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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The ragebaiter-in-chief says: "Let them take out LA, let them take out San Diego, it's a small price to pay" and the crowd cheers. I don't understand his base. He did not imply that would be a price for humanity's continued existence - would any other context be ok? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Watch Trump on Iran: 'Let them take out LA, let them take out San Diego'

The White House said Trump was warning of the risk a nuclear Iran with his comments at a Nebraska rally.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important read for everybody. Once the hype is gone from the media, that's when it will be even more important because horrid things like #rape will not disappear magically, unless we start doing something about them. Let's >start< with 1. acknowledging it happens 2. not accepting it

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What would he do? He'd buy Twitter, for starters. Oh...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

is the possibility that an experimental, "upgraded" strain of pneumonic plague might have been leaked. This would be extremely deadly, but at the same time should be fairly containable and the chance for this to turn into a pandemic catastrophy is extremely small.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Russians dabbled in weaponising the plague (among other deadly diseases) to make them useful bioweapons and the pneumonic plague's shorter time to kill is a desirable aspect for a weapon (because you can, in theory target an area better). So what make people in the know worried about this

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The tech visited a region just before fallign ill where the plague is endemic in rodents the local hunt and regularly get infected (and several die). That is also why there is a lab not very far from there that is studying plague - so that's legit. BUT...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The kind of plague that affects the lungs, pneumonic plague is different from the bubonic plague (aka "black death") in that it is transmissible directly between humans (the black death is transmitted by tick bites) and is much faster to kill and at higher %. So it's much worse - hence the alert.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is some confusion here, and neither the Russians or this erm stable genious are not helping. The Russians say that a 20-something year old tech from their plague-lab died of pneumonia. So they did not confirm she died of plague, actually they are saying the opposite, and they could be lying.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – and we still have no idea why" People tend to walk anticlokwise (leftward) when movement is constrained - whterh there are others or not, whether it's a right- or left-side driving country. theconversation.com/almost-every...

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Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – and we still have no idea why

Across ages, genders, cultures and conditions, crowds always walk in a counter-clockwise spiral.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just because I think ill of Trump and Netanyahu, does not mean I am rooting for the Iranians to push the world off a cliff, something they seem to be diligently working at. Holding the world economy hostage, or attacking cities, hotels etc IS a choice, and neither a necessity or a prerogative.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sorry but WUT?! Should they be also allowed to hire security that would have the legal option of killing people they think are terrorists, attacking their facility? This is as slippery stuff as it gets.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does "do no harm" mean in practice, you might ask? Consent is a good place to start with.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Allowing people to be themselves is not the same as giving them special treatment. It's giving them the treatment we want for ourselves. Gender, sexuality, should only matter when it comes to sex, and that should simply be based on the "do no harm and have fun" principle.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He is mentioned a few times in the explainer (the 2006 Bi et al paper). www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unfortunately, this is where the current system is pushing us towards, because robots can be OWNED, just like slaves used to be owned. And the billionaire class needs to put somewhere tangible its trillions of financial assets.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think the aim is to transfer all human work to robots. Now if this is done to get rid of labor unions, salaries, etc ie to remove a significant cost from producing stuff, so that the cost saving can be channeled the same way all the rest have been - then I think we're heading into deep dystopia.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The name itself, optogenetics sounds very cool, but basically we are just using our current understanding of genetic information storage and processing by biological systems to enable cells to produce proteins that make them sensitive to light. This way we can "switch" on/off nerve cells with light.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here is a short summary for the more biologically literate about some of the basics of optogenetics and its offshoot, chemigenetics, about the history of discovering microbial opsins, called channelrhodopsins - and how these became the basis of new research tools. www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh I did not pick up on that. This eagle looks like it is sitting on arrows that came out of its butt instead of holding a bunch of them. I assume this is new stuff, so why the faded colors?

