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Gary Longsine 📱

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Liberal science is how we discover what's true, and what's not. Information security *is* national security. Free Birdseed podcast, for people who make software. InfoSec NatSec

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1h
It no longer makes economic sense to make long-term investments in fossil fuels. Solar panels are so cheap and batteries are so plentiful that not even the Trump administration can stop it. Hell, *Texas* can't even stop it!
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dame @dame.is · 9h
the fact that it’s abnormal and disincentivized to express some hope/optimism online from time to time is part of what got us in this mess
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dame @dame.is · 9h
i challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 9h
Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2h
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2h
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 5h
Donald Trump realllllly likes Les Misérables — you know, the musical about justice, redemption, and revolution against an oppressive social, political, and economic system… Maybe he just sees a little of himself in the innkeeper. 🤷‍♂️ @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h
NY Post: Dennis Rodman is expected to meet with President Trump on Thursday as prez plots Kim Jong Un reunion I wish I was making this up.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Arthur Delaney @delaneyrules.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt posterized himself trying to dunk on Jack Smith by accusing him of perjury over his supposed attendance at an NBA game. Smith said he was actually at a women’s college bball game “I don’t know if Jack Smith’s lying or not,” Schmitt told me afterward www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-s...
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Republican Senator Makes Embarrassing Mistake While Accusing Jack Smith Of Crimes
Supposed vice-presidential contender Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) seems to have mixed up basketball teams in an effort to nail a top Trump enemy.
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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt, of course, is a licensed attorney, has been for 26 years, and served as the Attorney General of the state of Missouri. He should face professional consequences. mobar.org/site/content...
Full Name: Schmitt, Eric Stephen
Bar Number: 49968
Date Admitted: 09/27/2000
Location: Saint Louis, MO 63122 United States
Current Standing: Good Standing
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5h
JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.com
ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h
Fox News and discussion groups on facebook do this, too, and the underlying mechanisms are probably similar. Consider: QAnon conspiracy theories. www.media.mit.edu/articles/the...
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The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis – MIT Media Lab
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h
People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 6h
Only 6 percent of rivers in the lower 48 are both healthy and meaningfully protected. A new map shows which ones to fix first. www.sciencenews.org/article/new-map…
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A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting
Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support aquatic life.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h
Tread of the Day 🥇 ⛽️ 🛢️🇺🇸🔥
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It’s not “Iran” nor the war, though, it’s only gas prices.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h
How did the Democrats lose the messaging war to Trump on the Trump-Russia scandal? I tell that story in a new article for The New Republic that's drawn from my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Check out the book at HowRussiaWon.com.
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How Trump Won the Russia Messaging War—and How the Democrats Lost It
When Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h
How about one that doesn’t empower gangs of bots to report your account as “rude” or “spam” to silence you with no functioning appeal process? cc: @mike10010100.com
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 6h
And its a 3-way race again...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11h
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 10h
Grasshopper Figure carved hematite c. 1800-1700 BC Old Babylonian culture Babylon #handmade #carved #hematite #grasshopper #art #sculpture #ancientsculpture #ancientart #Babylonia #culture #Babylon #EuphratesRiver #nature #beauty #ancientBabylonia #fertility #omen #astrology #locusts #foodsource
In ancient Babylonia and the broader Mesopotamian culture, grasshoppers (and their swarming phase, locusts) held a multi-layered, dual meaning. They represented both a positive symbol of fertility and abundance and a destructive force of nature used in divination and dietary sustenance.
In their solitary, non-destructive form, grasshoppers were viewed by Babylonians as symbols of the natural cycle, fertility, and abundance. Because they appeared in large numbers during agricultural cycles, they were tied to the life-giving forces of the earth.
This famous example is a beautifully detailed, nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian stone weight carved from hematite in the shape of a grasshopper (c. 1800–1700 BCE). Used in markets for fair trade transactions, the grasshopper shape on the weight likely invoked blessings of agricultural prosperity and nature.
