Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine


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Dokukin, an alcoholic in recovery, received leech therapy himself to treat his liver cirrhosis. Before turning to hirudotherapy, he was offered few other choices. “We don’t have anything for liver diseases in this country besides liver transplant,” he says. “Or, basically, we can wait and see or die.” Underwhelmed by either option, Dokukin tried hirudotherapy at the behest of his mother back in Russia, where it remains common practice. Five years later, he claims that his liver has fully compensated and that his Western doctors are “astonished” by his recovery.


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Aprovecho la migración para hacer por fin #presentación:

Pablo, treintañero. Cis, bi, rojo, valenciano, pro-feminismo y derechos sociales de todo tipo, friki, AACC…

Hobbies e intereses:
Me gustan muchísimo los videojuegos como ocio y como medio, básicamente es mi “hobby principal”. Ejemplos de favoritos: Outer Wilds, Mother 3, Ace Attorney, Hollow Knight, Expedition 33.
También me he aficionado últimamente al mundillo del café de especialidad (concretamente hacer café de filtro en casa), y me gusta moverme en bici por la ciudad, aunque sea poco practicante.
De todas formas, en mayor o menor medida me interesan o despiertan curiosidad muchas cosas, aunque sea para leer sobre ellas. Cine y series, música, juegos de mesa, ciencia, fotografía (algún día querría esforzarme en aprender)…

Seguramente esté poco activo aquí (estoy más en Bluesky), pero espero asomarme de vez en cuando y poder leer y comentar sobre las cosas que me y os gusten

Le mouvement des Thousands Madleens arrive à Gardanne et dans le Pays d’Aix !
Petite sœur du groupe marseillais, notre initiative prend de l’ampleur et s’étend jusqu’aux villages.

Ensemble, faisons grandir cette dynamique !

Suivez-nous et participez à un élan collectif pour un monde plus humain ⛵️🇵🇸
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#gaza #palestine #israel #resistance #genocide #aixenprovence

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Recurro a la sabiduría de los propietarios de perro para que me den una información. Me regalaron cuando tenía la anterior perra una correa redonda y mullida con varias anillas repartidas a lo largo que sirven para darle la longitud deseada fijando en ellas el mosquetón final. Incluso el mosquetón pasa por las anillas de forma que la correa es doble en la parte más cercana a la mano. Es dura y resistente pero no lo suficiente para esta perra que tengo ahora que está a poco de cargarse la fijación del mosquetón final. El modelo me gusta porque le puedo dar la medida que quiera y atármela al brazo de forma que no se me escurra de la mano. La pregunta: Nombre técnico de este tipo de correas? Tengo que buscar un repuesto antes de que ocurra lo irremediable y me quede sin correa! Gracias!
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@disisdeguey No tengo ni idea! Yo la utilizo para paseo. El problema es que tira mucho y con el movimiento se está desgastando el juego del mosquetón final. La correa es en forma de tubo mullido. A distancia hay fijadas varias anillas y acaba en un mosquetón igual al que la sujeta al collar. Según en qué anilla fijes el mosquetón le das más libertad al perro. Necesito saber como se llama ese tipo de correa para no pifiarla comprando otra.

VIDEO (I) strohbeeren #strawberryyypink #showertime #wetbody #perfectbody femalemast
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La fin de la Mégamachine

"Dans *La Fin de la Mégamachine*, Fabian Scheidler déconstruit le mythe du libre marché. L’écrivain allemand démontre que l’État-nation et les pouvoirs économiques ont toujours été plus étroitement liés qu’on ne le pense souvent, depuis la création des premières entreprises hautement militarisées – qui ont joué un rôle clé dans …
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Trump veut-il annexer la Suisse ?
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"Depuis le 2 avril dernier (Liberation Day), le président Donald Trump a fait appel à des dispositions légales d’exception pour manipuler les tarifs douaniers qu’il impose aux principaux pays qui exportent […]
L’article Trump veut-il annexer la Suisse ? est apparu en premier sur CONTRETEMPS."

Notes from the US: The MAGA war on empathy
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"This month something different: a contribution towards understanding why the appeal of selfishness grips so many people so fiercely ~ Louis Further ~ Right-wing beliefs are ultimately attempts to rationalise and justify selfishness. Fascism, ‘conservatism’, US Republicanism—call them what you will: the differences are essentially procedural. “My needs matter. Yours

Is there a future for Anarchism in America?
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"The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges ~ Joel Sucher ~ Anarchism in America is the title of a documentary produced way back in 1980; a time when the world was a far different place and the embers of the older strains of the movement —communist, individualist and syndicalist —were
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UNRWA: One million women in Gaza face mass starvation dailyyemen.net/2025/08/17/unrw…

As David Mead (UEA) points our, the Terrorism Act does not require the police to arrest peaceful demonstrators even if they are expressing support for a proscribed group... the police could have chosen not to intervene in protests against the proscription of Palestine Action...

