Reposted by ReidPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...newscientist.comColossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolvesDespite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve... 16568173
Reposted by ReidChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Famous paper saying AI boosts scientific productivity appears to have been completely faked in every aspect, may even have included the researcher faking a web domain to use as a source for the faked data (!) via @kevinjkircher.com thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...thebsdetector.substack.comAI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm 619074
Reposted by ReidMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This story fails to mention the reason they couldn’t open the doors to save the people who died. Cybertruck doors can’t be opened from the outside when the electrical isn’t working, like when they’re on fire.kron4.comNew images released in deadly Thanksgiving Eve Piedmont Cybertruck crash(KRON) — There are new details on the deadly Thanksgiving Eve Cybertruck crash in Piedmont. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has released videos and pictures from the scene where three you… 791308514
Reposted by ReidHellaholla 🇺🇦 @hellaholla.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The only person who has ever seen what’s coming next is Tim Curry. 1711
Reposted by ReidAzie Dungey @aziedungey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I am a goddess and I need a mortal man to bring me tribute (tacos) 1181
Reposted by Reidwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Please stop posting stuff I don’t like. In the future try to do posts that I would enjoy 494243801
Reposted by ReidShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025yesterday I assembled an entire woodshed without even needing to consult the instructions Today I will dismantle an entire woodshed Tomorrow I will re-assemble an entire woodshed, this time while consulting the instructions 676270051077
Reposted by ReidStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Today in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, publicly issued a bold and unprecedented three-stage proposal for eliminating all nuclear weapons worldwide by 2000. Most of President Ronald Reagan’s advisers quickly rejected it as mere propaganda. 79636
Reposted by ReidJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny. 283283857
Reposted by ReidJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/01/2025I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around 4147425688
Reposted by Reidthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/01/2025if at checkout they had physically walked their customers through ordering from Amazon they could not have done a better job of driving people to Amazon 1578157
Reposted by ReidYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/01/2025this was an amazing moment. "We got all kinds of drunks and adulterers here! what's one more?" 3043050463
Reposted by ReidTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15/01/2025No shit, Sherlock CEOs get paid how much to come up with these ideas? 4311
Reposted by ReidKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Republicans love and support the troops, which is why they’re rushing to put a totally inexperienced psychopath with a history of alcoholism and sexual abuse allegations in charge of their well being. 16065601325
Reposted by ReidRyan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 15/01/2025According to the conversations in Israeli media, one thing holding Israel back from a ceasefire was/is the concern that when western reporters and human rights groups are allowed in, the true scale of the crime will shock the global conscience in a way it hasn’t yet 24758244
Reposted by ReidMike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/01/2025While the GOP whines about "unqualified DEI hires" how do they explain this guy? 942606473
Reposted by ReidEmily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I am once again begging you to understand that a man can be good at art AND a monster. Pretending once the truth comes out that the art was never actually that good only shelters the next monster. 191325370
Reposted by ReidThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/01/2025If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released Tuesday.washingtonpost.comJustice Dept. releases Trump special counsel report on Jan. 6 casePresident-elect Donald Trump had tried to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report before taking office next week. 2292772746
Reposted by ReidMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The bewildering thing about this AI copyright debate is how rigid copyright rules are in many other areas. If you’re writing a novel and you want a character to sing one line of ‘Gimme Shelter’ in the bath, you have to pay the Rolling Stones about £5000. 521281337
Reposted by ReidAuroraAlphaDragon🐉Artist🎨 @auroraalphaderg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Tonight was the Mars occultation with the moon and I am very excited to have captured the exact moment when Mars reemerge from behind the moon!🌕 #Moon #Mars #Occultation 1534485
Reposted by ReidCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/01/2025If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name? 366126042131
Reposted by ReidHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A Trump quote for the ages from the special counsel's report: "Mr. Trump made admissions that reflected his understanding that he had lost. In a private moment, Mr. Trump confessed to his family members that 'it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.'" 11456135
Reposted by ReidGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Astounding how much simple incentives change people’s habits: 641771
