#taekookau

“Get off me.”

Jungkook groans in annoyance as he pushes the angel away, his rough skin accidentally scraping the latter.

“Chill— fuck you cut me.”

The angel growls through gritted teeth, eyebrows furrowed, eyes burning with rage.

“You’re the one who attacked me first.”

The demon dusts the ash off his tight suit, the fabric having turned gray and a tad bit looser— they used to hug his muscles more tightly, tracing every line.

“I fell, you don’t need to be so aggressive.”

Taehyung scowls at him again, this time taking a step closer to threaten him further.

“I don’t give a fuck, don’t fall on me.”

The demon remains arrogant and displeased with the collusion; the accident having occurred due to an experiment gone wrong.

His witch best friend created an explosion that blasted him to the other side of the city— Jungkook’s stupid side.

“You’re such a moron.”

The angel scoffs as he touches the bruise, hissing when the pad of his fingers meet his red flesh.

“I’m the moron? You’re the one who decided to fall from the sky—why didn’t you use your wings?”

Jungkook looks genuinely annoyed, he always carries hate for Taehyung, but today is rather worse.

“It was an accident, okay? I’m sorry, damn, chill.”

In a new clinical trial with 145 subjects, subjects were given drinks sweetened with aspartame, glucose, fructose, or high-fructose corn syrup for two weeks.

Some results
HFCS group:
17% higher LDL-C
15% higher apoB
11% higher

Subjects were given beverages to drink three times per day, containing:

Aspartame, control
Glucose, 25% daily energy requirements
Fructose, 17.5%
Fructose, 25%
High-fructose corn syrup, 17.5%
HFCS, 25%
Sucrose, 25%

Patients were told to refrain from drinking any other sugar-sweetened beverages.

Riboflavin was added to the drinks as a biomarker for adherence and tested in the urine.

Urinary riboflavin was low at the beginning, rose throughout the study, and did not rise differently between participants in each group over the course of the study, indicating that the biomarker worked and adherence was similar between groups.

The trial was double-blinded and on an outpatient basis.

Subjects were not randomized but groups were matched for sex, BMI, and concentrations of fasting triglyceride (TG), cholesterol, HDL-C, and insulin at baseline.

This week’s #SundayScientistShoutout is Betty Reid Soskin (born 1921)!

Soskin is a ranger with the @NationalParkService and at the age of 99, she is still serving as a ranger.

The oldest ranger to ever work as a National Park Ranger!

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#DiversityinSTEM
#WomeninWildlife

Soskin was born in Detroit to Lousisanna Natives with Creole and Cajun backgrounds.

She spent her early childhood in New Orleans, LA until a hurricane/flood caused them to move to Oakland, CA.

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#DiversityinSTEM
#WomeninWildlife
#SundayScientistShoutout

During WWII, Soskin worked as a clerk for Boilermakers Union A-36, a Jim Crow all-black union auxiliary where she assisted Black American workers who had to move frequently.

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#DiversityinSTEM
#SundayScientistShoutout
#WomeninWildlife

After this, Soskin and her husband (Mel Reid) started a small black-owned business (Reid's Records) specializing in Gospel music before moving to Walnut Creek, CA, in the 1950s so their children could attend better schools.

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#DiversityinSTEM
#SundayScientistShoutout

In Walnut Creek, they were faced with racism after moving into a white suburb

This lead Soskin to became an active member of the Black Caucus of the Unitarian Universalist Assoc. - becoming a songwriter in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

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#SundayScientistShoutout

@ukcynic01 Yes, you are right on the number.... they, including Regeneron, pay this Murray guy now for instance to make sure not to utter a word about niacin

https://t.co/d58DAM88q1

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MAGA will have nothing to do with January 20th. However Antifa/BLM have planned events for January 20th.

This post is doing the rounds on fb ....?????

US text message - Genuine or Q ?
🚨 PLEASE READ🚨 ....I have just received this from a friend with contacts in the #US
Direct from High - Up #Military:

According to the latest schedule everything will be exposed some time between Sunday afternoon and Monday night. The timer has been set for those two particular days. During that time the EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) will be activated.

President Trump will send out a message,
My fellow #Americans the storm is upon us.
There will be 7 presidential text messages sent from him via Air Force One following the message The Storm is Upon Us.

That puts us under full global martial law.
Via the EBS, on authorized devices there will be an 8 hour video played 3 times a day for 10 days straight with video confessions of high profile elite individuals being exposed for their crimes against humanity

at their military tribunals. While the movie is being played 500,000 plus people will be taken down worldwide. This repeating movie will be extremely painful for most of us because it involves people we thought we could trust committing unthinkable crimes.

