Challenge photo jour 73 avec @HappyBurgerIII

#photography

We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why - DiEM25 Communications

Melanie Schweizer of the Global Sumud Flotilla details the aims – and anxieties – of the largest humanitarian convoy to Gaza since the blockade began

diem25.org/we-are-sailing-to-g…

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine @palestine@a.gup.pe@ @palestine@lemmy.ml@ @palestina@varia.zone@ @israel@a.gup.pe@ @israele@a.gup.pe@

I feel relieved that I got HRT finally.

All that work got what I was looking for

I accomplished something today so now I get to chill for the rest of Holiday Weekend

It's just how it works

The Buckets by Greg Cravens

The Buckets - 2025-08-30 gocomics.com/thebuckets/2025/0…

#comicstrips #thebuckets

Hi all,

The company that hosts my print-on-demand store (Fine Art America) has a Labor Day Sale with 20% off of all products, now through Monday, September 1st. It doesn’t just apply to my stuff of course, but if you always, eagerly 😀 wanted one of my photos as a print, this might be a nice opportunity.

Please visit fineartamerica.com/profiles/al… if you’d like to take a look. Thanks!

#SelfPromo #SelfPromoSaturday #SelfPromotion #Photography #SanDiego #LaborDay #BuyIntoArt

Hmmm.... if you don't believe 'soft power' to be a thing, say off you're a President whose entire modus operandi is transactional, then why would you keep funding the Voice of America.....

Its a strange (ad more extreme echo) of the British state's inability to foster the BBC World Service (in its various guises).

Now that Joseph Nye has died perhaps his ideas are falling him to the grave?

#SoftPower #politics

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd38v…

Trump administration moves to fire most Voice of America staff

Termination notices have been issued to more than 500 employees of VOA and its parent agency.

^{Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu (BBC News)}

What an idiot

"Tulsi Gabbard blindsided CIA leaders last wk when she disclosed name of undercover CIA officer on list of people she stripped of security clearances

..alarmed workforce..simmering tensions and crossed signals between Gabbard & CIA Dir John Ratcliffe" nbcnews.com/politics/national-…

Tensions rise between Tulsi Gabbard and CIA chief after her disclosure of undercover officer's name, insiders say

Tulsi Gabbard blindsided the CIA leader last week when she disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer. Gabbard is under pressure to regain President Trump’s trust, insiders said.

^{Dan De Luce (NBC News)}

We need to stop the US corn subsidies. Everything comes back to corn!

Why is German butter yellow?
→ Why isn't US butter yellow?
→ Beta carotene in cow diets turn their milk fat yellow
→ And German cows eat primarily grass, while US cow diets are mostly grain and corn

@SwiftOnSecurity was right, everything is made of corn

Sunset.

#sunset #summer #photography

Europeo, Serbia già agli ottavi. Spagna, prima vittoria. Alla Slovenia non basta Doncic
https://www.gazzetta.it/Basket/europei/30-08-2025/eurobasket-la-serbia-si-qualifica-si-sblocca-la-spagna-la-francia-batte-la-slovenia.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Basket @basket-Gazzetta

Europeo, Serbia già agli ottavi. Spagna, prima vittoria. Alla Slovenia non basta Doncic

Un super Jokic guida i suoi al prossimo turno. Passano anche Germania, Turchia e Finlandia. La Francia è troppo per la Slovenia

^{Matteo Briolini e Gianmarco Calvaresi (La Gazzetta dello Sport)}

Lucca, operaio aggredito e rapinato mentre va al lavoro: due arresti
La vittima, un 27enne marocchino, ferita al fianco sinistro, aveva dovuto cedere ai malviventi il suo monopattino. I responsabili, irregolari, fermati dalla polizia pochi minuti dopo l’episodio. Il mezzo è stato restituito al proprietario

lanazione.it/lucca/cronaca/luc…

Lucca, operaio aggredito e rapinato mentre va al lavoro: due arresti

^{Redazione Cronaca (La Nazione)}

Cuesta: “Cutrone ieri ci ha detto che avrebbe segnato: come vedo lui e Oristanio e su Bernabè…”
https://www.sosfanta.com/news/cuesta-cutrone-ieri-ci-ha-detto-che-avrebbe-segnato-come-vedo-lui-e-oristanio-e-su-bernabe/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta

Cuesta: “Cutrone ieri ci ha detto che avrebbe segnato: come vedo lui e Oristanio e su Bernabè…”

Carlos Cuesta, tecnico del Parma, ha parlato ai microfoni di DAZN e in conferenza dopo il pari contro l’Atalanta. LA GARA – “Per noi è importante la connessione tra squadra e tifosi, sono molto importanti. Sicuramente è stata...

