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Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 13h

🗳️ Here’s someone who didn’t get their mail-in ballot: me. But I checked and Los Angeles County has a rare pro-voter Clerk. As we tell you again and again and again at SaveYourVote.org, CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION!!! #SaveYourVote | @saveyourvote.bsky.social

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome to the musical mathematical symmetry click track free zone where rhythm lives and breathes. youtube.com/watch?v=YIa_...

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Mongo Santamaria & Tito Puente........ Afro Blue

YouTube video by Mandalay

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 5h

Oh wow. We use something in Florida called a mosquito magnet. It probably has different names in various countries. It lures the mosquitoes and traps them so they aren’t attracted to humans and animals. The sad thing is that fly spray still permits the mosquito to bite and transmit diseases.

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 12h

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 9h

There’s a subreddit called LinkedIn lunatics and it’s hilarious

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Earlier this year the scientific community successfully fought back on dramatic changes in Federal funding proposed by the Trump Administration.Now another RFI is proposing substantial changes that would damage peer review. This letter from SDB President Helen McNeill lays out the issue clearly 1/n

Dear SDB Members,

I am writing you now to ask everyone to respond to a proposed change to the way that grant review information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is communicated to grant applicants, institutions, and NIH program staff. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on the process that selects our grants for funding.

The proposed change means that individuals, institutes and NIH staff will no longer receive the final overall impact score or percentile score that reflects the scientific opinion of a panel of experts. Currently, three reviewers provide their detailed opinion of a grant, and then the entire panel asks questions, can examine figures, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a grant, and then members all independently score. The final overall impact score reflects this discussion and careful consideration of the entire scientific panel.

The proposed change is to now simply divide the scored grants into three categories: Scored applications would be grouped into three broad categories - “Most Competitive (top 25%),” “Competitive (26%-50%),” and “Not Discussed”. The motivation for the change is that decisions would now focus on the comments of reviewers, not the score of the grant to determine which grants to support. However, the current mechanism allows for scores and comments to be considered. Thus, removing the score component from NIH staff makes selection of which grants to fund more burdensome for NIH staff.

The loss of detailed scores will also make it more difficult for researchers to assess how competitive an application was and determine whether to revise and resubmit it. An application ranked top 2% and one ranked 24th% would receive the same label, even if the scientific panel viewed them quite differently. Meanwhile, applications ranked 25th%and 26th% would be placed in different categories because of a tiny difference that NIH itself says should not be treated as meaningful. The proposal would erase potentially important differences while creating arbitrary new dividing lines.

This is a dramatic loss of transparency in the scientific review process. Under the new plan, principal investigator(s), applicant institutions, NIH program staff, ICO leadership, and the relevant NIH Advisory Council will no longer have access to the final overall score.

NIH is explicitly asking for input on this particular question.

This is a Request for Information (RFI), not simply an announcement of a policy that has already been finalized. NIH says comments will be used to inform the final recommendation, including implementation and communication.

Please comment here: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6a2b1c22c3fcfda46e0badd2

Deadline for response receipt is October 13, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Train the end users. Only criminals say that online security is a mental health disorder. youtube.com/watch?v=Lgcn...

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Unmasking the Middleman - When Trust Is the Bait - Ep 576

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here’s a person who is getting harassed daily for trying to communicate about science to help people. Many don’t understand what is involved with science communication because they disregard the actual lived experience. youtube.com/shorts/urFS-...

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‘It’s not like Covid’: Virologist on public risk after plague researcher dies

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is this an American political documentary, a Reform party promotion or a bit of both?🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=xGkX...

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Crackpot Religions Ltd.

YouTube video by LaUnicaMilos

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Ethical research requires intellectual honesty and a genuine willingness to accept a negative result. In SCAM research, however, investigators are frequently dedicated advocates rather than neutral arbiters. They aim to prove rather than to test a hypothesis.”

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At 40:00 in the above video, that treetop flyer started using skills for peace youtu.be/AeEK_nCNuAw?...

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Treetop Flyer Stephen Stills

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael just bravely rolled up on Venezuela. 1:50 the real music starts. Michael talks to everybody with respect because he sees everyone as a human being. youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zx...

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HD Michael Palin in Venezuela Episode 1-3 (Complete) (2025)

YouTube video by Natuurgids Friesland

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s one about going into different rooms and the final result is somebody getting swatted.💯🤣😂🤣💯 youtu.be/evPZ-0UhL1E?...

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The Argument Skit

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did Monty Python invent the internet or just report on its early existence in this video? youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY...

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Monty Python - Blackmail Video

YouTube video by Mark Taylor

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Terry Jones has the exact same walk as De Niro at 2:38 in this video 🤣🤣🤣 youtu.be/iqgaX_skm8w?...

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Monty Python’s The Bishop

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Massive new review paper out on the causes of insect population declines. It's not great news, BUT if we pay attention, we can still turn things around. 🧪🦋 academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...

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Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressures

Abstract. Reductions in insect biodiversity are widely documented and result from numerous pressures that operate from local to global scales. Identifying

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hilarious video of the same song demonstrating how Hawking schooled a youngster on science communication techniques youtu.be/ZTpBWhmamWo?...

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Galaxy Song Monty Python Live in O2 Arena Aka Steve vs. Brian

YouTube video by Loki Laufeysen

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The DEP reframes communicative breakdowns as relational rather than solely due to autistic deficits, countering harmful deficit-based theories of autism that rest on weak evidence.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Phenomenal science communication 🧪

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An accurate statement much appreciated by those doing the work. “They are spared the pilot study that failed, the battle with ethics, the worry about funding, the protocol deviation that mattered, and the statistical analysis conducted at 1:17 a.m. while spilling coffee over a keyboard.”

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s a good idea. I use coconut smoothies. I absolutely adore the clotted cream from the UK.

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s important to attend to medical issues with eyes as quickly as possible. A dear childhood friend, who used to be in the Army had emergency surgery. My husband and I have been with him for 2 days. He had a tear in his retina. The surgery took a long time.

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Notice the horse picture behind the fridge before the star lady gives birth 🤣💯 youtube.com/watch?v=buqt...

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Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

YouTube video by Monty Python

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m wondering if people aren’t worried about those poor little drones 🤣 getting tossed to and fro by gales?

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely perfect weather in Ocala at the moment! All the animals in my farm are so happy and relieved from the extreme heat of the summer.

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EquineTechnical42 @42ndhumanbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why has the field of psychology been reduced to the moment between bringing out the dead and not being dead yet while simultaneously blaming the person for not dying quickly enough to stop making people uncomfortable? youtube.com/watch?v=uBxM...

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Monty Python Not Dead Yet clip

YouTube video by Matthew Baugh

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 September 1938 | A French Jewish boy, Abel Bac, was born in Paris. On his 4th birthday, he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. On 27 September 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

A vintage black and white photo of a young child sitting beside a vase of flowers.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB Prosecutors allege Oxygen presented itself to Uncle Sam as an independent US company, when it was actually owned and controlled by five Russian nationals through a Cyprus-based holding company.

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DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB

Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services

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