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John Harrold
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· May 15
I've started doing something similar for fun. In this paper with a vector image I embedding a picture of my son with a balloon. It's faint but if you zoom in you can see it (you have to download the PDF). It's open access though.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
This is probably the most succinct summary I’ve seen.
OMG
Ryan Lizza is digging in the crates to defend himself after the release of Olivia Nuzzi's book and Vanity Fair excerpts, they both have similarly pompous writing styles, Keith Olbermann is catching strays and the whole thing reads like a "Family Guy" cutaway gag
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Ryan Lizza is digging in the crates to defend himself after the release of Olivia Nuzzi's book and Vanity Fair excerpts, they both have similarly pompous writing styles, Keith Olbermann is catching strays and the whole thing reads like a "Family Guy" cutaway gag
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is probably the most succinct summary I’ve seen.
That we keep the screwworm at bay is a huge public health achievement. If we are having issues with screwworms it’s because we have cut the public health officials that maintain these efforts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
That we keep the screwworm at bay is a huge public health achievement. If we are having issues with screwworms it’s because we have cut the public health officials that maintain these efforts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
I would only ask MTG to consider what happens when he does this to democrats and others. What do those people face?
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I would only ask MTG to consider what happens when he does this to democrats and others. What do those people face?
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
This is the last in this thread, but I don't think most folks appreciate it. Expensive clothing today lasts longer and you end up spending a comparable amount or less in the long run.
Don't just think about the price. Consider how much you'll love wearing the garment, which will be about finding a manufacturer that produces things to your taste. A $100 hoodie worn for a decade is cheaper than a $40 hoodie you replace in a year.
As usual, the key is to buy less, buy better.
As usual, the key is to buy less, buy better.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is the last in this thread, but I don't think most folks appreciate it. Expensive clothing today lasts longer and you end up spending a comparable amount or less in the long run.
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Jeffrey Epstein sitting in Professor X's Cerebro helmet to locate every sex offender on the planet and broadcast to them a single global telepathic pulse that says "i,,m the .email pedaphole"
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Jeffrey Epstein sitting in Professor X's Cerebro helmet to locate every sex offender on the planet and broadcast to them a single global telepathic pulse that says "i,,m the .email pedaphole"
@hunterw.bsky.social I know you have the mention of a certain northeastern based publication muted, but you may want to unmute it today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
@hunterw.bsky.social I know you have the mention of a certain northeastern based publication muted, but you may want to unmute it today.
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Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
This is episode of Criminal is a good companion to Sam's article below.
thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is episode of Criminal is a good companion to Sam's article below.
thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
Folks are dunking on Kim here but as @kenwhite.bsky.social points out she has a good heart and is trying to do actual good. I'd point out that the ability integrate new knowledge to reevaluate her beliefs at 45 is something many folks are incapable of.
Congrats to Kim Kardashian, learning at the age of 45 that psychics are fake.
"Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to Alcatraz": Kim Kardashian lashes out at psychics after failing the bar exam, and the internet can't stop laughing
"They all collectively, maybe four of them, have told me I was going to pass the bar, so they’re all full pathological liars."
www.dailydot.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Folks are dunking on Kim here but as @kenwhite.bsky.social points out she has a good heart and is trying to do actual good. I'd point out that the ability integrate new knowledge to reevaluate her beliefs at 45 is something many folks are incapable of.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
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Let me introduce you to `replace_when()` in tidyup #7 🙂 github.com/tidyverse/ti...
github.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Let me introduce you to `replace_when()` in tidyup #7 🙂 github.com/tidyverse/ti...
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
This is nice.
pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats
pkgdown 2.2.0
The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website.
tidyverse.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is nice.
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I got a letter from the government
the other day
I opened and read it
it said
you get free electricity
the other day
I opened and read it
it said
you get free electricity
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I got a letter from the government
the other day
I opened and read it
it said
you get free electricity
the other day
I opened and read it
it said
you get free electricity
This is the way.
people in my community often say to me that they don’t have bandwidth to worry about climate
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is the way.
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things.
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things.
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
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There's a character in Monsoon Wedding who is an unforgivable abusive predator, so Cuomo could have quoted Mamdani's parent's work, too.
Beating a guy in an election and quoting his dad in your victory speech is a FLEX.
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
There's a character in Monsoon Wedding who is an unforgivable abusive predator, so Cuomo could have quoted Mamdani's parent's work, too.
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I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
So @giadapistilli.com isn't blocked by any lists I subscribe to. And also not blocked by me. So I can see her profile. I've never read anything by her. But she's only posted 283 times. I think any exposure/engagement issue she may has more to do with her than being on some random block lists.
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So @giadapistilli.com isn't blocked by any lists I subscribe to. And also not blocked by me. So I can see her profile. I've never read anything by her. But she's only posted 283 times. I think any exposure/engagement issue she may has more to do with her than being on some random block lists.
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we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter