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Apr 14, 2019
HILO SOBRE ALF.
ALF comenzó a emitirse en TVE en 1988 y a much@s nos enamoró. A día de hoy no somos pocos sus fans. Después de visionar de nuevo las 4 temporadas de la serie (nada más y nada menos que 102 capítulos) os dejo un hilo con algunos datos y curiosidades sobre ALF
Estrelló su nave contra el garaje de la familia Tanner (Willy, Cathy, Lynn y Brian) una noche de septiembre y desde ese día lo llamaron ALF (Alien Life Form) aunque su nombre real era Gordon Samway. Medía algo menos de un metro y era pelirrojo.
Había escapado de su planeta Melmac poco antes de que éste explotase después de que todos sus habitantes encendiesen el secador de pelo al mismo tiempo (aunque más tarde contaría que lo ocurrido en realidad en Melmac fue producto de una catástrofe nuclear)
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May 29, 2025
The acute toxicity of glyphosate is considerably less than that for common substances like vitamin D, caffeine, aspirin, and even table salt.

Glyphosate thread🧵 Image
There's a crowd of people opposed to glyphosate for various health reasons, but they're virtually all poorly supported. The claims are more about potential than real risks.

One of their responses to acute toxicity data is to reply that they're interested in "chronic toxicity". Image
What they mean by chronic toxicity is long-term effects of low-level exposure.

Of which there are seemingly none.

Ironically, all the meaningful evidence used to suggest chronic harms is acute evidence: results of poorly-run experiments with short-term high-dose exposures!
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Oct 5, 2025
Per norma general els edificis no giren. Però una de les grans joies del romànic català, el Monestir de Sant Pere de Rodes, l'església del qual fou consagrada #taldiacomavui del 1022, és un edifici que gira. Per què?... doncs perquè sinó hauria caigut pendent avall. Fil 📜📐 Image
Una línia invisible travessa la mar Mediterrània connectant l'Empordà amb Roma. Aquesta imponent església del Monestir de Sant Pere de Rodes, l'obra més ambiciosa dels primers anys de vida de Catalunya, fou concebuda, dissenyada i projectada seguint la fama de la Roma "aeterna". Image
De fet no era només l'Empordà sinó tota Catalunya que volia veure's reflectida en Roma com si la mar fos un mirall. La tenim just al davant, sobretot Palafrugell, que des del Castell de Cap Roig, passant per Llafranc i fins a Tamariu és a la mateixa latitud que la Roma imperial. Image
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Jun 26
On 29 August 1944, General von Choltitz confessed to another general that the liquidation of the Jews was the worst job he had ever carried out and that he had done it with great consistency down to the very last detail.

Hitler's own commanders admitted their guilt:
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In an astonishing turn of events, the generals at Trent Park divulged their own guilt to each other. In a conversation recorded on 29 August 1944, von Choltitz confessed to von Thoma: ‘The worst job I ever carried out – which, however, I carried out with great consistency – was the liquidation of the Jews. I carried out this order down to the very last detail.’

Von Thoma’s reply laid the blame on Hitler for issuing the orders, as he sniggered: ‘Ha! Ha! Ha! It’s a good thing that you can now produce such unimpeachable proofs.’ Even von Thoma’s laughter was written on the transcript of the conversation by 'secret listeners'..

Two months later, the secret listeners picked up another frank admission from von Choltitz: ‘We are also to blame. We have cooperated and have almost taken the Nazis seriously . . . I’ve persuaded my men to believe in this nonsense ... I feel thoroughly ashamed of myself. May be we are far more to blame than those uneducated cattle [the Nazis].’ Von Choltitz appeared only to express remorse after he knew he could face charges of war crimes and the death penalty.

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General Liebenstein told von Thoma, ‘We once shot forty thousand Poles in a concentration camp.’ Von Thoma replied, ‘Out at Dachau in 1940 were a great part of the Polish intelligentsia, university professors, doctors, lawyers – that’s the pathological part of it, this mania.’ In a separate conversation, von Thoma said the killings were committed on Hitler’s orders.

Neuffer and Bassenge discussed crimes committed by the German army. Bassenge told Neuffer that the Goering Regiment was a wild lot. ‘I know officially,’ Bassenge said, ‘because part of the paratroops were formed from the Goering Regiment.’

