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Dave Clark @daveclarkreports.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't want to get a colleague into trouble, but the chain of blame goes back at least until June

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How my email finds you

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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A MAN *BANG* *BANG* A PLAN *BANG* *BANG* A CANAL *BANG* *BANG*

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨

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Three Montecito County fires near Big Sur have burned nearly 60,000 acres

In Mendocino County, the total area burned by three fires grew to nearly 60,000 acres on Saturday.

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Carrie Spooner @carriespooner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Den optimalen Einklang von Quatschen und Machen nennt man Word-Life-Balance.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you are following the discussion of how/ if climate change is accelerating, worth noting that we have known for a long time that scientists have consistently UNDER-estimated the threat of climate change: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?

Over the past two decades, skeptics of the reality and significance of anthropogenic climate change have frequently accused climate scientists of “ala…

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Boss-level science communication here, 10/10 no notes

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well, folks, our field is toast, but at least we have Binface.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've finally found it. The most painful science montage in movie history. Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009) Yes, Gen X, that is singer Debbie Gibson as oceanographer 'Emma MacNeil'. But the important thing is: she's keeping an accurate lab notebook.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of the most important questions in the history of biology, posed during an 1837 discussion of agricultural breeding in Brnö by Abbé Cyrill Napp, the man who recruited Mendel: "What is inherited and how?" (Transliteration, translation, reference and source in Alt)

Hr. Prälat Cyrill Napp reaffumirt in ge-
drängter Kürze den Gang der bisherigen Debatte,
tritt der von Hrn. Direktor Liehr geäußerten An-
ficht bei, macht aufmerksam, daß man von dem
eigentlichen Verhandlungsthema über die Vererbungs-
fähigkeit ganz abgekommen; es handle sich nicht um
die Theorie des Züchtungsvorganges, sondern die
Frage fey: Was vererbt und wie?

Google translate: Prelate Cyrill Napp briefly summarizes the course of the debate thus far and concurs with the view expressed by Director Liehr, pointing out that the discussion has strayed entirely from the actual subject—heritability; the issue at hand is not the theory of the breeding process, but rather the question: What is inherited, and how?

Mittheilungen der K.K. Mährisch-Schlesischen Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde in Brünn: 29. Nummer 1837

https://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche/simple?query=Mittheilungen&from=191&sort=date%20asc&selectedFilters=title:mgb&selectedFilters=date:%5B1834%20TO%201837%5D

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What we really need is more people who want to get involved with beetle taxonomy, truly the greatest gift of all

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

oh and this specific diagram

Jiri Hulcr's good ol' alignment chart of xyleborine scolytid (sorry, scolytine) pronota in dorsal view. It is a series of more or less gumdrop-shaped outlines, like the police would draw on the site of a mass Minion mortality event

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"This was not an attempt to find a ‘patient zero,’ but to gain a greater understanding of the outbreak from the perspective of the communities where it first began.” Excellent piece by @kakape.bsky.social on new WHO study that refreshingly doesn't focus on patient zero and zoonotic origin stories.

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Florian Ellebrecht @floellebrecht.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Die Zugchefin bietet direkt morgens um 7 Uhr mal einen Gin Tonic an, für die, die es nach diesem Start in den Tag brauchen 😂

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 30/07/2026

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

William Howard Taft campaign poster, 1908

Floating head, with “BILL” in huge letters

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's my thesis that the Habsburg/Hapsburg lip/jaw was noticed as a family trait only in the mid-C19 (so sez ngram viewer), but I can't find any decent historiography of the issue, despite it being so notorious. There's loads of medical speculation, but that's not what I'm after. Any ideas? Pls RT

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 27/07/2026

Those cords were optimized for standing up to the handset being dragged into a different room and having the door closed on it while speaking to the cute person you had a crush on via the communal wall phone in the kitchen.

