Aquatic salamanders called axolotls are known for their unusual ability to regrow limbs lost to injury or amputation. Now, researchers have uncovered more about the complex process behind this superpower in a new study published Tuesday in Nature Communications. byteseu.com/1104842/ #EverythingScience #Science
It turns out a substance called retinoic acid that’s commonly found in retinol acne treatments is responsible for signaling what body parts an axolotl’s
“Latinos for Trump" leader Hector Luis Valdes Cocho, a Cuban activist who rallied others to vote for Trump, was picked up by ICE and is in a detention center waiting to be deported.
We had a bunch of protests attended by a few hundred to a thousand people each in Montgomery County, Maryland, along what basically constitutes the main drag here. Lots of folks of all ages. We got mostly positive honks and support from the people driving by, except one dudebro in a Jeep who called us a slur and flipped us the bird.
Deep in Maga country, strong turnout. Good signage and very diverse crowd (for us). Hot out, but people looked happy to speak out.
Counter-protestors appeared to be five geriatric Proud Boys waving PB flags like they were advertising merch. Strange twin desire to swear at them and check if they needed help getting to a bench where they could rest.
In “The Red Devil” a play written by Antoine Rault there is a conversation between Colbert (Minister of Finance under Louis XIV) and Mazarin. The contents of this exchange have gone into the annals of history > Colbert: “When trying to find money, there is always a moment when messing about is no longer enough. Please, Lord High Treasurer, tell me how one can manage to spend more when already up to one’s neck in debt…” -Mazarin: “When you are a simple mortal, of course, and swamped in debt, you are sent to prison but the State… well the State is a different kettle of fish. The State cannot be thrown in prison. And so the debt increases! Every State does that.” Colbert: “Oh really? Is that what you think? However, we need money and how can you find any when you’ve already devised every imaginable tax?” -Mazarin: “We create others”. Colbert: “We can’t tax the poor more than we do already.” -Mazarin: “Yes, that’s true.” Colbert: «So, what about the rich?... show more
In “The Red Devil” a play written by Antoine Rault there is a conversation between Colbert (Minister of Finance under Louis XIV) and Mazarin. The contents of this exchange have gone into the annals of history > Colbert: “When trying to find money, there is always a moment when messing about is no longer enough. Please, Lord High Treasurer, tell me how one can manage to spend more when already up to one’s neck in debt…” -Mazarin: “When you are a simple mortal, of course, and swamped in debt, you are sent to prison but the State… well the State is a different kettle of fish. The State cannot be thrown in prison. And so the debt increases! Every State does that.” Colbert: “Oh really? Is that what you think? However, we need money and how can you find any when you’ve already devised every imaginable tax?” -Mazarin: “We create others”. Colbert: “We can’t tax the poor more than we do already.” -Mazarin: “Yes, that’s true.” Colbert: «So, what about the rich?» -Mazarin: «We can’t tax the rich either. They would stop spending. A rich person who spends feeds hundreds of poor people». Colbert: “So, what should we do?” -Mazarin: “Colbert, your reasoning is completely illogical! Lots of people are neither one thing nor the other, neither poor, nor rich… French people work in the hope of becoming rich but dreading being poor! Those are the people we should be taxing, more and more! They are the ones! The more you take from them, the more they work to make up for it… That well never runs dry.”
"Two people familiar with the matter identified the suspect being sought as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. The people could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity." 1/...
1. He didn’t work for Walz. Deliberate disinformation. 2. It’s not at all surprising that right wing cultists would try and spread misinformation and disinformation about this horrific assassination. 3. Report those who do.
Another garden variety contemporary Nazi freak infected with gun lust.
Terrorism, it would be called, if our disgraceful click-&-money-grubbing MSM were not allergic to tagging white people (their 'valued' consumers) with that moniker.
Boelter worked part-time for a bipartisan govt task force on work in MN. Its members are appointed by the governor. He was first appointed in 2016, by Walz's predecessor, and reappointed in 2019 by Walz. That's not "working for Walz" in the normal sense.
The suspect in the murder of multiple Minnesota Democrats, Vance Boelter, is a Christian minister and the director of a private security company that brags about using "Police Type Vehicles."
😢 Boelter shot the Hortman's dog too, according to Ken Martin Minnesotan DNC Chair:
“Unspeakable. Just learned from Rep. Erin Koegel that Speaker Hortman’s kids had to put down Melissa’s beloved dog, Gilbert — after Vance Boelter shot the dog while assassinating Melissa and Mark. The cruelty knows no bounds. My heart aches,” he wrote.
The only thing happening at the federal building in downtown L.A. right now is National Guard standing around and a Quaker meeting. The protest is happening down the street.
As Gavin Newsom keeps pointing out, some of these Guardsmen are full-time fire prevention/response and others are supposed to be fighting fentanyl trafficking. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usms…
The only thing happening at the federal building in downtown L.A. right now is National Guard standing around and a Quaker meeting. The protest is happening down the street.