That they didn't refrain, may be Police over-reach, perhaps reflects pressure from the Home Office or maybe shows some Police forces do not understand the Terrorism Act.

#protest #politics

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Germany: Anti-militarist camp to go ahead “with or without permission”
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"Despite police ban, preparations continue for Rheinmetall protest camp in Cologne at the end of August ~ Cristina Sykes ~ The camp, running between 26-31 August, combines workshops, discussions and cultural events with protests targeting arms companies across the Rhein-Ruhr region. The Rheinmetall Entwaffnen

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Von Aharon Haliva, Chef des Military Intelligence Directorate der israelischen Armee bis April 2024 waren Aufnahmen bei N12 zu sehen, in denen rr verschiedene Dinge sagte im Bezug auf den 7.10.23 und den darauf folgenden israelischen Angriffen

Darunter auch:
»50000 Tote in Gaza sind notwendig und für künftige Generationen erforderlich«

»Für jeden Mensch der am 7.10. stirbt, müssen 50 Palästinenser sterben«

»sie brauchen ab und zu eine Nakba«
(Zitiert nach Adil Haque)

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Diese genozidalen Einlassungen von Aharon Haliva sowie die weiteren Dinge die er beschrieb lassen sich hier nachlesen: timesofisrael.com/former-idf-i…
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Bendigo doesn't deserve this. Of 80 speakers scheduled for the festival, up to 50 have withdrawn. 21 sessions are reported cancelled.
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says 20 withdrew.
Hours later, thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/0… says 50.
@palestine
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Palestine
#genocide
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"How fitting it would be if no one turned up."
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I wonder what the attendance figures are like.
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#Palestine
#genocide
#censorship

MA E' DAVVERO POSSIBILE "FARE POLITICA" SU YOUTUBE

YouTube, con i suoi miliardi di utenti, ha enormi potenzialità in termini di comunicazione politica. Come attivist*, possiamo tranquillamente affidare i nostri contenuti a piattaforme private, guidate da logiche di mercato e algoritmi poco trasparenti? E se la visibilità dipende da regole decise unilateralmente, quanto possiamo parlare di reale libertà dell’informazione politica online?

« Partout, les femmes doivent créer des unités d’autodéfense »
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Alors que la violence contre les femmes s’intensifie dans le sud de la Syrie, le commandante des Unités de protection des femmes (en kurde : Yekîneyên Parastina Jin, YPJ), Viyan Adar, appelle à la création de forces d’autodéfense féminines, affirmant que les femmes du monde entier sont exposées quotidiennement à

When I was a kid, I was excited by the concept of Sharp Zaurus, a handheld device that could run Linux. This was the early 2000s, the time when we were porting KDE2 to ~~FreeBSD~~ various embedded devices. Zaurus was so amazing that I told my dad to get one when he was looking for a PDA.

It wasn’t a popular device, restricted to the Japanese market, but it was popular enough to even have a novel written about it. A dystopian novel where personal security was nonexistent, and everyone carried a Zaurus-like device for basic necessities like making secure payments.

I suddenly remembered that story when I typed `apk add elixir` on my iPhone. The novel turned out to become a true story. Our phones run VMs that run VMs that run VMs. We have a trusted Secure Enclave in our pocket, in a device that will exchange your biometrics for a one-time credit card payment number. Back when I was a kid learning Erlang, the whole concept of having it easily accessible in a REPL of my phone was fiction. Now, it’s just a thing.

15 million items of clothing arrive in Ghana each week, but 40% is unusable and immediately dumped. This has created a huge waste problem for the country.
This is due to fast fashion and (for example) Europeans disposing of an *average* of 11kg of clothing each year.

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DEM Parti : « Nous serons la voix de Sharifeh Mohammadi »
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – L’Assemblée des femmes du parti « pro-kurde », DEM a condamné l’approbation de la peine de mort prononcée contre Sharifeh Mohammadi, une défenseure des droits des femmes et des travailleurs en Iran, soulignant qu’elles seront sa « voix et son souffle ». L’Assemblée des femmes du Parti de l’égalité et de […]
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Hey les pauvres du Fediverse !

