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John Thorburn

@lotharothp.bsky.social
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Swimmer, fisherman, kayaker, hydro planner, hydroplaner.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Monday night will see the peak of the Northern Taurids meteor shower. Good chance of seeing a few fireballs. Weather permitting. 🔭 🧪
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
The perfect night to distract you with the wonders of art history: Monkeys Arresting a Cat at Night, a painting attributed to 17th-century Flemish artist Abraham Teniers
We are in an interior space - some kind of house or tavern. The space is lit by a single lamp, above. A troupe of monkeys, dressed in human garb, are arresting a cat, who is dressed in a red button-up robe.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/11/2024
one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe" fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Well, this isn't disturbing in the slightest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mystery parcel fires were 'test runs' to target cargo flights to US, says Poland
The attacks targeted couriers in Poland, Germany and the UK, Polish prosecutors say.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/07/2024
I'm running
Lord Summerisle with a Catbus head gesticulating in front of the Wicker Man, captions read 

Feed Them All to the Wicker Man 
Catbus '24
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
1 November 1925 | German Jew, Max Abrahamson, was born in Berlin. He emigrated to Czechoslovakia. He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy wearing a striped shirt. The image features an autograph at the bottom.
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Liberal Wombat @liberalwombat.com · 31/10/2024
It would sure be a shame if this job application (that blatantly age discriminates) were to get flooded with bogus applications. A crying shame airtable.com/appa3CG7cDEn...
A screenshot of the job application asking for the applicant's age and saying the age must be 40 or under
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Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier @nat.gertler.com · 31/10/2024
Your state is too one sided for your vote to make a difference for president? Someone's running for your library board to block all books with gay characters. Or running for the school board to set official prayers. Or for the election board to pick whose votes get counted. Local matters. Vote.
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Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
GOP senator caught using video of Pennsylvania town to brag about her state of Nebraska www.rawstory.com/deb-fischer-...
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GOP senator caught using video of Pennsylvania town to brag about her state of Nebraska
A Republican senator, facing an unusually competitive race, whipped up a campaign ad to express her pride over her state of Nebraska. Only one problem — the footage she used was from Pennsylvania."Neb...
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Happy Halloween & here’s one of my miniature Elizabethan bat portraits to mark the day
An oval miniature Painting over a bat dressed as an Elizabethan gentleman with a pearl earring. He wears an ornate lace edged ruff with gold embellishments around his neck. The oval frame is carved gilt Wood.
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Sarah Corn @roborangutang.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I made a binder with colored pictures of all the signs our deaf dog knows.
Picture of a binder cover that reads “Cosmo’s Commands: A Guide To Communicating With Our Deaf Doggo”, centered around a picture of Cosmo looking out a window. In the background, Cosmo lies on the couch, staring at the camera.
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Death Becomes Her superfan @issuefortyfive.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
I will never pass up an opportunity to point out that it costs Gilead approximately $6 to manufacture a month’s prescription of PReP, which would wipe HIV off the face of the planet if widely adopted and which was developed with federal funding, and they sell it at $1,500.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Whatever is going on with $DJT is likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the United States, and it is totally flying under the radar.
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"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief." @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Last time Nazis got out of hand, a whole bunch of Nazis ended up with a lot worse than punched faces. Just saying.
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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist & cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 & the results are mesmerizing. ⚒️🧪🪨👇🏼
This is a map depicting the current courses (at the time of mapping) of the Mississippi River. Older courses are mapped in swirls of lovely blue, green, rose, and orange.
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Brett (Spooky Decor) @weakcookies.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Honk if you’re a dumbass
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/10/2024
"The vast majority of humanity has no idea that Teslas can drive themselves." ~Elon Musk, making a material statement that is not forward looking. I get that you can say any bullshit about the future now, but this is about current ability. It's not true. No they can't. This is securities fraud.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/10/2024
AT LEAST 2 million Cybercabs/year, maybe 4 million. Why not? At the point that you have Wall Street believing volume production of robotaxis is even worth talking about, you might as well say whatever. Say they will be made for free by the fae folk or some shit. It don't matter. None a this matters.
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
3/Sites like X's "election integrity" hub are dangerous because the point is not to gather real information about real elections. The point is to make voters pissed off. To magnify their feelings of alienation. To stoke distrust for government and the officials who run elections.
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Penn NeuroKnow 🧠 @pennneuroknow.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Your brain fires billions of electrical signals every second, but when they get out of hand, it can lead to devastating seizures. Learn how the creation of treatments for epilepsy have unlocked some of the brain’s secrets: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/22/w... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪
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Wildfire in the brain: What has neuroscience learned from studying epilepsy?
