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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1h

"Nobody will do that though." Oh I guess there's nothing to be done, then. Very convenient if what you'd like is to avoid having to do anything.

I've noticed "we're cooked, it's over" is often the call of the person whose strategy is to hope they will not be in the oven.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1h

I like 37.

Three sets of nine (to be randomly assigned) and one: mostly ceremonial, chief.

I’d also increase the number of circuits.

Cert to also be granted by a random selection of judges, weekly.

And the Court never rests (so maybe 47, and nine are on vacation every three months)

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1h

We will NOT stand for Trump and Vought decimating our health sciences with RFK Jr's permission.

JOIN US FOR A RALLY AT HHS ON FRIDAY 10/17!

WE ARE TAKING BACK SCIENCE.

#ImpeachTheQuack
#GetOutTheVought
#TakeBackScience

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2h

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

If you have no reports, then nothing bad is happening.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11h

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 11h

Painfully real.

Also appellate lawyers are coddled when it comes to word count.

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13h

Undergrad: "Man, 10 page essay. what am I going to write in here"

Lawyer: "What do you mean just 13,000 words?"

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

He spent days/weeks making individual prints.

And he'd do different versions. I've seen 5 prints of Moonrise Over Hernandez, all in a row.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12h

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 1d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

Guess it's good they knew their actual market.

Ghost Of Yotei Reportedly Sells 1.6 Million Units, Outselling Assassin’s Creed Shadows 1.5X On PS5

Rhys Elliot of Alinea Analytics has revealed a series of estimated figures for Ghost of Yotei in a post on X, stating the game has sold 1.6 million through to consumers, with that figure extending to two million-plus if you include shipped to retailer units.

According to the post, the figure means that Ghost of Yotei has pulled in $100 million in revenue, and recouped its development budget of $60 million the day after launch. Furthermore, Elliot claims that Sucker Punch Productions’ latest samurai epic is outselling Assassin’s Creed Shadows for PS5 so far by 1.5X.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h

IIRC it was some variation of "the US has always been like this".

Which is a form of doomeristic apathy.

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 15h

what did the last person you blocked say to get blocked?

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 11h

His second "annual" physical, this year.

And we know how honest all the various things said about him have been.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 11h

uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h

My God...

Words fail me.

Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 23h

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h

When The Leader demands that someone rid him of this meddlesome priest...

Fuckups will happen.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/10/the-nativists-are-getting-restless-how-the-rhythm-of-the-comey-prosecution-may-backfire/

The Nativists Are Getting Restless: How the Rhythm of the Comey Prosecution May Backfire - emptywheel

The two prosecutors DOJ found to prosecute the case against Jim Comey have no understanding of the case, much less the wider ethically fraught context. At least on Wednesday, that made it easier for P...

www.emptywheel.net

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 23h

My fmr boss to the rescue after that very confusing announcement, which featured a lot of Hegseth riffing bsky.app/profile/samf...

Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 23h

Not really. This is a US air base that will host a facility where Qatari pilots are trained to fly F-15. The US also trains pilots from Singapore there www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 22h

Do they jot realize that, like Mamdani, winning a contested primary as the 'outsider' candidate actually makes you appear to be in a much stronger position and helps drape your campaign with an aura of "momentum"?

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 22h

I don't even care that much about the Maine race, but the whining from the "primary everyone" crowd about a contested primary is negatively polarizing me here. Just win the primary, man.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22h

I definitely prefer Platner to Mills but like if he can't beat her with Democrats that does not say good things about his odds in the general. So long as a primary doesn't devolve into a deathwar having it be a real contest is good!

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 22h

I don't even care that much about the Maine race, but the whining from the "primary everyone" crowd about a contested primary is negatively polarizing me here. Just win the primary, man.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · Mar 21

The person who punched Richard Spencer and instantly made him a meme never got caught. Just threw one punch and skipped off into immortality. I think about that a lot.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · Mar 21

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things:

you don't get to talk about it.

you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story.

it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 22h

ANYWAY, I think I'll read this again and think of Marin. www.funraniumlabs.com/2020/04/psue...

Pseudoscience Themes - 5G - Funranium Labs

I got asked “Why do people think 5G is causing coronavirus?” because I am a clearinghouse of pseudoscience bullshit and conspiracy theories. This is, after all, how I earned my role as Weirdness Consu...

www.funraniumlabs.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Sign Up

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22h

It's more difficult than is often acknowledged to be the first to act in situations like this; it's an important move from MIT (along with a good statement). Hopefully this will give momentum for other institutions to reject attempts to control them in unacceptable ways.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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