‘Did they commit murders?’ asked Neuffer.

‘Yes,’ replied Bassenge. ‘They secretly condemned and murdered people in the barracks and the officers took part.’

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Jun 26
Από Yannis Tavlas (fb)
Δε νομίζω ότι χρειάζεται να διαβάσω κάτι άλλο σήμερα.

"Το καλοκαίρι που τελείωσα την Τρίτη Λυκείου έπιασα δουλειά ως βοηθός υδραυλικού.
Έλεγα τότε πως το έκανα για να αποδείξω στον εαυτό μου ότι δεν ήμουν φλωρούμπας. Ήμουν απουσιολόγος, παραστάτης και 👇
σημαιοφόρος όλα τα χρόνια του σχολείου. Ή μάλλον, αυτό θα ήθελα να πιστεύω σήμερα.
Η αλήθεια είναι ότι λίγους μήνες πριν είχε πεθάνει ο πατέρας μου.
Ηπατίτιδα Β. Κίρρωση. Καρκίνος. Μεταμόσχευση.
Και ύστερα τίποτα.
Κι έτσι, αντί για τις πρώτες μου διακοπές με φίλους, βρέθηκα να 👇
δουλεύω σε οικοδομές, σπίτια και μαγαζιά σε όλο το λεκανοπέδιο Αττικής. Ο πατέρας ενός συμμαθητή μου είχε ένα μεγάλο κατάστημα με υδραυλικά είδη και μεσολάβησε για να βρω δουλειά σε έναν μάστορα.
Σπάω το κεφάλι μου να θυμηθώ το όνομά του, αλλά δεν τα καταφέρνω με τίποτα. 👇
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Jun 26
BREAKING 🧵

A gut bacterium is showing up — or rather disappearing — across all three phases of COVID-19.

Severely ill patients have less of it.
Recovered patients get it back.
Long COVID patients don't.

Its name is Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. And what it does explains a lot. 👇
F. prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacteria in a healthy human gut.

It produces butyrate — a molecule that:

• Fuels your colon lining
• Seals your gut barrier
• Suppresses inflammatory signals
• Regulates your immune system

When it disappears, all of that fails at once.Image
Severe COVID-19

A 2025 meta-analysis pooling data across 10 independent studies confirmed:

F. prausnitzii depletion: logFC = -1.24 (95% CI -1.68 to -0.80)

Translation: It was significantly lower in every severe COVID cohort analyzed.

The more depleted. The sicker the patient.
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Jun 26
ישבתי מול הפסיכולוג כמו כל מזרחי שהבין בגיל 30 שזה לא בסדר שצעקו עליו אם הוא לא צירפת פרנה לפני שזרק אותה לפח שעשוי מדלי צבע עם שקית של מחסנה מזון וסיפרתי לו שכבר שבועיים שאני מקבל הודעה ״מיטל אשורוב משלוח מחברת ליידי מייקאפ הגיע לחנות ומחכה לך בנקודת איסוף, סלקשיין רמלה״
והוא שתק כי פסיכולוגים יודעים או לשתוק או לפהק פנימה ואז הפיהוק יוצא בנודים בסיטרואן c4 שלהם ויש להם שם ריח של הברז שוקו ביטבתה בסוף יום כבר תקופה, והם יודעים גם לשאול ״וכשאתה חושב על זה מה זה עושה לך?״ אז השקט הלחיץ אותי ועניתי לעצמי ״זה גורם לי לחשוב שאולי אני מיטל אשורוב״
והוא פיהק פנימה ואמר ״אתה חושב שאתה מיטל אשורוב?״ ועניתי ״תשמע, כבר תקופה שאני מרגיש שאני לא יודע מי אני יותר. אז זה הגיוני שהפכתי למשהו אחר?״ והוא אמר ״ומי זאת מיטל אשורוב שבך?״ ועניתי ״אני יודע?… קווקזית. לא, בוכרית. אחות בכורה ל-4 אחים גדולים פיזית - פסח, חנוכה, נחמן וישי
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Jun 26
I've tested hundreds of supplements over 30 years to heal myself.

Most are worthless, but these 15 transformed my health.