Your brain fires billions of electrical signals every second, but when they get out of hand, it can lead to devastating seizures. Learn how the creation and use of treatments for epilepsy have unlo…
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone praised Hitler you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 01/10/2024
. If you're at the end of your rope & you're about to give in to your worst impulses & life has battered you into a bloody, unrecognisable pulp, clap your hands.
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comrade @nowarbutclasswar.myatproto.social · 23/10/2024
Shout out to water
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/10/2024
Have you considered: dirt hole
A large fluffy black and white dog under a deck, smiling proudly. He is lying half in a large dirt hole that he dug himself
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
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a man in a white shirt and blue apron is waving from a drive thru window .
ALT: a man in a white shirt and blue apron is waving from a drive thru window .
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TRiG @timothy.green.name · 21/10/2024
Why is a US agency posting a picture of a European robin? I'm not fun, particularly at parties.
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Physics works! #ITeachPhysics #SciTeachUK #EduSky
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Holy shit, the new mifepristone lawsuit claims that mifepristone is suppressing teen birth rates and thus harming applicable states' population growth. (see p. 190) Literally, and I can't stress this enough, WTF. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/10/2024
This made me laugh so hard I had to download it from TikTok so you could see it without even having to click through
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
i had no idea how many forms the thomas can manifest itself as
thomas the.... blue haired demon body thingThomas the steroid using engine"trainstacean"... i can't even, it's kind of a blue metal crab with thomas's faceThomas the engine with giant grey feet, a sticker
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Violent Jay and Silent Bob
@woodmuffin
Max why do you have a phone shaped like your dad's friend
[screencap of a goofy movie where max is reaching for a mickey mouse phone]
10:16 AM • 2022-12-27
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Shusaku Takaoka
A parody collage manipulation of David's famous painting the death of Murat with Detective Columbo Peter Falk as Columbo standing over the corpse clothing is hand to his forehead and contemplating the crime there is also a rubber duck on the little table besides beside murat's bath and for some reason on the wall behind the bathtub is a picture of the same picture a recursion or Muse on a beam
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Mapes
@MapesThorson
prank i came up with in hs but never did:
1. drive to mcdonalds
2. drink gallon of milk in car until about to vomit
3. go inside mcdonalds and order one of those little happy meal milks
4. take single sip of milk
5. say milk tastes funny
6. throw up gallon of milk
8:10 AM • 2022-02-15
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Marlon Brando making Julius Caesar, 1953
Black and white photograph of Marlon Brando mid shoot dressed up in toga for his role as Brutus but with a cigarette dangling from his mouth
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
you know when you have a handle of bourbon and it has like 1/8 inch left in the bottle nad you pour it and it keep going and ur like
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a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
ALT: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
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Jäger von Heinrich Kramer @jaegervonkramer.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
No one wants to be President and frankly I don't blame them
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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.
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Boo lettuce @lettuce.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
So strange to think about how after you die everybody just goes on with life as usual. Not just strange -- unfair. That's why I built The Device
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
17 October 1927 | French Jewish girl Yvette Achach was born in Oran. In February 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy. She did not survive.
Black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair styled in a half-up, half-down fashion, wearing a collared shirt and a tailored coat.
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squattercity.bsky.social @squattercity.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
racist police criminality in Phoenix: called to a store because of a white man acting beligerently, officers accept that man's word that he is innocent and instead tackle, punch & taser a deaf black man with cerebral palsy and keep him in jail for 24 days. wapo.st/4h7xM1V
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Footage of Phoenix police punching, Tasering deaf Black man sparks probe
Outrage over the body camera footage comes on the heels of a Justice Department report that found Phoenix police use excessive force and racially discriminate.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
NEW: A huge ruling today. Nebraska's supreme court stepped in to enable as many as *105,000* people to vote in November. Two GOP state officials had unilaterally said in July that they would just stop enforcing two rights restoration laws. Court stopped them: boltsmag.org/nebraska-vot...
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Nebraskans Rush to Undo Harm, After Court Rebuffs GOP Bid to Block Thousands of Voters
Nebraska’s supreme court reversed state officials’ abrupt attempt to impose a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions. But the registration deadline is just days away.
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The Sovereign Planet of the Moon @planetofthemoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
COUNTERPOINT: YOU’RE MEDDLING WITH POWERS YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY COMPREHEND.
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The Sovereign Planet of the Moon @planetofthemoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
EXCEEDING RICHNESS RUINS MANY THINGS.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/10/2024
Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
Picture of an orange super moon against a ruddy sky with green trees in the foreground.
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