Franny Owl

Healthcare. Education.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@R_H_Ebright I will always remember the loudest opponents of the lab leak theory were the ones who had the most to lose.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@MarkoMatvikov Two tier Albo, who would have thought?

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@LostTransport @DrewPavlou Not sure where you are reading homophobic slurs from my response and it’s quite offensive of you to suggest that. The article argues his rape apology and pederasty. You can make excuses for that all you want but ultimately he was an awful individual. Bye bye

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@LostTransport @DrewPavlou @MtlSeb I have no issue with his sexual orientation. It doesn’t excuse him being a rape apologist and pederast.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@LostTransport @DrewPavlou @MtlSeb Not just one. Foucault was clearly a very twisted psychopath that hated women, it would surprise no-one as to his sordid private life. https://t.co/VX6hvXzlZu

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@pickledswans @hestiobrauro @Valen10Francois And was a rape apologist- a sad and sick excuse of a human being.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@Valen10Francois I think that French newspaper should have called it ‘Shit socialism’ which is ultimately what socialism ends up being.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There is a revealing silence echoing across the West. Not the silence of ignorance, but the silence of choice. In Iran, people are on the streets demanding freedom. The regime has responded by cutting the internet, clearing the stage, and preparing the ground for bloodshed. This is how the Islamic Republic kills without witnesses. We have seen it before. We know exactly what comes next. And yet the Western Left, so vocal on every other injustice, has very little to say.

The Iranian state has not merely censored dissent; it has switched off the lights. An internet blackout is not crowd control. It is premeditation. In 2019, the same tactic preceded the killing of around 1,500 people. Today, with protests spreading across more than a hundred cities, the pattern is repeating under the rule of Ali Khamenei. Tear gas, live rounds, mass arrests. Children dead. Morgues filling. Silence abroad.

What makes the silence damning is that nothing here is unclear. The protesters are not chanting borrowed slogans or calling for "dialogue" with their jailers. They chant against the dictator. They tear down regime symbols. They want the end of a theocracy that beats women, jails opponents, and exports terror. They want freedom, plainly and without disguise.

That should trigger outrage. It does not. Instead, we hear the familiar hedging language. Calls for "restraint". Appeals for "engagement". Statements so bloodless they could be drafted by the regime itself. The same voices that erupt over statues in Bristol and police tactics in Paris are suddenly cautious when a clerical dictatorship prepares to shoot its own people in the dark.

The reason is not confusion. It is alignment. The modern Left rations outrage according to ideology. When protests are directed against the West or its allies, they are hailed as the voice of the people. When protests are directed against regimes that define themselves in opposition to the West, the moral energy drains away. Iran is anti-American, anti-Israel, and loudly hostile to Western power. That places it on the protected side of the ledger.

This is the moral inversion at work. Brutality is not condemned on its own terms. It is weighed against who benefits. If tyranny weakens the West, it is indulged. If resistance strengthens the values the West claims to believe in, it is ignored.

Watch the contrast. Every move by Donald Trump is interrogated to the bone. Every Israeli action is parsed, moralised, and condemned. Yet as Iran prepares a massacre behind a digital curtain, the same critics fall quiet. The standard does not wobble; it disappears.

This is why the internet blackout matters. It is not a technical detail. It is the signal that the regime is about to act without witnesses. And the absence of Western pressure, media saturation, and moral insistence tells Tehran that it can proceed with minimal cost.

The Left likes to present itself as the conscience of the age. Iran exposes the fraud. This is not a politics of people, but of narratives. Suffering matters only when it can be used against the West. When it cannot, it is filed away under "complexity" and forgotten.

The protesters in Iran are not asking for Western retreat. They are asking for Western civilisation to mean something again: liberty, dignity, law, the right to live without fear of the state. That makes them inconvenient. Their courage exposes the hollowness of a human-rights culture that speaks loudly only when it's safe to do so.

History will record who spoke and who stayed quiet while the lights went out. Tyranny thrives on that quiet. And every time the Left chooses silence over solidarity with those fighting for freedom, it teaches dictators the same lesson: kill quickly, kill unseen, and the noise will fade. That is the cost of moral inversion. And Iran is paying it in blood.

"They chant against the dictator. They tear down regime symbols. They want the end of a theocracy that beats women, jails opponents, and exports terror."

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

It’s fairly well known that Mao Zedong’s so-called Great Leap Forward (1958–1962) ended in the greatest man-made famine in human history—some 45 million dead, fields littered with corpses, villages emptied by hunger, and the sound of chewing bark mistaken for the crackle of grain. What’s less well known is that Mao’s revolution didn’t just declare war on landlords, capitalists, and reason—it declared war on nature itself.

In 1958, the Chairman launched what he called the Four Pests Campaign, a crusade against rats, flies, mosquitoes—and, inexplicably, sparrows. The tiny birds, Mao decreed, were “enemies of the people” for daring to eat the people’s grain. And so, as one historian put it, an entire civilization mobilized against the feathered menace. Schoolchildren banged pots and pans in the streets, peasants drummed on washbasins, and factory sirens screamed for hours to keep the birds in flight until they fell dead from exhaustion. Nests were torn down, eggs smashed, and chicks stomped into the earth.

