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Philly dad. Climbing, hiking, birds, reading, programming, science, education, urbanism.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026
"compared to the situation of critical disability theorists, eugenic philosophers enjoy far more publicity, institutional support, and financial security. Now we have a better understanding of *why* these hateful bigots have been so successful..." biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/20/h...
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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?
One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/
A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How long til we find out these people were publishing fake polls to move betting odds?
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The name of the account is "good trailcams." Promises made, promises kept.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
' "Obviously not blowing up is sort of like task number one and two, or whatever,” Aschenbrenner said during the fourth hour of a popular tech podcast in 2024 ' Lol, obviously
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/07/2026
Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
New capital investment grants signed by administration
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Suck on that Spinoza, you amateur. You absolute dickhead."
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You love to see it
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HALLOWEENTime, M.D.🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @saigontimemd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
finally found something to make me laugh and it's this I've watched this like 30 times in a row
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2026
oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...
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Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A pan-galactic coven of pastry witches? Oh, right, the beignet gesserit.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
it’s kind of annoying how we have dozens and dozens of studies showing building more housing puts downwards pressure on rents, but once a year a small cadre of crank economists publishes a shoddily-researched paper to try and muddy the waters and for some reason, papers like Hell Gate take the bait
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Conor Åberst Åreås Heågie The US Åpen
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/03/2026
"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt." buff.ly/fLNN71n
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Introducing the 15-Hour City
“The 15-minute city principle suggests you should have your daily needs—work, food, healthcare, education, culture, and leisure—within a 15-minute ...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
on the david foster wallace porn convention essay flaminghydra.com/issue-507/#o...
His narrative voice here, as it often is, was snide, funny, and brutally uptight. Some people could stand to remove the stick from their ass; in this essay, Wallace’s stick seems to be holding both ass and man together. Whether he’s exaggeratedly horrified by a porn star’s fake tits, or by the very sound of the phrase “prolapsed sphincter,” one senses that the horror is the only thing connecting him to the earth at this awards show. Most people are capable of getting through a few hours of cheap buffet egg rolls and Lycra stripper gowns with a lot less hand-wringing than this. His framework for the whole essay is a data point indicating that a couple dozen men self-castrate every year in order to free themselves from the terrible burden of their sexual urges. Don’t self-castrate, Wallace urges; if you watch as much porn as I did to write this piece, your balls will tap out of their own volition. Har, har. Ho, ho.And yet for all that, the essay remains a pleasure to read, as long as you’re able to suspend your desire to see sex workers written about as if they’re just as human as decorated novelists. It’s a veritable candy dish of descriptive treats: the “artilleryesque ejaculations” of one porn star, the “platinum lamé gowns slit all the way to the tenth rib,” the way Screw magazine scamp Al Goldstein is “less conducted than borne back to his seat” after a rousing speech. Wallace has a particular talent for describing the Leg Avenue-type costumes sex workers buy for a discount at adult stores. His accounting of the “seriously dolled up” stars as they enter the awards show is like something out of Edith Wharton: all those tensions, and all those outfits.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism. Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.
On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. 
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 #OpSouthernSpear
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Beautiful day here today. Also: thawing dog turds everywhere, left behind like erratic boulders from the receding ice sheets.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Per the crossword, why is it a pair of pants but not a pair of shirts?
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Backlit Figure @thesleeperssleep.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
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Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Shoveled my block today along with my neighbors. It felt good to see neighbors I hadn't seen in a while. People seemed cheerful despite the poor weather. Several remarked on how quiet the city gets after a good snowfall. Anyway here's a chubby lil junco.
Tight shot of a dark-eyed junco sitting on a planter topped with freshly fallen snow.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Relax and enjoy it.“
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Absolute horrors are unfolding in Iran.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"Luther informed Hitler in no uncertain terms that the Reichsbank was not part of his revolution. It was an independent fiscal entity with an international board of directors." (The parallels here to Trump vs Powell are uncanny--almost too on-the-nose, really.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker
Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is extraordinary. I can’t think of a single Fed statement this defiant — ever. The Fed works through open consensus building and when it must, quiet, patient resistance. I cannot stress how bad things are that Jay Powell is saying these things out loud.
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see."
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
You say potato, I say tomato
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I read this (extremely good) piece a few months ago and went back to listen to The Wall for the first time in years, paying attention to it much more carefully than I have done before. Highly recommend reading it.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The team behind Google’s tool for predicting how proteins “fold” won a 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Here's the state of that tech and how it’s being used in health research today. ⬇️
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How Alphafold Has Changed Biology Research, 5 Years On
Google's tool for predicting how proteins “fold” turns 5 this year. How is it fitting into biological research—and where is it going?
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/11/2025
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I was watching some YouTube today and was being served AI slop ads for medicinal honey, blueberries, and other kinds of snake oil, featuring fake astronauts, doctors, moms, etc. Seemingly there's no regard for truth or credibility.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cancelled Disney+ and Hulu today
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/08/2025
"We beheld throngs of swaying bodies, caught up in some sort of blood-trance, all of them shimmying as if to some unheard music, circling a massive, formless statue, all intertwined in a seething mass of sweat-covered skin and beehived hair-dos that seemed to defy gravity."
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H.P. Loveshack
When I recall that night so many years ago, among the foul mists and brackish fens of the Great Southern Swamp, a great wave of shame and guilt ris...
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omellet @omellet.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My 10 y.o. was telling me it would be cool if football players had mics in their helmets so they ask for a lateral or something. So I showed him the Randy Moss lateral and his eyes lit up. And I was like "yes it was exactly that awesome when I saw it too" youtu.be/hXcGNVpblQ4?...
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Randy Moss Lateral Behind The Back To Moe Williams For A Touchdown | NFL 100 Greatest Plays
YouTube video by Minnesota Vikings
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
All because dude dared unfreeze illegally frozen federal funds that went towards helping people
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
Montage of Dutch bike infrastructure
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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