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he/him | my takes on covid&science&politics —Tweets in GER/ENG #1633

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

i.e. “during covid,” “during the pandemic”

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Three laboratories in Democratic Republic of Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, the World Health Organization said, as the outbreak of the dangerous Bundibugyo species of the virus continues to grow. https://t.co/odNNTOVe4w

[Janosch Dahmen @janoschdahmen]

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Kaum ein Tag, an dem Springer zuletzt nicht an Kanzler Merz sägt, Wüst wie Günther als mutmaßliche Königsmörder des Konservativen isoliert & Spahn weiter gepusht wird.

Journalismus ist das nicht – Bambi für Ronzheimer hin, Freiheits-Gerede von Döpfner her. Worum geht’s dann?

[project hail rusty 🍉 @alittlevillainy]

every single day just feels like this image now

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

While people are making fun of him, this guy is a victim of the subsidized AI subscription con, where AI companies allow users to burn way, way more in tokens than their subscription costs. AI companies tricked their customers across the board.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The official count just reached 1,000 human H5N1 cases worldwide.

Nearly half died.

The more concerning detail:

Recent cases in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India were identified days to weeks after patients entered care.

[Verstappen News @verstappenews]

P2 FOR MAX VERSTAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT MONACO!! JUST +0.043 BEHIND ANTONELLI

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Dr. Markus Fraczek @MarekSJF]

I do not know of many other illnesses in which patients spend significant time and energy identifying, implementing, and adapting therapeutic interventions, often without the guidance of a medical practitioner. Patients are absolutely desperate to "move forward".

[Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala @CarloMasala1]

Bei allem Respekt, das ist echt neben der Spur. Weil man eine Wahl verloren hat, will man nun Zahlungen an die Organisation reduzieren. Dann hat man die Funktion und das Risiko von Wahlen nicht verstanden. Ziemlich plumper Populismus.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

German politicians are outraged that they cannot buy popularity by financially supporting international institutions while actually undermining them (Netanyahu invite & Albanese sanctions)

[ME/CFS News @MECFSNews]

The painful truth about psychosomatic hypotheses is that patients, doctors and the public are willing to suspend rational thinking and believe in miracles when they can't cope with the negative emotions they experience when confronted with unexplained disabling illness. #mecfs

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

The problem isn’t that people can’t understand the evidence.

The problem is that the evidence comes with consequences.

If they’re right, nothing changes.

If we’re right, they have to rethink years of decisions, behaviors, and beliefs.

That’s why denial remains the most popular intervention.

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

Shout out to Katie Porter for engaging in the proud progressive tradition of staying in the race long past when she could actually win, splitting the vote, and handing the election to a centrist Democrat that takes money from oil companies

[𝙎𝘼𝙆𝙄 🗯 @saki_statements]

🇩🇪: Armut nimmt zu.
🇩🇪: Superreichtum nimmt zu.

Deutsche lassen sich gerne verarschen.

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

Just reviewed these #Ebola and #Marburg #PPE guidelines, dated 2026. It's shocking for those of us who advocated for better Ebola PPE in 2014. It uses the 1m rule and states "Paradoxically, wearing excessive PPE can increase a person’s risk of infection." Where is the evidence? 1/4 https://t.co/ZpljXiTsfe

[Ralf Wittenbrink @RWittenbrink]

Biontech schließt Anlagen – und Berlin hat ein Problem

Der Mainzer mRNA-Spezialist Biontech hat das Ende der Impfstoffproduktion in Deutschland sowie die Schließung von vier Werken beschlossen. Dies hat nicht nur für knapp 200 Mitarbeitende Folgen, sondern auch für die …

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

WHO have just issued a new update on the Hantavirus outbreak.

I’m very pleased to see them explicitly stating in this latest update that:

“ANDV transmission may include […] AIRBORNE transmission (via inhalation of infectious respiratory particles)”

https://t.co/Brk9ra7Usa

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas