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Doctor Apatite

@doctorapatite.bsky.social
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Formerly skittle-haired, charmingly insubordinate, punk rock ukulele, mid-century glassware collecting, BVB/USMNT/USWNT/USYNT supporting, Belgian-loving, planetary scientist. ♿️ Normally busy making hand-crafted mischief for the swap meet of science.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Dennis Hastert had still been alive
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 22h
the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
2020: Democrat Stalin and transgender
2026: Democrat Stalin
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 12h
Normally I'm opposed to burning books, but I'll make an exception here.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 12h
This is why I can't forgive people who voted for him even once.
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captainfrogbert.bsky.social @captainfrogbert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The core principle of conservatism is that I am free to do and say things to YOU that I would consider criminal if YOU did or said them to ME.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 20h
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)
A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye.  It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 05/10/2026
Glad I learned about parallelograms in high school instead of how to do taxes. It comes in handy during the parallelogram season!
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Geologists declare new definition of "star" that omits sun.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big rocks.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reyna's hand gesture also a classic.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026
It took like a week for him to change his mind on the "enjoy the camps" thing. All it took was people saying it to the mod team instead of trans people.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Skinner: Am I Out of Touch?
Alt: Skinner: Am I Out of Touch?
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can you imagine losing 3-0 to the #USMNT and your team not being the worst part of a match? #TNT
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Without immigrants, you don't have this amazing USMNT team.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would also like to sue New England because Fall was advertised as this magical time but there's only 3 weeks between the last heatwave and the first snowstorm, both in October. Fall colors are brown leaves in an icy slush, peep that.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When your management PROMISES that something extremely insulting and hurtful won't happen again and then it happens again at THE VERY NEXT OPPORTUNITY.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My goal was never to make people want to die from the shame of their poor science, that was just a happy accident. I'm kidding, those people have no shame.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love when Boston chooses *this* kind of October morning.
The sun rising over the Boston skyline, directly behind a building and giving it a halo while also illuminating the fall trees on the Charles
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning
a black cat lounging with a cocktail
"I have once again decided to be difficult"
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My @propublica.org colleagues have no business running a private school for kids. And yet they were easily able to start schools in two states -- with a third ProPublica Academy pending that would be located inside a North Carolina bar.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Glad I turned down the interview request when these same reporters were doing a story on murder.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How was my day? At the drive-up pharmacy window I was asked a follow-up "No, really are you okay?" question.
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Avail - Union
YouTube video by FuckingFoxy
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The timeline disagrees
Snapshot of bsky timeline showing an article called "The Worst Way to End the Trump Era" followed coincidentally by a quote from The Princess Bride "Kill me quickly".
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is the day to ask the Apollo curator if he is a beardo or a weirdo.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Unwinder
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Generative Al has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they say living well is the best revenge and that's true, but if we're all being honest seeing bad things happen to people you hate is also pretty high up on the list
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The death penalty, but for punching up.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AND THE SAND CLAYED LOAMING MATILDA
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whistleblower Protection Act (1989)
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me: I'm an alum, I'd like to sign this! Them: Just give your current affiliation for ID purposes Me: Yeah I work for Darth Tangerine so no thanks.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026
This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...
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We call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements
[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Forget about all those rejections, that wasn't about you" and also "DAPR will help you a lot" were two consecutive pieces of wisdom I received once, in case you were wondering how my career was going.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah yes, the "standard business practice" of using AI to set menu prices, just like when we were kids.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
I also just want to pitch here - the migration was pretty straightforward, only terrifying for like 3 seconds, and I feel so much better moving off the bluesky system. Highly recommend supporting blacksky.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apparently our middle school has stopped using Cambridge Math after only a couple of months because it was riddled with errors. There was no notification sent to parents.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘kelvin’ wave heading for California www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 26/09/2026
If social media can interfere with children’s wellbeing, what is it doing to us, adults, who are supposed to teach them how to live? And, more importantly: what are our children learning from watching us use our phones?
brusselstimes.com
Children off social media. What about us?
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 17/09/2026
After four years of no real change, the USMNT can finally get back to what it does best: getting our hopes up that these are the kids who will finally make us good at soccer
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