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Blair Loudly @blairloudly.bsky.social · 22h

[looking in the mirror] ugh i look more like age against the machine

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MJdowntheshore @mjdowntheshore.bsky.social · 12h

Thought for today. Cheers.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 12h

Literally looting and destroying the Kennedy center as a tantrum because he doesn’t get to put his name on it. I just cannot understand how you would see this behavior and think “yes, this person should be president of the United States.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CSPAN: “We should mention that Senator Schmitt was supposed to appear on this program with Sen. Coons but he pulled out the day after that hearing.”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13h

LOSS: A court dismissed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new gerrymander that dismantled the state’s lone majority-Black district. The court said it must presume the legislature acted in good faith when assessing discriminatory intent — a standard that makes proving discrimination near impossible.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12h

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13h

I read a paper recently and was shocked to learn we can potentially detect RAINBOWS ON EXOPLANETS. What. It's so cool! So I wrote about it for Scientiifc American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭 🧪

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Can we see rainbows on faraway exoplanets?

A future NASA telescope could spot atmospheric phenomena on planets orbiting other stars

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THE GOOSE GIRL @sylviasmothersaid.bsky.social · 13h

The traitor and thief called security on American reporters. Trump only wants fascist reporters and state news that will say what he wants them to say.!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026

BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...

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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit

Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...

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Women Are Not Safe Around Men

This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.

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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can’t wait to topple the evil golden Man-Child of Armageddon. 👹🤺🤣

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rape Van Winkle

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another cartoon

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Mark "Piprrr" Coletti @piprrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up til now I never have taken a vacation day for my birthday, but I’m taking tomorrow off. After so many laps round the sun you start thinking about how many you have left. Life is short and gets shorter by the day. I already booked a massage and plan a small hike.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I agree with some points, not all. 1. America's world leadership is slipping due to the continued assaults on science. 2. Meanwhile. China ramps up its R&D spending. Now, Beijing accounts for 1/3rd of the world's clinical-stage drugs. 3. The NIH budget should be increased.🧵 🧪 archive.today/DtX6y

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Opinion | I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.

America should invest in NIH medical research, not retreat from it.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/09/2026

Nature reports how scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions. #microsky 🧪

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All the ways a cell can die — and why the variety matters

Scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die, and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In Case You were Wondering. There are 96 bags of poop on the Moon, and there are very good reasons to get them back. www.iflscience.com/who-exactly-...

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Who Exactly Owns Neil Armstrong's Moon Poop? And Why Is It So Important We Get It Back?

There are 96 bags of poop on the Moon, and there are very good reasons to get them back.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/09/2026

Ageing has often been conceptualized as a gradual, linear decline, yet growing evidence suggests it unfolds through dynamic, stage-specific transitions. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Genetics discusses analytical frameworks to identify non-linear transitions in aging. go.nature.com/4hglsh2 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows major biological transition periods across the human lifespan.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the dark and silent deep, Where the ancient oceans sleep, Crystalline and fiercely bright, Wakes the cubic form of light. #Halite, born of sun and sea, Bound in perfect symmetry. The Salt of the Earth #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

White cubic halite stalactites. From Mindat: https://www.mindat.org/photo-427956.html

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Since 2018, women in nearly every category of race, age, marital status, educ level, & income have increased their gun ownership. In most of these cases, women's % increases in firearm ownership exceeded those of men belonging to the same group, often by 50% or more.”🧪 @andrewmorral.bsky.social

2018, less than a quarter of gun owners were women (22 percent); by 2024, women made up nearly a third of all gun owners (32 percent).
Figure 1. Trends in Personal Firearm Ownership by Gender, 2004-2024

Source: General Social Survey (GSS), NORC at the University of Chicago, 2004-2024

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/09/2026

🌍 Tiny ocean swirls steer big currents In a computer model of the Southern Ocean, small swirls drive 18% to 22% of a key current directly and boost bigger eddies for another 24% to 28%. Climate forecasts depend on it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2026gl124264 #Oceanography #Climate 🧪

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Dual‐Pathway Influence of Submesoscale Processes on the Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation

Submesoscale processes substantially influence the Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation (MOC) Submesoscale processes affect the MOC by directly inducing anticlockwise overturning and...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris.

