"Back to the Dark Ages follows Christina [who has Long COVID]. One morning she accidentally summons the ghost of Wilhelmina the Philanderer, a woman who died begging her medieval village to take the Black Death seriously." New story by @heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/04/07/t...

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It is apparently just a law of the internet that there will always be some small number of people who read a post that says “I really hate it when people do this thing” and are surprised at being blocked when they immediately respond by doing this thing (“ironically”)

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like, do literally anything that feels helpful or that keeps you sane. jesus

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The difference between pigmentation and structural color and learning how they work has helped us with inventions. Sunscreen, anti-counterfeiting bank notes, aircraft camouflage, thermal management, paints, pigment free coatings, solar panels, 3-D printing materials, nano tech, screen display…

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Every time I talk about blue pigmentation and structural color in animals there’s one person that argues that the differences don’t matter because if it looks blue then it’s just blue. But learning the differences is part of what makes science so cool! It turns out those differences do matter.

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