At 50, my bloodwork is better than when I was 20.

The evidence-based supplement list that actually works: 🧵 Image
1. MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane)

Hands-down my favourite supplement recommendation for ANYONE.

It boosts oxygen in your cells (disease HATES oxygen).

I take 6-9 grams TWICE daily, and my chronic pain vanished.

Even my scar tissue softens noticeably within days. Image
2. Vitamin C

Not just for colds, it's critical for tissue repair & lowering inflammation.

I take several grams of sodium ascorbate daily when fighting infection.

Combined with MSM, it's like giving your muscles an internal bath, washing away years of accumulated toxins.
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Jun 26
📢💣 ¡Descifran el primer Papiro de Herculano completo!
Ojo a esto porque gracias al Vesuvius Challenge, y mediante IA y tomografía avanzada, se ha logrado la lectura completa de un papiro carbonizado por el Vesubio sin desenrollarlo, atribuido al estoico Crisipo de Solos 🧵👇 Image
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Los papiros aparecieron en la vivienda que lleva este nombre, la Villa de los Papiros. Una lujosa edificación que se extendía a lo largo de 250 m en la línea de costa de Herculano. Por hacernos una idea de su magnitud, el jardín con peristilo medía 100 m y la fuente 66 m. Image
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No sabemos quién la construyó, pero sí que uno de sus propietarios fue Lucio Pisón, un importante político y militar romano, suegro de Julio César. La "Historia Augusta" nos habla de un hombre culto, que se rodeaba de filósofos y literatos como Filodemo de Gadara. Busto de Lucio Calpurnio Pisón encontrado en el tablinio de la villa.
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Jun 26
On 31 October 1943, a captured SS officer from Hitler's brutal death squad was bugged at Latimer House by the British.

He calmly described seeing Auschwitz from the train and knowing no one came out alive.

Then he recounted mass executions of 5000 Jews in one day:
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On 31 October 1943, an SS officer was brought to Latimer House after capture in Italy. He was no ordinary SS officer, but from one of Hitler’s infamously brutal and merciless death squads – Einsatz-Kommando 3, Sicherheits-Polizei (Security Police).

Holding a rank equivalent to sergeant major, this SS Hauptscharführer came from one of the highest positions in Hitler’s Secret Police. Special reports generated from the M Room merely give him the codename M320.

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M320: I know the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by hearsay. Actually you can see it from the train. It is a hutted camp for Jews. I heard say that there’s a crematorium there, and that no one who enters the camp comes out alive.

M322: I heard a lot in Vienna about Mauthausen.

M320: I personally haven’t seen any concentration camp, apart from Auschwitz, which I saw from the train. It’s not far from Cracow.

M322: Oh, down there.

M320: Yes. When you go through by train you can see it.

M322: Were mainly Jews sent there?

M320: Yes. I should be interested to know what they have done with all the Jews in the Reich, and then the ones from Austria, since they started to get rid of the Jews. I wonder whether they’ve slaughtered them?

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Jun 26
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Jun 26
Here are 15 potential buy-the-dip companies. They are either trending down this year or in a sharp recent pullback.

They should ALL be on your watchlist.

1. $AAOI - 40% Image
2. $LWLG - 57% Image
3. $IREN -38% Image
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Jun 26
I have today signed the NIMC Act 2026 into law.

For nearly twenty years, Nigeria’s identity system operated under a law written for a different era. That era is over.

This new Act gives our nation a modern, secure and digital identity framework fit for the Nigeria we are building, a Nigeria on the path to becoming a one-trillion-dollar economy.Image
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This law makes NIMC the Root Certification Authority for Nigeria’s National Public Key Infrastructure and Digital Public Infrastructure. With this, NIMC now holds the keys to trust in our digital economy: every digital signature, every secure transaction, and every verified identity.

This is how serious nations build digital economies, and we are building one for Nigeria.Image
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I will not allow the data of Nigerians to be treated carelessly.

This Act aligns our identity system with the Nigerian Data Protection Act. The act expressly says your personal information cannot be accessed without your consent. It cannot be used beyond the purpose for which you gave it, and any access must go through proper legal channels.

This is your right as a Nigerian, and this law protects it.
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