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Bill Kimler

@billkimler.bsky.social
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Mathematics & physics background, now a software product manager. Donated a kidney Jan 2022. Ran 1000 miles in a year once. Ran for office too in South Carolina!

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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't know... All this acquisition of another country's resources. I feel like we've been down this path before and it doesn't go well. See comments for previous examples.
aol.com
US seeks more access to Venezuela's mineral wealth after tapping its oil, sources say - AOL
By Jarrett Renshaw and Ernest Scheyder Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is seeking greater U.S. access to Venezuela's minerals, including gold, as it expands its push to gain control and
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Black White and Blue in the South Podcast @bwabits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In Ep 103, candidate for Lt. Governor, Sam Skardon, reveals a terrible truth about economic mobility in South Carolina. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/XPTGQBEbv9A Subscribe, download and listen today! linktr.ee/bwabits #SouthCarolina #SCPol #EconomicMobility #Poverty #LtGovernor #NewSC
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More people need to be aware just how close to disaster we came. The use of AI in military strikes is a recipe for disaster without accountability. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/r...
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want to fast-forward 40 years to see how history books have captured this absolutely insane point of time we're currently living through. #RFKJr #AntiVax
arstechnica.com
RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Holy ripoff of ripoffs! $700 for a fake plastic tree that's only a little taller than me?
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I miss the days when an Environmental Protection Agency you know, PROTECTED the freaking environment!
gizmodo.com
EPA to Power Plants: Flood the Air With As Much Coal and Oil Smog As You Like
Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you needed something else to keep you up at night. "Mirror organisms like bacteria could have the potential to spread unchecked into the environment and within our bodies, they warn, since they might be molecularly invisible to our natural defenses." (cont)
gizmodo.com
How Seriously Should We Take The Threat of Mirror Life?
In the not-too-distant future, we might be able to create mirror versions of organic life. But should we?
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yep - this is a common political discourse that I see 'round here.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I need a recommendation for a dog removal service. One that won't try to rip me off. Thank you!
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm not sure what to do with this information. As one who sits on the "older people" team... Yay?
ibtimes.com
Older People Surpass The Young In The World For The First Time In History: Report
There are now more seniors in the world than young children. The world will only get grayer as more time goes by, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just learned today that I have an "actor page" on IMDB. And yes, this is me - not someone else with the same name. I appeared in a student film a couple of years back and somehow that made its way over to IMDB! I am one step closer to my new career goals. www.imdb.com/name/nm16323...
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Reflect Orbital has plans to deploy up to 50,000 in-space mirrors mounted on satellites to create sunlight after dark." Does anyone else think this is an extremely bad idea?
gizmodo.com
This Startup Wants to Use Space Mirrors to Light Up Earth at Night. Feds Just Said Go Ahead
The startup will begin testing its idea of creating sunlight after dark.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gotta feed the machines over the humans, right?
futurism.com
Data Center Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction
A viral clip captured sprinklers watering the massive lawn of a brand new data center in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fire ants are assholes.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This type of destructive corporate greed is personal to me. From chopping down historic cherry trees in DC to make room for a golf course to the destruction of rare books to feed AI, humanity is being lost in the pursuit of wealth.
404media.co
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No, not today Satan! You will NOT ensnare me with this test of my company's cybersecurity phishing policy. I rebuke thee and report thee to my internal security department. You're not going to make ME do no cyberwalk of shame!
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is so awfully sad. Meanwhile, our Secretary of "War" is worrying about testosterone levels and "eradicating wokeness". "Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard...
theguardian.com
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What a touching and heart-wrenchingly beautiful piece of reflective writing. I think about this exact same scenario a lot. What would I do in identical circumstances? Reading this man's deliberative thought process was very helpful. There's no right answer. Only hard choices.
desmoinesregister.com
I’m deciding to die before Alzheimer’s takes my mind | Opinion
Rusty Martin of Des Moines is leaving for Switzerland in a few days to die. He wrote to explain how he came to this choice.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In an world filled with explosive diarrhea and salmonella poisoning, the timing of this abomination of a food product is the LAST thing we need!
nerdist.com
KFC Collaborates with OREO for a Fried Chicken Cookie
KFC and Oreo have collaborated to create the fried chicken cookie, keeping the chocolate wafers and adding herb-and-seasoning-flavored cream.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Where are the anti Green New Deal folk at? Oh - they're silently grateful for the clean energy that saved their hot hides! "New reporting by the Texas Tribune details the state’s rapid adoption of solar energy, specifically solar panels and storage batteries." (cont)
futurism.com
Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power
The Texas electrical grid broke several new records for solar generation amidst sweltering July heat waves.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tuesday morning vibes (🚨warning - EXPLICIT language🚨)
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What Atari 2600 games would YOU like to see turned into a film adaptation? Here's what comes to mind for me: ✅ Kaboom! ✅ Pitfall! ✅ Demon Attack ✅ Cosmic Arc ✅ E.T. (yeah, I know it was already a movie, but I'd like to see a new version where the here constantly falls into pit every 10 seconds)
deadline.com
Atari Signs Deal With Universal To Turn 10 Iconic Games Into Movies
Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio first look at developing 10 classic Atari video game properties for the big screen.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Its profits doubled compared to last year." Trump did ask oil industry executives to invest $1 billion for his campaign. And boy did it ever pay dividends for them!
futurism.com
Shell Is Profiting Massively Off the War in Iran
Fossil fuel giant Shell is reaping enormous profits thanks to spiking oil prices triggered by the conflict in Iran.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I don't care if this will blind or maim innocent passersby. I WANT ONE OF THESE BUG ZAPPERS!
