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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 12h

I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues

The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 19h

the best evidence that mamdani is not a leftist antisemite is what actual leftist antisemites say about him

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Rabbi Megan Doherty @rabbimegan.bsky.social · 22h

(With thanks to @miriamanzovin.bsky.social) Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her. The Sages said: Let him die.

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt:

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

literally once bystander-intervened at a sidewalk cafe by going up to a guy and infodumping at him about something I'd read recently so that the woman he was being weird to had a chance to slip away unnoticed. little everyday things, not hard to do.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

Hey I don’t think it’s a good thing that Bernie Sanders keeps talking to this guy

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

once again I am doing mineral ID labs, promising my students that everyone struggles with glassy vs. metallic luster at first (it's true)

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

anyway if you really want to learn how to flirt you don't NEED to go to a convention full of tech perverts. you just gotta read @deathbulge.bsky.social

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if you treat every conversation with any woman you meet in a social setting like it's a job interview for the position of Boyfriend, you're always gonna be stressed out. job interviews suck.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

everyone says they want an autism-spectrum baddie but how many of you are REALLY prepared for her to fall down a Wikipedia hole and start reading you articles about different area codes? (on the plus side I now know that the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 is in the same system as the USA?)

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got the Covid vaccine and sure enough five years later sent a text to the wrong person

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

having to leave the natural history museum earlier than planned because I had a mild freakout that triceratops were real and lived in wyoming

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The punchline about Trump illegally using taxpayer money to fund political ads is that making the midterms about the president with historically bad approval ratings is a disaster for the Republican Party

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm begging for hoteps to add an ounce of hamster suffrage to their politics.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

more than anything this just says I'm a younger Millennial

My 9 Games
The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Terraria
Star Wars Battlefront II (the original)
Zoo Tycoon 2
SimLife
SimCoaster
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
SPORE
Pokemon: Emerald Version

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great thread discussing museum funding from the inside. The reason some universities are trying to divest from their museums is because they are beginning to treat each unit as an independent revenue generating entity. Museums cost money and therefore they WANT to cut them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)

section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you think of it, artificial intelligence is ableist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Marxist movement should seek to abolish it.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

American conservatism may not be the absolute worst strain of conservatism in history, but it has to be the most intellectually bankrupt. “We ripped up all the established norms and now the new world is scary and different!” Wow, if only there was an ideology dedicated to conserving the old ways.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

26 years ago

onion headline from 2000: Black Guy Photoshopped In, showing side-by-sides of a cover of a course guide with a Black student added to the second cover

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Last Mountain: Geology and Anthro-Physiography of Mount Umate, Coruscant.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's a big desert called the uhhhhhhhhhh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_S...

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Great Sandy Desert - Wikipedia

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Alexandria W. Darling @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, this is columbo no. 5 a little bit of me getting outta your hair a little bit of suspect standing there a little bit of facts about my wife a little bit of you killed him with that knife

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

like a dog who is due for a bath, I submit myself to the brief ordeal knowing that cleanliness is on the other side of it, and that it is good to be clean even if it is unpleasant to be cleansed.

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coma @doomedsarcoma.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

extinction is forever

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But would the president screen it in the White House? Also yes

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

okay, pre-Yom Kippur story time. 🧵 In 1927, the great Hebrew poet and scholar Ḥaim Naḥman Bialik was walking on the Tel Aviv beach with his friend and publisher Yehoshua Ravnitzky. The two of them, both native Yiddish speakers, were having a passionate conversation in their native tongue.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

getting a whole nother degree to understand the math behind waveforms call that a four-year transform

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

here’s what the gemara says happens to genocidal bastards obsessed with building triumphal arches in the world to come

[Onkelos] said to him: What is the punishment of that man, [a euphemism for Titus himself, in the next world? Titus] said to him: That which he decreed against himself, [as he undergoes the following]: Every day his ashes are gathered, and they judge him, and they burn him, and they scatter him over the seven seas.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This ad is a pro-trans dog whistle virtuously designed to mislead hogs. “Washington needs to stay out of it” the only thing Washington is doing is trying to impose a national ban, Washington staying out of it means “no ban”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm quoting the conclusion rather than the opening - this is a good thread on the closing literary horizons of a conservative subculture, through the shrinking pool of Harry Potter, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. There's an irony that Lewis and Tolkien, at least, would scream at them to read more widely!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Related to a previous thread, I think folks understandably but inaccurately end up blurring the concepts of an illegal war on the one hand with wars that are immoral or stupid on the other hand. Many very foolish wars are probably legal under traditional understandings of international law.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026

The people had received IV drips containing glutathione, which is sold—without evidence—for purposes like detoxification, immune support, increased energy, and skin brightening.

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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned

The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.

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