Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4hremember: 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. 332882687
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1hIt 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! 04511
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱dame @dame.is · 9hthe 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 1714
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱dame @dame.is · 9hi 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 1323213
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet? 18172541796
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 9hOh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨ 16445108
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2hTEXAS: Donate *directly* to up to 75 candidates running in #UnlikelyHeroes districts at once here! secure.actblue.com/donate/tx26h...secure.actblue.comChip in!Show your support with a contribution. 144
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2hWISCONSIN: Donate *directly* to up to 37 candidates running in #UnlikelyHeroes districts at once here! secure.actblue.com/donate/wi26h...secure.actblue.comChip in!Show your support with a contribution. 142
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 5hDonald 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 39519
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3hI, 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. 391487249
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4hNY 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. 4429887
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 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. 412633389
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Arthur Delaney @delaneyrules.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eric 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...huffpost.comRepublican Senator Makes Embarrassing Mistake While Accusing Jack Smith Of CrimesSupposed vice-presidential contender Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) seems to have mixed up basketball teams in an effort to nail a top Trump enemy. 073
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eric 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... 0124
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5hJUST 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...storage.courtlistener.com#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.comORDER. 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... 101519392
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4hFox 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...media.mit.eduThe Chatbot-Delusion Crisis – MIT Media LabResearchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.” 000
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5hPeople 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...404media.coSomeone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI YetThe "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." 1521858
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 6hOnly 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…sciencenews.orgA new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protectingScientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support aquatic life. 083
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4hIt’s not “Iran” nor the war, though, it’s only gas prices. 010
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5hHow 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.newrepublic.comHow Trump Won the Russia Messaging War—and How the Democrats Lost ItWhen Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies. 811524
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9hStill 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 531490293
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4hHow 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 000
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 6hAnd its a 3-way race again... 1015414
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11hBreaking 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. 39714405
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 10hGrasshopper 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 12469109
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 6hDr. Strangelove • Mandrake and General Ripper • Bodily Fluids youtu.be/0he-LZNzVg0?...youtu.beDr. Strangelove Mandrake and General Ripper Bodily FluidsYouTube video by manwithnoname54 052
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 7hResearchers used a record player–like microscope to see DNA pairing for the first time. www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-zip…sciencenews.orgSee the secret to DNA hookupsA record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally r... 051
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6hVoice www.sciencenews.org/article/the-...sciencenews.org'The Deep End' podcast is back to explore what makes your voice yoursSeason 2 follows people losing their ability to speak — and the AI and brain implants helping them find their voices again. 000
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9hWhile 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." 77968191898
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10hThe 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 210014
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱ProPublica @propublica.org · 10hRFK 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)projects.propublica.orgThe Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines VanishResearchers 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. 24437226
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.social · 18hwww.frontiersin.org/news/2026/07... #egyptfrontiersin.orgAncient Egyptian princesses born 4,000 years ago were skilled archers, new study showsStrong 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 010324
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱ProPublica @propublica.org · 14hNEW: 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.propublica.orgA 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... 22023801145
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 8hAt (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. 110
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Klobuchar: “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.” 823845671
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 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 61568251534
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Mr.Eddie8976 @mreddie8976.bsky.social · 13hThey 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 2358479
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 13hDear 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 35973531722
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 9hFabulous 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 12677132
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 9hFrom 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 15210
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11hI think we all saw that coming 33346691429
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14hOmigod, 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. 2842691439
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9hWest Side Story: Immigration is viewed as a boost to the economy and overall culture. Everybody dances but nobody dies. buff.ly/HBCpk8dbuff.lyClassic 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/... 0213
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 9hResearchers 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…sciencenews.orgA medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistanceThe 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire modern medicine. 0156
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jesus Christ dude 492351708
Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 9hThe 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 021
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 11hSprinters take note: exhaling might accelerate reaction times. www.sciencenews.org/article/reactio…sciencenews.orgExhaling may speed up reaction timesScientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on whether they’re breathing in or out. 041
Reposted by Gary Longsine 📱Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 12hAlzheimer'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…sciencenews.orgBrains don’t all act their ageA slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get older — and what can bring about those changes early. 041