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Alan Jackson

@akjackson.bsky.social
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Retired geophysicist, pro bono data science, writer of letters to the editor, troublemaker. www.ajackson.org/Blog

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5h
U.S. Senate voted 47–51 on Sept. 29, 2026, to block a Democratic-led resolution from Senator Chris Van Hollen that would have required a State Dept report on human rights & violence in the West Bank. Voted Against/To Block the Resolution: Nearly all Republican senators voted no (to block it)…
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Republicans sink measure to spotlight Israeli violence in the West Bank
The overwhelming Democratic support for the resolution highlights the party’s increasing frustration with Israel’s government.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Obed Manuel @obedmanuel.bsky.social · 3h
I haven’t heard a single gunshot in Mexico since I moved here in January. I visited my mom in Dallas for three days and heard a gunshot the first night I was there.
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Alan Jackson @akjackson.bsky.social · 4h
Dammit Whitmire. Now I have to like you. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...
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Why Mayor John Whitmire picked up the bill for Montrose’s new pride banners
Rainbows have returned to Montrose, with pride banners hanging along Westheimer a year after Houston removed the neighborhood’s iconic rainbow crosswalks amid threats from Gov. Greg Abbott.
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Alan Jackson @akjackson.bsky.social · 4h
Great. Now we'll have a bunch of grumpy TSA agents. We really are living in a kakistocracy. Source: ABC7 Los Angeles share.google/LXGp4XIj7xJw...
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TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs
You may notice a change the next time you go through security at the airport.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15h
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
We've already been hard at work dissecting this "best since the Industrial Revolution" website and... surprise surprise... it's not 508 compliant. It doesn't use plain language, it's not using the official USWDS usa-banner. It's giant font and opaque trackers are offensive.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h
So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 15h
I don’t care what the polls say. There’s one group that can F this up, it’s the Democrats. gift link 🎁: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Can the Polls Possibly Be Right?
Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate, a prospect that seemed far-fetched a year ago.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 17h
Study of a Crow Ballpoint pen on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart
Study of a crow.  Made with a ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper.
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GOP senators and House members up for election complaining now about Trump’s actions in Iran and with deportation are laughable. You had your chance to stand up for what’s right and you did the opposite.
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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what it looks like when you're popular for good reasons.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fatal mistake that just blew up a decades-old Republican strategy #AlterNet
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The fatal mistake that just blew up a decades-old Republican strategy
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation
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therealspike.bsky.social @therealspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surface parking is an untapped gold mine of value, especially city-owned lots. Here’s the surface parking acreage within Houston city limits. Some of the city’s most valuable land is parking lots generating little property tax and near-zero sales tax. Your taxes subsidize those lots downtown.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is actually so funny to me. No, the Seattle mayor is not going to take it upon herself to find a permanent source of funding for a council created program in which they get to pick their own transportation projects to be funded and then take credit for them. I can't believe you brought it up.
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Evan @evan7257.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Former president of the Texas Farm Bureau: Ken Paxton has the "morals of a lizard" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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Texas Farm Bureau endorsed Ken Paxton. Big mistake.
“Paxton has the morals of a lizard,” writes Bob Stallman, a former president of both American Farm Bureau and Texas Farm Bureau.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026
A full minute for emergency response travel reductions is considerable. That's great.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hookworm
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heading to Arizona for a talk tomorrow - totally normal to give an insurance talk for a bunch of tree ringers right? Get ready for some hurricanes and wildfires and floods, oh my. outreach.ltrr.arizona.edu/tree-ring-ta... Thanks @thirstygecko.bsky.social for the invite!
Assessing climate impacts in current disaster risk
Or, insurers don't get to wait for 2100
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 AUSTIN AREA! 🚨 I have 8 of these and need ‘em dispatched before next week! They’re two-sided, 100% waterproof corrugated vinyl, and come with a two-pronged metal stake for your yard. $25 cash or Venmo/CashApp! Pickup only from RR because I have a busted ankle!
An orange sign (they’re more orange IRL, like a reddish orange) reading “drugs are expensive. No one is putting them in your kid’s candy”. An orange sign (they’re more orange IRL, like a reddish orange) reading “drugs are expensive. No one is putting them in your kid’s candy”.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amen
Wood block print of Dorothy Day holding a placard stating “our manifesto is the sermon on the mount”
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's an excerpt: 2/2
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Alan Jackson @akjackson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's images
Nice slump feature in Santa Clarita World's largest supercharger station Cute little ctenophores in the Monterey Bay aquarium. They look like transparent gherkins.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is true that the world can be ugly at times, but it can also be very beautiful as well, full of miraculous wonders. Try to remind yourself of this as often as you can
An early painting by Piet Mondrian, titled "Mill in Sunlight," from 1908. The picture is mostly built up of small strokes and lines of paint, in vivid colors, red, orange, and yellow among them
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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I take a bus or walk the street, I feel I'm in church. People have heads bowed into their sacred screens, deep in prayer, waiting for the god app to update. Ai may be all-seeing, but it can't give you a glimpse of heaven; those burning smells are data centers; hell unfolding in front of you.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s a way.. 😅
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another piquant Helene Kröller-Müller anecdote: in 1939, as threat of war loomed, she lobbied to have bomb shelter built at her museum—where her beloved artworks were stored during WWII. I was there in 2019 when museum temporarily allowed visitors to enter tijdlijn.krollermuller.nl/en/timeline/...
Decorated hillside entranceBomb shelter-like interior, with ladder
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nan a @sorrisa7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OH…. I love this! Didn’t know this fact One of our trips to Netherlands we took the train out there , then hopped on the free bikes and spent the day there enjoying both inside AND outside ☺️
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Living the best life.. 😊
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
live shot of travel anxiety creeping up right on schedule
cartoon image of me with a brain-like creature wrapping tentacles around me
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026
This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...
Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.
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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yikes. Glad I'm not is Seville!
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And for the record, I am not Team Data Center, but I am Team Baserates Are Really Important and People Don't Get Upset Enough About How They Are Overlooked Too Often.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Total private construction is about $1.6 TRILLION per year. Total data center construction is about $50 BILLION. So data centers are ~3% of all construction. There's no real crowding out here. Comparing total spending change from such RADICALLY different baserates tells us almost nothing.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My account always talk about Ms. Scott. She does the work and not enough people talk about her. She put her money were her mouth is. So far, her work is on the scale of Dolly's work. Both white women that I have love for.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
It's almost as if an attempt to suppress certain speech leads to more people being aware of it. Someone should coin a phrase that encapsulates that phenomenon.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💪Pope Leo XIV asked if he had anything to do with the White Sox going from 41-121 to the playoffs. His response: “No comment.”🇺🇸
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