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I live in SQL Server - population health at Brooklyn hospital - takes photos 4 fun - New Mexican in New York - R, OCaml, and DuckDB shill

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Patrick @psanker.me · 26/09/2026
Film you’ve watched more than 6 times with a GIF
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Man Smiling and Winking
Alt: Security Chief “Roc” Ingersol aka “Guy” (played by Sam Rockwell) in Galaxy Quest turns to the camera, smiles, laughs, and points at the viewer like “sup?”
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Patrick @psanker.me · 16/09/2026
chat, what’s an IRB and why do they exist?
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Patrick @psanker.me · 14/08/2026
every single person in the executive branch needs to be arrested I stg
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Patrick @psanker.me · 15/07/2026
someone better clip Mick Jagger shaking his head in disappointment
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Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP @cancercommunicator.com · 13/07/2026
"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry (Gift Article)
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are ruled by the Council of Nine. They rule for life & are completely unaccountable. Their agent, the president, is empowered to enact their will but will be placed on a short leash when he displeases them. Congress can raise and appropriate funds the president can use or not to his liking.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The fact that stephen miller is saying the US is closed to asylum seekers from Haiti while granting asylum to white South Africans should tell you all you need to know.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Utterly disgusting. (Both Megyn today and NBC then.)
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Patrick @psanker.me · 26/06/2026
What a disgusting, deplorable prick
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care
news.bloomberglaw.com
Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights
White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based ca...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
statnews.com
Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
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Patrick @psanker.me · 13/06/2026
so is citi field going to host a #knicks watch party after the #mets game tomorrow or
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/06/2026
This is my new favorite thread
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Patrick @psanker.me · 08/06/2026
the Mets outfield is a phenomenon
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Patrick @psanker.me · 06/06/2026
This is true. I’d also submit New Mexican which is basically (north) Mexican but with a lot more chile. Going to Balloon Fiesta is incomplete without the 5am green chile breakfast burrito with bacon
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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New York Mets @mets.com · 30/05/2026
MJ MELENDEZ! WALK-OFF WINNER!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
thedreydossier.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026
"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.
a chart shwoing data centre growth
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKETETEN HOLDIN "DRAW 50 BOATS SHIPS TRUCKS AND TRAINS BY LEE J. AMES " A GREAT BOOK AND IT SAYS "THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE FUCKEN LIBRARIES" - MODERN SOCIETY WORKS TO ELIMINATE FREE RESOURCES BECAUSE THEN YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE AS MUCH IN THE MONEY GRINDER - A LACK OF RESOURCES OR A LOSS IN RESOURCES IS USED AS PUNISHMENT TO KEEP YOU WORKING FOR LESS THAN YOUR WORTH - HOMELESSNESS AND HUNGER IS USED AS A DETERRENT FROM THOSE SEEKING TO ESCAPE THE CHAINS OF CAPITAL - AND THERE TIGHTNING THOSE SCREWS EVERY DAY - I WILL NEVER JUMP FOR A RICH MANS DOLLAR I WILL NEVER STOP HATING MONEY AND THOSE WHO SERVE IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/05/2026
I return to you now at the turn of the tide www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Global wind and solar power outpace gas for first time in April, report shows
Wind and solar combined generated more electricity than gas globally in April for ​the first month ever, data analysed by ‌UK-based think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
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Christian! @likechristianb.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Mr. Met looking distraught with “another injury for cursed team” and the main headline  “Why does God hate the Mets?”
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Tim Britton (he/him) @timbritton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Clay Holmes suffered a fracture in his leg on that comebacker. He is going to be out “a long time,” Carlos Mendoza said. Huge blow to the Mets.
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Patrick @psanker.me · 15/05/2026
I really should write ocaml bindings to duckdb. Raven is such a cool looking numerical computing stack
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Cuba’s government said the country has completely run out of fuel oil and diesel needed to keep the lights on, with extensive blackouts sparking protests for the third day in a row this week. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
wsj.com
Protests Erupt in Cuba as Fuel Runs Out
Extensive blackouts and a collapsing economy spark unrest in Havana. ‘We have absolutely no fuel,’ said the country’s energy minister.
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New York Mets @mets.com · 14/05/2026
BENGE WALKS IT OFF ⚡️
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Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.com · 14/05/2026
The Brooklyn Cyclones of Flushing Queens are unstoppable
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Patrick @psanker.me · 14/05/2026
#METS WALK IT OFF!!!! LET'S GO BENGE AND EWING!!!!!
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Patrick @psanker.me · 14/05/2026
another #Mets game with Manfred runners
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a mascot is wearing a baseball cap and covering his face .
Alt: Mr. Met covering his face in shame while shaking, feeling the inexorable pain we all do for these 2026 Mets
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I think we’re entering a period of what you might call “cognitive obesity,” akin to what the development of processed food and car culture systematically did to our bodies at the population level. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...
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Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13/05/2026
The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.
inquirer.com
Proposed WIC cuts could be detrimental to children's growth and well-being
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 14/04/2026
One (anonymous) woman's account of navigating the "sexual marketplace" of Silicon Valley ca. 2015, as the rich tech dudes were beginning to get a little fashy.
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
I was a Silicon Valley sex pet
It was 2015. Something was shifting in the tech industry, and I felt it in the bedroom.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
thewesternedge.media
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...
newrepublic.com
This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right
As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/03/2026
The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...
In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If we get through this, the U.S. will have to dramatically change its relationship with the International Criminal Court and be okay with sending a lot of Americans there.
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Patrick @psanker.me · 23/02/2026
every now and then I think folks in #rstats need to be reminded of or introduced to browser() and debug()
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