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Mike Dark

@darkmich.bsky.social
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Veterinarian, scientist, pathologist, dad

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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 13h
Where does the law stand on UI copyright? I know that was a thing for a while, and was wondering if Adobe might be able to get someone for having an interface that is too similar to theirs, even if the code is not an issue.
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have this frequently as a pathologist. “It’s going to cost XX for the path on this.“ “We don’t have that in our budget!” “Possibly, check with path before submission rather than after funding when it’s a key component of your grant?”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"what do you mean, people have to remember how to count?" is only possible if you have used mindbogglingly vast resources to outsource every smallest possible hassle in your life to someone else.
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
<yelling> “WHAT’S THAT WHISTLING SOUND??” “Don’t worry about it!”
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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I hinted at this in the attached piece and @bretdevereaux.bsky.social has done a great job drawing out even more historical conclusions, but the OP’s point bears repeating: Liberalism is absolutely a military advantage angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/12/d...
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Diversity: The U.S. Military’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
In the woods of northeast France, a group of American artillery officers watched their olive drab-clad batterymen set up their tents in a peaceful glade. It would be the last such quiet the battery…
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That's my music
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve read plenty of “They must have known Canada would never agree to this, so the logical conclusion is that they didn’t want to make a deal at all” takes. And yes, that’s the logical conclusion if they knew what they were doing. But I truly don’t think we can take that for granted anymore.
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🐈‍⬛ Emmaline, Segrentarri of Snakkies & 👵🏼Jean, her human @jeanchimera.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I keep re-watching this, and laughing harder and harder each time.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 21/08/2026
In fact it's the reverse, the problem with attempts to compromise on the principles around scientific integrity and ethics is that they fundamentally introduce flaws into the information that can be gathered, into the understandings that are produced from such research, that persist for decades.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 19/08/2026
wife: what's wrong? me: I just got diagnosed with dyslexia wife: wtf me: no actually this is bad
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
to recap: so Hong got 40% in Wisconsin which shows voters decisively rejected democratic socialism, but Fishback 10% in Florida, so the far-right is winning.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’ve seen a few people commenting today that the idea of separating the MMR vaccine into three separate shots might be a good strategy to get anti-vax parents to vaccinate. Absolutely not. Here’s why. First, countering anti-vax misinformation is like playing whack a mole. You bat down one lie…
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If only Scotland would stop jumping out from behind a tree at helpless ships.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The NIH just released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will make it easier to hide political manipulation of grant funding. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-opposite...
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The opposite of “transparency”: Sneaking Lysenkoism into NIH peer review
On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
cardsagainsthumanity.com
Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?
We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
IT’S AN ILLUSION
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And no one missed it.
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Say what you want about DOS-based software, but most of the time it got the job done and was generally faster. I still miss command lines (and use them pretty often on my Mac).
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Where was this when I had mine last year??? Honestly, choking down two liters of salty "lemon"-flavored liquid was the worst part.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What do you call it when the federal government secedes from the union?
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks for this - it’s a great deep dive.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 26/07/2026
From @gregggonsalves.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1882...
The reality is, most people don’t really understand what public health does. The pandemic increased that sense of uncertainty and misunderstanding, Gonsalves said. “It’s not masking and vaccine mandates. It’s the fact that you don’t get food poisoning when you walk into a restaurant, the water coming out of your tap isn’t filled with lead, your building tiles aren’t filled with asbestos, you don’t have to deal with polio or other childhood infectious diseases.” In order to save public health, we need to understand the countless and almost entirely invisible ways it saves our lives every day.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why don't they just get the corpus from Project Gutenberg? Hell, why don't they at least contribute TO Project Gutenberg while they're at it?
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Essential foreign aid programs: destroyed Our transatlantic alliance: on the ropes Our trading relationships: in tatters The intelligence community: purging itself The Military: willingly fighting a costly war The Legislature: Abdicating all power The States: failing to meet the moment
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’s impressive how this administration is determined to destroy every single thing that has been the basis of American power postwar. Like I’ve never heard of an empire that not even willingly ended, but outright hastened it. They seem determined to leave this country as a regional power at best
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.
Chart of the polio vaccine obliterating poliochart of the measles vaccine smashing measles into bits
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
racism, if we're being honest.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026
you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026
Preventing explosive diarrhea was apparently too DEI for the DOGE crew
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Verify your age.” Successfully emulates a 1200 baud modem connection sequence
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Previously: the American Heresy, explained (you will have to scroll way up and reparent to get the thread start even though I swear it's the short version) bsky.app/profile/raha...
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Who is a biological male? Is it based on genetics (XY), external genitalia, or gonads? What about people with ovotestes?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
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2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute
Literacy Statisitics
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This isn't "Bob takes a long time to read something" This is "Bob literally cannot understand that the villain of a story is doing bad things unless the villain stops and says 'I am doing bad things right now btw'"
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm old enough to recognize this as a data center
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Mike Dark @darkmich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why are the officers who lied not held liable?
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APHA @apha.org · 22/06/2026
If OMB's proposed changes to the federal grant process are enacted, political appointees could: 1. Make funding decisions regardless of the advice of scientists. 2. Stop funding midway through a promised grant period. 3. Institute new rules, including rules severely limiting foreign interactions.
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The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“You there, boy! What British Prime Minister is it?”
Muppet Christmas Carol scene with Scrooge yelling out window.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Breaking: Labour Party bans itself from public toilets as it transitions to having Andy Burnham as leader
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