Ted Janiszewski

[Maria @mlstrat]

i have some terrible news about my eunuchs

[Magister Johannes Josephus @nassaujuan]

My favorite chess move is convincing one of the bishops from the other side to team up with my bishops so the 3 of them can consecrate more bishops

[PresbyPilgrim 🪧🦭 @PresbyPilgrim]

Pope Leo receives Origen’s resurrected body

[Eric Columbus @EricColumbus]

GEFILTE PHISHING

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

It's a shame that AskJeeves isn't involved in the AI apocalypse b/c there would be so many great jokes about the Butlerian Jihad

[RomeoStevens @RomeoStevens76]

Man finds out he has been spinning prayer wheel in wrong direction for decades, accruing 27,000 lifetimes of karmic debt.

[agentP @dedphool]

i identify as a joke now. my pronouns are hee/hee.

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

God created liturgy to keep theater kids out of trouble

[Hengist @hengistloves]

Why doesn't your language have a word for this? Are you stupid?

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

View of Salzburg from a Romanesque Loggia - Georg Pezolt, 1850

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

11. x ---> ices

index ---> indices
appendix ---> appendices

[Caitlin Cooper @C2_Cooper]

Best plural forms ranked:

1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac)
2) ending in -i (magi)
3) is to es (oases)
4) suppletive (people)
5) vowel changes (geese)
6) f to ves (thieves)
7) adding en (oxen)
8) no change (moose)
9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies)
10) adding s

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.

Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.

They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.

At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.

In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.

A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.

Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.

https://t.co/zy6gM4x5tl

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

the existence of both moth and mother implies that there is a yet to be discovered mothest

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

She’s so beautiful to me

[Konstantinos Dimopoulos @gnomeslair]

'Minas Tirith: An Architectural Masterpiece or a Civil Engineering Nightmare?' by Nazli Aydin https://t.co/6MJ6aNnurC

[Ted Janiszewski @tedjaniszewski]

real talk

[Dad @ClaymoreClown]

@BluebriarArts Problem is you two have a family of 11 and she’s still your girlfriend. She wants to be your dragon wife

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Academics are always harking back to an imaginary halcyon era for the academy. The university was a much better place before they started doing this

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Arrogant of Nolan to direct an epic without first having directed a pastoral and a georgic. It's like he's never heard of the rota virgilii