Brett

Aussie born kiwi bred, traveller, tired of the divide. Making sense of the dystopian times we’re living in

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Greenlandic politician Tille Martinosen:

"We don't want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are—they're even trying to invade their friends' territory.

Even if there are minerals and oil beneath our land—worth far more—we won't sell ourselves.

We know what happened to Alaska's Indigenous people and Native Americans. Their lands were taken, and they weren't treated well.

We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white supremacists—and we're not white. We're people of color.

We know our rights will likely be taken away."

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@nomadgeist It’s fucking ridiculous

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@SecScottBessent Lol, I thought you were talking about the US there for a minute.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Hundreds of local residents and Buddhist monks in the coastal Sri Lankan town of Hiriketiya protested against increasing Israeli presence.

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@McFaul Yes they did. Voting in an unhinged megalomaniac is what they voted for and what they got. Empowering him by not reigning him reinforces that every day.

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@JohnCleese Lol. Your aristocracy including your royal family is riddled with Russian blood. Your comment is bullshit

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@realBrandonGill Lol. How is it a negotiation when Trump uses standover tactics ? Carney telling Trump to get fucked upfront, good on him

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@NewsZonex24 Posthumous Darwin Award for this tragic individual

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@JamesLucasIT

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@Timcast Life lesson. A con man will always be a con man. When he’s done with one con he moves on to the next. He’s no Svengali, he’s a cunt

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@GeoffreyLean It doesn’t register with most people because it doesn’t impact them. Those 8 M people are 0.5% of the population of those countries. In the UK for example that’s equivalent to 350,000 people. If a city the size of Cardiff had to be evacuated that’s when it would hit home

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@TamirveTadilat Check the blow count boys

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@AlanRMacLeod There’s so much wrong with that headline it’s hard to know where to start. Reaching back into the wrongs of colonial history-past to justify the wrongs of colonial present is why the world is f#%ked

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@KobieThatcher Fuck you’re a whinger

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@CallumLyon You’re not alone. It’s the entire western world now.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Scotland, first noticed a distinct, subtle "musky" smell on her husband, Les, about 10 to 12 years before he was officially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1994. At the time, she didn't connect the odor to any medical condition, assuming it was just sweat or a change in his body chemistry.

It wasn't until years later, when attending a Parkinson's support group with Les, that Joy realized every person in the room shared that exact same distinct scent, prompting her to believe that Parkinson's disease carried a unique olfactory signature.

Intrigued by her claim, researchers at the University of Edinburgh, led by Dr. Tilo Kunath, decided to test Joy's ability through a double-blind study. Joy was given 12 plain T-shirts, six worn by confirmed Parkinson's patients and six worn by healthy control subjects. Joy correctly identified all six Parkinson's patients, but she also insisted that one of the control group members had the disease.

Although marked as an error initially, the story took an incredible turn eight months later when that specific control subject was officially diagnosed with Parkinson's, revealing Joy had a 100% accuracy rate and had detected the disease long before clinical symptoms appeared.

Joy's extraordinary olfactory sensitivity, a condition known as hyperosmia, led scientists to investigate what compounds she was actually smelling. Researchers discovered that the distinct odor stems from volatile chemical changes in sebum, the oily substance secreted by the skin, which is altered by Parkinson's disease.

Joy’s gift has since paved the way for scientists to develop early diagnostic tools, including skin swabs and mass spectrometry tests, aimed at identifying Parkinson’s years before motor symptoms begin.

Joy Milne’s incredible olfactory ability extends far beyond Parkinson's disease and it comes at a significant personal cost. Joy is an extreme "super-smeller" due to hyperosmia. Researchers have traveled with her internationally to test her ability to detect other conditions; she has helped scientists conduct preliminary odor research on tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania, as well as cancer and Alzheimer's disease in the U.S.

While her nose is a gift to medical science, Joy has often described her heightened sense of smell as an everyday burden. Everyday environments can be overwhelmingly painful for her. She has to strategically plan her routine, often doing grocery shopping very early in the morning or late at night to avoid the heavy perfumes worn by shoppers, and actively avoiding the household chemical and detergent aisles in supermarkets entirely because the artificial fragrances are so agonizingly intense.

#archaeohistories

[𝓐𝓴𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓲 @_Apari1]

He visited Philippine, only to get triggered seeing gay men.

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@_Apari1 Wtf. Those boys should’ve put that big mouth yank in his place right from the start

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

This is a masterpiece. The way she changes octaves so effortlessly, the clarity of her tone, on pitch strong, just beautiful. The best Elton cover.

[Brett @BrettPVN]

@Globalstats11 Surely Ukraine has to be the Teacher’s pet