#OtD 28 Dec 1907 10k households in New York City went on rent strike against price hikes. Sparked by 16-year-old textile worker, Pauline Newman, who enlisted other young working women and girls. By early January around 2000 households won reduced rents stories.workingclasshistory.co

If you are an adult, do you feel (in your heart of hearts) that you are a functional adult (whatever your own personal interpretation of that is)

This is a far too common occurrence in the U.S. And it’s going to get much much worse in just a few days, when the subsidies for Obamacare end. This will cause premiums to spike for millions of Americans. Some people will see their rates triple.

And people wonder why Luigi is so popular?

For those who could be bothered to read my 'novella' on my trials and tribulations with Type 2 Diabetes, this is the guy who discovered the connection between T2 Diabetes and fat deposits in the pancreas and liver. His work is truly ground breaking and opens up a whole new avenue of treatment for this more and more frequently seen metabolic disorder.

from.ncl.ac.uk/discovering-cau

Merry Christmas and friendly reminder that Jesus was a brown, woke, anti-capitalist refugee from the Middle East who had two dads, became a rabbi, wore flowing dresses, ran around with sex workers, preached radical inclusion, railed against income inequality, and was brutally killed by the police.

Most americans have no clue what it is like to live in a democratic socialist society. This sums it up better that I have seen it summed up before!

What's in a name? (Shakespeare, Juliet)

1. The Kennedy Center
2. The Gulf of Mexico
3. The US Institute of Peace
4. The Department of Defense

#USPol
#Fascism

This incredible photograph from 1885 AD, of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria, who each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

© Historical Photos

#archaeohistories

I’m type 2 diabetic and recently my blood sugar levels have gone completely dolally! I’ve been seeing levels up to and beyond 300 ( )

That being the case, I decided that I absolutely had to do something. I decided to try not eating or drinking anything other than unsweetened black coffee, green tea; no milk or sugar, until my blood sugars dropped to around 100. Initially, this took most of the day and I got into the habit of not eating anything until about four or five in the afternoon. After a few days of this I noticed that my blood sugars were very seldom climbing much over 100 and I decided therefore that it would be a sensable thing to keep trying this to see if I could improve my body’s sugar management in the long term. I have only been doing this for about a week and already, I have seen extraordinary improvements in my bodies ability to manage carbohydrate intake! What I really didn’t expect was that it would happen this fast. I wear constant blood glucose level monitoring devices so I know from minute to minute exactly what my blood sugars are doing. I have noticed that if I eat something a bit sugary now, my blood sugar starts to rise after a few minutes but then drops back again extremely rapidly so the daily graph of my blood sugar looks a bit like a saw blade up down up down, up down, up down, but only by the tiniest amount. This I suspect is what people’s bodies who don’t have diabetes blood sugar management looks like; a spike on sugar intake followed by a rapid damping down of the blood sugar level as the pancreas excretes insulin. I’m sure my endocrinologist would be horrified if I told her what I was doing however having said that, it does seem to be working and the very high blood sugar levels like I was experiencing a few days back are definitely dangerous for one’s general health but are a thing of the past since I adopted this diet.

Allegedly, the type of fat that is deposited in both the pancreas and liver is the absolute first to get burnt up if one reduces one’s calorie intake drastically. I am assuming therefore that that is precisely what’s happening when I do my daily fast until 1700 hours I guess the question is do I find it hard and the answer is: no, I don’t actually. I think the best way to put it would be it feels a little bit uncomfortable and that really surprises me because I would have thought not eating for the whole day until later afternoon would have caused the most appalling hunger pangs but that seems not to be the case. In fact what has happened is that my appetite seems to have almost disappeared when the time comes to eat I’m really not that hungry at all and I have no desire for a huge or for even a normal size meal I almost have to force myself to eat something.

By way of explanation for those unaware of his work, I would cite Prof. Roy Taylor who discovered that many, even most type 2 diabetics owe their illness to nodules of fat deposited both in the pancreas and the liver. These nodules of fat, he hypothesizes, are the primary cause of most type 2 diabetes and when they are reduced or eliminated the body’s mechanism for managing blood sugar levels is restored and effectively type 2 diabetes is cured or at least put into a remission. My guess would be that what I have achieved is a significant reduction in the amount of those fat nodules. What strikes me a truly astonishing is that I have seem the effects so fast!

Has anyone else had this from Facebook?

I'm locked out of my account there and when I try to log in I see this!

Maybe allowing a private company to flood public space with a massive fleet of unmanned vehicles isn't great transportation policy. (Especially when shit happens. And shit *always* happens.)

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Oh joy - my pension arrived today and it seems I got a pay rise of 31€/month. I'm not sure whether this is government generosity or whether it's an inflation triggered increase as all salaries, pensions and benefits are index linked to the rate of inflation here in Luxembourg! However, whichever, it's most welcome!

Apparently the filth that run Meta want a video selfie of me (presumably that they can pass to the border gestapo in the usa) to prove that I'm human. I'm not much inclined to oblige them!

So fück off Facebook!

There is money for ICE.
There is money for ballrooms.
There is money for golden toilets.
There is money for the president of Argentina.
There is money for prosecuting political enemies.
There is money for death camps.
There is money for DOGE.
There is money for new jets for Kristy Noem.
There is money for golf every weekend.
There is money for war with Venezuela.

There is no money for healthcare, housing, or food.

Making us suffer is a policy choice.

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

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