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Azi Raphael

@moonglaive90.bsky.social
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Started out with art, then ran an anime convention, and somehow ended up studying astro/biophysics. 🤷‍♀️ Was moonglaive on Twitter. 💛🖤🤍💜 ~ 🖤🩶🤍💜

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:
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What it's like to witness a botched execution
Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 11h
figures they keep going back to Jean Twenge, the chief "the youths aren't ok" correspondent, who loves a good p-hacked correlation
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h
Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 9h
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 9h
The Republicans won't do anything unless unless they can also make it into a grotesque spectacle.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18h
Holy shit, is this where Trump got the idea?
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Curt @mstinkerson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are serious issues with our media. A 2023 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 58% of American adults had never even heard of the CHIPS and Science Act, as it was barely a blip on the major outlets - they were all too busy hand-waving about Trump. #DemVoice1
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Marco Rubio has a meltdown when asked about Kimberly Guilfoyle: "I'm not playing this game ... you guys are not gonna be our only source of information in the world. I'm sorry to tell you that. No... I don't even know if what you're reporting is true." (It's true! The Journal has her text messages!)
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 19h
I'm sure there will still be division of labor between the socially constructed -isms if the corporations get their way and relegate the thinking to their proprietary thought machines and data centers, though.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 19h
Capitalism/colonialism is weird and pretty messed up. If we're making analogies, this all seems very much like constructed division between crafts and fine art. Now that they have AI to do the work, all of STEAM gets lumped into that category, not just the arts.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 19h
The same people who claim AI will protect the future of humanity by doing away with the labor of thinking use math to harvest are data in a way that is not beneficial to any society, much less humanity. It just enriches their bank accounts while eroding that which makes humans human.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 19h
When I was working on an art degree, I quickly realized how little ppl understood the process (and thought it was quick and easy, and thus cheap). This is part of why I switched to physics. I didn't realize that math was much the same ( not simply ppl just "not being math ppl") until all this.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No. Being an immigrant is not comparable to someone picking a career. Law enforcement has been a corrupt institution from the get go, and any "good people who serve" are pretty quickly ousted from the ranks for trying to do the right thing.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In January, @standupforscience.net sent an on the ground investigator to Guinea Bissau to learn more about the study. Something that has not changed in GB or about the study: there is NOT A WORD for Hep B. They use the language for "yellow fever", that's not informed consent.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I know everybody is outraged about the Cornell case, but this rape at LSU isn’t getting the same attention it deserves. And the school did find the student guilty of forcible rape. youtu.be/SI35s6GKbL0?...
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EXCLUSIVE: LSU student says university failed her after Title IX finding in alleged sexual assaul...
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You know those trends of taking one song and redoing it in a different genre, or just shifting from major to minor chords? All I'm saying is that Enya and Trent Reznor should make an album together.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pakistan expands protected habitat for Indus River dolphin as recovery offers hope 🧪🦑🌎
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Pakistan expands protected habitat for Indus River dolphin as recovery offers hope
Between 11 million and 16 million years ago, during the high sea levels of the middle Miocene period, the ancestors of the Indus River dolphin entered the muddy waters of what is the Indus Basin…
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I keep getting full sheet, full color flyers in the mail from Paxton. The most recent said, "Ken Paxton protecting children. A strong record of putting human traffickers behind bars. When missing posters go up - Ken Paxton takes them down." Texas is run by clowns in a death death. 🙃
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And at least 50 pregnant people with measles infecting their babies. And at least two dying.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Little time-lapse from last night. I don't know what they were doing on that field in the distance, whatever it was, it was loud!
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Despite all my angst I am still just a toy voiced by Hanks
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Slaot Laz4p Rage Meme
Alt: Sheriff Woody angry
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And reverting their product to a previous version (this company is now defunct, but yeah).
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chat is this good
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to just bite the bullet on the fact that, yes, we should gatekeep art, actually we do not owe you access to the sum total of every single professional creative skill that was extracted from humanity and put into the machine, without our consent
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fun fact: When I went to speak at Broadview while I was still under federal indictment, 3 VERY obvious Feds kept following me, trying to copy these people. They had riot shields that said “WE PROTECT US” and asked me conspiratorially if I “knew about the plan” which was totally real. Bro. (1/4)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 04/10/2026
I've been going through publicly available information relative to the possible Y. pestis (pneumonic plague) incident in Russia. Reports are conflicting—we do not have a clear picture of what's happening. And even under the best of circumstances the Russian government isn't exactly transparent 🧵
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 05/10/2026
[GPS voiced by Horace Greeley] "Go west, young man. In a quarter mile, turn right, young man. Your manifest destiny is on the left.”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
FLI is the one organizing Bernie Sanders's alliance with Steve Bannon and all that to supposedly stop the existential risks to humanity from machine gods. These men sure seem like people concerned with "existential risks."
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like having memories, but this is the worst. Biz was 17 in 2020 when he passed away from some kind of lump on his liver. "What's different now..."
Black kitty with green eyes laying in the sun.

The text says: 11 years ago on October 3. What's different now?
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Bruce S. Lieberman @bruceslieberman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A thoughtful, excellent write up by @richardconniff.bsky.social on the very sad situation @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social museum #paleontology #palaeontology #naturalhistory richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...
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Another Nature Museum Faces Death
Kansas is killing a centerpiece of state and world history. Follow the money.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Former spokesperson for the state of Israel Eylon Levy. They have murdered so many journalists that this counts as humour
Eylon Levy: “I'm quite happy to let Piers in. Out is another question.”

Quote tweeting Piers Morgan: “Forgive me I don't trust you guys to be entirely truthtul given your ongoing ban on international journalists reporting freely in Gaza. Let them in, and then we can discover the real facts about what you have done there.”
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