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Really annoyed by this trend of putting "-maxxing" at the end of words to denote a new stupid fad.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I both needed and didn't need this today! 😂
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We can ALL be Batman in just 10 weeks! "A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks."
sciencealert.com
Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain
Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I know a good number of you are invested in the reproductive biology of naked mole rats, so here you go.
arstechnica.com
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
She developed a taste for human flesh at a very early age.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I just helped a turtle cross the road. I hope Jesus saw that and it balances out every crappy thing I've done in my life.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's a slow day in Law Enforcement when they issue a massive press release on the arrest of a 66-year-old for prostitution. I sleep easier tonight knowing our community has been made just a little bit safer as a result. 🙄
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've heard of "dying of a broken heart". But "Happy Heart Syndrome" is new to me.
gizmodo.com
A Mother Got So Happy at Her Daughter's Wedding That She Ended Up Hospitalized
A recent case report details how the women developed a rare condition nicknamed "happy heart syndrome."
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I dreamt last night that I was bonding with Stands with a Fist from "Dances with Wolves". She was struggling to remember how to speak English and I was trying to connect with her by showing how my Brother P-Touch label maker worked. I have some serious psychological issues to work out.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
To my Facebook friends out there: When you're asked to copy and paste a statement with the promise that it will change your Facebook feed or protect your private data, many say, "What's the harm in doing so? Better safe than sorry." (cont)
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I felt this writeup with every ounce of my existence.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Personally, I don't care about the World Cup. But THIS? I'd watch this 24 x 7!
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If we wanted to fast track the dismantling of all scientific progress in the United States and send us to the bottom rankings for advancements & research, this is precisely the way to do it!
thehill.com
Cancel culture for cancer research: Proposed rule politicizes federal grantmaking
The proposed federal regulation would shift the process of awarding federal grants from a merit-based, apolitical, expert-driven system to a partisan political one, allowing political appointees in…
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This model just up and quit working on us. Does anyone know of a good fix-it shop? Or should we just donate it to Goodwill?
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm going to convince my wife that we need to vacation in Florida in late October, so that I can sneak away one night by myself and go to this. #Hellraiser #CliveBarker
nerdist.com
HELLRAISER Coming to Universal Halloween Horror Nights 2026
Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites from Hellraiser are coming to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, in both Orlando and Hollywood.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just posting this here in case anyone needs a good idea for a birthday or Christmas gift to get me.
gizmodo.com
I Can’t Afford This T. Rex up for Auction at Sotheby’s. Starting Bid is $19 Million
Nicknamed “Gus,” this Tyrannosaurus rex is reportedly one of the biggest, most complete, and most expensive dinosaur fossils ever to be sold via a commercial auction.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is really, really creepy!
futurism.com
Meta Operated a Secret Program That Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Children and Teenagers While Having Disturbing Conversations With AI
Meta hired hundreds of contractors to pose as children and teenagers while asking chatbots like ChatGPT about suicide and even cannibalism.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Psychology says the exhaustion of modern life often isn’t from overwork, it’s from the fact that we’ve eliminated every attention gap — walks without a podcast, meals without screens — and the brain never gets the empty space it needs to recover"
bolde.com
Psychology says the exhaustion of modern life often isn't from overwork, it's from the fact that we've eliminated every attention gap — walks without a podcast, meals without screens — and the brain n...
We should be the most relaxed people who ever lived—endless entertainment, distraction in every pocket. So why are we so tired? The answer has less to do with what we're doing than with the empty mome...
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Forget the Revolutionary War bravery. THIS is a hundred times more brave: "Dicey Langston married Thomas Springfield in 1783, and they moved to Travelers Rest, where they had 22 children." #SouthCarolina #RevolutionaryWar
aol.com
SC Upstate teenage Revolutionary War spy honored with new statue & garden. Here’s her story - AOL
A South Carolina Upstate teenage Revolutionary War spy was recently honored with her own statue & garden. Here’s her story.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is EXACTLY the same level of help I can expect from my wife if I'm in a similar predicament!
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am not one to take illegal drugs or hallucinogenic mushrooms. But in this specific case, I might make an exception. "Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough"
livescience.com
'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Can't say I understood everything in this article, but it's a fascinating subject to consider. "That may sound like a trick of language, but it is an important physical distinction. Einstein’s speed limit applies to matter, energy, and information. These singularities are none of those." #Physics
thebrighterside.news
Darkness can travel faster than the speed of light — without breaking Einstein’s relativity
Physicists tracked dark points inside light in real time and found many appeared to move faster than light without breaking relativity.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Damn... What's it going to be like in YOUR area?
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is the exact OPPOSITE of a relaxing vacation for me! This is more anxiety-inducing than those ridiculous "escape rooms".
kansascity.com
Unplugged Travel in 2026: Inside the Rise of No-Phone, No-WiFi Luxury Vacations
Inside the rise of unplugged travel, where guests trade constant connectivity for silence, presence and screen-free rest.
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Bill Kimler @billkimler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I've been watching the full Monty Python TV series recently and this article brought warmness to my heart! #MontyPython www.atlasobscura.com/places/terry...
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