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Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 4h
Nationalize SpaceX. No more over-powerful citizens.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h
so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 4h
This sucks.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 9h
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.
John Brown
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6h
Anticipating a bunch of NYT pieces about how conservatives in rural diners are out of touch with their own concerns, and admonishing them to step out of their bubbles and try to have meaningful conversations with themselves.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 4h
the Telegraph is reporting it was Musk after all fuck him Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h
An absolutely incredible pay off
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13/10/2026
[Exit Ambassador.]
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h
All else aside, Abdul would break Vance in half. The man is jacked.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h
Every accusation is a confession
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h
Crybullies, the lot of them
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 11h
Get their asses
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 12h
Cool robot suit bro
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 12h
Which would be me
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 13h
”Terrible. It’s supposed to be one day” (Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 20 2014)
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 14h
"Trump is a Russian agent" theory is a theory like gravity is a theory
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Look, I will articulate it for you again: MANY COUNTRIES EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING AS RUSSIA DID IN THE NINETIES. ONLY RUSSIA BECAME A REVANCHIST POWER THAT MURDERS MEN, RAPES WOMEN AND ABDUCTS CHILDREN
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
basically impossible job
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Can someone port @mayoremanuel to Bluesky? Sucks to have to point people to the nazi bar to experience it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
H Y P E R R E A L S I M U L A C R U M
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
pedocon theory undefeated.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
whoopsie
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
jump scare
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Proposbig = proposing Wtf
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nazi scientists leaned into a (bullshit) narrative of “holding back“ the bomb from Hitler. Farm Hall transcripts show Weizsäcker proposbig the face-saving "version" in real time. Heisenberg fumbles the critical mass calculations, indicating real misunderstanding and not deliberate stalling.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Among other things, the Farm Hall transcripts indicate that Heisenberg and other Nazi scientists considered themselves far ahead, and only after learning of the US bomb started spinning a self-serving narrative of “holding back” a bomb from Hitler. They didn’t even know what plutonium was.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sucks that ACS buries Klotz’s fantastic article under a 30 year old paywall. The Nazis, including Heisenberg and Hahn, thoroughly believed themselves superior. Then they spun revisionist narratives rather than admitting they simply failed to understand how to build a working bomb.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It really sucks that ACS has buried Klotz’s fantastic article under a 30 year old paywall. As a result, we keep seeing the recurring delusion that ubermensch Nazi nuclear scientists were super advanced and hampered only by material shortages. In fact they were never close.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The fiction that German atomic scientists had made significant progress towards a bomb is a particularly stupid, ahistorical bit of Nazi hagiography. This article by the great biochemist Irv Klotz demolishes it. pubs.acs.org/jceda8/artic...
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Captives of Their Fantasies: The German Atomic Bomb Scientists
Abstract. When the Nazi government collapsed in May, 1945, an Allied intelligence mission took into custody nine of the German scientists who played key ro
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The late great biochemist Irv Klotz wrote up an amazing analysis of secret recordings of captive German nuclear scientists discussing news of the US atomic bomb. They weren’t remotely close to figuring out how to make one. Not even in the neighborhood. pubs.acs.org/jceda8/artic...
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Captives of Their Fantasies: The German Atomic Bomb Scientists
Abstract. When the Nazi government collapsed in May, 1945, an Allied intelligence mission took into custody nine of the German scientists who played key ro
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Whoopsie
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Can the LLM-based AI agents that are supposed to be able to help with scientific research distinguish real work from pseudoscience, from fraud, or from long-discredited retracted starting papers? Take a guess.
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How LLMs Deal With Fraudulent Papers
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New project for you all: I produced “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s extraordinary documentary, rolling out now.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In Lutsk, Russian drone hit the Eurogurt wholesale store, killing 6 people and injuring 12 others, including a child‼️ With the new Starlink limitations our ability to intercept drones is very limited.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pepperdine, always elite
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Any temptation the argument of special Russian grievance might have can be dispelled by 10 minutes of attention to what Russians actually say about slaughtering other people.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's always very strange to me that many essential takes around Russian foreign policy are "economic anxiety and isolation are a valid excuse for aggression" as if Russia had not choice but to, y'know, do that
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14/10/2026
Parents, if you have dropped off a kid named Jimmy in the morning and picked up a kid named Janet at the end of the school day, please return to the school: You've driven off with some other family's child.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
lol
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
No one who *replies* reads the quoted post.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Also gamers: we must hold the power to masturbate to Grok porn in our hands
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The owner of X is a Russian asset who regularly amplifies Kremlin propaganda. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Faqa @faqa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's not funny, Yandex data centers only do this when they're very distressed
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sorry about your data centers
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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
👊🏾❤️💯
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
remember how circa 2018 you could spot a facebook boomer from a mile away. like their brains were just totally cooked. half of what they said was incoherent. x-brain is less incongruous because politics itself is more Online, but it's still pretty noticeable when someone's brain is cooked by x
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