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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 16h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1h

🚨NEW TRIASSIC THEROPOD NAMED🚨
a warm welcome to anteavis crurilongus, a basal theropod that was found in the late triassic ischigualasto formation of argentina! the paper by martinez et al. can be found here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(art by jorge blanco)

art of the ischigualasto formation depicting several small dinosaurs alongside the large dicynodont ischigualastia

a figure from the paper showing the known elements of anteavis' skeleton

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 6h

deinogalerix, the 'terrible gymnure' of late miocene gargano. its closest living relatives are the moonrats, and after the, the hedgehogs 🦔 it seems to be an example of insular gigantism, being much larger than its living relatives
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art of deinogalerix, a giant moonrat, with its mouth agape

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 17h

happy #indigenouspeoplesday! dilophosaurus is a very recognisable dinosaur, and the part of the kayenta formation where the holotype is from is located on navajo land, with the first bones being found by a navajo man named jesse williams in 1940
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portrait of a colourful, sparsely-feathered dilophosaurus

a reconstructed cast of the dilophosaurus holotype on display at the royal ontario museum

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 3d

A New Age of Reptiles Preview: The Speckled Turterror

South America in the New Age of Reptiles is home to a great variety of lineages found nowhere else on the planet. Most notable are megafaunal herbivorous turtles, which have spurred the evolution of formidable predators to hunt them. (1/9)

A low-slung but erect-limbed sebecian with a short, deep jaw and peg-like crushing teeth. It has a gray-blue skin with a lighter belly, and creamy speckles over the snout and neck. The tail is fairly short and swollen down most of the length, storing fat everywhere but the comparatively slender tip. A human silhouette shows it to be comparable in size to a large leopard or small tiger, its back reaching to waist-level on an adult man.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 35m

if he does run for parliament, i expect it would be as an independent candidate

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 1h

In 1952 the Churchill government abolished ID cards, restoring personal liberties. Labour’s plans for mandatory digital ID, alongside restrictions on protest, threaten those same liberties.

Listen to the millions signing petitions in opposition, and scrap this Orwellian proposal!

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 2h

I simply do not trust Dr. David Levy to conduct this review appropriately and ethically.

If there was any intention of approaching this review from an ethical, evidential standpoint, it wouldn't be chaired by an oncologist.

Effective Transsexualism @effecttrans.com · Aug 22

Everyone's talking about the EHRC guidance banning trans people from single-sex spaces like toilets + changing rooms... but there is another looming threat in the Levy Review

TL;DR expected very soon; separate under-25 pathway, lays the groundwork for more gatekeeping in the NHS

Screenshot: Review of adult gender dysphoria services One of the recommendations of the Cass Review was a review of the adult service specification. [...] Dr David Levy, Medical Director of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, and previously NHS England’s North West Regional Medical Director, will lead the review, supported by an expert panel of patients, clinicians experienced in the delivery of gender-related care, independent regulators and members of relevant professional bodies.

Screenshot Levy Review The review of NHS adult gender dysphoria services in England[1], led by Dr David Levy, was announced in August 2024[2], shortly after the publication of the Cass Review. The stated motivation for commissioning the review included concerns about "inadequate, time-limited assessment", weak consent procedures, waiting times, patient demographics, and administrative problems.[3] It is still underway. Though NHS England originally expected to publish the report in spring 2025[4], it has not yet been released as of yet. Internal documents suggest publication may be close. Its likely effects are uncertain, but it may lead to tighter gatekeeping in NHS services, with possible knock-on effects for private clinics, particularly for people under 25.

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outerpanda 🇵🇸 @outerpanda.bsky.social · 2h

If we’re to survive as a species, the rich can never be allowed near power again, which necessitates eliminating the rich as an available class of society.

Or the biosphere burns as we watch. There seems to be a clearly preferable option here for most of us.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1h

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 23h

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1h

clarkson has too much of an ego to join an established party imo, he hates being told what to do by anyone

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 1h

🚨NEW TRIASSIC THEROPOD NAMED🚨
a warm welcome to anteavis crurilongus, a basal theropod that was found in the late triassic ischigualasto formation of argentina! the paper by martinez et al. can be found here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(art by jorge blanco)

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Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

Do you ever think about how chick-fil-a named their customer service solution the Automated Holding Assistant (AHA) so that it would come up in search results before you saw Chick-fil-a's links to charities that supported the Anti-Homosexual Act in Uganda?

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 21h

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine if Palestinians handed over the hostages freshly beat up

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10h

Samer Abu Diak, released to occupied West Bank, who was beaten by Israeli occupation troops before his release.

He was held as captive for two decades and his brother Sami, imprisoned since he was a teenager, died in Israeli occupation captivity after 17 years imprisonment in 2019.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 10h

They don’t see themselves as enforcing immigration laws. They see themselves as deciding who gets to be American

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3h

What an opportunity! Four years in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, Lake District on your doorstep etc, working with one of the cleverest, kindest, funniest people I know, on a FASCINATING topic!

Please share far and wide

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 3h

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!

Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25

Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

This sentient disposable napkin should stop talking so cavalierly about other people’s jobs while he grifts billions for his pet LLM

Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe we should stop listening to those who say decarbonisation will be too disruptive and expensive

And start listening to the experts warning that inaction will be much, much worse

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 4h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

IDF shot and killed several Palestinians this morning, claiming the deceased engaged in a violation of the truce

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 7h

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 7h

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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