NikkiM

BS, Medical Laboratory Scientist(ASCP), Genetic Data reviewer, Microbiologist, Vet Medic, Wildlife and nature LOVER and wildlife rehab tech

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

Welcome to Texas: Where a virus has more reproductive rights than a woman... #AbbottFailedTexasWomen #AbbottFailedTexas #AbbottFailedTexasAgain @GregAbbott_TX

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

How a language America tried to erase won them the Pacific war.
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By 1942, the Marines had a problem. Japanese code breakers were reading American messages almost as fast as they were sent, and men died for it. They needed a code nobody could crack. They found it in the deserts of the American southwest, home of the Navajo, a Native American people whose language almost no outsider on earth could speak. For decades, the US government had punished Navajo children for speaking it in school. Now that same government sent recruiters onto the reservation, hunting for the young men who still knew every word.
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Navajo had never been written down, and its sounds twisted in ways almost nobody could follow. But talking Navajo over the radio wasn’t enough, so the Marines built a code on top of the language. A tank became a turtle, a bomb became an egg, planes were named after birds, and anything without a word got spelled out letter by letter.
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The code proved itself on Iwo Jima, a volcanic island the Japanese had turned into a fortress of tunnels and bunkers. When the US Marines stormed its beaches, it became one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Through the first two days of the landing, six code talkers worked around the clock and sent more than 800 messages without a single error, faster than any coding machine, while the Japanese listening in got nothing. The signal officer who ran them put it plainly: without the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.
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The Japanese had broken code after American code, but to this one they never came close. So when they finally got hold of a captured Navajo soldier, they dragged him into a cell and tortured him for weeks, playing him the messages and demanding he translate. He understood every word he heard, and all it gave him was turtles, eggs and birds. The code lived only in the heads of the men who built it.
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That code was too valuable to talk about, so the men who built it were ordered to keep quiet for over twenty years. They had finally been allowed to use their language, and they used it to win the war for the same country that once beat them for it... and then they weren’t allowed to say a word about it.

#drthehistories

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

Brother Goose is convinced he is going to die from diet.

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

@rodentologist i listen to @Ologies and your episode was my absolute fav! but i think you might owe me $500 😂🫣 if i can’t get him to get a some weight off … for concerned: Inca is on a diet with his brother, Goose. Cage mates are good. Maybe the lines they were bred from.

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

@nobleisawinner 1979

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@Matt_Pinner Bc she can

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@Amelia558rs No social media to display their terrible behavior

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@ConcernedApe “Come over”…. To my farm… gather the mods and include them , pay the modders 🫶🏼🙃 oh alright I’ll just re-download 200 things

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

@ConcernedApe Yasssssss and get #maggplays on your team!!!

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@elonnews40 “Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes, Giddy up giddy up 4 0 9” The Beach Boys , Surfin’ Safari

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

@FDArecalls It literally says Almond twice on the front lol. This is why we can’t have nice things. Also, the name of this candy bar is genius! 🤣

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@rodentologist The box is obviously labeled for mas’. 🐭😆

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@rodentologist I was thinking this about my pet rats, (R. norvegicus)They make the most perfect holes in the boxes I give them for burrowing and play. Pretty amazing! My dwarf is especially good at making pint size circles. 🐀 Now if I could just keep them away from my cheap closet doors!🤣

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

Listening to “The River is Waiting” Willy Lamb and thought, “Is this my crush from White Squall?” Yes, narrated by @JeremySisto Absolutely heart crushing, devastating, emotional book, perfect audio performance! #willylambauthor #theriveriswaiting #jeremysisto #audible 🎤📖

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@TMobile Worst customer service I’ve ever experienced was with Sprint/Tmobile… they conveniently lost record of my phone calls and my payment history when I switched to another carrier after being with them for 20 years!

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Chin up, team. Take some time. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Take care of your community.

There are a million ways to make a difference—get back in the fight when you’re ready.

And know that, whenever you are ready, I’ll be ready to get back in with you.

[Satan @s8n]

what the fuck?!?!

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

Cats, rats, books, Holly Gibney and @StephenKing … 🎤🎶these are a few of my favorite things!🎶 #ifitbleeds #therat #hollygibney #HorrorFiction #stephenking #turning40

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. @GeoffDuncanGA:

“Going against the grain as a Republican and supporting Democrat Joe Biden for president is not easy...There are political ramifications to this decision, but they pale in comparison to four more years of Donald Trump.”

[NikkiM @Nixx2008]

@rodentologist Well better share then lol