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 27/07/2026

Web Design trends in 1995 – Apple – Adobe – Pizza Hut – Netscape #WebDesignHistory

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Strong reporting, painting a picture of banal Trumpist corruption: •FDA & CDC try to carry on, but are subordinate to WH, and Taylor Farms knows this •Contact tracing connects cases to Taylor-Farms-supplied Taco Bell locations, so WH helps out Trump-ally by fudging agency message to blame Taco Bell

A pair of White House officials convened a call with the FDA and the CDC, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House aides asked administration health officials to walk through specific evidence linking the outbreak to the lettuce, and wanted to review drafts of the coming press releases.
Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release - though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

NYT surfaces an old photo of Troy Jackson. Caption: "Mr. Jackson, center in a Chicago Bulls hat, got his start in politics in the 1990s by organizing fellow loggers in Maine’s northern tip." #MEpolitics

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Daniel Liu 🍜 @dan-liu.net · 21/07/2026

I admit that it was only this year that I realized Crate & Barrel and The Container Store are two different stores.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You missed the obvious explanation: an art student.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this

sign that says STAFF PICK:
The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson
Please turn to page 108, because I need to tell you something.

page 108 says:

HE'S GOT A KNIFE, AND HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
PUT THIS DOWN AND RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!
GO THIS WAY. →

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Peter Neumann @peterneumann.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

„Wir wollen den Ticketkauf für unsere Fahrgäste einfacher, digitaler und komfortabler machen.“ Künftig werden Fahrscheine „schnell, papierlos und intuitiv“ erworben. #BVG #Berlin #VBB @igeb.bsky.social @vdv.bsky.social @matthias-gastel.de www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/digi...

berliner-zeitung.de

Berlin schafft Fahrscheinautomaten ab: Diese Geräte sollen sie bei der BVG ersetzen

Verkehrssenatorin kündigt Revolution im Nahverkehr an. Berliner Fahrgastverband warnt: Papiertickets und Bargeldzahlung sollen verschwinden.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this is not an unusual story yet I'm always moved when I see an example of it

Fi nally, I am eternally indebted to my loving parents, Wang Hu-
ichang and Chen Xiuyun. Although they received little education because
Acknowl edgments xv
of the Cultural Revolution, they have always made my education a high
priority, for which they made huge sacrifices in my childhood. Although
they understand very little of what I do as a historian, they have never
stopped believing in me and have tried their utmost to support all the
choices I have made in my career and life. I only hope that this book will
make them proud.

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 08/07/2026

It’s amazing how you can be the quintessential jie jie with off-the-charts jie jie energy but the moment you are with someone else who not only has jie jie energy but is actually older than you, you immediately transform into a little mei mei like in a fantasy movie where the hero loses their powers

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A useful case study in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a Meta data center that discharged water into the city's reclaimed water system that tested positive for an opportunistic pathogen, Cupriavidus gilardii. Let's explore how data centers can DIRECTLY harm human health.

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Eleanor @theotheror.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My mom's friend apparently grew up in her dad's paper goods factory which featured a Slitter and a Slotter; he used to answer the phone with "United Dividers, united we stand, dividers we sell!" Imagine this level of job satisfaction

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

wake uppe chat, newe schism just droppid

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This example is absurd, but it's also Really Very Bad. Springer Nature apparently has bots withdrawing papers from its immense catalog, with no human oversight. They are abdicating their responsibility to preserve the historic record. (2/4)

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Daniel Liu 🍜 @dan-liu.net · 29/06/2026

As this video shows, police water cannons can be used in more humane ways than direct blasts. The Berlin police this summer is using them to create mist to cool down tourists. In winter 2020 the Sprühnebel mode was used on anti-Covid-lockdown protesters to gently encourage them to go home.

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Berlin police using water cannons to cool crowds in the heat

Posted in r/interestingasfuck by u/unknown_human • 49,711 points and 2,008 comments

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Daniel Liu 🍜 @dan-liu.net · 29/06/2026

via @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social, Springer Nature "retracted" two essays by Max Planck in the journal Die Naturwissenschaften from 1940 and 1942 and have tried to remove them from the historical record. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So has anyone else noticed this insane series Law360 is running? www.law360.com/articles/173...

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A short thread on the materials I am cutting from my Internet Law casebook because they have been abrogated or replaced by Cox v. Sony: …

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Jake Oliver @jolivernyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If Dan Goldman represented a suburban district he'd have been fine. He was never a good fit for a preeminent hotbed of leftist activism. He only won the first time because progressives split the vote. Lander is a former citywide elected. This was expected. The other two races...wow.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There was apparently a zombie apocalypse in the necropolis - this one clawed its way out

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