This is a song called Alice’s Protocol. But Alice’s Protocol isn’t the name of the protocol: that’s just the name of the song. That’s why I called the song Alice’s Protocol.

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You can send anything at all
With Alice’s Protocol.
You can send anything at all
With Alice’s Protocol.
Send your files from A to B
Just don’t forget your private key
You can send anything at all
With Alice’s Protocol.

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Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, two years ago at Thanksgiving, when my friend Alice wanted to send a file to her husband Bob.

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But Bob has a no-good scheming friend called Eve. Let me tell you about his friend Eve. She’s a no-good scheming friend of his, and she likes to listen through walls and under windows and around doors.

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So my friend Alice (you remember Alice?), she didn’t want no listening through walls and under windows and around doors, so she decided to encrypt her message with Alice’s Protocol.

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Was Sent this = Long Winded
Warning: We have received this info yet we ask all of you to discern and take it to the Lord. There is a lot of disinfo right now. We do have faith in the folks who have shared this with us.

The post-insurrection testimony of William Pitt Kellogg has been haunting me lately. He survived several coups as governor of LA during Reconstruction & gave a sobering assessment of their causes.

He testified that Reconstruction had been manageable until "the race-issue was there placed in the foreground" by white conservatives.

White conservatives abandoned all other policy issues & "appealed editorially to white men to employ white labor for political reasons."

Their goal in this was to radicalize white workers—to ensure that they had a vested financial interest in attacking & murdering leftist politicians friendly to racial equality.

In practice, it also meant firing Black workers so that they & their families would starve to death.

To summarize, you have a conservative "white man's party" that's overtly abt killing their political opponents to create more white jobs.

Infant Esoterica:

CONSENSUAL BIRTH PLAN: We did homebirths for both. No meds, no interventions. They went great, wouldn't have changed a thing. Hospital ten minutes away in case we needed it. The important factor is that we CHOSE how we'd give birth. It was fully consensual.

Lack of meds, synthetic oxytocin, pain meds—all that stuff mattered too and if you can skip 'em, it's ideal, but the main thing is engineering a harmonious, celebratory entrance for the kid. That could be in the hospital. That could be at your home.

Figure your plan out.

I won't go into breastfeeding. Obviously you want to do that. To explain fully why would take an entire thread. Maybe later.

Skin-skin contact with both parents is essential. Chest to chest. Doing as as early and often as you can --> lasting connections.

DEAD HANGS: From day one, a baby can hold his own weight dangling from a bar. Many ways to test.

Lay them on their back on bed or soft surface, get them to grab your thumbs and start lifting up. They'll come off the ground and relinquish grip when tired. Repeat.

Your baby will just hang fully from your thumbs and drop when done. Do this over a bed, somewhere soft they can safely drop. Expect laughter.

If you do this from day 1 and never stop, you build powerful grip strength. ie normal grip strength, the grip they're meant to have.

Since @erinotoole has invited Liberals to show Conservatives’ connections to the US far right, here are 25 tweets doing so. #mbpoli #cdnpoli (1/25).

There are only a couple of degrees of separation between some Conservative politicians in Canada and the extreme right, because of The Rebel & Hamish Marshall who worked for Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer, and the Manitoba PCs. #mbpoli #cdnpoli (2/25)

Canadian conservatives have been taking policy and tactics from U.S. republicans for many years. After the success of Fox News in the US, Conservatives tried to create “Sun TV,” then modelled “Rebel Media” on Breitbart. #mbpoli #cdnpoli (3/25)

For years, The Rebel has been weaponizing & inciting hate for profit and political gain without care for the consequences. It is a global source of radical right-wing hate - its ties with conservative politicians across Canada are deep and long-standing. #mbpoli #cdnpoli (4/25)

From 2015 to 2017, Hamish Marshall was one of 3 board members for The Rebel, the far-right propaganda outlet helmed by Ezra Levant. Marshall was a consultant on the PCs 2016 election campaign, and his company, Torch, built the PCs current website. #mbpoli #cdnpoli (5/25)

@paulbuitink 1-Since the ECB has singularly failed to provide financial stability to the eurozone, but instead was responsible for record credit boom-busts in Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc. followed by vast unemployment and sovereign debt crises, why should the ECB be given any FURTHER powers?

