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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I bet all the horses laughed at the first ever horse to get ridden. Not so funny now

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have my students do final projects that are work 25% of their grade. This is "ungraded," meaning that if they produce something they get the points. Part of that is getting their project approved by me. This is required. I gave them 2 weeks to schedule a meeting with me.

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm reading "If It Sounds Like a Quack" by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling (of A Libertarian Walks into a Bear fame). It's a book about how fringe "medicine" went mainstream. I read this passage last night and...idk. I was just so struck by how Republicans have been grifting for decades.

A book page with highlighted text. The highlighted part reads, "Perhaps Republicans got on board because of their long-standing vision of a more limited form of government. Or maybe it was because they had the same exact vested intereset that the purveyors of the One True Cure did: product sales.

During the aughts, national politicians - almost exclusively Republicans - began monetizing the email lists of their campaign supporters by partnering with for-profit corporations to sell supplements."

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just looked up who to contact at an office at my university and this one office has a director, associate director, TWO assistant directors, and an office manager. I really hope that these titles are in lieu of a large paycheck because this place just fired a bunch of amazing teaching profs.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s October and Fresh Market still does not have drinking custard. Did fall get cancelled or what?

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are my lectures so fucking looooooong, she asks as she adds 5 more slides to her lecture.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

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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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...

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What would orbital data centers look like from your sky?

500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.

After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OK, I've watched this a couple of times and it just doesn't get old. I cannot stop laughing, just incredible stuff. Could be an episode of Veep.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am once again absolutely losing my mind. These people are in charge.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TIL that animals used to be put on trial in Medieval Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...

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Animal trial - Wikipedia

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

i wish the astronomy community would go back to using "machine learning" to talk about machine learning instead of saying "AI" all the time to try and suck up to the feds

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think at least some of the discussion surrounding if, how, or when to use gen AI is really an examination of what people think the meaning of life is. When I look at it this way, the position some people are taking makes me deeply sad.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh for goodness sake. What are we doing?

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sheer contempt I have for these dipshits and their insistence we should join them in their willfull and gleeful ignorance is beyond articulation

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really think for the 3 weeks that it's fall in NY, we should be allowed not to work. Just let us enjoy it. It's the only time it's pleasant.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He's just mad because women are still choosing the bear.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a neighborhood in this area where people are PROTESTING PUTTING IN A SIDEWALK NEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. People are so car-pilled, is2g.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah, once again I was not chosen to be an Astronomer in Residence at the Grand Canyon. Honestly, at this point, I'm starting to take it personally.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I should be entering contests like these. I'd pay off my student loans fast (assuming the prize money ever gets distributed).

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My class handed in their first round of homework. Now I have to grade it? Who assigned all this? Me? Why would I do this to myself?

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah, why can't I think of cool stuff like this?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m still trying to figure out what we win. Unemployment? Deskilling? Rampant water and noise pollution? Higher electrical costs? Climate breakdown? WHAT DO WE WIN??

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is controversial and I don‘t want to be dramatic, but I would rather deal with temperatures topping 120 degrees than deal with moderate to high humidity. It rained several days of the 2 weeks we were in Arizona and I was less moist than I am in New York.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The cognitive dissonance of "we can't lose the technology & innovation race to China" vs. "we're gonna charge taxes and deny visas and basically make it impossible for anyone to come here to do scientific research" is astonishing, even for this administration.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For those not on the other site: the Kansas Jayhawks made a rivalry hype video that repeatedly references John Brown. x.com/ku_football/...

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