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@janrocks.bsky.social
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Geophysicist, ballet fan, 3rd generation Oklahoman.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 11m
"Using AI agents, the billionaire-led AI cult Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."
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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 36m
Putin could have stopped the war at any time. He could even have not started it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Matthew Ingalls who invited his frats bros to rape Jane Doe has fled the country. NY AG Leticia James was placed in charge of the reopened investigation. Ingalls has fled to Dubai. Innocent people do not flee the country. ===============
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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I miss having a president. I mean a REAL president -- someone who works and lives the position. Someone who doesn't shame us but instead is always a person to respect and be proud of. Someone like Barack Obama.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸
This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. 

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order. 

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 06/10/2026
He said it. They cheered. Don’t ever let them rewrite that. #SheShed
Graphic with white text on a dark background reading: “Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities. Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed. Not any Muslim. Trump. A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago – outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes, according to a new study.
A bar chart showing the top 10 states with the largest increase in water bills between 2015 and 2025:

New Hampshire (177%)
Oregon (114%)
West Virginia (95%)
Indiana (89%)
Mississippi (87%)
California (83%)
Massachusetts (82%)
Michigan (81%)
Colorado (80%)
Maryland (78%)

Source: Food & Water Watch rate analysis of the 500 largest community water systems in the United States
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
Here's the @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social write-up of today's physics Nobel Prize, featuring a quote from our director, particle physicist Marcela Carena, and one toward the end by me :) perimeterinstitute.ca/news/francis...
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Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics | PI News
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to particle physicist Francis Halzen today “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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/. bot aka « Slashdot feed reader » @slshdt.atproto.rocks · 03/10/2026
1 In 8 Cancer Cases Worldwide Are Due to Infections science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03…
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1 In 8 Cancer Cases Worldwide Are Due to Infections - Slashdot
An estimated 2.3 million cancer cases worldwide in 2024, about one in eight, were attributable to infections, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology. "This recent Lancet data is a profound reminder that a significant portion of our global cancer burden is fundamentally preventable," s...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Laura Packard @laurapackard.com · 29/09/2026
I’m paying 21% more this year for the exact same health insurance plan I had last year. And prices are going to rise double digits for next year! We can’t live like this, and we shouldn’t have to. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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✨🥀Persephone🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
If women began drugging a violently pegging men I think rape would be taken MUCH more seriously. They’d be handing out triple life sentences.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seriously. That’s no cartoon.
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Kristian Svennevig @ksvenenvig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3D-print your own landslide! New paper out in @geomorphica.bsky.social "Open access 3D-printable landslide models for outreach and teaching" journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 25/09/2026
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI slashdot.org/story/26/09/24/0618245…
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People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired for using AI to train the AI: That's not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI firing people for using AI when OpenAI's whole thi...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If trickle-down worked at all, the last 40 years would've made your life more affordable. Ask yourself. Is life more affordable? The scam is the policy.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump and Dr Oz plan to prevent Medicare from covering a basic test for breast cancer, forcing women to spend $5000 for this very same test! Did you vote for this? #HealthcareForAll
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hundreds of rural hospitals across the country are facing closures after years of funding problems. The issue was compounded last summer by the Trump administration’s massive cuts to Medicaid... #HealthcareForAll ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/01/r...
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Rural Hospitals and Communities Feeling Impact of H.R. 1 Medicaid Cuts, Rural Health Fund Falls Short
More stories have been published across the country in recent weeks detailing how the federal cuts to health care passed last year by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in H.R. 1, “The On...
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Leigh and Jessica are not sugarcoating it, Trump ran on no new wars, cutting taxes, lowering prices on day one and a health care plan better than the ACA. Now he’s trying to bribe voters with $5K to vote republican, no we want #HealthCareForAll November is coming vote for Dems.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE-Gestapo killers shot and injured a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas whilst he was doing his job. I’ll say it again, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
lol do you really want me to believe these guys give a heck about safety? BFFR.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 20/09/2026
How can we know what the Sun was like well before the age of telescopes and scientifically accurate instruments? The Earth itself is an instrument! In particular, the trees and ice sheets act as an old directory full of archived data and records. They ARE the observatory. 🔭🧪
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Physics-Constrained Reconstructions of Sunspot Number from Millennial-Scale Annual Heliospheric Modulation Potential - Solar Physics
Long-term solar magnetic variability governs the space climate conditions. These variations also modulate the galactic cosmic ray influx reaching Earth and subsequently regulate the production of cosm...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It appears that Trump’s claim last week that he negotiated a deal between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure was just another lie to manipulate markets. Every hour of every day, Trump lies about everything.
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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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DavidP @davidp-p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This should be an ad for every D candidate everywhere:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOGE's attempt to limit federal spending was a complete and total disaster. Thanks to their moronic program to shrink the federal workforce, employees were paid $9.5 BILLION to NOT work. What a ridiculous waste of our taxpayer dollars.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Allowing one more day of this is insanity.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CNN’s Harry Enten: “Trump did historically well with non-college Latinos in 2024. Winning by 1 point. Now? His net approval is -42! Big reason? Immigration. They trusted him more than Harris by 9 on it. His net approval now? -47! Effect? Talarico may win cause of major gains w/ non-college Latinos.”
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@diche_mideros captures two red and green macaws flying side by side, their wings touching as they soar: #AGoodPlace
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The average American household has spent an extra $860 for gas (Fox). Inflation has increased from 2.4% to 3.4%. Farmers are feeling the strain of $6+/gallon. Mortgage rates are at almost 7%. Taxpayers are out a billion dollars/day. And Trump has no one to blame but himself. #VoteBlue2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Joe "Radical Left Scum" Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Right-wing politicians are essentially stealing resources from underfunded public schools to subsidize wealthy families who were already paying private tuition. It's an artificially-designed multi-tier education system that will leave low-income families behind. It's segregation with extra steps.
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trying to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons was one of the key aims of the U.S.–Israel war in the Middle East. But now there are growing signs the Trump administration may have given up on an agreement with Tehran. #iran #nuclear #israel www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
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Why the US appears to have given up on nuclear deal with Iran
As the U.S. and Iran have been trying to reach an agreement to end the war, two nuclear decisions may be prolonging the conflict.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UCLA left this particular Bluesky post out of their allegations. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because I clearly state I’m “not celebrating violence or murder”…?
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