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what a freakin' racist piece of sh!t. special place in hell for people like him. January oversight hearings can't come soon enough. thx to BWJ for linkage

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

crossing for boot cut only....skinny jeans crossing down at the next block

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just brutal local news coverage ....

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a Dem Senator did this we’d be listening to 6 mths of how Dems are out of touch with real Americans. So… Why don’t GOP MAGA politicians know and understand college vs pro sports teams? Guess they’re relying on AI to tell them all the answers lol

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/09/2026

This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best flag in the WORLD...

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you reside in Texas and registered online in the last year to vote, please verify your registration status. Due to an “error,” many individuals were left off the voter rolls. Go to www.votetexas.gov ASAP to check your status. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

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Your Guide to Voting in Texas | VoteTexas.gov

VoteTexas.gov is your go-to resource for voter registration, election dates, polling locations, and more. Get the info you need to make your vote count.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 15/09/2026

Girls don’t need to be perfect. They need the courage to try, fail, learn and try again.💜 Sports teach girls to be brave, take risks, find their voices and lead. Winning is wonderful, but becoming strong enough to get back up is the real victory 💪🥎 #SheShed #GirlsInSports

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have some thoughts on AI and national security. I started writing this prior to the panic over the weekend, but it seemed important to finish part 1 quickly in light of the chaos. Unlocked for everyone: www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog/pos...

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AI and National Security: Part 1 | Angry Staffer

I started writing this prior to the AI panic explosion over the last couple of days, but in light of recent information, it seemed more impo

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think Jakarta, Delhi, Dhaka, and Shanghai may have an issue with your statement. Probably depends on how you define 'city'; 'Metro area', maybe.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026

Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.

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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The assessments are part of an effort to monitor the brain health of service members exposed to blasts after an Army reservist killed 18 people in Lewiston. (via Maine Public) www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/01/p...

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Defense Department lacks resources to conduct all required cognitive tests, federal report finds

A Government Accountability Office report found the Department of Defense lacked staff and technology to finish cognitive assessments for high-risk troops.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026

I had an idea. What if, instead of recalling contaminated food back to the production facility where it was made, we had some kind of set up where the food went through a testing process of some kind. You could perhaps have national standards or something for it

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Now do the rest of the administration

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some Friday fun with a pop quiz.

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We as scientists must assume that *NOTHING* this administration does with regard to NIH or NSF comes from a place of good faith, even if you agree with the action in principle

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Brittie @kiddwokk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NotJustBikes on YouTube “These Stupid Trucks Are Literally Killing Us” youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?...

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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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✨𝕊𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕒 - Teh-REDACT-all✨📎 @samiamnurnot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*. This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One thing that’s always bothered me about the “lab leak” theory, is how many of its proponents shift back and forth from “bioweapon” to “unethical science” (gain of function) to “negligent science” (leak of naturally occurring virus) to adapt to different debates and for max political effect.

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/08/2026

Monkeys make friends with other species, and that can tell us a lot about how keeping pets came about. Great article by @cyrilgrueter.bsky.social et al., reporting friendly primate interactions with a whopping 55 non-primate species! 🧪🐒🐕 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Examples of affiliative interspecific interactions involving non-human primates. a Adult female white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) monkey grooming an adult female black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica; photo by Nicholas Chapoy. b Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) grooming a Phayre's leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei) in Satchari National Park Bangladesh; photo by Sabit Hasan. c A tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam) stroking a grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka; photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. d Stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides) grooming a domestic dog at Khao Tao Mo temple, Thailand; photo by Neil Challis. e Female northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) holding a mouse at the Shanghai Zoo, China; photo by Cyril Grueter. f Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) mounting and riding on the back of a sika deer (Cervus nippon) at Yakushima, Japan; photo by Alexandre Bonnefoy and Cédric Sueur. g Young juvenile black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) playing on a domestic pig at Xiangguqing, Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park, China; photo by Yanpeng Li. h) Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) grooming a southern bamboo lemur (Hapalemur meridionalis) in Mandena, Madagascar; photo by Timothy Eppley

A tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam) stroking a grizzled giant squirrel.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14/08/2026

Modern medicine advanced through the exploitation of Black people, but the breakthroughs in effective care do not necessarily reach Black patients. prospect.org?p=142811

Harvard Medical School inscription on building

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

modern medicine and <cough> vaccines <cough>

table showing that life expectancy in the Neolithic Age (10,000-4500 BCE) was 20-30 yrs and has gradually increased up until the Industrial Age (1700-1900) when it was 40-50 yrs. Only in the Modern Era (1900-now) has life expectancy reached 60-70+ yrs of age -- largely due to diet, modern medicine, and the introduction of vaccines.

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Would be nice if the DOJ lawyers were professionally sanctioned for bringing these cases.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Don’t know if it takes forensic analysis to conclude it was created by incompetent staffers using AI ;-)

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.

This color photo shows a man in a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball uniform—Roberto Clemente—standing in a batting stance and holding a baseball bat.

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

so it's the same philosophy of why we offer snacks at seminars for visiting speakers ;-)

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Lena Struwe @drgentian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very interesting article, and in my field (plant taxonomy etc.) the bottlenecks are fieldwork, museum work, permits, grants, old literature, and simply 'we do not know what we are looking for until we have found a new species' - it is discovery in the unknown sometimes, not based on data we have.

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Josh Rodefer @rodefer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026