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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 5m

>95% of messages to my phone are grifter spam from Democrats ... doesn't matter how many times I "delete and report spam", still 20-30 per day

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. one of the basic problems is that they think that thinking about something really hard is a type of sampling, and that you actually don't need to sample anything to get information, and that there is no difference between thinking about something and doing it.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 4h

It’s fun to read Trump’s words as if he’s being performed like George in a community theater production of Of Mice and Men “Four times!!!”

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5h

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 6h

It’s fun to read Trump’s words as if he’s being performed like George from Of Mice and Men “Four times!!!”

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 8h

just call yourselves "Melkor" already

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 9h

Regardless of the merits of data centers, this is not an appropriate use of public lands, because it monopolizes the land for a single private entity rather than keeping the land as multi-use, defeating the whole idea of public lands. Let Valar purchase its own land if it needs space.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 10h

Boudinage are one of the most spectacular geologic structures and some of my favorite rocks. The boudins are the eye-shaped lenses of rock wedged between the white quartz layers. This happened when the rocks were being stretched by tectonic forces. The eye-shaped lenses, augen… 👇🏼 #MinCup26

Boudins of amphibolite layers (metamorphosed basalts) that were stretched between quartz schists (Norway). Photo credits: Haakon Fossen.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22h

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

cant.stop.laughing

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21h

oh my god this is fucking horrifying. they lethally injected her twice and she didn't die and now they're trying to save her so they can presumably.... try again? I ran out of words for the barbaric horror with the Alabama gas executions but somehow TN is inventing new nightmare torture

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I first started working in the Senate in 1970–56 years ago. I have loved and revered the institution, worked in it and with it over all these decades, with dozens of senators from both parties. I’ve seen bad stuff and bad people along with great ones. Nothing quite compares to Eric Schmitt. 1

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the 2028 Senate map is structurally unfavorable for Democrats, yet holding the Senate and building an even wider majority is crucial to our democracy's survival maintaining political momentum is key, but kitchen table issues alone won't do it we need a unalloyed strategy of radical accountability

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if the trend holds and Dems take the Senate with a few seats to spare, this guy's about to become the lamest duck of all lame ducks which will suit him since he clearly doesn't want to do any work, anyway

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q: odds this guy drives a car with blackout windows? A: near 100%

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UMD really hits above its weight for constantly showing up in the weirdest fucking places

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s SO MUCH legacy contamination in coastal soils. We found more than 1400 administratively active sites in the SF Bay Area alone. And there are thousands more that could have residual contamination. In Hawaii, they’ve seen petroleum in groundwater produce explosive levels of methane…

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Hmm we did a war with a country who didn't control the Strait of Hormuz and it set the region on fire for 15 years, what we need is to do the same thing except with a nation that DOES control the Strait of Hormuz" - senior fellow, Foundation for Strategy Democracy Defense Institute

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

community toxicology in action: bsky.app/profile/inqu...

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 30/09/2026

Rainy day? Ride a bike. Most of these parents have to walk 1-2 blocks to their car. Parents who ride bikes get to park feet from the door.

Two cargo trikes (Nihola & Bunch) are parked next to a school. Both bikes have rain covers on. Families are walking behind the bikes with umbrellas.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s cool the president of the United States had a stroke and they covered it up!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the idea of a cantering giant offering a door in the heavens … and those who pass through it being dreadfully disappointed.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in a society where drunk drivers already blame their self-driving Teslas for driving felonies, this is the most irresponsible thing you could say

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It doesn't even have to flood to do damage. Santa Monica Bay is dotted with coastal former oil fields. Seawater intrusion is going to push up all sorts of nasty surprises. @kzhill.bsky.social baynature.org/magazine/spr...

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The Sea Beneath Us

Sea level rise has a gotcha-from-behind twin: rising groundwater. It’s already here. And some expertsmaintain, we’re not ready for it.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

i'd add: it’s almost impossible to comprehend the degree of toxic inundation if CA ports flood #ToxicLA "Oil infrastructure–including actively producing oil and gas wells, refineries, and fossil fuel ports and terminals–makes up a large fraction of the at-risk sites" pubs.acs.org/esthag/artic...

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Toxic Tides and Environmental Injustice: Social Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Flooding of Hazardous Sites in Coastal California

Abstract. Sea level rise (SLR) and heavy precipitation events are increasing the frequency and extent of coastal flooding, which can trigger releases of to

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case you're wondering what those accomplishments Mike Johnson thinks that Congress, under his leadership, delivered to the American people, he talks about it in (delusional) detail here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoZ...

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Mike Johnson | Pray Vote Stand Summit 2026

YouTube video by Tony Perkins

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

scienceforeveryone.science

The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

man, did not know that LB was already facing shit like this ... not good at all

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if Gimli was blown away by Galadriel 'cause she was thicc?

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I started with a Couch to 5K app. I've learned a lot about running, am still learning, am still just getting started but here's what I've learned....

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There will be so many better choices than Newsom in the presidential primaries. restorethedelta.org/2026/09/28/g...

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Governor Newsom vetoes key water protection bill – Restore the Delta

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

google is just completely broken now

Google search for "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail"

AIO "answer": The phrase "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail" appears to be an anagram.

When you rearrange the letters of those exact words, they unscramble to reveal a famous quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The phrase "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail" appears to be an anagram.

When you rearrange the letters of those exact words, they unscramble to reveal a famous quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."

How it breaks down:

Original letters: c-o-n-t-r-o-l-r-e-s-o-n-a-n-t-t-h-o-s-e-m-e-o-w-s-m-e-a-n-s-h-e- -o-n-t-h-e-c-r-e-a-t-u-r-e-s-t-r-a-i-l

Anagram letters: c-u-r-t-s-e-y-w-h-i-1-e- y-o-u-r-e-t-h-i-n-k-i-n-g-w-h-a-t-t-o-s-a-y-i-t-s-a-v-e-s-t-i-m-e

The original quote is spoken by the Red Queen (in Through the Looking-Glass) or associated with the general nonsense logic of Wonderland!

Are you solving a specific word puzzle or riddle challenge, and would you like help decoding any other phrases?

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

billionaires destroy higher education -> billionaire-led institutes take the money (*our* money), funding profit-driven research -> we descend further into serfdom, and strip our kids of the educational opportunities we got when we were younger -> our culture stagnates for at least a generation

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm absolutely losing it. Everything in here is made up (we hired an actor, rented a car, did not use AI, obviously), but he just invents a whole-ass world. Boner pills are a helluva drug.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

how can I get a job in civic tech? anyone know?

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just circling back here, how's this going

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The legendary American punk and post-hardcore band Minutemen from San Pedro, California. It was taken during the band's early days (circa 1980/1981) right next to the old offices of their label, SST Records, in Torrance, in the greater Los Angeles area. 📸 Glen E. Friedman #punkrockhistory

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

exactly this, pretty much the entire story of the right in the past 10 years is "vice is virtue and virtue is vice"

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fiery sunset minutes earlier above Borrego (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Fiery sunset clouds above a brittlebush and two palm trees

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