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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That woman's a fucking hero, and that's a tough thing for a Republican to be these days

David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're a millennial looking for love, know that if you end up with a seasoned Gen Xer like me, you'll have someone who can make all the phone calls for you to places you can't text

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had one of these male supremacist "Democrats" stalk and harass my wife (an elected official) for years. It's a weird subtype.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes. Racism and weird trade beliefs are the through lines. Everything else seems to have been negotiable (cf. reproductive rights)

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What is genuinely fascinating to me is he captured a political party full of economically literate people and got them to agree to pretend this isn't idiocy.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Crossing the bridge on an Election Day where the main issue is it's so slow I can cross the bridge and post to Bluesky at the same time cc: @iandonnis.bsky.social @tednesi.bsky.social @globeri.bsky.social

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Americans thank Canadian unions for this long weekend in the US!

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's passing is effortlessly proving that if you spend your life being nice and kind and generous instead of mean and cruel and selfish, then apologists for mean cruel selfish bullies won't have to go around scolding people for cheering when you die, because there will be no cheering.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!

Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've finished 4 eps of season one so far

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The one that came out today really shakes things up

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes. And I think it's gotten better as it's gone along. Get to Episode 3 or so if you can.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He's awful, but exempt from this part of the Hatch Act as a Senate confirmed appointee. See 5 U.S.C. § 7324(b).

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Someone told me "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I mean, Occam's Razor. He said he reviewed additional evidence and it changed his view. He has access to facts and context we don't. He has training and expertise we don't. Yet you confidently diagnose him as a coward who volunteered a new opinion because of it. That's the conspiracy mind.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That's just false. He said he'd seen additional evidence and it changed his view. That's what happens in science. No fascism required.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You can't believe the words coming out of his mouth, "he caved to pressure" - who's the conspiracy theorist now?

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People's opinions don't matter, except yours and your friends. Certainly not the opinion of (checks notes) the person in charge of the entire government response under President Biden.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm not the enemy. If folks issuing hostile broadsides to people *listening to scientists* are not careful, you will be.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No wonder conspiracies proliferate; people with or claiming scientific credentials assume bad faith and are so scarred by cranks that they muzzle the uncertainty in their own ranks to try to fight disinformation, rather than fighting it the way WHO is, with plain language and publications.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

More thoroughly, we all face an industry of people spreading lies. But we can't fight those lies by shading the truth ourselves. WHO set that example, by noting that there are multiple hypotheses and uncertainty remains.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The complete tone-deafness of eviscerating someone reading the plain language of a report *written by scientists* under a WHO program designed to *fight disinformation* is breathtaking. I am not "anti-science" or "anti-vax." You think I am because I paid attention to what scientists said.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

WHO calls "an accidental laboratory related event" "one of the "two main hypotheses": concluding that "It can therefore not be ruled out, nor can it be proven until more information is provided." That's not uncertainty, you say. Mmm-kay. It's certainly the opposite of certainty.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

These aren't technical terms. Words have meaning. "Inconclusive" means the data are insufficient to prove or disprove the hypothesis, making the truth of the hypothesis ... UNCERTAIN.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they could've been just as condescending and dismissive toward this idea as you have been toward me. They didn't do that. Why?

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And, to be precise, the quote you cited credits "speculation from scientific reports" for this idea. Is it your view that this is supposed to be read as "baseless speculation?" "wild speculation?" The authors could have written that. They didn't. They rather left the question open, explicitly.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This dodges the issue, though. 27 multidisciplinary experts wouldn't then write a report for worldwide public distribution saying that whether I was a rapist was "inconclusive." Why did the authors do this, in your view? That may be the crux of this. What do you think my ignorant self is missing?

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now you're going to purport that I'm not even smart enough to know what "learning" is? Geez, dude. Lot smarter than the rest of us, eh?

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But it's not like I'm cherry picking journal articles I don't understand. I get that enemies of science do that. I'm reading stuff that was written for laypeople!

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And I think that clarifies the difference here. You say I don't understand the WHO report, but I do, because it was purposely written so that the public could understand it! The audience isn't virologists, it's everyone. If you don't like what they wrote, take it up with them.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And so yes, you call it "scoring Internet points." I'm not sure what, exactly. But I am learning and trying to engage in matters of public import. Wouldn't the world be better if more people read about science. And then you call me a monkey for doing that. Not good.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And yes, I'm sorry about the vitriol others have directed at others. But making an honest assessment of the uncertainty by listening to what experts in the field *tell the public* does not make me a party to those threats.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have also gotten death threats for completely unrelated (well, I guess also political) reasons. I am emphatically not making light of that. But I'm listening to experts. Shouldn't I? Your position seems to be just you.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And yet managing not to call anyone a subhuman primate! I understand English. I read a report written in English. Plain English! Oh well, I'll leave you to your hostility.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No. I know what the English word "inconclusive" means. And this all started when OP expressed a conclusion. I'm not demeaning you. Don't be a jerk.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am not "opining." I'm reading and citing opinions.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well, there's your characterization, and then there's the characterization of the 27 multidisciplinary experts chosen by the WHO to write a report on this very topic. How to weigh those is the question.

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David Caldwell @factsmustwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yep, OK. So the WHO expressed uncertainty even for years later.

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