d5wstat @d5wstat@qoto.org

Nature is full of surprises. Meet Costasiella kuroshimae, an adorable species of sea slug known as “leaf sheep.”

At no more than 8mm, these tiny ocean critters graze on algae & keep chloroplasts in their bodies for up to 10 days. They supplement their diet through photosynthesis to create energy, which is why they’re sometimes referred to as “solar-powered sea slugs.” https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210324-the-odd-sea-creature-powered-by-the-sun #nature #science

I don't think I have one ounce of the strength that Celine has. Writing this through her grief must have been unimaginably painful.

#COVID #vaccine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/opinion/grant-wahl-celine-gounder-vaccine.html

Jair #Bolsonaro is the Donald #Trump of Brazil. The authoritarian right is doing to Brazil what it did to the US on #Jan6: attacking the peaceful transfer of power upon which democracy depends.

We stand with the people of #Brazil fighting for democracy.

A colleague of Katalin Kariko - who made mRNA vaccines viable - flew to Berkeley roughly 15 years ago to meet with Robert Malone, who takes credit for making the vaccines possible. The colleague wanted to ask Malone what he learned about mRNA in his research. After three days, the colleague realized he was wasting his time. Malone really knew very little. Today Malone is an unrelenting antivaxxer. I recounted this story in my book Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.

#COVID Poll
Please boost to get a bigger response.

Surprise! IRS didn't start auditing Trump's presidential-era taxes until day House Democrats asked for records in 2019.
#TrumpTaxes #TrumpTaxReturns

https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1019520/irs-didnt-launch-audit-of-trumps-presidential-era-taxes-until-day-house?amp

The IRS didn't audit Trump his first two years in office despite a mandatory presidential audit program - the first audit as president started in 2019 and isn't complete yet

The IRS subjected Obama to annual audits and Biden has already been audited twice

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/us/politics/trump-irs-taxes.html

#Trump #trumptaxreturns #TrumpTaxes #Trumptaxaudit

I paid more in taxes last year than this PoS paid in three. (And that was with taking every legal deduction I possibly could). #trumptaxes #trumptaxreturns #trumpstaxes #fraud #taxtherich #taxreturns

Thousands of pages
Untold stories in Trump's taxes
Revealed at last

#trumptaxreturns #taxevasion #revealed #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/us/politics/trump-tax-returns-takeaways.html

My husband took this a couple of hours ago. The moon as it rose beside the #SpinnakerTower in Portsmouth.

It was pretty cold down on Fishbourne Beach on the #IsleofWight where we were standing with the camera and #telephotolens ready.

The moon is only in the right position to photograph this a couple of times a year and it needs to be a virtually cloud free sky, so we had to brave the freezing temperatures! #photography

I'm old enough to remember that respecting and defending the Constitution was the most basic expectation of every citizen, let alone someone running for president. Even after everything we've been through, the idea that Republicans will stick with a man who flagrantly demands the Constitution be discarded to install him into office: Infuriating.

#paidsickleave is #publichealth issue. 1/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave-psr-precision-scheduled-railroading.html?fbclid=IwAR3NCfyjIC4Bdxud4UpkuuSdj09ZhX7NP2VswCRf7CadvZRxBsneA-taaPQ

Hospitals are implementing crisis standards of care for pediatric patients and there’s barely a blip in the headlines. To borrow a term from Chambliss, this is the routinization of disaster. It cannot be our new normal.

#CSC #CrisisStandardsOfCare #MedMastodon #MedTwitter

As I attempt to go back off grid for the first time in decades, this time with a family in tow, I'm struck by just how much the solar, and by extension renewable energy, industry has changed.

What once was geared towards people living an alternative lifestyle is now centered around making yuppies in the suburbs believe that they're saving the world if they grid-tie some solar panels on their roof and charge their Tesla at home. It's populated by "business managers" who are only interested is seeing how many shoddily done jobs they can slap up in a short amount of time who mask that fact by pretending to care about the environment to their customers.

I have yet to have a positive interaction with anyone in the industry about actual self-sustainability. They just don't care. It's all so....corporate and phony now.

This is a real disappointment in my current life. Can't even drop out of society effectively anymore.