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Transitional Fossil

@transitfossil.bsky.social
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retired mechanical engineer and computer scientist. avid swimmer. amateur classical guitar player. atheist. liberal. feminist. anti-fascist. never trump.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
The 2,000 residents at NYCHA’s Nostrand Houses have lived with outdated appliances, faulty heating and cooling systems, unreliable elevators, untreated lead and mold, and weak security systems that have decayed over time.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10h
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 5h
No, really. Good question.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 13h
"The GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, and so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio." Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14h
Several people are mad about this so I will briefly clarify! No, I’m not saying a novel is comparable to a real-life assault in any way. No, I’m not saying the author is bad or responsible for bad things. I am saying I’ve seen real bad stuff come from “consensual” student-faculty relationships.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 10h
ATO shows that 30% of large companies paid NO TAX in 24/25 None. Our systems are broken.
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Joe Z @underflow.dev · 8h
Recently participated in anti-harassment training at my STEM org. It was good. It did leave me with one question, though. Would management fire Richard Feynman? Or would they bury his very public misogyny, his alleged spousal abuse? Experience tells me the answer. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12h
One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h
A lot of people are speculating that this will lead to the US government having to bail out AI companies but there's no world where that happens and the government bond market doesn't completely collapse and cause a fiscal crisis.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11h
Collective Dream!
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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 13h
Cornell University’s TimTok page is brutal There are 40k comments on their page. And MAGA CULT SLAYER just posted this one 🤣
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h
Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.
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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 8h
If our government doesn't make the wealthy and Corporations pay their fair share, we'll never get out of Quackmire. Corporate Welfare and no taxes for Tech Bro's are killing us.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 9h
Jack Smith is an American hero 👇
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11h
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17h
OpenAI’s seeming lack of focus makes more sense when you realize Sam Altman is a prolific investor with stakes in 400+ companies. OpenAI is run similarly. Make lots of bets, double down on what works and kill what doesn’t. The lack of focus is the strategy, not a bug.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10h
How the Oligarchy Uses Sports To Control the Narrative: Life Surge, Prosperity Gospel, and the LA Clippers Saga With @pablo.show thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-ol...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 16h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 12h
Narrator: It was not, in fact, real.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12h
A grim little montage of where American politics has landed.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 17h
Russia is a terrorist state. International politics will never be rational until diplomatic relations are severed with the falsely-named Russian Federation. Treat the Muscovy terrorist formation exactly the same as Daesh (the falsely-named Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 17h
The inside-the-newsroom account of a 22 yo reporter, her 20 yo editor, a 23-month investigation, and the decision to publish the names of the Cornell 7 on the front page—the spark that lit the fire. The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 17h
Things I never fully understood until now: 1) that most men think women want to have sex with them& would enjoy it if they tried it. 2) that most men think sex is a transient trivial thing, and if it happens to your body you can just get up and keep on moving 3) that most men think most
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These early Phase 1 results for prula-cel in lupus are impressive! This "off-the-shelf" therapy led to 50% complete kidney response in lupus nephritis patients after a single dose at 12 months. Amazing what biotech can achieve for challenging autoimmune conditions.
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Adicet Bio Reports Positive Safety and Efficacy Data for Prula-cel in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Adicet Bio, Inc. has announced positive safety and efficacy results from its Phase 1 study of prula-cel, an investigational allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy, for patients with systemic lupus erythematosu
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
its very weird to me when people rewrite recent history we all lived through
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really something to have this be your takeaway from the last decade of American culture
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h
joe biden is the most powerful president in american history, able to control world events from his home in delaware, far away from the trappings of the presidency. biden, god emperor, manipulator of markets and media. bow before his grace, first of his name.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith wasn't at an Atlanta Hawks game but Donald Trump definitely had troves of classified documents in his bathroom
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot
I'm a College Professor. Writing Isnt as Important as We Think.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 20h
Reporter: "China gave Iran satellite pics of our bases in Jordan." Trump: "They do what we do." Reporter: "Will you confront Xi?" Trump: "He's behaved well. I don't wanna criticize him." Reporter: "So you WON'T criticize China for helping Iran kill our people?" Trump: "Be quiet."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.
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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h
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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But we're the Communists. 🤔
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19h
It’s not a war. It’s a genocide with mass ethnic cleansing and land theft. A war implies at least two combatants. Israel is just slaughtering civilians. There is no other combatant. Hamas was never an actual army, and is no longer even a fighting force.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The most interesting part of OpenAI’s Dots is the permission system. - Unattended research is read-only - Users can require approval for actions - A separate system reviews consequential actions - Some things always require a human AI agent safety is increasingly about authorization not alignment.
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STOP MAKING SENSE 🇨🇦🦋 @davidbreakpar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans aren’t just enabling Trump. They’re accessories to his criminal activity.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
No AI Government Guardrails: if we leave it up to Trump Listen to this man 🤦🏽‍♂️ "They're really going to be policing each other... It's going to be very, very safe and there's a self-policing and there's also a group policing and it's going to be great."
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 20h
🥚 4,000+ kids separated from their families were adopted abroad during the chaos of Greek civil war and its aftermath in the 1940s, becoming a prototype for predatory adoption practices by U.S. agencies. Now the Greek adoptee diaspora is regaining citizenship. greekcitytimes.com/2026/09/30/g...
Two babies held by a smiling woman in front of TWA airlines sign.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 20h
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -- Elie Wiesel, born #OTD 1928
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Shameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 22h
#WNBAArt recap of last night. #WNBA 🔊 Press play
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h
When I was in college, there was a group of frat boys who would routinely respond, in response to the use of the word “frat,” “would you call your country a cunt?” “Nah? Then don’t call our fraternity a frat.” Just now processing the layers of that, and what happens when those men rise to power.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses.
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NOMORE
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