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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The idea of a monument to him, especially there, is repugnant, don't misunderstand me. He deserves a simple white headstone like the rest.

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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

He was a translator in the US Army during WW2.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Don't try to out Shakespeare Shakespeare. Its a losing game, man.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

You got me with "Cattleman's Crusade ". How is that NOT a brand name?!?

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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

They're coming for our Cheez-its! To the barricades!!

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

If you don't understand Juche, you don't understand North Korean culture.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

In the USA, newspapers report circulation numbers and distribution to the Post Office annually. Don't know if there is or was such a requirement in the UK, though.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I'm confused. Astronomers dont recognize the Great Square of Pegasus anymore?

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Talk about "burying the lead"! The older woman is apparently sitting on a GIANT pumpkin! Maybe they were eating pumpkin pie?

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

You're an annoying lkittle prick. I imagine you stir up "passionate and pedantic" responses pretty regularly. BLOCK

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Do you do a daily nasal rinse? That was a big help to me.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

1962 would seem to be the obvious answer, but probably deployments in Warsaw Pact countries in the 1950s?

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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Jackrabbit populations boomed and busted in the 20th century, but Tularemia and Rabbit Hemmorhagic Disease have devastated the Jackrabbit population. Future jackrabbit "swarms" are unlikely for that reason.

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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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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Are they woody inside? What is the inner core made of?

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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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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...

storage.courtlistener.com

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John Thorburn @lotharothp.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

She doesn't "hate" you. She's just very disappointed in you.

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