DamonCrowley@mindly.social

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EUROPE NOW HAS A NIGHT BUS WITH LIE-FLAT BEDS, AND PARIS IS NEXT ON THE ROUTE MAP 🚌 ⠀ A Swiss startup called Twiliner launched in December with 2 overnight routes across Europe, and its buses look nothing like what you've seen before. ⠀ Every seat reclines fully into a flat bed at the push of a button, modeled on business-class airplane seating. ⠀ Each bus carries only 21 passengers, with free Wi-Fi, a snack bar, a changing room, and 2 drivers rotating through the night. ⠀ Tickets from Zuric...

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In 1986 Star Trek invented transparent aluminum as a plot device. In 2025, a Filipino-Japanese research team figured out how to make it from aluminum, oxygen and nitrogen — for the price of a mild acid solution and 10 minutes of electricity 👇 Aluminium oxynitride — marketed as ALON — is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen that is four times as hard as fused silica glass. (Wikipedia) ALON brings together exceptional hardness, optical clarity, and extreme toughness —...

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Your tattoo is not just sitting under your skin. From the moment the needle deposits ink into your dermis, your immune system treats it as an intruder. It responds by sending in macrophages—specialized immune cells whose job is to find, engulf, and remove anything that does not belong. They swallow the ink. But there is a problem. Tattoo pigment is too stable and too large for the macrophages to break down. Instead of destroying it, the cells simply hold onto the particles. For years. Whe...

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I don't know that this is 250 people.

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“You watched The Hunger Games and sided with the resistance. You watched Star Wars and sided with the resistance. You watched The Matrix and sided with the resistance. You watched Divergent and sided with the resistance. You watched V for Vendetta and sided with the resistance. When it’s fiction, you understand tyranny, oppression, and rebellion. But when it’s happening in real life, you suddenly can’t recognize it.”

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Today is the last day that some people will still have all ten fingers.

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Dr. Toru Miyazaki, an immunologist at the University of Tokyo, has developed an injectable treatment targeting chronic kidney disease — the leading cause of death in cats, affecting nearly 30% by age 10. The therapy delivers an activated form of a protein called AIM directly to the kidneys, restoring their natural waste-clearing function that cats are genetically unable to activate on their own. Even cats with advanced kidney disease showed remarkable recovery after receiving injections — and no...

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He&#39;s a fucking moron!

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