^{Marco Astori (SOS Fanta)}

おはようございます。

#マストドン写真部
#どうでもいい写真部
#photography
#photo
#landscape
#snapshot
#fedibird

“You wanna straighten out the budget? Start taxing corporations and the wealthy like we’ve been telling you. Do you think we’re idiots? Do you think we don’t pay taxes? ... You know nothing about what a working-class citizen does."

trib.al/PiiIh7x

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Republican Town Hall Erupts: “Take Your Head Out of Trump’s Ass!”

GOP Representative Mark Alford got a rude awakening from his constituents.

^{The New Republic}

おはようございます。労働終了。

#マストドン写真部
#どうでもいい写真部
#photography
#photo
#landscape
#snapshot
#fedibird

I upgraded to a Pixel 10 Pro because the promos made it super cheap for me—and honestly, Pixelsnap (Qi2/MagSafe) without a case is the only “new feature” I care about.

I disable all the AI features I can on my Google Account, so none of that new stuff interests me, but there *are* a handful of new things I’ve noticed but seen literally nobody mention in “reviews” or sales pages. I’ll compile them here in this thread for anyone interested.

#MadeByGoogle #TeamPixel #Pixel10 #Pixel10Pro #Android

Yep, this is what I have been saying. The way to defeat the flag-shaggers is not to spend hours ripping down the flags or getting court injunctions.

Reclaim the symbolism, strip it of its power to cause hate and racism.

BBC news article: a mosque / Muslim community centre in Wirral found a Union Jack tied to their railings. So they removed it .. and hung it up again in their window with a sign saying they're proud to be British Muslims.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7yqe…

Amy MacDonald - Dancing In The Dark (Orchestral Version)

#choons1

youtube.com/watch?v=xQGmyOgnXs…

Nan di diou !!!
Faisez gaffe les copaines, c'est devenu achement dangereux masto, j'vous l'dis moi !!!!

@dada pulvérise des chronos ...

@nicosomb court comme un dératé ...

Je fais les courses en vélo ...

Sérieux c'quoi c't'univers de malades !!!
😜

"We're gonna have to do more than talk. We're gonna have to do more than listen. We're gonna have to do more than learn. We're gonna have to start practicing, and that’s very hard."

Happy Birthday, Fred Hampton Sr. Your life was stolen all too soon.

#history

DATE: August 30, 2025 at 04:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Scientists fed people a fat-filled milkshake – it disrupted blood flow to their brains within hours

URL: psypost.org/scientists-fed-peo…

A greasy takeaway may seem like an innocent Friday night indulgence. But our recent research suggests even a single high-fat meal could impair blood flow to the brain, potentially increasing the risk of stroke and dementia.

Dietary fat is an important part of our diet. It provides us with a concentrated source of energy, transports vitamins and when stored in the body, protects our organs and helps keep us warm. The two main types of fat that we consume are saturated and unsaturated (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated), which are differentiated by their chemical composition.

But these fats have different effects on our body. For example, it is well established that eating a meal that is high in saturated fat, such as that self-indulgent Friday night takeaway pizza, can be bad for our blood vessels and heart health. And these effects are not simply confined to the heart.

The brain has limited energy stores, which means it is heavily reliant on a continuous supply of blood delivering oxygen and glucose to maintain normal function.

One of the ways the body maintains this supply is through a process known as “dynamic cerebral autoregulation”. This process ensures that blood flow to the brain remains stable despite everyday changes in blood pressure, such as standing up and exercising. It’s like having shock absorbers that help keep our brains cool under pressure.

But when this process is impaired, those swings in blood pressure become harder to manage. That can mean brief episodes of too little or too much blood reaching the brain. Over time, this increases the risk of developing conditions like stroke and dementia.

What role might diet play?

After eating a meal high in saturated fat, levels of fat in the blood rise and peak after around four hours. At the same time, blood vessels become stiffer and lose their ability to relax and expand. This restricts blood flow around the body. But little is known about what happens to the brain during this time and how well its blood supply is protected.

To address this for the first time, we recruited 20 young men between the ages of 18 and 35, and 21 men between 60 and 80. We measured how well blood vessels linked to heart and brain health worked before, and four hours following, consumption of a meal high in saturated fat.

