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I really grew to appreciate Tim Ream and am going to miss him and his game. Spent 4 years with a bullseye on his back and no one could take his spot from him at 38. Even Pep admired him. See ya in the stands, Captain

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"They didn't deserve to go to jail over $50, but multiply that fifty bucks by 72, and you've crossed a line!" is not a winning argument!

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Change it to "grooving" and you've got a King's X show. Probably why it's accurate they call themselves the First Church of Rock and Roll.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.

The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.

The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The teeth teeth teeth tweet but with "tie"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who will solve teams' Tom Wilson problem from the press box now?

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think the kind of AI booster I hate the most are people who are smart enough to consider the social impacts but choose not to because all they can consider is that it's "cool." To quote Ordinary People (h/t Dream Theater): "Can't you see anything except in terms of how it affects you?"

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a referendum in Washington State that wants to do this to kindergartners! And no one's bringing it up to call them creeps!

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Usually the problem with groupthink is that there's too many sophomoric dudebros in the group. Rarely is the problem there are too few. But not never.

Novelty welcome sign with a whale that reads Whalecum

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think I've ever gone downhill on a politician faster than I am now over AOC on this. Letting herself be absolutely gulled by the "pro dead kids" caucus.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did not need push notifications from both the vanilla ESPN and Fantasy ESPN apps about Tua being named the starter. I didn't need either, frankly.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

MAHA only means dead kids and anything less than an unequivocal repudiation of this turn means I need to figure out who I'm voting for in the primary all over again

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally saw Iron Maiden live. Great setlist and Bruce Dickinson is just ageless. Great, great show

Iron Maiden performing. Bruce Dickinson is in a mask and singing on a second level of the stage

Iron Maiden performing. All four guitarists have made a wall

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Serendipitous to see this, I just finished the second half of last week's episode of The Distraction that I'd saved for one last back/biceps/Deadcast/Distraction workout. This should be fun and sounds like a great pairing. Now to destroy my hearing with Iron Maiden tonight and King's X tomorrow!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

I don’t know how many members of the military will receive the message but it simply could not be clearer that this administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone it’s putting in harm’s way

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh fuck you Quordle, that is not a word. And neither are random Greek letters, while I'm at it.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A newly promoted guy at work wins a poker game and has to deal with sore losers

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Both of my kids are signed up for the Imagination Library. We all get our COVID shots yearly. I don't even listen to country music and she's made my life so much better. RIP Dolly, thank you

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It came up on random so I'm obliged to share my most "how was this not a hit at all" song. You're welcome

youtube.com

City Slang (The Best Stuff You Havent Heard)

YouTube video by Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Topic

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

11% + 26% are still mad at Nate Silver's 2016 model (although we all should be disappointed in him since then for becoming a useless and unrigorous pundit). Sometimes you just live in the 30% chance world! Like, 30% of the time!

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Welp, this sucks. I guess the idea we're eventually going to get Drew pod and a Roth pod means there's a chance I get one more good podcast out of this, but I sincerely doubt either will become the favorite The Distraction has been since it blessedly rose from the ashes of The Deadcast.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing radicalized me the way that walking my dog in suburbia has. Racing at 40+ on residential streets after a full day of work is psycho shit

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My real answer is The Silmarillion, but it's been said enough I'll throw out redoing Sharpe with a real budget. Finding someone besides Sean Bean would be heartbreaking, I admit

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Marx quote came up and it always makes me think of one of the GOAT tweets

Tweet by Joe Kerr @societylivr1984:

There's an old saying in Schelling-I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling-that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
[Attached is a photo of George W Bush at a microphone]

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Got to see The Odyssey today and the thing I want to gently probably push back on is the idea Odyesseus had PTSD - maybe he is, but the gigantic regret from his service he's suffering from is better described as moral injury. Which is a way more interesting choice than a straight adaptation of him.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2026

the living daylights is also the best bond theme

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2026

correct opinion imo

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the kind of person who posts here is very likely to have over-learned 'the personal is the political' in a way that make them interpret 'I don't think this empirical claim about society you are making is true' as 'I am invalidating your personal experiences', like that's just it in it's entirety

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/07/2026

my takeaway is that he couldn’t find a big mac if it’s the only item in a mcdonald’s bag, cooked as fuck and he’s got absolutely nothing to work with

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's going to take a long time for the taxis to be rerouted from the Marne to Dallas

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/07/2026

In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends. Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.

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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

Megan Rapinoe pens an op-ed for Marie Claire about anti-trans legislation in sports.

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Remember: everything they believe — or claim to believe — is a weapon to use to take away your rights and the rights of people you love. Fight against them like your civilization depends upon it.

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Jordan @natfan9.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hi everyone, I'm running a World Cup fan poll about the USMNT's run in the tournament. This is a follow up to the polls I ran after 2022 and the 2024 Copa America. The link to submit is below and I would appreciate if you'd take the time to participate and share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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USMNT 2026 World Cup Fan Poll

Unless otherwise stated, all questions refer to the player/coach/team performance in the World Cup alone, not including time leading up to it.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Oh so we signed an agreement ending the war in Versailles, then, unhappy with it, he's starting the war back up? Usually people as far right as this administration wait 21 years to rip up things signed at Versailles.

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Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I guess congrats to the Netherlands on their 5-1 win over us in the Round of 16 in 2030. Doofus coach, good coach, Golden Generation, MLSers, doesn't matter. We can't clear that hump.

Dr Manhattan meme format

It is 2014. The US loses 2-1 to one of the Low Countries in the Round of 16
It is 2022. The US loses 3-1 to one of the Low Countries in the Round of 16
It is 2026. The US loses 4-1 to one of the Low Countries in the Round of 16

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