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TIL leeches are very common in Australia. The only real concern is when they attach to your eyeball. But don’t worry, in a short 40ish minutes they’ll fall off 🫠

Nbd, nbd. Australia may not be for me.

#Australia #Leeches

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

SpaceX took the biggest piece of the pie, but United Launch Alliance and newcomer Blue Origin will divvy up nearly $13.7 billion in national security launches to be assigned over the next five years, the Space Force announced Friday.

The National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 announcements made by the Space Force’s Space Systems Command anticipate giving Elon Musk’s SpaceX more than $5.9 billion, ULA more than $5.3 billion and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin nearly $2.4 billion, among more than 54 expected missions to be awarded through 2029.

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/

#sangsues 4;5;6/6 #dessin #leeches

#sangsues 1;2;3/6 #dessin #leeches

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.

#Leeches

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/12/chatgpt-firm-reveals-ai-model-that-is-good-at-creative-writing-sam-altman

@ElleGray

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

#leeches #hirudotherapy

They can always count on european States to back them (as we've seen plenty) and citizens to pay for their delusions and greed. As it is they're already planning ahead not only to prevent as much losses as possible and as much profit as they can grab. Like big oil, they know more about climate change than we'll ever know (not until it's too late). #climatechange #southerneurope #leeches

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

Na imaxe aparece unha captura da normativa que establece a prohibición da captura de sambesugas na lagoa de Antela desde o ano 1855

#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
#FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

One of the reasons I felt #Twitter was toxic was that people were creating accounts and started following thousands of others to attract more followeres. Typically these accounts would have then been sold because of large follower count and was used for political propaganda.

These days with popularity of #Fediverse, such accounts are popping up. Example:

https://mastodon.social/@dogsworldwide

My solution: immediate block with no hesitation.

#leeches #parasites

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 #economichistory #ruralhistory

Mapa do século XIX que mostra a localización xeográfica da Lagoa de Antela, situada na zona da Limia, na provincia de Ourense

Esta é unha entrada do Diccionario de Madoz, de mediados do século XIX, que amosa como as sambesugas de Antela eran moi apreciadas a nivel internacional, con exportación ata Francia

20,000 illegal live #leeches seized from Russian traveler in #Istanbul - https://en.vestikavkaza.ru/material/170403 as one does

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

Leapin' Leeches! Madagascar's got 'em

https://buff.ly/3WSjomt

#HalfHeartedFanatic #Africa #Madagascar #Malagasy #Science #Leeches #NPR

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

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."