We assessed how well a blood vessel in the arm could open up in response to increased blood flow to obtain an indication of heart health. This is a method known as “flow-mediated dilatation”.

To evaluate how well blood vessels in the brain could cope with swings in blood pressure, our participants performed body-weight squats. We used ultrasound to determine how well blood flowed through vessels during both methods.

The test meal was a milkshake, which we called “the brain bomb” because it consisted mostly of heavy whipping cream. The drink contained 1,362 calories and 130g of fat, mimicking the fat load of a fast-food takeaway.

Our findings confirmed previous research that has shown that a high-fat meal impairs the ability of the blood vessels linked to heart health to open in both young and old participants. These impairments reduced the brain’s ability to buffer changes in blood pressure. This was more pronounced (by about 10%) in the older adults, suggesting that older brains may be more vulnerable to the effects of the meal.

Although we didn’t directly test for the long-term effects of a high-fat meal on mental functioning in this study, we have previously shown that such a meal increases free radicals (unstable, cell-damaging molecules) and decreases nitric oxide (molecules that help blood vessels relax and open up to transport oxygen and glucose around the body).

This may explain the reduced blood flow regulation we observed in our recent study.

This has important clinical implications. While an occasional takeaway is unlikely to cause harm on its own, our results suggest that even one fatty meal has an immediate effect on the body.

Our study highlights the importance of consuming a diet that is low in saturated fat to protect not only our heart health, but also our brain health. This is particularly important for older adults whose brains appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of such a meal and are already at increased risk of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.

The NHS recommendeds that men consume no more than 30g of saturated fat a day, while women should consume no more than 20g. Yet many of us routinely exceed that, particularly during weekend takeaways, pub lunches or fast-food splurges.

What’s more, we may spend much of our waking lives in a post-meal state. This period, known as “post-prandial lipaemia”, is when fat levels are elevated, and when the body, it seems, may be most at risk.

Food for thought

There’s still so much more we need to learn about this topic.

Public health guidance recommends swapping saturated fats for polyunsaturated ones. These are found in foods like oily fish, walnuts and seeds, which are associated with better heart and brain health over the long term. But we don’t yet know how the brain responds to a single meal that is high in polyunsaturated fat.

Nor do we know how the female brain responds to a high-fat meal. This is a crucial gap in our knowledge since women face a greater risk of stroke and dementia in later life compared to men.

Our study offers a timely reminder that diet doesn’t just shape our long-term health. It also affects our body and brain in real time. And as we’re learning, when it comes to protecting brain health, every meal may count.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

URL: psypost.org/scientists-fed-peo…

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Scientists fed people a fat-filled milkshake – it disrupted blood flow to their brains within hours

A single indulgent meal may carry hidden risks. Scientists found that drinking a milkshake with 130 grams of fat impaired blood flow to the brain within hours, raising concerns about stroke, dementia, and how everyday diets shape brain health.

^{Chris Marley and Damian Bailey (PsyPost Psychology News)}

August 30, 2025

Yard sales this morning. I bought a bunch of cheap stuff I needed and/or liked. Zipper bags, paintings, a 6 way outlet strip, ...

I also bought a vintage open reel tape recorder that seems to work pretty well. I dubbed two songs from a 1977 Jonesboro Jazz Ensemble show successfully with some hum.

I read and took a nap. I'm going to work on the soundbox from the piano before I go to the Sunset Sessions, music at the Craighead Forest Bandshell.

#journal #discord #hairylarryland

For this weekends Saturday Night Special, I present - I'll Give My Best by On Stage. I don't really have a particular backstory about this song other than to say I recently discovered it and immediately fell in love with the melody, vocals, and lyrics. From what I've read, it was released in 1986 so although it's not a new song by any means, it's still new to me. Anyway, makes for a perfect romantic Saturday night snuggle song. Enjoy!! 💋

Listen 👇👇👇👇
triciajonesmusic.blogspot.com/…

#music #fashion #style #video #woman #moodpost #saturday #fotoshooting #stylish #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #glam #photography #studio #art

Sinner: "E' stata durissima, bravo a restare mentalmente dentro al match"
https://www.gazzetta.it/Tennis/atp/slam/us-open/30-08-2025/sinner-partita-durissima-contento-di-essere-nella-seconda-settimana.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Tennis @tennis-Gazzetta

Sinner: "E' stata durissima, bravo a restare mentalmente dentro al match"

Il numero uno del mondo: "Sono felice essere nella seconda settimana e di poter giocare in questo posto bellissimo"

^{Martina Sessa (La Gazzetta dello Sport)}