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Mark Fitzgerald

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Organic chemist with a weird accent from New Jersey

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 19h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Some gorgeous foliage in the cemetery today:
A maple tree with bright orange leaves, and leaves on the ground around it, near gravestonesAnother bright orange maple tree and rows of gravestones
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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Maine is glorious, even on dank days. (Photo by a friend who is foliage hunting up north)
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
J.P. Morgan calculated that, given the cost of building & maintaining infrastructure, AI needed to generate $600+ Billion annual revenue to be profitable for investors. Which is equivalent to selling a $35/mo subscription to every smartphone user on the planet. In other words, this is not enough.
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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/10/2026
⚡️US senators call Trump’s Russian diesel decision ‘a total betrayal of Ukraine.’ Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren condemned Trump’s decision to allow global purchases of Russian diesel for six months.
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Trump allows Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel to US, global markets
"Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter," ...
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Waves pummeled south-facing beaches in Southern California, flooding communities as Tropical Storm Rachel approaches the West Coast. In Long Beach, waves breached a bulkhead, flooding homes and nearby streets, according to the Long Beach Post and videos.
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Large waves pummel Southern California coast, flooding homes
Communities are seeing effects as Tropical Storm Rachel approaches the West Coast.
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can an oral small molecule provide renal and cardiovascular benefits just like the injectable GLP1 meds? The answer is probably so! New blog post today about Achieve 4 and it's CV trial that was presented at EASD. They also looked at it's renal benefits. So shout-out to #NephJC as well.
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Clearing the CVOT hurdle
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Alexander Diehl @alexanderdiehl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Where's THAT concept album?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
congratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards
A man and a woman in formal wear. One is the poet Anne Carson, her hair grey and white, her topcoat ash grey, her TIE red. The other one is a guy with a goatee and a black tie.
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today, a Russian strike on Pryluky 🇺🇦 killed at least 19 people, incl. 5 children. Same day, in Moscow, ex-🇩🇪 Chancellor Gerhard Schröder told staff of the Russian hypermarket chain whose board he just joined: "I'm very happy to be here... and to meet you, my wonderful colleagues." Moral bankruptcy
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
In Opinion After this summer’s rogue A.I. attacks, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, “has emerged as a leading skeptic of the danger this technology poses,” Stephen Witt writes. “As his biographer, I understand why he dismisses the risk. I also worry that he’s not seeing the whole picture.”
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Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Is Going Great
Our fate may be very well be in the hands of Jensen Huang.
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Mark Fitzgerald @mfitzg79mark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not cool.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This little section of the Ipswich River is one of my favorite spots in Massachusetts, especially if I'm there around sunrise or sunset
A photo of a river just after sunrise with the trees and clouds reflecting off the water
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We appear to have broken the planet. #ElNino #climatechange #climate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This took a few days to write because how do you put medical history into words? There will be a time within my lifetime that bariatric surgery will become rare because of days like last week. Obesity, even morbid obesity can be treated with pharmacology now thanks to new GLP1 meds
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EASD 2026: The weight equation is solved?
Retatrutide and EloraTirz provide shock and awe at EASD
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GOLDMAN: “.. market breadth has recently plunged.” $SPX
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy World Animal Day! 💚 “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." — Mahatma Gandhi #rescueanimals #animalsanctuary
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Mark Fitzgerald @mfitzg79mark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/10/2026
A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/46OMl6v
This odd fish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Rye by Martin Auer, a bakery in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, sells a $60 loaf of bread. In Austria, Auer’s loaves sell for roughly $16. The Post's food critic Elazar Sontag sampled the spendy NYC version to find out whether the taste matches the price.
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Review | This $60 rye bread is everything that’s right and wrong with New York
In Austria, Martin Auer’s loaves sell for roughly $16. Our food critic sampled the spendy NYC version to find out whether the taste matches the price.
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HelloIamheretoremindyouitis$5Friday donorbox.org/mmfs-donate
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Ryan H. Walsh @ryanhwalsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Natural Bridge came out 30 years ago today. 10 years ago, while David Berman was still us, I put together the unusual, intense story of how it came together for @stereogum.com. stereogum.com/1902185/the-...
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The Untold Story Of Silver Jews' The Natural Bridge: How David Berman Lost His Mind, Left Pavement Behind, And Made A Masterpiece
It starts with a line you might yell at an ex across an empty, half-lit parking lot around midnight: “I don’t really wanna die/ I only wanna die in your eyes.” But here it’s not hollered, it’s sung, a...
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Crafty Ghoul 👻🎃 @craftycow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I make miniature sofas for cat beds .. like this one, modelled by my own cat model .. Banksy. craftysharp.etsy.com
A black cat is lounging comfortably on a colourful patchwork mini chesterfield sofa.
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shenvi.bsky.social @shenvi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A few folks have asked how I make molecular animations from ChemDraw. Sadly, the answer has been “the old-fashioned way,” frame by frame. This was too slow. So I worked with Claude Science to create a webpage that animates your ChemDraws. Give it a try: rshenvi.github.io/cdxmorph/
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 01/10/2026
One for #ChemSky 👇
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Mark Fitzgerald @mfitzg79mark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol
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Jay W @jaydeedouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And looking out wider
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Mark Fitzgerald @mfitzg79mark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You don’t say….
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
phew glad that whole mess got settled
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A commenter on an IG post about specific AI annihilation scenarios said, “it's very irresponsible to post this story on the internet where AI can see it.“ 😂
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Peewee Ramone @rwilks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
7 in 10 is discouragingly low. If a poll said “nearly 7 in 10 Americans do not believe that the Earth is flat,” it would not be seen as a defeat for the flat-Earthers.
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Goat @iconoclasticgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What are we doing here. You guys need spectacle, so you report on spectacle like it's actually news?
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
chemsky @songlin1.bsky.social
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Dr Lauren M Robinson @drlmrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I loathe when people describe zoos as "prisons", particularly Americans, because it shows an ignorance of both zoos and the prison system.
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Richard J Laya @richardlaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When consumers are paying 70-80% more for something they need to just get to work every day, yeah personal spending might be up.
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Their next combo with Eloralintide is a drug called Macupatide. It's a GIP monoagonist. In phase 1 trials this drug had zero side effects. It increases insulin sensitivity, lower glucose and body weight. And now it gets combined with Eloralintide. It'll cause 20% weight loss with no side effects.
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A1c reductions were even more wild. There was an additive effect of Elora + tirzepatide with a reduction up to 2.9%!! Rate of diabetic remission was upwards of 70% in some arms 😳😳😳 @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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