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is MUCH cheaper to buy one guy once than to buy votes directly. It just makes business sense to get (sorry, support) somebody elected, who will look after YOUR interests. A kind of insurance and asset at the same time, so a really worthy investment. #democracy for billionaire pennies

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We established with my wife that we can't have a dog. That is unless something like this happens. #dogs are for life. Yours or theirs, damn it.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's the sh*t they do is the problem.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's not really the pose or the eagle that is the problem with those men. Not even these Trumpian AI fever dreams he defecated into cyberspace:

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The slow killing of NHS and pushing private healthcare has been the answer we got handed because of our leaders in all our ageing countries were not willing to talk about the hard questions and costs. That just meant we allowed the answers to be given by those who financially benefit from them.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Private equity strikes again. This time they hoovered money out of TalkTalk, a large broadband company in the UK. It usually takes 3-5 years to suck a company dry by these leeches and what do you know... private equity took over TalkTalk 5 years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

BT agrees rescue deal to buy broadband operator TalkTalk

The takeover still needs to be approved by the regulator, but would give certainty to TalkTalk's millions of customers

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What they can digest is limited by the short length of their digestive tract. So if you were to provide all the basic nutrients that would be in meat, pre-digested and still palatable to a feline, you could in theory get away doing that. The microbiota of their gut though might still not be happy.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It reminds me of the sacks of potatoes dropped off at households before elections in poor villages. It became the norm and an expectation in Hungary and at that point it started losing its effectiveness - after 16 years. Buying votes should be illegal in any country that purports to be a democracy.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the cheapest way to buy undecided votes of people who never even heard of politics. Money in the pocket - does not matter how little, with a nice letter saying "Cash JUST FOR YOU - arranged by the President" will have an effect on the elections. He will probably do this again one more time.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing" #prescriptions for finished products (instead of a service provided for a period of time) is basically a racket. youtube.com/shorts/QlIwy...

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Sony making #playstation digital only is a giant “F YOU” to consumers #politics #leftist #gaming

YouTube video by ItsLuke

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that would be a good idea. Maybe we would also get women standing in a queue for the toilet less often, or for shorter time.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the kind of stuff that makes me proud-ish to be a human. Our ability to extend our limited sensory abilities and reach out over mind bogglingly vast distances to learn about things we will never ever be able to "just see". Same with our efforts to see into the microcosm.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think two similar meetings were already held. Some NATO countries do have occasional high profile meetings with just a few of the members, so in and on itself this would not necessarily mean anything sinister, but in the context of the Trump admin's anti-EU/pro-Russia stance, it looks really bad.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just recently came across this Australian series of interviews "You can't ask that". They are absolutely brilliant as they allow you a sneak peak into lives that "regular" people know nothing or not much about. Like, do blind people see darkness, all the time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkzf...

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The reality of life without vision | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode

YouTube video by ABC Australia

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is this what they call alpha male energy nowadays?

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think they are and have been. And so they are called emotional. It's MEN that need to get really angry about other men raping women so that those that do, start to get really afraid and hope fervently they are caught by police and not by enraged fathers, boyfriends, brothers...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I mean re defence, is that while the Trump admin has burned down all the bridges and trust the USA had with the EU, it doesn't mean we can't buy American weapons if we get a "good deal". Reliance needs to be dialed down and straight up anti-EU moves (like trying to break it up) countered.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe Europe needs do conduct "diplomacy" with the USA in a transactional way (but not with other partners). It's not about being a d*ck, it's about adapting to the kind of language and thinking that they understand and respond to. Appeasement does not work, "business" does.

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't give him more bad ideas, he got them in spades already

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess the USA is winning so hard, the DOJ has nothing current left to investigate and so now turned to reversing some historical wrongs, like Nixon's political assassination by the deep state. Oh, lordy...

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When the conversation is happening purely at the emotional level between these people, facts do not matter. What matters is that he caught and nailed that nasty-no-good Trump-hater and that is the end of their story. Whether it happened at all, that is beside the point, for them and their audience.

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