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HL Eisthen, defective human product

@hleisthen.bsky.social
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Neuroethologist, chemosensory scientist, herp lover. Immigrant and child of a refugee. Haver of snarky opinions. Mostly here to discuss Moby-Dick.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 18h
She went to college to study anatomy...
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We constantly underestimate the cognitive abilities of small animals. #neuroethology
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 02/10/2026
you’re goddamn right i do
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy shit 🐋
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Relatable 🐋
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Painful and accurate.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🐋
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🛶 The last few chapters of James put me in a mind to listen to this song, so I've added it to the playlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJ3...
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Pirate Jenny (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)
YouTube video by Nina Simone - Topic
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026
Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...
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Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi...
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Want to feel ancient on the regular? I recommend following this account.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heads up, Michigan voters!
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82% of Michigan lawmakers have taken money from DTE and Consumers' PACs. Prop 2 stops that.
YouTube video by Jon Kung
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ARRRGH! I work at MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, I've been working with ball pythons for 4-5 yrs now, and this NEVER CROSSED MY MIND. Need to commission a new lab logo stat!
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Step 1: Choose wisely! I recommend Ch 122, which is only 46 words long. 🐋
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me sticking a knife in a toaster: The silverware’s gone rogue again
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey bat people what's up #neuroethology www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/s...
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New Study Illuminates Bats’ Murky Origins (Gift Article)
The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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JonSam @jonsam1961b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
neat... and a bit of rock fun: The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/11/the-... #humor
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The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means Hall of Curious Rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks...
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Holy shit
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ngl I want one of these. Not enough to hand over my credit card number to these criminals, but I want one of these.
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's fat bear week, people! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Fat Bear Week Returns to Alaska: Meet the Contenders (Gift Article)
Call them fat. Call them corpulent. Call them rotund. The bears are back in town and bigger than ever.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the many reasons I plan to vote for El-Sayed is that he recognizes that peanut butter is a staple.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 21/09/2026
It's almost amateur vegetable sculptor season.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's fascism.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insert Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park meme
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lucille Bluth's Wario here
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I know they are absolute fucking monsters but still, wow, this US administration is just *full* of absolute fucking monsters.
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Hourly Simpsons @hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 16/09/2026
"Embiggens"? Hmm. I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.
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S07E16 Lisa the Iconoclast (3F13) 18 February 1996
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Adding this to the playlist 🛶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D7R...
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Sammy Davis Jr - Ol' Man River
YouTube video by Joseph
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky
An infographic showing the number of described and estimated species for major animal groups. There are more insects than anything else. Of the remaining groups, arachnids and nematodes are the most diverse.
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Sheri L. Williamson 🪶🌎🧪🌺 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After a ferocious monsoon thunderstorm this afternoon, nature rewarded us with a rainbow. Rainbow Grasshopper, Dactylotum bicolor. Bisbee, Arizona. #insects 🌿🦑
A stubby-winged grasshopper boldly patterned in red, blue, black, orange, and cream rests on a brown dirt surface next to a couple of sprigs of plant material.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
your unwed aunt has arrived for the family vacation, by separate flight. she gives you next year's iphone and spends the trip on the phone verbally assaulting assistants in the brussels office
ruapul in a very broad padded shoulder deep navy blazer, cream bandeau top, and high-waisted burgundy suit slacks, all in clean minimal cuts, with light brown leather pointed shoes peeking out from the low break slacks and thick brown glasses
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More interesting question: what's in the first 25 browser tabs you have open right now?
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sure you will, at least until the detritivores eat them out of your head. 🐋
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Fried Kennedys
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