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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

“solution in search of a problem” was meant to be a criticism, not an ethos

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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 22h

This is what is at stake w/trump--the very idea of the US itself as a representative democracy that rejects monarchy. trump calls into question all that we as Americans claim to stand for, all that we claim to celebrate for 250th anniversary of Decl of Ind. One can choose *either* trump or US

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So I stumble across a cool new paper on the fascinating and relevant-to-my-interests Koa'e fault system just south of Kīlauea caldera on Hawai'i, and it says "we monitored the fault system with EDM", and I'm like "surely @spacewhalerider.com worked on this?!?" 😂 www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

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Frontiers | Revealing six decades of ground deformation in the Koaʻe fault system on Kīlauea

Kīlauea is characterized by recurrent large earthquakes and dike intrusions along its rift zones, accompanied by widespread surface fracturing and seismicity...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.

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Kimberly Cartier @astrokimcartier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest for @eos.org dives into a recent investigative report on a hidden but crucial part of NASA's budget: the research and analysis that underpins most of its science goals and missions. 🧪

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

With a little luck, “hone in on” will gradually die, because it ultimately doesn’t mean anything useful. It’s a typo (damn you, Plimpton!) that won‘t go away.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

And while it’s evolving, it can be grating. “Hone in on,” for example, makes no sense. Missiles home in. Knives are honed to a sharp edge. Honing in on something would mean (roughly) sharpening it to get closer to it. It’s silly, but people still say it with great energy and certainty.

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A video about figuring out who Angine de Poitrine are came into my YouTube feed. Big deal! Everyone who looked at their bandcamp before they really blew up—or anyone who knows and loves someone who did—had already pieced that together. Some of us have just chosen to embrace the kayfabe here.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have particular animus for autistic tech bros who suggest people should overlook their assholery as mere “quirkiness” and “part of their disability” The toxicity of their online spaces that encourage and reward edgelord shit makes a trap for this generation’s neurodivergent kids.

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Dalassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many sex pests get excused by defenders saying they could be autistic, never do they think that autistic people are capable of not being sex pests or that women can be autistic too.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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The Boardgames Chronicle @thebrdgmschronicle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We just finished with kids (11 & 13 years old) Battle of Hoth (theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/04/15/s...). All scenarios played, both campaigns completed, tons of fun & time very well spent together as family. What next... well, we will present pretty soon! #daysofwonder

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the game between South Alabama and Kentucky shows up abbreviated as a War of 1812 rematch

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/09/2026

I want to draw attention to this as often as I can - not only is this *action* terrible, the intention behind it is to consolidate power and eliminate the three branches of government. The courts are already severely compromised. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/09/2026

I'm obviously biased because I study Mimas (and Herschel specifically), but this little moon really is incredibly interesting and unique. There's a lot we can learn from its cratering record about whether it may actually be a "stealth" ocean world (one whose ocean seems missing at first glance).

Cassini's two highest-resolution views from its 13 February 2010 flyby of Mimas caught the southern half of the crater Herschel and an area to its east. This view is composed of two clear-filter images taken from the raw JPEG website. They were rotated to put north up and their levels adjusted to make the coloration fairly continuous. The interior of Herschel is covered in what appears to be post-formation modification. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / mosaic by Emily Lakdawalla

Another Cassini image, this one from farther away in 2005. Herschel lies on the terminator of Mimas in this image, keeping the entire crater floor in shadow with the exception of the central peak. The overall effect is mildly menacing.

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The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A look at the gorgeous gaming space here at the Camden Revolutionary War Visitor Center here for the Gaming the American Revolution - Camden 250 Event. BOAR, Washington’s War, Liberty or Death and Common Sense being played. @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Planetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ that Saturn's moon Mimas looks like the Death Star? The iconic crater that gives it this appearance is Herschel, and its sharp central peak and steep walls may tell us about the age of a potential ocean deep beneath the surface!

Image of a moon that looks like the death star but is a real moon. Surface covered in many craters with a large prominent crater (Herschel crater) on the right with a large central peak.

Close up image Herschel crater highlighting large central peak.

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow, this makes me want to (for the first time) listen to this album that I've heard so much talk about. In "watching a train wreck" mode, I guess. But maybe a beautiful train wreck?

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On this topic: I’m currently hunting for scientists in this realm who are willing to let me tag along for field/lab work next year. Are you breaking down plate tectonics? Mantle dynamics? Hot spot volcanism? Those giant blobs near the core? Diamonds, ophiolites, xenoliths or other things! Hit me up!

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of work-related stuff arriving in my inbox recently has me feeling like this...

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Sad Cat Looks Out Window

Alt: Sad Cat Looks Out Window

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The only Joint Warfighting Evaluation I recognize

Cover of the wargame Campaign for North Africa .

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Republicans passed legislation that requires people to work at least 80 hours per month to receive Medicaid. Over the past two months, Republican leadership worked, on average, for only 56 hours. They wouldn't even meet the work requirements they forced on working families.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The repeated, months to years long periods of sub-subsistence to *no* pay in academia is underemphasized.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026

Geologists made up for this classic blunder by first creating a prequel (the Ancestral Rocky Mountains) and naming several excellent mountain-building epochs (Laramide Orogeny, etc.)

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nimbleasanimbus.bsky.social @nimbleasanimbus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the plus side we got a new Disney meme.

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 20/09/2026

Yes…ha ha ha…YES!

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Steve Desch @deschscoveries.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s me! I got the ball rolling a year ago. Tim McCoy was instrumental and Allison McGraw helped. We got two asteroids named, thanks to discoverer Bobby Bus: (14330) Tomlehrer and (14331) Alyankovic. Two of my musical heroes, as you can tell from the citations I wrote.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been working on the gaming board all summer. Hadn’t been planning on adding a sphinx, but here we are.

A calico/tabby crouched in a very self satisfied way on a desert themed homemade tabletop wargaming board.

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New York Mets @mets.com · 20/09/2026

Play ball! 🎙️

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

LPL alum honors Weird Al.

Newspaper screen shot of article, headline “UA grad helped name asteroid after Weird Al' Yankovic”

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incredible thread on Yemen: the geography, peoples, and cultures. Thank you Nick- shukran ya pasha.

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I said to a friend a couple of years ago: “AI isn’t going to kill us with fucking Terminator robots, it’s going to kill us by rendering a modern, computer-based society incapable of functioning!”

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