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Richard Watts @richard-watts.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

TLDR: Ew it's ivermectin, what's with the obsession with this drug? Also, inconclusive results.

Richard Watts @richard-watts.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I think the greatest tragedy from the ongoing Gaza holocaust is that the victims of the best documented genocide in history are following the same path into darkness that the Germans fell down. Hitler was inspired by ideas like 'killing the Indian inside', so for every Palestinian a Jew dies inside.

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Richard Watts @richard-watts.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is legitimately amazing and I want some for real!

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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

go.bsky.app/Swxt4F3

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

RFK Jr and Statistics:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 05/05/2025

Here's a video of Dutch cops silencing a woman shouting "free Palestine." Yaaay freedom!! Yaaay democracy!! Look at the good little piece of shit storm troopers defending their "liberal democracy." I mean, it's "not" North Korea, right? They said North Korea and China are "dictatorships", right?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/05/2025

Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

People tend to dismiss VP Pence’s actions on J6: he was just doing his job, why should he get any credit for simply sticking to the letter of the law? But if it was so easy to do, why was he one of the very few in his party to do it? apnews.com/article/penc...

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Former Vice President Pence defends Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award

Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

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mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Research Announcements Shifting to Bluesky

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 02/05/2025

You may take associative memory for granted, but it’s what allows you to remember a moment from a specific scent, or a full melody from a few lines of lyrics. Physics helped bring a form of this memory to computers.

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The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI | Quanta Magazine

Modern thinking machines owe their existence to insights from the physics of complex materials.

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Jarrod Kimber @jarrodkimber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Cricket's marketing problem.

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lacerantplainer.bsky.social @lacerantplainer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you want to know what's behind the tariffs....it's corruption. And it's worse than we thought... youtu.be/75PeExNmaS8?...

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The Fire Hose of Chaos: Corruption || Peter Zeihan

YouTube video by Zeihan on Geopolitics

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Richard Watts @richard-watts.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If we could turn the angst of men not getting laid into solutions for women; then maybe both can be solved at once. Toxicity is weakness, stop listening to the brociopathic talk show hosts selling eating disorders and gender affirming testosterone.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth

In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Trump signs an executive order bypassing the Endangered Species Act to clearcut 280 million acres of national forests and public lands. Hands off our forests and public lands!! #MomSky #Voices4Victory

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Nope, looking side-by-side photos of the same object from the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes will never stop being cool. Take this photo of Messier 104 ("The Sombrero Galaxy") - amazing in both optics. 🧪

Photos of photo of Messier 104 ("The Sombrero Galaxy") from Hubble (top) and James Webb (bottom)

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 21/04/2025

BREAKING: There was a second Hegseth group chat?!?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The UK and the US are becoming a very particular kind of “poor country”. Not poor overall in the big league tables, but in a situation where the average citizen lives in poverty. And if that doesn’t motivate you to change things, I don’t know what will? From @dannydorling.bsky.social’s book.

The UK has the widest inequality in incomes between households, as well as between regions, in Europe. The UK is more similar to the USA now in many ways, but poorer, and as Umair Haque has put it, 'America is effectively a poor country now. Not a poor country like poor countries, but a poor country of its own kind. A poor rich country, a rich country where the average person lives like a poor person.'
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Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation
#kindlequotes

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A recent study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Learn more at www.sciencefriday.com/butterflydive

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I referenced this yesterday.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

@altnps.bsky.social is reporting more than 3 million so far and numbers are still coming in!! 🤝

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

An illustrator's happy accident: "Spilled Ink Kittens" by Japanese artist Avagadoo #caturday #art #illustration

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...

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AYMAN on MSNBC @ayman.msnbc.com · 20/04/2025

Actress Holly Robinson Peete, the mother of a 27-year-old with autism, says RFK Jr. "got everything wrong when he said that autism destroys families." "I simply can't imagine being HHS secretary & speaking on autism so negatively... If you're going to talk about us, you need to learn from us."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/04/2025

On the bright side—at least farmers won’t have to suffer through all that “socialist” government money anymore.

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CNN @cnn.com · 20/04/2025

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his most stunning photos of the cosmos. Details: cnn.it/4iqYemP

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.

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