nutte

livin life 😎

masters grad outta UoM, survivin n thrivin

[nutte @Rodders627]

think Carrie is happy to see me

[Phi Walker (TORONTO FANEXPO) @Lunatiiq_Real]

Fake Moon Knight comic screenshots are some of my favourite things ever

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

life before this tweet:

[dmr 🇻🇦🇵🇳 @iz_dmr]

Exciting political developments in the AI Safety space

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2026 is 50% complete.

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

Love.

[tori 🌹🐈‍⬛ @plantbasedagony]

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

[43% turnt 🇩🇴 @j0sewtf]

new pack alert reaction unlocked gonna save this for when big yahoo goes

[ali @probablyalissa]

20 years of Neil banging out the tunes

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

This fungus is called Aspergillus, and you’re already breathing it in. Hundreds of its spores enter your lungs every single day. Your immune system kills them before you notice. About 2 billion people live in regions where Aspergillus thrives, and that quiet daily cleanup has worked for centuries. Climate change is rewriting the math.

A University of Manchester study funded by Wellcome mapped how three Aspergillus species will spread as the planet warms. If we keep burning fossil fuels at current rates, the most dangerous species (A. fumigatus, the one that causes fatal lung infections) could expand its range across Europe by 77.5% by 2100, putting 9 million more people in its path. It’s already pushing north into Scandinavia and Alaska, places that were too cold for it a generation ago.

What happens when it gets past your immune system is bad. A 2024 Lancet review of 120+ countries found 2.1 million people develop serious Aspergillus lung infections each year. More than half of them die, even with treatment. Among stem cell transplant patients who get infected, only 1 in 4 survive the first year. Fungal infections overall kill about 2.5 million people a year globally, more than malaria. In 2022, the WHO created its first-ever priority list for dangerous fungi and put Aspergillus in the top threat category.

The drug problem makes it worse. Doctors have exactly four classes of antifungal drugs to work with. (Antibiotics have dozens.) The main weapon is a drug class called azoles. Farmers spray nearly identical azole chemicals on wheat and peanut crops to prevent rot. The fungus develops resistance on the farm, drifts into hospitals on the air, and infects patients who have never taken an antifungal drug in their lives. The resistance came pre-installed.

Making new antifungals is also harder than making new antibiotics. Fungi are genetically closer to us than bacteria are. Drugs that kill fungal cells tend to damage human cells too. That’s why, after decades of trying, we still only have four options.

Of the estimated 1.5 to 3.8 million fungal species on Earth, fewer than 10% have even been formally described. We know more about viruses. We know more about bacteria. The organism that 2 billion people inhale daily, that kills more than half the people it invades, that’s breeding drug resistance on farms, and is now marching into new territory: we barely study it.

[LambdaGeneration @LambdaGen]

Posting this classic Gaben Newell clip this week for no apparent reason

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Jeffery Epstein’s butler was caught in an FBI sting in 2009 trying to sell the client & victim list.

He told them the entire operation, 17 years ago.

And the FBI did NOTHING.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

I’d say it’s more than a reasonable suggestion

[King Arthur Fan @brandilwells]

All Americans should be this outraged!! 👏🤬👹

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Every accusation is a confession‼️