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Patsy Baloney

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Hope. Sewell. L'Engle. Zelazny. McKillip. Steinbeck. Asimov. Tepper. West. Pratchett. --- The creatures. The Earth. The stars.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Three Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a judicial nominee who refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. At least one judicial advocacy group is fuming. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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3 Senate Dems Vote To Advance Election Denier To Lifetime Court Seat
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“[A]n audience member wondered whether partnering w/ ‘jurisdictions that have…arguably even higher status, like federally recognized tribes,’ might present a workaround [to enable “network states”]. [Joe] Lonsdale agreed. He had just spoken with someone from the Chickasaw ­Nation.” (2025) 1/
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Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation
And hope to gobble up some land near you.
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Excellent essay, even if you don't knit. (But knitting is awesome, and knitters have attitude, so you really should knit.)
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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There goes any hope of winning a Democratic nomination. Big Tech's collaboration with Trump and GOP is a stain that will mark him and Newsom to the voters.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Restructure the court. Go to 13 seats (to correspond to number of circuits.) Go to term limits. Retroactively if possible. Investigate and if appropriate prosecute/disbar justices who have been on the take. Establish strict enforceable ethical guidelines for the court. Then move on...
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Ron Cereola @roncereola.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Perversion of the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court rules that white people can disenfranchise Black voters for political advantage.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...
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The Comey Threat Indictment Is A Grave Embarrassment To The United States Department of Justice And The Rule of Law
The Department of Justice Is Dead; Long Live The Department of Trump
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.
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The Frontier @readfrontier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join The Frontier and ProPublica for a reception and public screening of this documentary film, which features a local reporter’s journey to understand Oklahoma’s oilfield wastewater pollution problem.
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Toxic Pressure: A documentary screening on oilfield wastewater threatening Oklahoma communities
Join The Frontier and ProPublica for a reception and public screening of this documentary film, which features a local reporter’s journey to understand Oklahoma’s oilfield wastewater pollution problem...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hubble Spies Charming Spiral Galaxy Bursting with Stars - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/q2fTri
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observes some of the most beautiful galaxies in our skies — spirals sparkling with bright stellar nurseries, violent duos ripping gas and stars away from one another as they tangle together, and ethereal irregular galaxies that hang like flocks of birds suspended in the blackness of space.

However, galaxies, like humans, are not all supermodels. This little spiral, known as NGC 4102, has a different kind of appeal, with its tightly-wound spiral arms and understated, but charming, appearance.

NGC 4102 lies in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). It contains what is known as a LINER, or low-ionization nuclear emission-line region, meaning that its nucleus emits particular types of radiation — specifically, emission from weakly-ionized or neutral atoms of certain elements. Even in this sense, NGC 4102 is not special; around one third of all nearby galaxies are thought to be LINER galaxies.

