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Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 11h

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/10/2026

I think people are amazing

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Essentially a billion bird night. #birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 873.7 million birds in flight at 12:30AM EDT on October 3, 2026.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

did you know that the word "amortize" comes from a Latin word meaning to make dead? anyway, this looks like a genuinely cool paper!

Figure 1: Graph processing pipeline. Graph description: Directed acyclic graph of a two-level model with population
mean µ, population standard deviation τ , group-level means {λj}, observations yji, and observation-level standard
deviation ω. The dashed box denotes that the group-level means λj and observations yji are sampled independently.
Graph expansion: The interior node λj is split into two conditionally independent instances λ1 and λ2, each receiving
the same parent nodes µ and τ . This makes the exchangeability of groups explicit in the graph structure, allowing the
inversion to determine that each instance conditions only on its own data and the global parameters. Graph inversion:
Inversion of the expanded two-level model using outer-nodes-first ordering (µ, τ, ω, λ1, λ2). In the inverse graph, each
λj conditions only on its own group data yj = {yji} and the global parameters µ, τ , ω, so the per-group inference
becomes amortizable: a single inference network can be used for all J groups. Network architecture: Architecture
derived from the inverse graph. Each inference network has its own summary network. The local summary network
encodes the observation of each group into a group-level summary, from which the local inference network infers
λj . The global summary network pools all observations into a single representation of the dataset, from which the
global inference network infers µ, τ , and ω. The dashed box denotes that the local summary and inference networks are
applied independently for each group.

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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 Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 02/10/2026

Before people learned music with 'do re mi', the sequence once began with 'ut' as the lowest note. The absolute lowest note recognised in medieval music was 'Γ ut', with the Greek letter gamma, and 'Γ ut' came to refer to the full range of possible notes. This is behind the phrase 'run the gamut'.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(The robots they're building are us.)

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/10/2026

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas. "I summoned thee to give me knowled-" "Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years." "You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?" "... oh shit."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

time.com

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026

(2) might be SLIGHTLY more famous, but (1) is much funnier.

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whoa Stuffy Derma is in this one

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹

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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack

Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026

A college buddy asked me about my transition from a racism-is-bad liberal in the 1990s to a much more left lefty today lol. Found myself talking about police violence, the horrific attacks on trans people, and the role of billionaires in making so many things worse. No one gets left behind.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm flying to NYC this weekend to film with Doctor Mike. He's asked me to bring medical objects for the show... and @tealcartoons.bsky.social thought we should do a run through about what might happen at airport security 😂 What could go wrong?! www.youtube.com/shorts/Zb1bR...

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Skulls & Airport Security!

YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 01/10/2026

Just went through this list and basically ordered almost everything Please also read @freyamarske.bsky.social's amazing Bodies of Magic (medicine school plus five disaster students plus murder), @everinamaxwell.bsky.social's Call me Traitor (two unreliable narrators/disaster stabby lesbians)

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Maksim Kalutskii @maksimkalutskii.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited to share our new preprint! 📜 Here, we used CALVADOS and ultra-CG models to show how the kinetochore establishes a robust attachment to the dynamic microtubule end. Spoiler: IDRs 🧵 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 30/09/2026

Anyways, if you haven’t go listen to Wendy Carlos’ “Beauty in the Beast” or “Digital Moonscapes” right now. There’s no way to do it while supporting her unfortunately, but you can at least celebrate her genius and dream of a better tomorrow

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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about why Wendy Carlos’ albums are out of print and her wonderful website is now reserved for having a friend of hers tell people to leave her alone. It’s so fucking heart breaking what the world does to trans women

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those who wonder (and you are quite legitimate to doubt) yes, the VTOL C.450 Coléoptère has already flown, in all it will be 7 stationary flights that will be made in 1959 before the crash of the prototype. © Espace Patrimoine Safran

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Matt Mack @matthras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Advisory Group on Mathematics & AI just released a report: "Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics": agmai.org/general-se... For onlookers+non-mathematicians, I think it's worth reading to get an idea of how maths as a discipline maintains standards for building knowledge. 1/2

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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is pretty bad, and getting shared a lot. www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... The only thing I would say is that during this period, in my experience, the problem has been the extreme consolidation of platforms much more than anything I can imagine AI doing right now?

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ppl be waiting for “Jesus to come back” and he’s literally right here

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is brilliant and very useful for allies, because if there ever was a need to support our trans communities world wide, it is right now.

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social

Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.

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Nigels1 @nigels1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

California brown pelicans diving for fish off the San Simeon Pier. It’s a common sight up and down the Central Coast. #Photography #nature #CentralCoast #R5Mark2 🌿 #Cambria #SanSimeon #California

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

there are a lot of hardcore Rs who understand that he’s doing kayfabe and just saying words and there are a bunch of independent types who are learning in real time that it was kayfabe

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you hear "queernormative world" do you think of a book where everyone knows queerness exists, or one where queer existence is not met with bigotry? Or something else?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Couchf*cker and Poster Boy”? Or will he prefer “Hawkeye”?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lmao the best thing about this is that he's thinking about it non-stop like you did that time the waiter said "enjoy your meal!" and you said "you too!"

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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