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Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social · 5h

Stern frog with flag bandana, image labeled HOP

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 9h

"You got a minute?"

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a four-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

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Catherine Hill @ctjhill.bsky.social · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 13h

Comment more than question

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 11h

Every gollum crazy 'bout a sharp dressed elf

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 17h

In the spirit of the thread, I read this as 'elderly white hippos'

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Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social · Sep 12

did you hear about the sculptor who managed to get his HUGE wall-mounted sculpture with three-dimensional elements raised from a flat base finished only a few minutes before deadline? it was a big relief

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 18h

this is cheese erasure, and it Will Not Stand

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 23h

It's not that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, it's that the left hand doesn't even know what the left hand is doing

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 2d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

This is shoot-yourself-in-the-kneecaps level lunacy from a maladministration which is determined to see ideology triumph over logic, over prudence, over everything.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 2d

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d

Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a frog with a cape over there
Tellin me, I got to beware

You better stop, children
What’s that sound?
Everybody look, they’re croaking now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

I want you to listen to this song, 'Feel Good', released on their eponymous debut album, 49 years after they started.

And please remember the Ace of Cups, the next time someone comments that it's pointless to try for something once you're past a certain age.

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Ace of Cups – Feel Good [Official Video]

YouTube video by High Moon Records

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

The Ace of Cups disbanded in 1972. Life went on.
Then they were offered another recording deal.

In 2016.

This time, they accepted the contract. They reformed, with four of the five original members: Mary Gannon, Mary Ellen Simpson, Diane Vitalich, and Denise Kaufman.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

How did it go for the Ace of Cups?
They had some local success, sometimes headlining, sometimes as support acts, and they did some spots on local TV and radio.
But they didn't want to get tied into nationwide touring, so they turned down the recording deals offered to them.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

The Ace of Cups was a five-piece rock band that formed in San Francisco, in 1967.
I've seen reports stating that SF, at that time, had well over 1500 bands, all trying to ride the crest of the Summer of Love.
But the Ace of Cups was a bit unusual: all five musicians were women.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2d

A thread:
I went down a YouTube/Wikipedia rabbit hole yesterday, and learnt an interesting piece of sixties musical history, about the Ace of Cups.

(And yes, there will be a music clip at the end of this.)

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