Many LINER galaxies also contain intense regions of star formation. This is thought to be intrinsically linked to their centers but just why, is still a mystery for astronomers — either the starbursts pour fuel inwards to fuel the LINERs, or this active central region triggers the starbursts. NGC 4102 does indeed contain a starburst region towards its center, where stars are being created at a rate much more furious than in a normal galaxy. This star formation is taking place within a small rotating disk, around 1000 light-years i...
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The best of us. ❤️
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cape Weaver Southern Africa 📷: Frederick Emming Photography #birds
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Totally want to help give the technogarchs and their FrAInkensteins access to brains of the humans. More data centers!
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🥰 And the laughter! 🥰
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️
Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Ken @bludrone.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Stoicism, founded by Zeno of Citium, taught that while external events lie largely beyond our control, our judgments, choices, and moral character remain firmly within it. By aligning oneself with reason and accepting the natural order of events” www.thecollector.com/exercises-st...
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6 Exercises to Practice Stoicism in a Stressful World | TheCollector
Stoicism is a timeless philosophical school that can guide us in living a happier, more peaceful life, even when times are stressful.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Wise by Vivienne Ming: 'The goal of working with AI isn’t to get the answer faster. It’s to find out what you’re missing. Don’t deploy AI minions to “do the boring work” for you...; use it as a savant collaborator to explore uncertainty.' Gift link: @socos.org www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-a...
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Essay | AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.
As a neuroscientist, I conducted research into artificial versus human intelligence. The results surprised me—and suggest we’ve been worrying over the wrong things.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Judge Leon is waking up to this. www.muellershewrote.com/p/todd-blanc...
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Todd Blanche’s Unhinged Midnight Ballroom Motion
After unsuccessfully demanding the National Trust for Historic Preservation drop its lawsuit against Trump’s ballroom, Todd Blanche filed a crazed, hyperbolic late-night rant on the docket
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor), is a small species of heron native to coastal parts of the Americas. The species is more solitary than other species of heron and eats a diet consisting mostly of small fish." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Emilie Reid©️ | Wondershots
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/04/2026
Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Another phone shot from this evening’s after-work walk. Love this view 🥰 #iphone15pro #berko #berkhamsted
Green crops in a field with trees dotted along the horizon at intervals with a bigger one on the right. Grey stormy clouds above.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press." newrepublic.com/article/2095... Read @gregsargent.bsky.social on that idea. Another way to put it: The press is a political actor, because how can it not be? But that doesn't mean it politicizes everything.
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Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Trump Takedown on CNN Has Damning Hidden Message
The real importance of that Jamie Raskin–Dana Bash dustup on Sunday: Raskin showed that Democrats and journalists share values that Donald Trump does not.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
1/ Today, as SCOTUS hears arguments to decide if suits claiming Monsanto (parent co Bayer) failed to warn people about the cancer risks of Roundup/glyophosate, we're exposing a huge threat matrix: public and private forests are being bombarded with the herbicide www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A detail of a Roman mosaic with birds, found in 1888 near Via Panisperna. Dated to the 1st century BC. #MosaicMonday
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/04/2026
One of the world's rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to extinction. to.pbs.org/4sUKB5a
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What to know about Rice's whale, a rare species in the way of Trump's plans for more Gulf drilling
Scientists fear that expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could push the giant mammal to extinction.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 27/04/2026
Archaeologist holding glass bracelets, discovered during rescue excavations at the medieval site of Apostolshchyna in Ukraine. Located near the princely town of Volodymyr, they were likely hidden when the town was sacked during the Mongol-Tatar campaign of 1241 CE. 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
Person holding several glass bracelets in their hands, still muddy from excavation.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 27/04/2026
📰 Advanced dating establishes a precise construction timeline for French Polynesian coral architecture, without the need for extensive excavation 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...
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French Polynesia coral house study points to ecological past
A team of archaeologists has used an advanced dating technique to establish a precise construction timeline for houses built out of coral in French Polynesia.
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
TThis kind of petty evil is what's making it harder for me to get out of bed in the morning. The Constitution was not built to withstand someone more than willing to knock off his own nose while thumbing it at people who dislike him. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party." Ulysses S. Grant, born on this day in 1822
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NPR @npr.org · 27/04/2026
The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. n.pr/4udjcvH
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Ingenious? Orwellian? Or both? Supreme Court considers constitutionality of 'geofence' warrants
The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved.
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It's #BlueskyMonday. I've posted an infrared image of this "fogbow" from a couple months ago. Here's an image from my regular spectrum camera. Fogbows are rare but beautiful. Especially with blue sky as a background. #photography #landscape #ECK #rivers #fog
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Wow, Sophie, this image made the rest of the world go away for a brief moment. I just stopped and took it all in. Its breathtaking. Pure beauty. I've no other words except is it framed and hung on your wall yet?
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Todays #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PassportPhoto. This red-tailed hawk was being severely harassed by a pair of red-shouldered hawks. I suppose it might have been threatening a nearby nest of theirs. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ECK #birds #Nikon #Z8 #hawks
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A Cottontail Rabbit with a tiny white stripe on the forehead hopping around in the backyard. We have plenty of dandelions for the rabbits to munch on.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that’s my religion.” ~Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s friend and biographer William Herndon recorded that Lincoln attributed this quote to a man he knew in Indiana. Lincoln recalled the man’s name as “Glenn.” Image: Library of Congress.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You know what's more secure than a big new ballroom? Prison.
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"For the foreseeable future, America’s allies will reasonably fear that they may be one election away from abandonment and betrayal." Exactly. No ally should trust the American electorate, again.
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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Indeed.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“The great danger is to stand motionless on the bank as the river of your life rushes by... We don’t know what it is like to be any creature other than ourselves — the bird, the dog, the person we love. The great triumph is to let the fantasy of understanding go & love anyway.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Love to see it, but should be noted that the U isn’t taking the threat too seriously. Construction starts Monday.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist and creator of the 1000 postcards project; mini paintings of natural life inspired by her ‘re-wilding’ of a Welsh farm #WomensArt
Photo of a large number of white postcards with individual paintings of insects, plants and birds
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yoshida Hiroshi, Japanese artist, 1876-1950. Kumoi-Zakura, Kumoi Cherry Trees, 1920. Woodblock print on paper. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Toledo Museum of Art | Traditional Art
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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New genetic evidence from Stajnia Cave reveals the oldest Neanderthal group reconstructed in Central-Eastern Europe phys.org/news/2026-04...
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New genetic evidence from Stajnia Cave reveals the oldest Neanderthal group reconstructed in Central-Eastern Europe
An international study published in Current Biology presents the results of the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA obtained from eight Neanderthal teeth discovered in Stajnia Cave, Poland. For the ...
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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"This might be difficult for many readers to grasp — given our nation’s longstanding military supremacy — but the largest and most battle-hardened land force in the western world may well be the Ukrainian Army." Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...
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Opinion | Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped
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