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@theckphd.bsky.social
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Physics professor, bunny/bird enthusiast. Former WoW tankadin theorycrafter/blogger/raider. He/him.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong. Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived. And they were nothing like "primitive" phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 09/11/2025
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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Theck @theckphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My wife uses www.librarything.com , but I don’t know how social it is.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My latest piece @thenation.com is the loving, heartfelt tribute you've been waiting for: "Real American Scumbag: Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab
In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵
The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car AmbitionsJay Walker poster
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 12/03/2025
meme of Pam from the office television show looking at a photo of a cybertruck from behind and another photo of an open dumpster, text reads CORPORATE NEEDS YOU TO FIND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS PICTURE AND THIS PICTURE and Pam replies THEY'RE THE SAME PICTURE
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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Worth reading
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is a must-read and is also the first comprehensive post mortem I’ve read working off the vote cast data (which is the real deal) as opposed to the dubious exit polling.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
i don't think millennials and gen xers "feel like sellouts" I think authors think the job of "writing the book" is an entire fucking job and marketing it is a second entire fucking job and doing the first means you shouldn't also be expected to do all of the second
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Alex C. Telander @alexctelander.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thank you. And us carriers just continue to suffer using vehicles that are over thirty years old!
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Among Us 🎂 @amongus.innersloth.com · 10/12/2024
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PedsHemeDoc @pedshemedoc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Learned a new word today - thanks @joyannreid.bsky.social
Mariam Webster definition of Kakistocracy - “government by the worst people”
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Just a reminder: Sen. JD Vance sent a letter to DOJ demanding that Kagan be criminally investigated for writing the column below. He wanted a journalist criminally investigated. For writing a column. Fascist Teddy Ruxpin then had the gall to wax about censorship at the VP debate.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
What we know: - The Washington Post editorial board agrees to endorse Harris. - The endorsement article is drafted by the Post team, ready for print. - Trump meets Bezos’s team in Austin. - Bezos orders WaPo publisher Will Lewis to scrap the Harris endorsement and instead endorse no candidate.
Trump meets execs from Bezos-owned Blue Origin
BY JONATHAN COOPER
After he spoke in Austin, Trump greeted executives from Blue Origin, the space exploration company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Bezos is the founder of Amazon and the owner of The Washington Post, which reported Friday that its editorial board won’t endorse a candidate for president. The decision was framed as a return to earlier tradition, but it sparked speculation that Bezos wants to avoid antagonizing Trump, who has vowed retribution against his enemies and critics if he returns to the White House.
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logan, hater club CEO @logan.hater.club · 21/06/2024
I am exactly 38 years old and this is exactly correct. They killed AIM. They killed MSN Messenger. ICQ is a twitching corpse. IRC is a zombie. Geocities, Yahoo!, all my vBulletin and phpBB forums — gone. Twitter’s death is just one more.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ ➡️ PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
My son asked why is there a movie called “NOOOOO” 💀💀💀
A stack of VHS movies, where the movie Cocoon is set upside down, so it looks like it reads “NOOOOO”
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
well technically anything can carry 551 amps, once
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2024
Don’t use thesaurus dot com anyway, they switched from a human generated thesaurus to an AI generated one about a year ago. You can really tell on words like “decaf” where the words used are associated with decaf (coffee words) but are actual antonyms.
decaf

Noun as in coffee

Strongest matches
Caffeine cappuccino espresso

Strong matches
Brew decoction demitasse ink java mocha mud perk

Weak matches
Battery acid café café Au lait café noir forty weight hot stuff jam Ochoa joe varnish remover
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
this is how they covered an identical situation when trump was president. have you seen a single article about any economic subject at any point in biden's presidency that had this tone? a single one? if not, why not? who makes those decisions and who benefits from them?
nbcnews headline "dow hits 20,000 for the first time in history"
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Theck @theckphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Yes, I’m doing well! Hope you and Voss and the kiddo are all doing great as well!
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 18/12/2023
I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/07/2024
Alien Theories xkcd.com/2953
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it
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Theck @theckphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Mine got filtered to junk (gmail, but accessed in iOS Mail app)
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2024
If anyone in power actually gave an actual shit about prosocial and community-minded civil society, rather than power and the postures of power at any and all costs, this would be mean the immediate, summary, and quickly decided impeachment of a U.S. supreme court justice.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21/05/2024
The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education
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State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globe
The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/04/2024
this Douglas Adams quote also applies to cats
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/04/2024
the press mythologized this knob as a supergenius engineer for 15 years, and now that he's been outed as an outright nazi con man the best they can do is "eh he's a little bit of this, he's a little bit of that, good and bad, who's to say?"
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/03/2024
Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
on its 50th anniversary, wrote about Blazing Saddles, which probably could be made today (though the right woudn’t like it.) edition.cnn.com/2024/02/07/o...
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Opinion: The right-wing misreading of ‘Blazing Saddles’ is so telling | CNN
On social media, Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing Saddles” has become the standard example of a film that supposedly could not be made today because of rampant left-wing political correctness, writ...
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice
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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Thinking of going into politics just so that someone actually reads my thesis.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
PLEASE be careful. Most people don't realize how dangerous they are, and how many people they kill. My cousin died to a Strawberry one. They MUST be contained in foil, highly reflective foil. They MUST be consumed immediately after release, OR you can put them to flame and then they're safe.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
Kid: Santa, what's the story of your reindeer names?

Santa: Why I name them after memories, like Prancer frolicking through the snow!

Kid: What about Donner?

*a dark countenance settles on Santa's face*

Santa: the year was 1847, snowfall had trapped us in the  Sierra Nevada-
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