So, there’s an enormous, old elm tree in the corner of our block of the street. This Mother-Elm sends thousands of seeds airborne every spring. They sprouts everywhere. Several years ago, I mistook them as cherry, growing under the cherry tree, and let some grow in the pots. But soon realized they’re elm babies.
That’s how I’m ended up with four elm saplings in pots. They’re fast growing. So I’ve been keeping an eye on the roots. One of them at the end of my flowerbed had sneakily sent her roots into the ground between slate tiles, which I cut from the potted sapling last year.
Yesterday, I almost pulled my back—well, I did, it hurts, but stayed calm to stay functional—trying to pull the stubborn roots out of the ground. And it took me a huge effort to handsaw off the root 3cm in diameter at the bottom of the pot.
The sparrows love them. I do, too, even though it’s a literal pain to keep them as “bonsai.” 🪴✨👀😅
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So, there’s an enormous, old elm tree in the corner of our block of the street. This Mother-Elm sends thousands of seeds airborne every spring. They sprouts everywhere. Several years ago, I mistook them as cherry, growing under the cherry tree, and let some grow in the pots. But soon realized they’re elm babies.
That’s how I’m ended up with four elm saplings in pots. They’re fast growing. So I’ve been keeping an eye on the roots. One of them at the end of my flowerbed had sneakily sent her roots into the ground between slate tiles, which I cut from the potted sapling last year.
Yesterday, I almost pulled my back—well, I did, it hurts, but stayed calm to stay functional—trying to pull the stubborn roots out of the ground. And it took me a huge effort to handsaw off the root 3cm in diameter at the bottom of the pot.
The sparrows love them. I do, too, even though it’s a literal pain to keep them as “bonsai.” 🪴✨👀😅
Here’s a wide shot. The elm sapling in the pot is on the left—I think its height gives a nice balance to the flowerbed. Some perennials/etc are in pots either because they’re invasive or I haven’t decided where to place them (since we widened the bed a few years ago, and reduced the grass space).
Leonardo da Vinci imagined flying machines, robots, and war tanks centuries ahead of his time. His visionary inventions still inspire today’s engineers and futurists. byteseu.com/1104837/ #FutureStudies #FuturesStudies #Futurology
i looked at vinted for distraction and for some reason it's shown me a small highland cow plushie and i don't think i'm strong enough to resist right now.
@RolloTreadway i have been considering it heavily for several hours now, i must say. and it's listed as COW, which is just making me consider it even more.
@RolloTreadway oh i had not seen (i haven't been on at all these past few days so have much catching up to try to do), i'm sorry. i hope nothing is too damaged?
otherwise not too bad sounds not too bad at all though. i'm glad.
i'm better than the past few days. which were quite atrocious, so i'm also glad that today isn't quite so awful. i can't really walk, but nevermind!
@mycrowgirl ooh that sounds interesting! i always loved US but never much liked UK, mainly just because it mostly tasted so rotten. and dry! but not as bad as perry 😝 friendmade though, hooray!
and thank you! that helps me lean more towards a purchase ...
@primrose (Replying for Primrose) We're doing pretty well! Yesterday, we found out that our maximum stamina points went up by 1. It's really exciting that our ME/CFS seems to be improving!
Our system member @indigo also went to a trans support group, which was nice, and watched the tail end of a Long Covid art presentation. Then they looked into financial help for renewing our driver's license. Looks like we'll get help!
I am very excited by a new Fediverse development! My website, www.odinhalvorson.com, is now an OFFICIAL part of the Fediverse thanks to Ghost! I hope to start transferring my social efforts there in the weeks ahead.
Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run
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A full day of "No Kings" protests are scheduled across Utah on Saturday as part of a coordinated effort of nationwide demonstrations against the Trump administration.
Protesting at Texas Capital and I hope to not be rounded up and shot at. They still like to shoot first and ask ques... They just shoot. #nokings #NoKingsMovement #iceprotests #8647now
I just walked past a supermarket at this protest and tried to buyout all the fresh and frozen tacos to hand out to protesters and one person already had (and I was the fourth or fifth to try).
Als Teenager in den 90ern habe ich meine Oma zum ersten Mal gefragt, wie das denn war, damals, Nazizeit. Ich hatte irgendwie Angst zu fragen, aber sie hat einfach angefangen zu erzählen, in einem Ernst, den ich bis dahin nicht von ihr kannte. Sie hat mir nicht alles erzählt, aber schon in diesem ersten Gespräch fielen diese Sätze: "Wir haben das irgendwann alle gewusst. Keiner kann erzählen, dass er nichts gewusst hat." Und, vor allem: "Das darf nie wieder passieren."
LOTS of “No Kings but YAAAAS Queen” posters, and a very multigenerational and multiracial crowd. Getting a real “in this for the grueling long haul” feeling from the older folks.
No riots, of course, because police aren’t instigating them. #NoKings
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Counter-protestors appeared to be five geriatric Proud Boys waving PB flags like they were advertising merch. Strange twin desire to swear at them and check if they needed help getting to a bench where they could rest.
Report of one counter-protestor being arrested.
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#NoKings #Fargo #NorthDakota #nokingsday #FargoMoorhead #protests #FargoND
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