Reposted by ReidMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/01/2025it's going to sound gimmicky but I think that women shouldn't have to read the Gaiman piece but all men should read it to the end, just as all men should have read all the long reads about the Pelicot case, so many seem to still not realise the extent to which so many men hate and want to hurt us 822136505
Reposted by ReidDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/01/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd vanAlt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van pointing at one another 3295
Reposted by ReidMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 13/01/2025So I was a federal employee for years and I am going to repeat a fact that people forget every time a politician sings this song. The government is wildly understaffed and you will feel these kinds of cuts immediately because the people eligible for retirement make up the bulk of knowledgeable staff 482087723
Reposted by ReidThey-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I do not want to sign in with Google. I do not consent to cookies. I object to "Legitimate" Interests. I do not want your newsletter. I will not switch off my ad blocker. I do not want notifications. I don't care about your special offer. I do not want to subscribe. I do not want to use your app. 191121200
Reposted by ReidElizabeth (she/her) @ebwillbanks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Kitty in the donut. Kitty on the donut. #caturday 1184698
Reposted by ReidSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025each time you say "Liz Truss crashed the economy" she releases another lynx into the Scottish highlands 281252297
Reposted by ReidAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Intrigued by how the Mail’s story that Dominic Cummings is advising Elon Musk might conflict with the Times’s story that Musk cannot take advice from anyone. Especially if they happen to be wearing the wrong things 86618
Reposted by ReidKen Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Bannon seems worried that domestically produced racism can’t compete with South African imports. 12901164
Reposted by ReidDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12/01/2025DOGE is Temu McKinsey, but with no power or authority. 100% a scam and will achieve nothing. 2576
Reposted by ReidM. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering? That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it 3052812156
Reposted by ReidLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025This seems completely backwards to me. I feel like the people who won’t drive are the people who do it all the time — which is why the effect is so stark. The people who are going for a show, or for dinner, the people who don’t live right there, those people will still drive, and that’s okay. 2129916
Reposted by ReidFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/01/2025A Vietnamese tour guide wondered what to do about rude French tourists who insist they learn French, and someone had the best reply ever: www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/co... 561869259
Reposted by ReidVivian O’Blivion🏴☠️ @obliviating.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hey, it’s one of those Mexican firefighters who came over here to take our jobs. And save our kittens. 242143473104
Reposted by ReidJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10/01/2025It’s like we got the crappiest 7-day trial of 2025 ever but the terms of service won’t let us cancel 118031
Reposted by ReidTravis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I'll chat with people sometimes about how they feel like there's a 'lack of opportunity' these days, and I do get that especially living kinda rural. I've been feeling something like that lately, which on some level makes no sense because career-wise things are deece, health is good,... 4242
Reposted by ReidPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 11/01/2025Tfw you have to move your VPN to Canada because a link to a website about menstrual cycles for teenage girls is blocked in the US But please remember porn bans are about protecting children from seeing sexual content 🙃 13636215
Reposted by ReidChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/01/2025If sign language interpreters bother you, I have an easy solution, it’s called “shut the fuck up” If trans people existing bothers you, I have an easy solution, it’s called “shut the fuck up” If gay people getting married bothers you, I have an easy solution, it’s called “shut the fuck up” 563926964
Reposted by ReidTom [PositiveLad] 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 @positivelad.me · 10/01/2025Liz Truss crashed the economy. Pass it on. 13711
Reposted by Reid¯\_🍩_/¯ @funkndonuts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025the LA fires happened because adam corolla isn't black 1515621
Reposted by ReidGod @thegodshow.com · 09/01/2025James Woods blocked me on Twitter a long time ago but now I can see his posts again because Elon is insane.thegodpodcast.comClimate Change Denier James Woods Loses House To Climate ChangeSending thoughts and prayers. 1734270466
Reposted by ReidGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is a symbolic victory, but it’s a real warning sign that there are four solid Supreme Court votes to allow Trump to do anything at all. America’s democracy hangs by the thin thread of Roberts and Coney Barrett’s feelings in any given case. 421628388
Reposted by ReidVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I love living under a divinely inspired constitutional system where Supreme Court justices wielding life-and-death power over a nation of 300 million routinely engage in ethical breaches that would get a clerk fired. 151038244
Reposted by ReidRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD. The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget. When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in. 442724801
