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J.P.

@jpr602.bsky.social
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Geriatrician. Rocketeer. Amateur astrophysicist. Ski patroller. In my free time I have anemia. 🇺🇦 🌈 🇵🇸

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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 2h
outdoor recreators know this: wicking layer (polyester) insulating (fleece/wool) rain&wind (nylon shell)
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 2h
Kids today are not taught the fundamentals, e.g. “1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1”
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 3h
Finished "Industry" s1 on HBO. It's a very good show about new employees at a big investment bank in London. There's nudity and a lot of sex. I'll probably watch more but I think I should work on "The Americans" s2.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 4h
new 1990s band name just dropped cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7906...
cooking.nytimes.com
Salad Pancake Recipe • 30 min
In “Mindful Cooking” (Random House, 2026), the chef Eric Ripert recalls that when he met with Gyeho Sunim, the chief abbess of the Jingwansa Temple in Seoul, she remarked that while some ingredients a...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18h
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 17h
Couldn’t sleep in bed last night. Got up to a chair at about 00:30. Probably slept 3-4 hours there. I’ll try the bed tonight but I suspect it’ll be a nope.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 17h
Sammy has been in my lap a lot today. And keeps looking at my earnestly.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 17h
He would see faces in movies, on TV In magasines and in books
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him
And that through the years
By keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his mind
Or somewhere in the back of his mind
That he might, by force of will
Cause his face to approach those of his ideal
The change would be very subtle
It might take ten years or so
Gradually his face would change its shape
A more hooked nose
Wider, thinner lips
Beady eyes
A larger forehead
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 17h
What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?
“Earthrise” photo from Apollo 8
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 19h
Returned home yesterday from a 5 day trip. Animals were happy. When I lay down to read before sleep, both dogs and both indoor cats got on the bed with me. 🐈 🐕
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Michael Lugo @miclugo.bsky.social · 20h
Melania Trump is Slovenian.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 21h
This is an astonishing self-own by the Internal Revenue Service that will keep scores of hardworking, tax-paying, non-refund-seeking immigrants from paying billions in federal taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 21h
just watched the Oregon-USC game and I’ll give the Trojans credit for one thing: great efficiency in emptying the stadium after the 3rd quarter
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m afraid they did, actually. 😂
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my core beliefs— a truth I feel to my soul and marrow— is that we are all of infinite value and worth. I’m gratified to see that His Holiness shares that assessment. 🥹
A post from Fr. James Martin, SJ: "The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ...
The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite."

Pope Leo XIV: "Magnifica Humanitas."

And a picture of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV cradling a special needs child in his arms during his visit to Lourdes.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, do you have a plan to vote? Just six days remain to update your registration or register to vote in this election. Make a plan to vote & share this graphic with two friends to help us build the movement we need to take back Texas.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4ymLaYr
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[poke @ditzkoff.bsky.social ]
Bill Clinton “twirling, two, twirling towards freedom”
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
does what it says on the tin apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26092...
apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2026 September 29 – Sh2 188: The Shrimp Nebula
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026
It was Katie Wells, a Groundwork fellow, who co-authored the report describing how the apps nurses use to get shiftwork collude with data-brokers to find out how much money nurses owe on their credit cards, so they can pay the most desperate nurses lower wages: pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/l...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it’s incredible that dogs have figured out how to outsource their cognition to humans. they will literally stare at you and it makes you uncomfortable enough to try to figure out what they want. the dog might not even know! but you’ll start doing things for the dog until you do something they want.
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Still revisit this devastatingly accurate read of Elon from time to time and remember how it sent him in a two day spiral
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...
inc.com
Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
radio has been playing a long medley of John Phillip Sousa tunes and it is 💯
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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@Anth ... . 1d
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ordering myself a t-shirt
t-shirt reads “CAME IN FLUFFER”
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Home from a trip and just now watching the Ducks and Trojans. And learning that the LA Memorial Coliseum and the Rose Bowl are different places.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“sea anemone” implies the existence of a land anemone (zoologists just say “anemone”)
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone pulled out in front of me today and I hit them at 35 mph. I have a lot of pain in my ribs from my chest harness. My pickup has 280,000 miles so I reckon it’ll probably be totaled.
a pick up whose front end is bashed in
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no safe way for researchers to use the systems provided by OpenAI, Anthropic, or any of these other companies. They have all admitted that plagiarism is an integral component of what they do. If you put your work in – even if it's just to touch up a manuscript – they will take it.
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For years, a group of scientists in Copenhagen fed their research into Anthropic's AI models to write code and draft manuscripts. @carlzimmer.com reports that among their work were findings about new enzymes—which Anthropic recently "discovered" independently, according to an announcement last week
nytimes.com
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My tribe gathered in the Black Rock Desert for a long weekend of rocketry. I didn’t bring one this year, just came to enjoy the vibe.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Yorker cartoon by Leo Cullum. A doctor is saying to a man in a suit and tie: “It’s pronounced ‘hee-la’ monster. The ‘g’ sounds like an ‘h’.” 
The man has a gila monster clamped onto his nose.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 48% drop in employees at National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Yikes.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.mainepublic.org/climate/2026... The Maine energy department said heating oil prices are up 81% from the same time last year. Filling a standard 250-gallon residential oil tank to capacity will cost $740 more than before the start of the war with Iran, the department added….
mainepublic.org
Maine posts record-breaking heating oil prices amid Iran War
A global refining crunch is pushing up the prices of diesel and other fuel oils.
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sticking with my opinion that the best TV show of the 21st century is Fargo.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
it's remarkable just how much worse the interest rate situation makes the housing crisis my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
telling guys a shade under 6 feet that they're tall is like finding the spot on a dog's leg to rub that makes them go crazy. instant loyalty
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just noticed that this photo is my avatar
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
god, i hope DJT lives to see the ballroom razed in Feb 2029
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J.P. @jpr602.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sammy has a suggestion for Atlas
a white mini schnauzer in a front pack on a handsome middle aged white man. The man is smiling. The dog is … unsure about this project.
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