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Doctor Wind Turkey

@dog-envier.bsky.social
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Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog

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Cadenza 華彩樂 @eldritch.beauty · 41m
has anyone ever done a deep dive on where all the tens of millions poured into tv ads go or do we need insider info for that kind of breakdown
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 40m
Google just blindsided me with this snapshot I took on a hike less than a month ago
Looking down into a bowl between high mountains, near Terrace, BC
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 51m
The Guardian Angel founder is also a self-proclaimed expert on getting shot -- actually shot, by bullets. He survived being shot five times in June 1992. "I know about getting shot," he assured the mayor. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 1h
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 8h
Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...
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Cornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlash
On Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.”
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‏Greg @mostech6502.bsky.social · 18h
oh the See Also on this one delivers as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving...
"Prawo Jazdy" was an alleged Polish criminal supposedly active in the Republic of Ireland. The name was listed on PULSE, a computer system used by the Garda Síochána, with at least 50 traffic violations, including speeding and parking violations, recorded across the country, but there were suspicious aspects such as each incident being associated with a different address. "Prawo Jazdy" was also listed as a name on the Fixed Charge Processing System (FCPS). An investigation was launched into this person whom the Gardaí considered to be Ireland's worst traffic violator.[1][2][3]

An internal Garda memorandum in June 2007 revealed that, upon consultation with an online Polish–English bilingual dictionary, prawo jazdy was not a personal name, but instead the Polish term for 'driving licence', misidentified by Garda officers as the traffic violator's name due to the phrase being printed at the top right-hand corner of Polish driving licences (with the licensee's name and personal details printed beneath in a smaller text size). The error became public knowledge in February 2009.[4][5][6][7]
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 18h
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 14h
I have always felt that this methodology is obviously bonkers but it's good to have some numbers.
For example, in a March 2026 ATP survey, fewer than half of real Hispanic adults (42%) said they were at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup. In contrast, nearly every simulated Hispanic respondent in our Al poll (a full 97%) said they were likely to follow the tournament. Likewise, the synthetic sample dramatically overestimated Hispanic opinion on the importance of teaching Spanish in schools. According to the synthetic sample, 72% of Hispanic adults believe it is extremely important for schools to offer instruction in Spanish more than double the rate among real Hispanic adults (32%).
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 19h
MFW when I calibrate a scale based on multiple other unreliable scales:
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 19h
Did someone make a pipeline to automatically generate a 3D "garbage" collage that casts a shadow with arbitrary shape? I guess that's a lot less cool on computer than in a real space but still.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Celsius defenders when you point out that the notion of "atmospheric pressure" at "sea level" is physically arbitrary
Translated Kaiji manga panel: Kazuya betting his red life and yelling at Kaiji, "Shut the fuck up! Quit talking, you garbage! What the hell do you know?!"
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oak blanco @abomination.computer · 10/08/2023
garbage men should have military-style squadron names like Grim Reapers or Abolishers
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
After enlightenment: I'll keep drinking that garbage
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Dead Iverson @deadiverson.bsky.social · 19h
To become smarter we must first become more stupider #wisdomofjupiter 🪷🤲🪐
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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 20h
Fun article. The ten year moratorium on scholarly meetings about Umberto Eco that he wrote into his will ended this year. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
thedial.world
300 Umberto Eco Scholars and Me — The Dial
Encyclopedias, AI and conspiracy theories in Bologna.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 21h
(posted near my todo list / organizational system) THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR. NO GREAT DEEDS ARE COMMEMORATED HERE. WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES TO BE A POWERFUL CULTURE.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 21h
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 21h
I've read almost all of these 🥲 A treasury of an incredible career
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 21h
I'm applying to stuff and waiting to hear about other stuff. I have this very weird knife's-edge feeling, like I'm *almost* in a world where they'll pay me more than I know what to do with to do stuff I like, but *also* maybe I'll just never get another job.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22h
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 22h
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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fa-BOO!-s @fabius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i have genuinely said this multiple times in recent weeks but with Bartolomé de las Casas
meme: Iranian President saying in an interview "Alexis de Tocqueville, which I'm sure most Americans have read"
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spooky szn
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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King of Spring Tarts @kingtart.bsky.social · 23h
Happy October to all octopuses everywhere.
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Adorable Octopus Takes a Walk on the Seafloor
ALT: Adorable Octopus Takes a Walk on the Seafloor
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 23h
Behold “Liamtown,” my son’s personal train space that was once a dining room
A very complicated network of wooden train tracks
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: 
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ig the idea is, you (regular guy) defend billionaires cuz you're thinking to yourself, "Hey what if I became a billionaire, that would rule!" But like -- I would simply change my views to be pro-billionaire AFTER I became a billionaire. I don't need to do it in advance!
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Chris 𓅨 @bigjuncofan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ford-Sponsored Schindler's List Intermission NBC/WKYC 3 1997-02-23 : 74s
Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 74 seconds.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
prestigurgitating
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.
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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
submitted by discord user
weird ad with neon text saying: "these trunk less legs of stone are fucking standing in the desert and basically, you are fucking despairing. how? ...just travel to the antique land >"
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
just had to check what the title of my dissertation was
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prestigurgitating
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good job, California. 15 states to go. No child should marry. A child who marries isn’t emancipated, her (and it’s usually a girl) new spouse becomes her guardian. If he abuses her, she cannot go to a domestic violence shelter. She cannot initiate a divorce. She can’t have her own money.
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California bans child marriage, even with parental permission
Supporters hail ban on child marriage and companion bill to address forced marriages as “most comprehensive framework” in the U.S.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(carefully explaining to a non-American) You see, we have this special concept, “the dumbass”…certain things that seem incompatible, like ignoring the answer to a question you just asked, driving through someone’s house because you’re on your phone…for the dumbass they are perfectly consonant
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if I'm understanding this chart correctly we are on track to hit peak covid levels of tourism
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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wavebidder.bsky.social @wavebidder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
apparently someone's making a wordpress
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just read an antisemite saying "the talmud is spiritually israeli," which really denies the contribution of the exilic diaspora
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In other words: This meme is a surprisingly accurate scaled depiction of the magnitude of the 2026 El Niño event vs the 1997 event *if using the absolute index.* But if using the relative index, Danny DeVito is currently the same height as Arnold Schwarzenegger. And either pairing is striking... 👀
A common meme from the movie "Twins" featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger towering over a similarly dressed Danny Devito modified such that "1997" appears above the diminuitive DeVito, and 2026 above Schwarzenegger.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
til there is a .phd tld lol i don't think i will be registering [myname].phd though
myname.phd
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Lauren (茶 fan) @xxxhakasefanxxx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
get in
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.
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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I thought "servant leader" was a concept from American protestantism but it actually comes from management theory lol
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