When solitary grasshoppers crowded together and transformed into swarming locusts, their meaning shifted drastically. To the Babylonians, a locust swarm was a catastrophic event that could strip fields bare and cause widespread famine.
Babylonians were deeply invested in astrology and divination. Grasshopper and locust behavior was carefully documented in cuneiform omen series (such as the Šumma Ālu). A swarm of grasshoppers appearing in a specific city or flying in a particular direction was interpreted as a direct message or warning from the gods, usually predicting economic ruin, military invasion, or divine displeasure.
Despite the threat they posed to crops, grasshoppers were heavily utilized by Babylonians in daily practical life.
Babylonians actively harvested locusts and grasshoppers for food. Cuneiform records show that mass amounts of these insects were caught, preserved in brine, and transported over hundreds of kilometers to be eaten as a protein-rich delicacy or everyday staple.
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 6h
Dr. Strangelove • Mandrake and General Ripper • Bodily Fluids youtu.be/0he-LZNzVg0?...
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Dr. Strangelove Mandrake and General Ripper Bodily Fluids
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 7h
Researchers used a record player–like microscope to see DNA pairing for the first time. www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-zip…
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See the secret to DNA hookups
A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally r...
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6h
Voice www.sciencenews.org/article/the-...
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'The Deep End' podcast is back to explore what makes your voice yours
Season 2 follows people losing their ability to speak — and the AI and brain implants helping them find their voices again.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10h
The image of dominance is not the same as dominance. @jamellebouie.net explains how authoritarian spectacle works—and why puncturing the image matters. From LibCon2026. #LibCon2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
RFK Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them. (Published March)
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.social · 18h
www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/07... #egypt
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Ancient Egyptian princesses born 4,000 years ago were skilled archers, new study shows
Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures show that royal women could use the weapons they were buried with — but also that high status didn’t prevent hard
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
NEW: 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 that’s not what happened.
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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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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 8h
At (03:30) in this clip Senator Eric Stephen Schmitt (Republican, Missouri) quotes the Chief of Police under notorious Communist dictator, Joseph Stalin. Quoting dictators and their supporting cast of tyrant-sycophants and agents is a favorite move of the American far right, and it's weird.
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Skeet of the Day 🥇
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Mr.Eddie8976 @mreddie8976.bsky.social · 13h
They really had it *all* orchestrated, didn't they? The talking points, the tweets, the podcasters, the interview hits on Fox, the overall RW echo chamber ready to go into hyperdrive, etc They wanted to drive that all the way to Election Day But their incompetence and stupidity blew it all up
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 13h
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 9h
Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears  (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 9h
From sizzling drifter noir After Dark, My Sweet to sweaty, New Orleans-set Zandalee, Justin LaLiberty serves up twenty deep-cut erotic thrillers you probably haven’t seen. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/3o4
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h
I think we all saw that coming
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9h
West Side Story: Immigration is viewed as a boost to the economy and overall culture. Everybody dances but nobody dies. buff.ly/HBCpk8d
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Classic Movie Dilemmas Fixed by Socialism
“Alien: People are comfortable listening to women in authority and the creature never comes on board the ship. Nobody dies.” Feb 28 2021 October 4 2022 10/1/...
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 9h
Researchers recreated a medieval remedy and pitted it against modern-day bacteria. Now they have a better idea of why it performed surprisingly well. www.sciencenews.org/article/medieva…
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A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance
The 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire modern medicine.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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The Republican party has been organized around trickle-down economics for so long that they've come to believe their own lies; they now openly despise any and all people who aren't independently, generationally, wealthy. Ohio, show up for the mid terms and vote for @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 11h
Sprinters take note: exhaling might accelerate reaction times. www.sciencenews.org/article/reactio…
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Exhaling may speed up reaction times
Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on whether they’re breathing in or out.
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 12h
Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety are just some of the conditions that researchers are learning can accelerate certain age-related changes in the brain. www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-a…
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Brains don’t all act their age
A slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get older — and what can bring about those changes early.
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