#leeches — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #leeches, aggregated by home.social.
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[edited for typos which made it through because…emotions]
It’s yet more of #AlboPM temu-progressive agenda… tinkering round the edges, complicating things when it’s really very, very simple — Ban #gambling #advertising, full stop. Everybody wants it baned except peeps who don’t matter and #betting industry #leeches causing misery. This pile of shite, a sorry excuse for socially responsible legislation has more holes it in than an old sock (trust the betting shops to get around most of it as soon as it’s passed.
Ban the bloody advertising in all forms and pass it with #Greens and #IND #Anthony, show some cojones amigo !
With a bit of luck it won’t pass the #Senate.
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/watch-out-dont-step-on-the-governments-new-adstop-regime/
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Some kind of leech hitching a ride on a turtle
#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #leech #leeches #reptile #reptiles #turtle #turtles #photography
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A exportación de samesugas para uso médico por parte dos franceses foi tan intensa na década de 1820 en Galicia (especialmente na lagoa de Antela) que no ano 1827 o Goberno estableceu a veda da súa pesca durante os meses de marzo, abril e maio #histodon #leeches #historiaeconomica https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/spanishfrench-leech-trade-and-its-consequences-from-the-increase-in-medical-demand-to-resource-depletion-and-technical-innovation/36806B69AC6A2B5DBD9E6E9DE0E3E5E9
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A lagoa de Antela, espazo destruido polo franquismo, foi un lugar moi relevante no comercio internacional de samesugas para uso médico. Desde este importante humedal desenvolveuse unha grande exportación destes anélidos a Francia durante a primeira metade do século XIX #leeches #histodon #antela #historiaeconomica #historia https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/12/16/spanish-french-leech-trade-and-its-consequences-from-the-increase-in-medical-demand-to-resource-depletion-and-technical-innovation/
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RE: https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/116087272039854125
HOW ABOUT THESE AI COMPANIES PAY PREMIUM RATES FOR STORAGE AND ENERGY... AND NOT MAKE EVERYBODY ELSE SUBSIDIZE THIS BS?!?!? #internet #technology #noonelistenedtosarahconnor #parasites #leeches #corporationswantafreelunch
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If reincarnation is real, there are a few people who need to be reborn as hippo butt leeches. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519641-500-leech-rides-the-tunnel-of-love/ #leeches #hippopotamus #nature #ButtStuff
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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
https://www.asimov.press/p/leeches
#HackerNews #Leeches #FolkMedicine #AlternativeHealing #NaturalRemedies #HealthNews
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You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bloodsuckers-1.5361074
#HackerNews #You #salt #a #leech #sucking #your #blood #science #health #leeches #bloodsuckers #advice
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🎩🐍 Oh, the high-brow "intellectuals" at Asimov Press are back, waxing poetic about everyone’s favorite bloodsucking worm. Apparently, #leeches are poised to dethrone modern medicine, because nothing says "healthcare revolution" like a medieval parasite. 🏥🩸
https://press.asimov.com/articles/leeches-and-the-legitimizing-of-folk-medicine #HackerNews #AsimovPress #healthcareRevolution #medievalParasite #HackerNews #ngated -
Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
https://press.asimov.com/articles/leeches-and-the-legitimizing-of-folk-medicine
#HackerNews #Leeches #FolkMedicine #AlternativeHealing #TraditionalMedicine #HealthHistory
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Today I learnt about a real world invention called The Tempest Prognosticator:
"A 19th-century invention ... in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an approaching storm, they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which strikes a bell. The likelihood of a storm is indicated by the number of times the bell is struck. ... The original device has been lost, but at least three replicas have been made."
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So, that #apartheid #scumbag takes a #wrecking ball to govt departments and contracts and people's lives, and gets rewarded with billions in contract? Nice #RoI for $277M investment in buying the #presidency! #CronyCapitalism, anyone? #Leeches!
#opposeGOP #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #SaveTheRepublic #impeach #lootingTheTreasury #corruptGOP #CorruptToTheCore #CronyCapitalism #government #USPolitics
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-ula-blue-origin-land-133800197.html
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The Register: Wikipedia’s overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden. “Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models. Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and similar community-based projects, say that since January 2024, the bandwidth spent serving […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/the-register-wikipedias-overlords-bemoan-ai-bot-bandwidth-burden/
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Open AI announces a new model that it says is good at creative writing.
Why do they want an AI model that is good at creative writing? It doesn't solve any problems. It doesn't make the world better.
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Australia's Children's Hospital Network can help.
BTW, I now want to be a medical professional who helps a leech form an attachment with its patient! 🤯
"Sometimes leeches do not want to attach to a body part. This can be because there are chemicals in the skin that the leeches do not like. The nurses and doctors will try to help the leech attach during the treatment."
https://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/leech-therapy-hirudotherapy-factsheet
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O espectacular incremento da demanda francesa de sambesugas para uso médico en torno a 1825 e a lóxica do mercado libre, onde a extracción dos recursos non é regulada, provocou o case exterminio das sambesugas da Lagoa de Antela (provincia de Ourense). Velaquí a prohibición da recolección establecida no Boletín Oficial da Provincia no ano 1855. Pódese encontrar máis info neste texto: https://theconversation.com/cuando-la-fiebre-de-las-sanguijuelas-medicinales-llevo-a-su-practica-desaparicion-en-espana-227511 #historiaeconomica #lagoadeantela #insustentabilidade #sambesugas #leeches
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#Leeches (2003)
Common-type aquatic leeches grow to large size after feeding on steroid-laced blood of a number of college endurance swimmers, and then the nasty creatures lay siege to the entire campus for more.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite
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A lagoa de Antela, desecada pola ditadura franquista, foi un área moi relevante no comercio internacional de sambesugas. Este artigo científico publicado na revista Medical History amosa como era o comercio das sambesugas, a lexislación vinculada, as solucións tecnolóxicas e a importancia económica do mercado hispano-francés desde a década de 1820 ate ben avanzado o século XIX. + info: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2024.5
#sambesugas #lagoadeantela #leeches #historiaeconomica #historiarural #historiaagraria -
20,000 illegal live #leeches seized from Russian traveler in #Istanbul - https://en.vestikavkaza.ru/material/170403 as one does
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Fun fact: DEET is also effective at repelling leeches. However, I haven't seen that as an EPA-accepted usage in the United States so I don't think you'll see it on the label like you can in Australia (home to 100+ species of leeches. #leeches #deet #repellent https://bushman-repellent.com/bushman-lotion.php
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Leapin' Leeches! Madagascar's got 'em
#HalfHeartedFanatic #Africa #Madagascar #Malagasy #Science #Leeches #NPR
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New Video Finally Proves That Leeches Can Jump https://petapixel.com/2024/07/03/new-video-finally-proves-that-leeches-can-jump/ #madagascar #discovery #scientist #leeches #nature #News
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First conclusive video evidence that a terrestrial #leech species can jump https://phys.org/news/2024-06-conclusive-video-evidence-terrestrial-leech.html
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.13340
"this is the first convincing evidence that #leeches can jump and do so with visible energy expenditure... There have been previous accounts of leeches jumping, but those were often explained away as leeches just attaching to passerby as they brushed against shrubs or dropping from a branch. This study dispels that argument."