Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every last high school girl out there, unless you know for a fact that she has committed murder or rape, will do more good for the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault stop treating rapists as valuable 192879
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 268196526047
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcators. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic! 312044
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorJake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter. 61212313
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail 522376283
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcatormolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly! 142364457
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcatormolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes. 101702276
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I am deadly serious about this btw. Decades of compromise-as-political-savvy have legitimately brainwashed career politicians into believing, as a central plank of their moral calculus, that you *must* achieve consensus with opponents in order for anything to "count". 211822
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcatorc3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin 14278632104
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.” 161414200
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorEvelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Owlfly babies fresh out of the egg, hungry like baby birds with the normal number of legs 09814
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorDreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Again I'm reminded that fiction is bound by what's plausible but reality is not. 137341
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In honor of the new UN climate report, which spreads the entirely unsubstantiated myth that we can remove and sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to cool the whole planet down again, here’s a paper that looks empirically at one component of this myth. And it’s not pretty. #EndFossilFuels 821698
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If we shouldn’t have feared Covid in October 2020, why should we fear any infection today, or really anything at all? 25414
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer. 8032441202
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People" 12396514
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth. 152307348
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Ok you weren’t saying it but I could obviously read you that way if I assumed you *were* saying it, so you need to apologize for *that*” is a thing I’ve seen a lot. 1355
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcatorheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026if a white supremacist says anything you should assume every single word is a lie unless completely independently verified by an entirely unrelated source. if they say it is thursday you should ask an expert on days of the week. this should be the bare minimum standard in this media landscape 1737741132
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorIan Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe 265924124
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Even if you think you know all the damage that Elon Musk and DOGE did, when you read it in one place, it'll melt your brain. By @michaelmechanic.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comElon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortuneA new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely. 2217110
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462752
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class. 813153956
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorNash @radiodeadair.com · 10/08/2026Why are we still pretending that executive orders are in any way legally binding to anyone outside of the executive branch? Everyone can just keep abiding by the normal childhood vaccine schedule. The states have their own ways of handling it. Executive orders mean diddly in that context. 725377
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it. 511969712
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorThe Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Trump said on national television in summer 2016 that the whole point of outlawing abortion was to punish women and the wide reaction was that of course that was hyperbole, nobody actually intended anything like that and we should be used to his off the cuff riffing 112854
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorDeacon Blues @kaibutsu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It's fun to watch their brains tie themselves in knots then watch the frayed ends fight each other. 431055
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.theguardian.comECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy 7239120
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcator Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/08/2026wtf kind of framing is this? "Arsonist predicted the town will burn to the ground if he doesn't stop setting houses on fire." 5637119
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Important www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 817552
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/07/2026…bugs is shrimp. 381921300
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorCri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Periodical reminder that Many-plume Moths exist. And they always seem to end up on the inside of my bathroom window. And they pack a LOT of "amazeballs" into a teeny package - 1cm wingspan (just under 1/2") Montana six-plume moth (Alucita montana) #inverts #becurious 1/2 1232364
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorEvelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Q: Why are Bugs so silly? A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body *loud booing* Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper 944493
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES 6744451127
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/07/2026I like to say they are structurally indifferent to truth 47421
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too. 1173356865
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. 361835591
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.heatmap.newsWhat Worries Me Most About This Wildfire SmokeWe didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are. 511484549
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorDr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The surgical mask shown in this article will do almost nothing to reduce particulate inhalation because it's just a splash guard. Wear a well-fitted respirator N95 or bettercnn.comWhat you need to breathe easier when the air is full of smoke | CNNMillions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to wildfire smoke. Here’s what you need to know masks, ventilation and staying healthy. 281136447
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorPublic Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 16/07/2026All congregate emergency shelters should have adequate supplies of N95+ masks and air purifiers. 0138
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 16/07/2026Seriously, though, both heat and smoke extremes are major killers. Based on Ou et al 2026 and Climate Impact Lab work, heat- and smoke-related mortality are dominant among the quantifiable direct contributors to the US social cost of carbonpnas.orgValuing wildfire smoke–related mortality benefits from climate mitigation | PNASHuman-induced climate change has increased wildfire risks, associated air pollution, and health damages in North America. Despite its large potenti... 03413
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It was never clear what Republicans thought "communism" was but at this point it means promising to fix potholes and then doing that, a concept so foreign to these bribe-taking billionaire-humping con artists that they consider it close to devil worship. 711133
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too? 15167372483
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorMicah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026trump's entire first term was hamstrung by a handful of folks who actually tried to approach their jobs with some level of professionalism and they made very sure in their vetting process for the second term that nobody would ever do that again anyone who made it through the vetting is unacceptable 642446
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorPaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇gizmodo.comHere's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate LatelyMeteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. 14653052092
Reposted by The Quondam Bifurcatorsamihiggins @samihiggins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I saw a video from someone in Arizona saying they were being asked to conserve power and water. In 120° heat. So the data centers could run. Time to launch all the data centers directly into the sun. 321763
Reposted by The Quondam BifurcatorM. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control— 2271100