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@asstrocyte.bsky.social
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Scientific Director, National Institute of Phrenology (she/her)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump redirected $176.9 million from a US human-rights fund towards global right wing groups, including $40 million for an “anti-communism” consortium and $1 million for fascist groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court days before the presidential election.
yacnews.com
Trump diverts $176.9m of Human Rights aid to far-right groups; targets Europe, Canada and South America
Marco Rubio overrode congressional holds, a Democratic aide said. The money funds opponents of Brazil's supreme court days before its vote and Europeans who reject "gender ideology", as Trump official...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
😉
the-decoder.com
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s fine as a torrent indexer *if* you can get past the extremely heavy Cloudflare protection by using some new flaresolverr fork and testing all 100 mirror links. Then it’ll break again in a month
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh huh no shit (yes shit, in the salad and the salsa and the guac, because multinational food producers force their underpaid workers to literally shit in the fields where they grow food Americans to eat)
reuters.com
Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole from Walmart, Kroger over salmonella risk
Taylor Farms said on Sunday it was recalling prepared food items containing jalapenos from retailers, including Walmart, ‌Kroger and Whole Foods in some states, over concerns about potential salmonell...
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of the great silver linings of this decade is that you can play Burnout: Revenge on a Steam Deck
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Fair, I’m mostly wishing for a parsimonious way to stay out of the news cycle, which won’t happen until fascists cease to exist.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How likely is it for someone to find out that, for example, their E/T ratio is closer to the cis male mean without already knowing it due to complete masculinization? There are better ways to account for variability than a cutoff on raw T, or just test us bc treatment goals are low T / high E anyway
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Same internal conflict here 🙃 it all just seems fairly solvable with basic primary care medicine and statistics, and everyone acting like this is an Extremely Complex Issue with endless reductio ad absurdums is getting quite silly
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
(Balling on spiro sounds like its own unique type of disadvantage now that I think about it)
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yeah and even that sounds too restrictive in the sense that estradiol monotherapy can reduce T to cis women’s levels in less than two years, which is measurable in the same routine blood panels
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anniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.
Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views. Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
2027 will be the year of the linux desktop
xda-developers.com
Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter
The start of something big, or is something else affecting the numbers?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
axios.com
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And on the lab notebook these words appear: ‘Look on my TODOs, ye Mighty, and despair!’
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Half the posts here are blurry AI-generated images of Putin breastfeeding an obese baby Trump, what are you talking about
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/07/2026
its really ramped up in the last week with a lot of influencers parroting the same “she’s growing on me!” language, its been very blatant but probably impacting the election for those less tuned in
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We’ve got an election coming, and I’ve got to let it rip” okay girl beyblade-con is in the other room
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Important to remember that Fauci has the coolest headshot ever taken, plus the old NIH logo and lab patch go extremely hard
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
>50% of this ecosystem is currently reposts of blurry Facebook “memes” (wall of text over an AI image of Trump wearing a diaper) from sketchy engagement-farming accounts. I don’t think we’re getting Old Twitter back on any platform
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How come all I’m seeing on bluesky dot com about the president doing The Implication™ with our next election is the occasional Facebook cross-post that completely misses the gravity of the situation? Do only Twitter/X users understand when we’re genuinely fucked or am I using this site wrong
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The coming political realignment is going to hit like a fucking hammer and either elections are going to be effectively rigged going forward or we’re going to see the kind of politics most people thought literally impossible.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m distracted by the sea of cowboy hats, is that a regular indoor Texas thing or only to prove how really Texan they are for press conferences?
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The study of the actual biology of sex/gender in the brain is being shut down because these idiots don’t want to risk finding out that the existence of trans people makes perfect sense mechanistically
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pretty damning case against liberal capitalism that the list of top fascism-funders is just the S&P 500
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just one more thing. If Mitch is fine and recuperating why is there only one suspiciously staged picture of him? Did the iPhone run out of film?
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Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo Thinking
ALT: Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo Thinking
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arsnof @arsnof.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They’re having a completely normal one over at the National Review this weekend
Homer's ancient Greek poem The Odyssey is beside the point of Nolan's ambition.
Adapting the story of Odysseus — the king of Ithaca making an extended journey home after the Trojan War and encountering various natural and supernatural forces along the way - Nolan depart from his regular focus on moral futility. The casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus (rather than an ambiguous figure like Gerard Butler's feral King Leonidas in 300) lets us know that this makeover is meant for liberals.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thanks! Does subscribing to them block *all* those labels though or can I pick and choose? This is something I should already know considering I’ve been on bluesky for a long time
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I think Twitter’s algorithm still has some parameter just right to form subculture bubbles, while on Bluesky half my feed is just the big hashtag blue wave lib accounts posting blurry AI memes about Trump. Not going back though
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026
Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Making people directly associate your name with “parasitic explosive diarrhea illness” a few months before an election is probably not sustainable
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artisanrox (It's "AI".) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
With alt text
A Tweet.

Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY wrote:

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC's own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.


She quotes ABC News @ABC.

@ABC wrote:

Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection caused by a parasite, are currently being reported in nearly three dozen states, according to an @ABC News tally.  [link]
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My new head canon is that they’re faking his phone conversations with AI
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
They’re pretending Mitch McConnell is alive until the chance for a special election is over, so idk if they’re losing that seat
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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Im sitting here fully angry that these wretches have caused so much pain I'm enjoying their passing. I dont like that theyve made me this way for real.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Anti-privacy laws always have the vibe of spitting in everyone’s face. Like as a category they’re just strikingly disdainful of the entire population
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Mark @sdphilliesfan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
no senator should be allowed to be on life support during an election year, pull the plug
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
She was held in the detention centre that was owned by Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding guest.
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A virtual private server (VPS, distinct from VPN) in a country with strong privacy laws is also a good option. That would outsource the server-hosting but leave all the actual management up to you, as it’s your virtual machine that you’d VPN into
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asstrocyte @asstrocyte.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
With backups or redundancy I hope! RAID or similar?
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depressioncore @princesscore.meangirls.online · 05/07/2026
"this was never about trans women, it's about policing gender standards" i mean clarence thomas wrote more or less that trans women are mentally ill men who believe themselves to be women so idk it kinda seems like this might be about trans women
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