safety training and the only thing that stopped me from smell testing the unmarked bottle of laundry detergent was the Safety Third jingle from the WTYP pod 🥴
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burninglights · 9 days
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E. Coli and coliform bacteria activities liberate fuchsin from the fuchsin-sulfite compound in the ENDO agar, the fuchsin then colours the colonies red. In the case of E. Coli, the reaction is so intense that the fuchsin crystallizes out giving the colonies a permanent greenish metallic sheen (fuchsin sheen)
(text paraphrased from Merck Microbiology Manual 12th Edition, on ENDO agar)
Or, I cleaned up some expired petri dishes today
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burninglights · 11 days
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For the love of god don't die in my labs, there's a lot of paperwork if you do. is one hell of a sentence. It made me laugh quite a bit. I'm not that familiar with University and professional labs, is it a common occurrence that machines say they're done while they are not really?
heyo, anon!
So my uni lab was a high-volume lab, meaning we were running undergrad, postgrad and doctoral thesis projects simultaneously. Between glassware, autoclaving our powdered agar suspensions with deionised distilled water to make sterile agar suspensions and media and the lab techs sterilising equipment for first year labs and demos, our autoclaves were going near constantly.
What happens with the autoclaves is that they beep once to tell you that the cycle is finished, and again to tell you that the autoclave has depressurised and is safe to open.
Because we weren’t just running the autoclave and we’re doing other tasks concurrently, it wasn’t all that hard to forget which beep you were on, and if it was the first beep, you ran the risk of opening a pressurised autoclave and getting a face full of ~90c steam at about 6atmos, which would, at best, their degree burn you to hell and back.
(The autoclave has lights on the top indicating which part of the cycle it’s on, but you can’t control for user error, and 40 harried undergrads who haven’t been in a lab for two years on account of The Rona doing their thesis project are like. the poster demographic for user error.)
To forestall us from reducing our faces and/or extremities to a homogenate with the texture of chunky marinara, our prof made us confirm with the lab techs — absolute rockstars who had been working alongside the university professors researching COVID and keeping the research teams on other projects afloat throughout the acute phase of the pandemic — who have had years of experience using autoclaves under time pressure and at speed, that we were on the ‘safe to open’ part of the cycle before opening the autoclave with every use.
Probably just so he didn’t get pulled away from his agar plates for a major incident review, but it’s the thought that counts! 😂
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burninglights · 12 days
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The autoclave is designed to kill schmucks I think
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burninglights · 16 days
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lewis hamilton arrives to the track on race day, saudi arabia - march 9, 2024 📷 frédéric le floc'h / alamy
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burninglights · 16 days
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A Palestinian priest passing out water and dates to Palestinian Muslims as they break their Ramadan fast in the Palestinian city of Jericho
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burninglights · 16 days
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I know this is happening at least partly because my GP just sees a person of colour who keeps asking for pain meds but like. I have specifically said I do not want narcotic medication or corticosteroids and would just like an NSAID that actually works. naproxen has no psychoactive component or street value. why the fuck are you making me wait six months for long term pain management when I've been in pain every day for three years and you have the imaging proving why be SO fucking for real right now.
GPs really out here proving that even the bottom percentile of a graduating cohort of medical students still get called doctor
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