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Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/09/2026

🔬 Fibres dominate deep ocean plastic A global computer model finds plastic fibres are the main microplastics 100 to 1,000 metres down. Shape changes how pieces sink, so surface counts miss much of it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aeaaf6 #Microplastics #Ocean 🧪

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Simulating microplastic distribution in oceans: The impact of morphology and sources

Simulating microplastic distribution in oceans: The impact of morphology and sources, GAYMARD, Anne, Richon, Camille, Egger, Matthias, Lebreton, Laurent, Gorgues, Thomas

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can mathematics explain how biological patterns are formed? Alan Turing thought so. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social, as we explore his reaction-diffusion theory and how it transformed our understanding of pattern formation and self-organisation.

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧪🌏😡👇

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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 27/09/2026

Dogs may be better at picking up patterns in human speech than previously thought. EEG recordings show that they track consonant patterns more strongly than vowel patterns, just like people do when segmenting speech! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A cute brown dog sitting comfortably on a couch, prepared for an EEG measurement.

Credit: Sarolta Sziliágyi

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If we are talking about Peter Thiel—the nuttier version of Roy Cohn, only out—don't speculate about the young model Thiel was cheating on his husband with, who made a rather Russian departure from life, off a high-rise balcony, after crashing Mr. & Mr. Thiel's party and causing a row between them.

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Mincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

US Vote deadlines are close Registration ends: Oct 4th - Alaska, Rhode Island, S. Carolina. Oct 5th - Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Texas Help Desk: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Please repost everywhere to remind other Americans

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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org

Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Sir, they’ve figured out that you’re not just a war criminal, that you’re MAGA.”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026

This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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Deb from GA 💙🌊💙 @soundlessaolcom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Georgia’s Republican Party at work. And they are so so proud of themselves. VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3. STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT.

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khwalz @khwalz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact that Talarico is polling so tightly with Paxton says some really awful things about Texans, not to mention Americans in general.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This meme really asks one question: Is this the America you want? Because November 3rd is when Americans get to answer. Remember what you’ve seen. Remember what’s at stake. Then vote.🔵 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026

“You kept asking what Jesus would do. Well, he's in the back, and he'd like a word."

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Spooky Kessey, Age of Skeleton @jdkessey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Peter Thiels wealth is a means of never having to grow up.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to turn an outdated skyscraper building in the city into 4,000 units of affordable housing. Instead of creating destructive data centers that destroy lives as well as the ecosystem for dark profit, this leader chooses to help people instead. More of this please.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a real person, and he planted a lot of apple trees, but he mainly sold them to make hard cider. He was also a pacifist, altruistic, revered nature and respected Indigenous tribes. /1

Johnny Appleseed. The romanticized image of Johnny Appleseed handing out sweet, shiny apples for children to bite into is a myth popularized much later. In the 1800s, the American frontier ran on alcohol. Water supplies weren’t safe to drink. Because fermenting killed off pathogens, hard cider became the primary daily beverage for entire families — even children. The average frontier settler drank 10.5 ounces of hard cider per day. Because Appleseed refused to graft trees due to his religious beliefs, his apples were genetically unpredictable, small and bitter. Known as “spitters” because you’d spit them out if you tried to eat them raw, these tart apples were perfect for pressing into hard cider. Resourceful frontier families used them for other staples as well, including apple butter, applesauce and livestock feed, and used a process called “freeze distillation” to make applejack. Note, however, that Appleseed rarely sold apples. He sold the young saplings and the land itself.

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Honor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These sick fuckers need to be unwelcome everywhere.

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