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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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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 5h
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 4h
I don't want a smart deadbolt. or any other smart products. nothing that makes getting into my house dependent on the power and network being alive. call me a Luddite, but I like the stupid stuff.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 4h
those files will never be released. blanche will die before they are shown to the public.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 9h
A must see! This is catchy! Pennsylvania has recorded 1000 measles cases+deaths RFK Jr spreads misinformation on vaccines. This is a pivotal time in our country. If our votes didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to intimidate us. “Time for the Midterms” youtu.be/ayWiE_gL9mU #pinks
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 5h
true for every frat on every campus for all time. been well established since "animal house" came out. why are frats allowed to persist?
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 5h
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h
"why don't more women come forward?" men. the answer is men.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 5h
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 5h
it's a low bar.
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Bennie & Violet 🚫🧊8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ @thomasthecorgi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ok Violet's not wrong this time. #CorgiCrew #VioletHasJokes
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6h
The covert of “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead, a novel about a ‘reform school’ that brutalized and killed Black children in Florida, based on a real and terrible place.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 5h
It wasn’t just the sheer venom dripping from Donald Trump’s mouth in Nebraska on October 5 that made my stomach turn. It was the applause. Picture the grotesque tableau in Grand Island: Trump casually discussing the geopolitical costs of a war with Iran, before
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 5h
because no one has the morals or courage to do it. better to sit back and think about how to "move on".
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 6h
Rather have a illegal than a maga live next door to me
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 05/10/2026
For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country... hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-b...
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Is Trump Building the Infrastructure of a Police State One Child at a Time?
For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16h
We’ve spent years hearing that Chinese open-weight models would put too much power in the hands of hackers. Yet most of the AI-enabled cyberattacks publicly documented so far have involved closed models from American frontier labs. Oops. 😅
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The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7h
“Tokenmaxxing as a business strategy was like heating your convenience store by lighting the cash in the register on fire.” - Ben Affleck ~~ He’s showing more rational business sense than half the CEOs in tech.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 8h
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their pioneering work in "mirror" chemistry.
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2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to pioneers in 'mirror' chemistry
The prize recognizes Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai's work showing autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 7h
that law must be changed. belief in a fiction cannot absolve you from taking responsibility for your children. this is 4x murder.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h
Elon Musk created a pedo bot, has a breeding cult and is a racist. He’s the biggest, most well known funder of the GOP and democrats don’t make noise about it.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h
Look how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 8h
Nobel Peace prize in chemistry 1/3
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 17h
to buy what? mostly funneled to companies that he and his sons have invested in. just part of the get rich scheme and systematic looting by the mob boss and his crime family.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 17h
thanks for the advice. 👏
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 17h
I'm surprised it's that high. certainly falling rapidly as dementia advances. dumber than a bag of hammers.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 17h
so many examples. that's why I find it hard to avoid falling into despair.
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FeralCatLady @feralcatlady.bsky.social · 18h
…here it is👇 🧠 🥸 IQ 73
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 17h
glad to see it. still no guarantee that the people of ME will do the right thing and send her home. they've proven themselves to be a pretty dumb lot. after all, they've sent her to the Senate four times already. how many times does it take to figure it out?
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The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 18h
Done playing nice. My advice to Troy Jackson…
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No Mercy Johnny
Alt: No Mercy Johnny
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 18h
there are some companies that need to be put out of business. no one needs to products they're selling.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 18h
it ain't his looks, personality, style, morals, or humor.
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 18h
a disturbing, infuriating article. more great work by @propublica.org so glad to be a paying reader.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 18h
I hate these people.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 20h
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h
Look, I'm a long-suffering Sixers fan, so I have to root for him this year. But again, as with the shilling for Polymarket & the knee-bending to Xi on democracy (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), it goes without saying that the actual GOAT would never have done this.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Iconic Skyhook
ALT: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Iconic Skyhook
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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 18h
surveillance capitalism. Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg are the worst of a bad lot. let's not forget these are careless people who brought genocide to Myanmar.
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 19h
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Jim Halpert: I Just Want It To Stop (The Office)
ALT: Jim Halpert: I Just Want It To Stop (The Office)
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 20h
This isn't the work of a group trying to "improve how we share results with the math community." It's an attack on the math community.
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GitHub - openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 22h
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 20h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 22h
JFC I'm so sick of this bullshit! We need to take GITMO and make it a family prison.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” ~Malcolm X, 1965. Image: Public domain.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven Black man, Malcolm X, wearing glasses and a suit coat. He holds his chin in his left hand and looks at the camera.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20h
Fellow authors: how do you keep the constant flood of LLM-extruded scam e-mails (the ones where the robot consumed your book to regurgitate back its major themes, like a house cat presenting you with a coughed-up hairball) from absolutely destroying your soul?
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