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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 21h

But that 18s offset between the GPS epoch and UTC is forever.

Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 22h

A few km at a time in either direction is functionally a static situation. However, I think you are probably correct that the Russians are taking much heavier losses, and that at some point it will break them.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A bizarre but strangely compelling idea...

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Russia is a gas station with nukes... and essentially all of their oil trade runs through the territorial waters of NATO members. All NATO members should close their territorial waters to all vessels trading with Russia until Russia withdraws from Ukraine and fully compensates Ukraine.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The only reason it's at any kind of stalemate is because of Trump's pro-Russian fuckery. Any result that doesn't include complete Russian withdrawal from Ukrainian territory is just an invitation to Putin to re-arm and do it again.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Give Ukraine access to the weapons it needs to expel Russia from its territory.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Russia has the power to end this war any time they like, champ. They can just leave Ukraine.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Russia can end this war anytime by leaving Ukraine. You know that, right?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Like a Rothko decided to say "Actually, it's called ephebophilia."

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That is *PRECISELY* what throwing spears were developed for. Sometimes you need to stab a motherfucker from farther away than you can smell him.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Most Spooky Witch Shit is just artisanal herb blends ideal for poultry and making him text you back

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Back when I worked at walgreens I didn't know witch hazel was a real thing people would come in asking for it and I'd be like yeah it's on aisle 3 next to the wolfsbane and eye of newt you fucking idiot bastard
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Zoe, wolfsbane is also a thing and eye of newt is just the olde timey way of saying mustard seed.
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By talos this can't be happening again

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Western fascist movements should all be stamped Made in Moscow.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Eh, expressing surprise that no one has committed a particular crime is not remotely the same as suggesting people commit it.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neither made it into law, and neither proposed to make it illegal to speak ill of Israel.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dipshit + fireworks is my favorite genre of short form video.

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Citrus medicka @bigwheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just read a fucked up story about raw milk and let me just say as a descendant of a respected dairy scientist: pasteurization is fucking awesome and there's zero reason to consume unpasteurized milk. ever

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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Drinking raw milk is about as on par with eating raw chicken

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My father and both his sisters (none of whom were actors) all spoke with a mid-Atlantic accent, as did some of their friends. They were all born in the late teens/early 20s and grew up in NYC.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your regular reminder that anti-vaxxers are pro child abuse.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, it's an upper class New York accent from the first half of the 20th century. It's been extinct in the wild for decades, so people get the (false) idea that it was artificial.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It predates the Holocaust by *CENTURIES*

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My mind had mercifully blocked that out... WHY OH WHY DID YOU REMIND ME?

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know we can all see that every post from your account, which appears to be less than a week old, is a reply complaining about this book. Truly hobbyless behavior.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am deeply angry that some of my precious memories are taken up by knowledge of what Roko's Basilisk is. I feel dumber because of it. I could be keeping something worthwhile in that storage space... like the memory of a really good shit.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hubbard was an irredeemable POS along several axes... but he still somehow managed to be a better person than that elongated muskrat.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He could produce utter slop faster than ChatGPT.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I read it as marketing -- something with that kind of power or potential for that kind of power is immensely valuable.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's about 160-170 lbs of salmon... which honestly isn't that absurd for an animal the size of a grizzly.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not poop tho (although it smells that way when fresh) -- it's its own thing.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ambergris is not whale puke. It's a substance that forms in the intestines of sperm whales to protect them from the indigestible beaks of the squid they eat. They poop it out and it cures in the sun.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Clearly you should mix it with Malort

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A subtle beginning to a terrifying thread

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A distant cousin of mine wrote an autobiography in the the late 50s called "From Candlelight to Satellite" about her long and adventurous life.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are you trying to get people killed?

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rabies only infects mammals, AFAIK.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Telling lies isn't historical debate, my d00d. Smallpox is EXTINCT because Jenner was right.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1) Formal medical education in the modern sense didn't exist in Jenner's lifetime, and it's not relevant. 2) 20th century smallpox vaccines were still made with cowpox, just like Jenner's. 3) Better medical ethics today don't change the fact that Jenner's vaccine worked and worked well.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's because you're using it wrong. And they will be skeets always and forever, but especially when useless weenies like you whine about it.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They're skeets. Always and forever, but especially when some weenie clutches their pearls about it.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Galbraith was right when he said that every successful revolution is kicking in a rotten door... but who exactly is doing the kicking is enormously important.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't think I've heard a claim of abuse of glp-1s that isn't a euphemism for "I don't like what that woman is doing with her body"

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And some people are that fucking stupid all on their own.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And the fastest and most effective way to do that is to fund housing.

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Pierce Nichols @nocleverhandle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't think that total helicopter accidents are necessarily a good metric for how dangerous helicopter commuter operations are, because helicopters are used for some extremely high risk purposes (like oil services and high tension line maintenance) that probably skew the overall average.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacking libraries and publishers.

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