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[Indy @Xenozide]

Hospital gowns are amazing for my curves

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Nothing beats the feeling of 90s FPS gaming, whether that was with your friends at a private LAN party or in smelly internet cafes against hordes of other nerds.

Unreal Tournament (1999) by Epic Games.

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

It’s both a testament to its greatness and a quiet indictment of modern games that StarCraft, a game closing in on 30 years old, is still considered by many the best RTS of all time.

It’s probably the best example of three entirely unique races producing the most dynamic matches: one of the highest skill-ceiling games ever made, and one that is still played at a highly competitive level after all these years.

Most RTS games of the era used factions that were cosmetic reskins with a few unique units or spells. StarCraft did not. Terran, Zerg, and Protoss have distinct economies, production methods, unit philosophies, and even base-building rules.

And of course there was BattleNet, which made finding games easy at a time when most online play was still a hassle. That infrastructure, plus the depth of the multiplayer, turned StarCraft into an icon. You have to look long and hard to find another game that comes even close.

And that's why it still feels like the gold standard rather than a relic.

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

“Aww is the mass surveillance company worried about being surveilled?”

[Matador Records @matadorrecords]

“Evil” by @interpol - from their sophomore album ‘Antics,’ released this week in 2004.

https://t.co/qvqG8KA7V9

Video directed by Charlie White.

#matadorrevisionisthistory #antics #interpol

[SHEETZ @sheetz]

New special on the menu: knuckle sandwiches are BOGO today

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

Today, the Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed two more measles-associated deaths after local coroners reported these individuals died from complications associated with measles. That's four total measles-associated deaths in our Commonwealth and the first Pennsylvania has seen in 35 years. These are tragedies, and four families are grieving.

Pennsylvania is experiencing the worst measles outbreak in the country. To date, we have 693 recorded cases of measles in 38 of our 67 counties. This disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 — yet decades later, we are seeing it surge due to lower vaccination rates.

This serious situation continues to be made worse by RFK Jr. playing games with public health and safety. It's long past time for @SecKennedy to stop stoking vaccine skepticism and misinformation and compromising the serious mission of the nation’s public health agencies. It is also deeply concerning to learn that the Secretary personally intervened in an otherwise administrative process to direct the CDC to not report these Pennsylvania deaths, presumably because it doesn’t fit his phony narrative.

Measles is preventable. I continue to urge all Pennsylvanians to speak with your trusted health care provider and get the best possible information to protect yourself and your family against this deadly disease.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

The visuals of “Akira” remain unmatched.

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

To me, Blizzard is the undisputed king when it comes to the best game intros. The amount of effort and sheer awesomness that went into StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm still blows me way and gives me nerd chills, even 13 years after its release.

The camera angles, the pacing, the landed Viking being swatted away by the Ultra, the Nydus popping up behind the line of marines and tanks... and then seeing that massive Battlecruiser crashing into the city in the background. Simply everything about it is glorious perfection.

If they ever decide to make a movie in that exact style with all the StarCraft lore, boy would I pay good money to see that. One can dream...

[Glen O'Humeral @HumeralO]

Patient directed discharge implies the existence of an impatient directed discharge

[Steak-umm @steak_umm]

reminder that echo chambers don't feel like echo chambers from the inside. they feel like finally finding people who get it

[Glen O'Humeral @HumeralO]

It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, but it takes an even bigger man to admit a soft call.

— Hospitalists, probably

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

This is exactly how .@FoxNews propaganda works. Not by lying outright, but by choosing exactly which true facts to show you, and which ones to bury.

Yes, Massachusetts removed its 24-week limit. What Fox doesn't tell you: this covers rare, devastating cases, fatal fetal anomalies, maternal health emergencies, so families don't have to fly out of state during the worst moment of their lives.

Also missing: "very few" abortions happen after 24 weeks at all. Fox lets you imagine healthy, full-term babies being aborted on a whim. That's not what this law does. That's the manipulation.

This is the same network that agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying to us about stolen election. They do so much harm to our nation.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

In the US the total routine injections by age 2, is 13.

They are:

Hep B, Valexis (DTaP, IPV, Hib), PCV, Valexis dose 2, PCV dose 2, Vaxelis dose 3, PCV dose 3, PCV booster, MMR(V), Hib booster, Hepatitis A #1, DTaP booster, Hepatitis A #2

In Denmark, by age 2 it is 11 doses because they combine their hepatitis boosters with the MMRV doses.

Even with voluntary inoculations, no child in the US has 72 injections.

The average American who is not diabetic, will take 53~ years to reach 72 injections, assuming they get an annual flu shot.

There also is no blanket “European Standard” of inoculation, it varies by country with Denmark being the lowest because they have approved combination doses.

A child in Denmark still gets all the same vaccines that a US child did before Trump’s proposed changes.

They just think you’re too stupid to look.

[Indy @Xenozide]

@IndiUnderwood Twitter changes it automatically

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

Ten Commandments For Infectious Diseases, via @ASPphysician.