L'autre jour j'ai envoyé ce lien à un ami qui n'en connaissait pas l'existence. Donc voici un rappel que l'offre sociale existe toujours chez Orange, et qu'elle vous donne accès à la fibre, au téléphone, et à la télévision (mais ça c'est de la merde, ça convertit à l'extrême droite) pour 16€/mois.

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SYRIE. Damas lorgne sur Raqqa et Deir Ezzor
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Le site The National News rapporte que des gangs djihadistes de Damas prévoient de mener une offensive majeure d’ici octobre pour capturer Raqqa et Deir Ezzor aux forces arabo-kurdes qui ont refusé de se soumettre à Damas. Si les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) ne cèdent pas la majeure partie de leurs […]
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Gaza: A Sad Prediction Come to Life
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"Twenty-two years ago, I published a book with the University of California Press predicting much of what we see today in Gaza. My path towards writing that book was torturous. In 1976, I moved to Israel from the US as a nine-year-old and was desperate to belong. As part of that effort, I volunteered in 1985 More
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Unveils New Multiplayer Battle Mode For Up To Four Trainers

The first rule of Battle Club...During the 2025 Pokémon World Championships, it was announced Link and Ranked Battles would be coming to Pokémon Legends: Z-A for the Switch and Switch 2 as part of the Z-A Battle Club.These battles will allow up to four trainers to join in on battles where they attempt to defeat as many of each other's Pokémon ...

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - The System of Economic Contradictions
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"Author: Pierre-Joseph ProudhonTitle: The System of Economic ContradictionsSubtitle: or, The Philosophy of Poverty (Volume I)Date: 1847Notes: Chapters I through VIII (Volume I) translated from French by Benjamin R. Tucker (1888), Chapter X by Clarence L. Swartz, Chapter XI by Shawn P. Wilbur

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Comment nous payons les errements des riches et ultra-riches
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"Que les plus âgés d'entre nous se souviennent (oui papy !)
Encore enfant (années 60), nous rapportions les bouteilles de verre consignées à l'épicerie du coin. Je ne me souviens pas qu'il (...)"

« Est-ce cela la fraternité turco-kurde ? »
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Le journaliste Zeki Akil soutient que, malgré les propos du régime turc affirmant le contraire, l’hostilité classique envers les Kurdes persiste, notamment à travers l’ingérence turque en Syrie visant les acquis du Rojava. La Turquie s’ingère beaucoup trop dans les affaires intérieures de la Syrie. Elle tente de priver le peuple […]
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I don't know why but I never looked at the illumos based operating systems. I think I will change that and try out either OpenIndiana or SmartOS and compare them with Linux and BSD.

Areas I want to compare:
- Availability of software
- Simplicity of system management
- General system usage
- Security and Storage features

Are there any illumos users or admins out there with an idea on which things I should try out?

#illumos #smartos #openindiana #unix #opensolaris

Cats knew that computers would lead to our downfall from the start and tried to warn us. They sat on the keyboards so we couldn't talk to the machine, they whacked the mouse out of our hands, they sat on PC base units to jam up the equipment with their shed fur. But we didn't listen and now here we are, wondering if the computers are going to destroy everything. Cats know computers can't open doors and cans of food for them otherwise I don't think they'd care so much.

#Caturday #cats

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Evil Under the Sun
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"Saif Helles, a child from Gaza City, died of starvation. This image of young Saif’s emaciated body, as striking as Mantegna’s Lamentation of the Dead Christ, was photographed by Aziz Khalil. It was one of the last postings by Anas Al-Sharif before he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, as he slept in a tent […]

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Anonymous - Message to the Climate Movement
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"Author: AnonymousTitle: Message to the Climate MovementDate: Summer 2025Source: actforfree.noblogs.org/2025/08…
Throughout the last decade, both in Europe and beyond, a new generation of activists has brought the climate movement to the forefront. Groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, and Ende Gelände

CALL TO ACTION: CAPTURE THE FLOCK (USA)
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"That’s right. We’re playing the game where you dodge pigs, bootlickers, and snitches to steal their treasures while keeping your teammates from getting tagged. Maybe you’ve heard of Flock, the expressly evil surveillance company that’s been putting a creepy red (or sometimes green) eye (sauron-style) on every (404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati…"

SYRIE. Damas bloque les pompiers du Rojava en route pour les côtes syriennes en feu
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Depuis deux jours, une équipe de pompiers du Rojava / Syrie du Nord et d’Est attend le feu vert de Damas pour se diriger vers les zones côtières touchées par les incendies. L’Administration arabo-kurde du nord et de l’est de la Syrie a préparé un convoi composé