D•Scribe
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys thought to carry hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi with at least one on the loose

www.independent.co.uk

external-link
message-square
13
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • usa@midwest.social
  • us_news@lemmygrad.ml
  • usa@lemmy.ml
  • news@lemmings.world
54
external-link

Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys thought to carry hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi with at least one on the loose

www.independent.co.uk

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
message-square
13
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • usa@midwest.social
  • us_news@lemmygrad.ml
  • usa@lemmy.ml
  • news@lemmings.world
Crews still searching for three escaped lab monkeys in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
external-link
The truck carrying Rehsus monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans crashed on Interstate 59
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    6 months ago

    “One of them is still unaccounted for, sir.”
    “Don’t tell me.”
    “91-NPLN.”
    Napoleon. “Fuck this,” Adams spat angrily, reaching for the red phone.

    “Sir, there’s something else. Initial reports indicate his enclosure was opened from the inside, the voltage mechanism jammed with a shaped fragment of human tooth.”

    Compulsively, Colonel Adams tongued the hole where his upper left canine used to be.

    “… and it happened 9 minutes before the driver lost control,” the adjutant finished.
    Something iron and strong went soft and sour in the colonel’s stomach. Do not show panic.

    “Initiate containment protocols. Full spectrum. Operation Midnight is ordered.”

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    6 months ago

    this is how zombie movies start

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    6 months ago

    There is a movie with this premise called Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman. I recall it features hicks using pickup trucks to break through a quarantine in a small town started by lib scientists who lose track of an infected monkey. It’s unrealistic because it shows libs actually caring about the spread of disease.

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      6 months ago

      libs actually caring about the spread of disease.

      I assume there was no brunch involved, which could have made it more believable.

  • Red_October [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    6 months ago

    Comrade Chimp starts Spanish Flu 2 just before the U.S. invasion of Venezuela.

    Go monkey go!

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 months ago

      Venezuela Flu*

  • tombruzzo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    6 months ago

    Why is it always these trucks that tip over? Or is it you only hear about these trucks from the thousands that tip over in the US everyday?

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      6 months ago

      trucks tip over and spill shit all the time, so much that it’s just not news unless they spill something scary or funny

  • Hexamerous [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    6 months ago

    “All but one of the escaped monkeys have been destroyed.”

    Operator-speak.

  • NewDark [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 months ago

    This feels like a bit

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      6 months ago

      Buddy, the US is a bit.

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    6 months ago

    “Sir! We got another order for plague monkeys, did you remember to loosen the lug nuts on the trailer?”

  • neonchaos@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    6 months ago

    Motaba Virus anyone? Or just COVID Pt. II: Electric Boogaloo?

news@hexbear.net

news@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !news@hexbear.net

Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:

  • To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).

  • To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.

  • To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.

We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.

Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:

The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.

  1. Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.

  2. Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.

  3. Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.

  4. Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.

  5. Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.

  6. Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.

  7. American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.

  8. Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.

  9. AI Slop: Don’t post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 501 users / day
  • 1.06K users / week
  • 2.05K users / month
  • 3.69K users / 6 months
  • 5 local subscribers
  • 24.8K subscribers
  • 6.69K Posts
  • 112K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.net
  • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.net
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.17
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org