Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hRight. So there are anti-genocide Zionists who are Israeli and support the state being where it was before the genocide started, but oppose the genocide, wars and expansion? And I'm assuming that's the proposition George is supporting here. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hA little more of Dr Watson's diary - this is when he got the hamsters from Dr Hu - 'They seem in good spirits'. If you want to celebrate 'Long drive with a carload of hamsters in the rain with dysentry, avoiding roving bands of communists' day, it's December the 9th. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hThe reason Chinese Hamster Ovaries were well-suited to biologic drug production is that they have a low chromosome number compared to other rodents, they are stable across a broad range of conditions and they reproduce rapidly. Here's the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...en.wikipedia.orgChinese hamster ovary cell - Wikipedia 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hDr Watson was also tried (in absentia) by the new Maoist government, but he had left already. The Chinese Germ Warfare Commission accused them of war crimes. They were concerned about a biological attack. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hUnfortunately, Dr Hu, the original source of the hamsters, paid a heavy price for his work. For this and other medical research, he was sent to a re-education camp for six months, and then in 1966, he and his wife were severely beaten by the Red Guard. They committed suicide afterwards. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hThe CHO cell line enabled a huge amount of pharmaceutical development - enzymes, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, hormones, growth factors. They account for a huge number of drugs sold today. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hThe hamsters got on one of the last Pan-Am flights out of Shanghai to New York State, where Mr Schwentker, a skilled rodent breeder, built up their numbers. Dr Yerganian purchased several pairs and began his own breeding program. In 1957, Dr Puck established the CHO line from one of these hamsters. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hIn 1948, with war bearing down on them, Dr, Hu sent 10 breeding pairs of Chinese Hamsters to Dr Watson in Nanjing. Dr Watson took an 11-hour drive at night in the pouring rain, avoiding bands of Communist fighters, to deliver the hamsters to Shanghai. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hSo Chinese Hamster Ovaries (called CHO) were used to develop an immortal cell line, from which are grown 6 out of the 10 top selling pharmaceutical drugs today. In 1919, they knew they were pretty special, and researchers in China sent some to Harvard, but they did not breed. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hHis name was literally Dr Watson. He had a bottle of brandy, a book of common prayer and his old .45 colt. 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 17hOK I was going to use this at work, but I don't think it has a home in any project. Did you know that a scientist travelled through the night with 20 hamsters, to deliver them to another guy to go on a plane to go to a specialist rodent breeder in 1948? Well, he did. web.archive.org/web/20241225...web.archive.orgWayback Machine 100
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 19hWhat this puzzle might’ve been titled if voice-to-text were suddenly enabled as I began choking on an adult gummy multivitamin while the cursor was in the title input box 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 21hWhat was asked - I believe many of us want to know - is how many Zionists there are who oppose Israel’s actions. Are they a vanishingly small minority? Is this a sensible proposition from George? And where they believe the homeland should be. 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 22hWrote the numbers on beer mats and receipts and put them in my wallet. That's one thing about the modern era, your wallet isn't as big. 010
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 22hI've seen those, but would those people consider themselves to be zionist or anti-zionist? 220
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 23hHow many Zionists are there who oppose Israel’s actions? And what is their position on where the Zionist homeland should be? Is it Israel? 47 boundaries? Or elsewhere? 370
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 23hMe too. Jail the executives. If you made an autonomous robot that crashed into my house, I’d sue you. This is the same. 011
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 23hWhat if the constituents are concerned about infiltration by a foreign power because of an overwhelming amount of evidence? 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Can I interest you in my one-bedroom flat in the suburbs? 031
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I left the day he took charge, but a lot of the good people I follow, the interesting journalists and scientists, stayed, and we never quite replicated the town square elsewhere. 030
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 13/10/2026gunna smash the lime bike that beeps in my back lane and claim it was an agent. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’d assume a large percentage of planes have bedbugs in them somewhere. I’m wondering how they found them. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’m thinking a good use of AI would be to generate a suite of the standard Australian political pics: Eating an onion With a Pasifika flower crown Meat pie at Beefy’s Akubra cosplay Fluoro vest and hard hat At the dispatch box In front of Reject Shop signage Any others? 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If electricity coming in costs all the money and electricity going out gets you no money, does electricity really have a price or is the market just rigged for the large companies? 141
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 12/10/2026How long will the Zionist lobby fund the government? michaelwest.com.au/foreign-infl...michaelwest.com.auForeign Influence. How the Israel lobby bought Australian democracy - Michael WestNo other lobby in Australia holds such power. Andrew Brown explains how the Israel Lobby bought Australian democracy 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is some weak shit.static.klipy.comWeak Girl Struggles with DumbbellsALT: Weak Girl Struggles with Dumbbells 010
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Convicts stole the Cypress brig and sailed to Japan. Nobody believed them until they found contemporary illustrations in Japan. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAustralian convict pirates in Japan: evidence of 1830 voyage unearthedExclusive: Fresh translations of samurai accounts of ‘barbarian’ ship arriving at the height of Japan’s isolation corroborate a story long dismissed as fantasy 081
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is a white Aussie from 1830, drawn by a Japanese artist. 160
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So confused, maybe Wikipedia’s missing the bit where he was a digger driver or a shotfirer. It’s got the bit where he was a flaming commie though. Man’s got no spine at all. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You can tell it's not him because he doesn't use commas. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I said to my agent, 'pay attention to this, because you'll need to know it when you're doing my job when I'm in the gutter under a newspaper.' She said, 'I recommend you map your process. That way, when you're under your newspaper and I'm doing your job, I'll know where to start.' 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That way it wouldn’t be an attention slot machine, it would be a delivery device for news and opinions from my social network. I’d pay Zuckerberg 10% over what he’s making now to get rid of the addictive features of his apps. 000
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I currently spend $60 per year on a social media blocker. That’s the revenue from 2000 hours of coercing my attention. I’d rather just pay meta the money to put the interesting stories up the top and have a cut-off in the app. Remember ‘you’re all caught up?’ 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026How many parents are struggling to be present for their kids, how many of us miss out on work and sleep for the sake of these tiny profits? We would generate vastly more money if social media were non-addictive, for the economy as a whole. 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’m addicted to social media, have been since 2007. So are a lot of people. What’s messing with me is that the advertising revenue from an hour of scrolling is 1.5-3 cents. You can steal a whole life from me to make a couple of hundred bucks. 120
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I wonder what the consequences are for publishing such harmful and inflammatory propaganda? 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Bags sounds weird. Checking ID would usually be for people with concession tickets. 110
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 08/10/2026AOs are transport employees. Whether they're employed by the major contractor or the government I'm not sure. But they usually just break up fights and check tickets. 120
Jude Alexander @jude234.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My teapot may be lacking a handle, but it can make a caffeinated beverage without being weird about it. 110
