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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Posted this on Threads, but got little love. I thought it was great cycling content.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My first time watching a race IRL. Montreal UCI Worlds. Thrilling!!

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My daughter told me a wild story last night. A co-worker paid an Etsy witch $27 to curse the Mariners because a co-worker she disliked was a super fan. The next day they lost 22-0, biggest loss in MLB history. Insane ROI. My first thought, get me that witch’s name, I have a cyclist to curse.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m sorry Visma fans, this is happening because I finally started paying attention to women’s cycling and TDFF. The sports gods live to smite me.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The way these announcers are glazing PFP, it’s almost making me uncomfortable. I mean, I’m totally here for it, but if she doesn’t do well, it will almost be embarrassing for them.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hilarious how poorly this aged in just 2 days. The joke seemed like such low hanging fruit. It wrote itself. And yet…. 😊

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m traveling to Montreal, my first pro-cycling race, and I’m so excited. I know it would just be “one-day Jonas” but please yes.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

All-time Jonas interview full of insights, TTT is in Barcelona, need a good team, hoping for a 3 nice week. Pure comedy. Love that guy 😭🥰

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Family group chat. I know he’s referring to the sprint, but kinda love the ambiguity of my son’s 2 comments

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Red Queen Conservation👸🏽, in which it takes all the running managers can do to keep in the same place. Increases in lead exposure and mortality in California condors is explained by behavioral shifts by both condors and humans. These shifts masked the true efficacy of lead ammo bans and outreach.

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Behavioral shifts mask the success of legislation and outreach for endangered species recovery

Nature Communications - Despite enormous resources expended, lead exposure in endangered California condors has risen. The authors show lead ammunition bans and outreach are effective, with...

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Buffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Ornithology is all about the process. #GoBills | #BillsMafia

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I’m sorry but please🤷‍♀️… anyone but Tadej

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Nooooo! How is this possible?? I guess it’s good Jonas isn’t 45 seconds back and in real contention, but I feel cheated

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Please don’t let Pog pass Jonas today. I can’t take anymore

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

One of my favorite genres of science news, the unexpected animal friendship 🥰

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Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

College son just texted mnemonic for geologic periods. “…hopefully”— so real bro

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This targeted marketing is a bit too on the nose 😭

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Jonas fans, get hyped for TDF. He’s going to be better than he’s ever been before 😉

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Honestly, I can't improve on this short clip from BBC Earth, which shows the first flight of a young *Siberian* flying squirrel, of which the 'Ezo' is a subspecies. Truly masterful videography & narration. Worth a watch.

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Baby Flying Squirrel Takes Flight for the First Time | Mammals | BBC Earth

YouTube video by BBC Earth

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

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ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is
to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If
we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have
fought to find light.

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Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Y'all, there's 11 #HandsOff events next weekend in MONTANA. Just to give you a sense of scale. Find yours: handsoff2025.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sanders: I will tell you what I think the worst addiction in this country is, the most dangerous, and that is the greed of the oligarchs. Everybody wants to do well. These guys already have billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions. How much money do you need?

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My dad was a teen in WW2 Nazi-occupied Netherlands, before emigrating to the US. He always had such patriotic feelings towards his adopted country. We still have the flag my Oma made from bedsheets that the family displayed on liberation day. I’m so grateful he’s not around to see this travesty

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m glad I read this obituary. Fascinating research. Thanks bluesky

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It’s amazing how many cycling fans are celebrating this. S1 took my whole fam from 0 interest to mad fans. Sure, we’ve been less interested and more critical in subsequent seasons as we’ve learned more about the sport** but I can’t think of a better way to onboard new fans.

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'Tour de France: Unchained' has been chained? Netflix cancels plans of continuing Tour de France behind-the-scenes series

The Tour de France is one of the most internationally recognized sports events and so when in the early 2020's Netflix came around to produce a show within the race, it was immediately big news and a....

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2025

While on a shark research expedition off the coast of Tenerife, a Spanish island, marine biologists captured the first images of a live adult black seadevil anglerfish near the ocean’s surface. nyti.ms/3CLmscK

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/02/2025

Carl Sagan's prediction in 1995. We are here now.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 06/02/2025

a look at the federal workforce size since the 1940s:

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 02/02/2025

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/02/2025

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

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vjbakker @vjbmt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Just got this alert. It has me thinking about the many under-the-radar services the federal government provides, backed by scientific research, and their importance for lives and livelihoods (and baby cows).

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting. Simple sabotage ideas include:
• "Insist on doing everything through 'channels.' Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions."
• "Make 'speeches.' Talk as frequently as possible and at great length.
Illustrate your 'points' by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate 'patriotic' comments."
• "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible."
• "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
• "Misunderstand' orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can."
• "In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines."
• "To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers;
complain unjustly about their work."

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Emissions in China were basically flat in 2024 ( @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social has it up less than 1% and mainly from Jan/Feb 2024, Carbon Monitor full year down 0.3%). Looking like China has finally turned the corner away from more and more and more.

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