2-Nobody needs CBDC. There is no demand for it. Please provide actual evidence that there is popular demand for it. (NB Demand for bitcoin is no such proof; demand for cash is no such proof, especially since CBDC is designed to abolish cash for negative rate/expropriation policy)

3-Conflict of interest. ECB is banking regulator in the eurozone. Now it is seriously contemplating compromising its umpire role as regulator by stepping into the arena and wanting to directly compete against the banks, which are regulated by the ECB (CBDC=current accounts)...

3b Isn't this anti-competitive; unfair competition? Throws new light on the ECB's past 20 years of policies, which have been aggressively anti-(small)-bank. As the ECB now admits it wants to compete with the banks, have its policies of killing so far 4,800 banks been intentional?

4-ECB claims that CBDC may increase financial stability, but it has been the ECB's disastrous policies that have caused dramatic financial instability over the entire period of the ECB's existence. Why should anyone believe the ECB's claim to aim at financial stability?...

Revelations of Former FO Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam regarding the role of INGOs endorse James Peck's claims about convergence of US Foreign Policy & Human Rights.

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How INGOs suspiciously operate in Pakistan | A discussion with ex-civil ... https://t.co/zxQWuCEZVy via @YouTube

James Peck in his book, “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights” argues that US Foreign Policy and human rights industry is interconnected and is being used as an ideological weapon.

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From the moment when Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been signed in 1948 in response to Nazi atrocities, human rights are being used to extend American global reach.

By condemning Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups

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with legal outfits for downplaying economic and social discriminations, Peck reveals that humanitarian interventions in US military adventures in Vietnam, Iraq and other places serve as pretexts for invasions to ‘legalize’ US prerogative of intervention while ignoring

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the illegitimacy of intervention and the violence it causes.

In words of Peck, “The widely heralded rise of human rights is not free of such complications. For the history of human rights in the United States—as a movement, as an impassioned language of good intentions,

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After 5126 failed prototypes over 5 years, any inventor would have given up

But Sir James Dyson stayed put and

- Invented a product which completely transformed the market
- Set up a company with 7 billion $ revenues
- Became the richest man in UK

A thread on Dyson 🧵

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1970s - James Dyson was a UK born industrial designer. He was fed up using the traditional vaccum cleaner with disposable bag which would stop working because of dust clogging

He tried using a cyclone based system which would extract the dust without clogging

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He even constructed a small prototype & connected it with the traditional vaccum cleaner with bag removed. It seemed to work decently

He presented the concept to many. But most of them rejected saying if the idea was so great, big companies would already have thought of it

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1979 - But Dyson didn't give up. He was able to raise an initial investment from another inventor friend and via some loan from the bank

He started developing the cyclonic vaccum system in the shed behind his house.

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Between 1979 and 1984, Dyson developed 5126 prototypes before getting the right one without a bag finalized

He tried licensing this invention to the companies in UK and US who can manufacture and sell the product. And give Dyson some royalties on sales

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It's true that a sufficiently high UBI could serve as an alternative to a $15 minimum wage, but I personally would prefer a combo of both plus a 4-day 32-hour week. Let's pay people more for work, support all unpaid work, and distribute employment and leisure time more equitably.

What the left needs to be honest about in regards to a $15 min wage is that although the overall effects will likely be positive, there will be impacts like reduced hours to compensate. Let's lean into that by leaving the 5-day 40-hour week behind. Every weekend should be 3 days.

It's also likely that a higher min wage will increase automation. Great! Let's do that! But that means less employment for humans. 4-day weeks share the available employment better, and universal basic income makes automation literally work for

UBI makes sure that micro-level responses to a higher minimum wage don't reduce people's total incomes if hours drop, or drop incomes to zero. For that person who can't find a job to pay them $15/hr, they can have $1500/mo vs $0. And unpaid workers would have $1500/mo vs $0 too.

If all we did was redefine full-time as 32 hours, businesses would need to pay more per hour so that employees got paid the same for less time. That would distribute leisure time better and I think raise productivity, but it wouldn't raise total incomes, which need to be raised.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. with Joshua Matthew Black:

Look, it's a PR war. Okay? You have to understand, it's an IO war. We can't lose the IO war.

[Man] Hawley, Cruz.
I think Cruz would want us to do this, so.
Yeah, absolutely

Outside the Capitol a noose hangs on a makeshift gallows.

MAGA Mob storms the Capitol
"If they don't fix this sh*t, we're gonna fu*king take this... Millions of Americans are armed. To protect the Constitution of the United States, against enemies foreign and domestic... F**k you police"