The results were biblical. In Beijing alone, more than a million sparrows were killed in a matter of weeks. Rural communes competed to see who could pile the highest mountain of avian corpses, a kind of grotesque festival of progress. But victory, when it came, was short-lived. The sparrows, it turned out, had been eating more insects than grain. Within a year, the skies were empty, and the earth was crawling. Locusts rose like living clouds, devouring fields from horizon to horizon. Peasants watched in horror as the crops disappeared into the mandibles of an unstoppable plague of their own making.

Rather than admit his mistake, Mao doubled down on absurdities. He replaced the sparrows with imported Soviet “science”—the theories of Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist who believed that crops could be re-educated through hard labor. Genetics was bourgeois nonsense, Lysenko said; what mattered was enthusiasm. If you plowed deeper, planted closer, and shouted revolutionary slogans loudly enough, the harvest would multiply. Yes, they actually believed that. So fields were churned to depths that strangled their roots, seedlings planted shoulder to shoulder until none could breathe, and bureaucrats inflated yields to impossible heights. Mountains of fake grain were reported; much of the real grain exported to show socialist success.

By 1960, China was starving. Whole provinces were dying in silence. Peasants boiled leather belts for soup, mothers abandoned their infants by the roadside, and in some villages, desperate men turned cannibal. Still, the propaganda blared: “The people’s communes are good!” Mao’s war on sparrows was part of a nationwide war on reality itself.

Years later, a survivor put it simply: “We killed the birds, and then the insects ate everything else.” It was the perfect epitaph for Mao’s age—a revolution so blinded by ideology that it devoured not only its people, but the very balance of life that sustained them.

#archaeohistories

[Prof. Kevin J. Tracey, MD @KevinJTraceyMD]

Congrats to @SetPointMed for this landmark study in @NatureMedicine that led to FDA approval for targeting the vagus nerve inflammatory reflex to treat rheumatoid arthritis. https://t.co/7ke5SK3xMP.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@RichardDawkins Am eagerly awaiting the authors next article where they argue for the justification of cannibalism and infanticide.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@taipan168 I agree with you 💯 but somehow I think the bad guys with the guns don’t need Albo’s money. How about he focuses on going after the root causes of the problem. Just a suggestion.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@RogerSeheult My understanding is that NAC may be useful for smokers in Lung Cancer prevention but caution should be considered with established cancer.

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[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The new Huberman Lab episode is out: Using Red Light to Improve Metabolism & the Harmful Effects of LEDs | Dr. Glen Jeffery

0:00 Glen Jeffery
3:12 Light, Ultraviolet (UV), Visible & Infrared (IR) Light
6:25 Light's Impact on the Body & Light, Sunburn, Cataracts
9:55 UV Light, All-Cause Mortality, Skin Cancer
14:55 Sponsors: Wealthfront & Joovv
17:58 Light Impacts Mitochondria Function & Structure, Long-Wavelength Light (Red/IR), Nano Water
25:00 Long-Wavelength Light Passes Through Clothing & Body; Tissue Scattering
30:08 Long-Wavelength Light & Blood Glucose; Mitochondria
36:19 Red Light, Parkinson's Disease, Cell Death; Eye Rods & Aging; Mitochondria Community
42:46 Red/IR Light, Skull & Brain; Safe Non-Ionizing Radiation
48:22 Sponsors: AG1 & Rorra
51:04 Offsetting Retinal Aging, Improve Vision & Long-Wavelength Light
59:28 Tool: Long-Wavelength Light & Preserve Retinal Mitochondria; Sunlight
1:03:50 Mitochondrial Theory of Aging, Circadian Rhythm & Mitochondria
1:07:57 Tool: Improve Vision with Long-Wavelength Light
1:10:44 Macular Degeneration, Rescuing Vision, Early Intervention
1:13:59 Light Effects at Local vs Distant Tissues, Immune System, Body Communication
1:19:09 Sponsor: Function
1:20:56 Short-Wavelength Light, LED Light, Mitochondria & Serious Health Detriments
1:28:39 Lifespan, LED Lights; Sunlight & Balanced Wavelengths; "Sunlike" Marketing
1:34:45 Fires, Incandescent Lights vs LED Lights, Lasers; Long-Wavelength Devices
1:39:07 Incandescent & Halogen Bulbs, Mitochondria & Built Environments
1:45:19 Windows, Light & Office Work; Screens, Kids & Myopia; Tools: Plants; Lighting
1:55:56 Bring the Outdoors Indoors
2:00:35 Tool: Candlelight; Dim Halogen Lamps
2:05:06 Mitochondrial Diseases, Children & Long-Wavelength Light; Light Bulbs
2:11:53 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

Includes paid partnerships.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@fictillius Totally stupid idea. People will just use Victoria Rd to access the North Shore without having to pay the toll. Like it’s not congested enough already.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@CoffeeBlackMD https://t.co/OK9ljMbAqC

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

The headline for the latest ABS home lending data is:

'Investment loans reach record high'

This charts the course of investor vs owner occupier loans since the government's election.

When I say Albanese is a property investors best friend, it's unfortunately all too accurate.

[Franny Owl @Music9Fran]

@AshBinAus Yes, pushing people back to smoking is not a public health win. The epic failure of these policies on tobacco control should be a lesson but the morons are just doubling down on their stupidity.