Reposted by Skitch85Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence 1373717767
Reposted by Skitch85Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Just because it's an amazing stat, the Chicxulub asteroid impact, the one now almost universally cited as the decisive cause of the dinosaur era mass extinction event is thought to have had the force of roughly 5 billion Nagasaki nuclear detonation blasts. 3573478
Reposted by Skitch85Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026He bailed on higher education after spending just five years as an assistant professor, but during that time he came to some sweeping conclusions about all of academia. 4058182
Reposted by Skitch85Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest 912345415
Reposted by Skitch85Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Jamelle asks the question that, in retrospect, is the obvious and pressing one: why do we tolerate this? And it’s clearly not because we need his cars or even his rockets, which makes any plausible answer all the more disturbing. 451085320
Reposted by Skitch85mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo... 2074094
Reposted by Skitch85ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Have a seat. 317212
Reposted by Skitch85Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Russell's teapot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell... 03512
Reposted by Skitch85New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The death of third spaces is really giving people brain rot. Children should have access to public spaces because this is how they learn to behave. Community cohesion depends on one’s willingness to help out with childcare. It is weird to me not to see children existing in public like public transit 5546171
Reposted by Skitch85Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on thisstatnews.comTop ultra-processed food researchers call for sweeping policy change: ‘The system is rigged’A survey finds that ultra-processed foods are a cross-partisan concern. And yet policy has been slow to follow. 411709256
Reposted by Skitch85derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026not polite to call some people stupid, but it is genuinely a party of stupid people 22792921447
Reposted by Skitch85The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know." 373166153810
Reposted by Skitch85Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was consulted. LLMs do not consult, even with RAG. A citation might be *included* but it's not *consulted*. 8472100
Reposted by Skitch85Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 233168345157
Reposted by Skitch85Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026To light a candle is to cast a shadow. 06717
Reposted by Skitch85Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 11/05/2026Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.nbcchicago.comChicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parentsAn 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody. 45261222469
Reposted by Skitch85The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.* 5831031222
Reposted by Skitch85Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"In the second Comey case, prosecutors seem to have distorted the law itself—which raises questions about whether or not they accurately instructed the grand jury about the legal standards at issue. The SPLC case also displays this new tactic of suggesting the law is simply other than it is." Alas. 410640
Reposted by Skitch85Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026No, the NHS didn’t do anything of the sort. The evidence the NHS didn’t do that is the third paragraph in the hit piece. Any decent paper would have trashed the piece during the pitch phase, but the Telegraph runs dozens of these articles every single day. The Telegraph must be destroyed 2025272
Reposted by Skitch85Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Orban consolidated power by making the electoral system less proportional and gerrymandering districts of very unequal sizes. That gave Orban supermajorities when the opposition was divided and less popular—but it turned an opposition landslide into a supermajority that can now dismantle the regime 211637403
Reposted by Skitch85Talia al Ghoul 🏳️⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/ 1092242846
Reposted by Skitch85Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!” 16475092089
Reposted by Skitch85Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/03/20263/4 To put it differently, nothing has materially changed. The US and Chinese imbalances are bigger than ever and growing, but their composition has shifted a little. This just confirms what should have always been obvious: bilateral trade restrictions are a total waste of time. 1409
Reposted by Skitch85Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 8967582114
Reposted by Skitch85Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The Lights Are On and We are Home. This Morning at Wrigley Field for the Home Opener. Go Cubs Go! 218350
Reposted by Skitch85Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone 14451701635
Reposted by Skitch85Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 20/03/2026Did the AI language generator generate the exact kind of language you requested it to generate? Should we call a press conference? Should we invite Eliza?? 140039
Reposted by Skitch85Stinson Dean @lumber.trading · 12/03/2026It's a lot easier to explain now: 12466107
Reposted by Skitch85Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER. 812839900
Reposted by Skitch85Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 15381663434
Reposted by Skitch85Ben DuBose @bendubose.bsky.social · 22/02/2026By the way, a reminder on Jack Hughes, since the grifters are already trying to hijack his postgame interview www.vogue.com/article/meet... 12990271
Reposted by Skitch85Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719). 261932548
Reposted by Skitch85Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 22/02/2026We cut child poverty in half across this whole country and also instituted universal free meals in public schools across this whole country. And then we let those policies expire. During the previous administration. 432375
Reposted by Skitch85Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again. 71862452
Reposted by Skitch85Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops. 16273091876
Reposted by Skitch85Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”therage.coHackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance WebThree hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet. 6860263827
Reposted by Skitch85It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026In desperation to generate support for changing the US vaccine schedule, CDC appointees allied with Kennedy circumvented scientific & ethical safeguards to 'experiment' with Hep B vaccination in West Africa. The Crimes Against Humanity administration. 🧪 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comNew Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC ApprovalA new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau. 6282146
Reposted by Skitch85Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/20262026 basically 3024089110873
Reposted by Skitch85Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026W/out reposting the vid, I want to make a different point about RFK Jr & his fellow travelers. Whether it's his workout, supplement, or eating regimen, Trump's makeup, everyone w/in 4 degrees of Trump's plastic surgery fetishes, all of it is done not for actual improvement of one's self. 1/ 221943
Reposted by Skitch85Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 10/02/2026West Ham were 2-0 up on Chelsea into the 69th minute, and 1-0 up on United in the 95th minute and came away with a single point. 1221
Reposted by Skitch85The Roddenberry Foundation 🖖 @roddenberryfdn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026In her @newscientist.com column, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein did not mince words: Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek. The idea that a heavily corporate and militarized approach to exploration will create a prosperous future? Illogical. @chanda.blacksky.app 223060
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