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pretty much just gonna use this to share articles I find interesting (mostly politics, science, history, and culture)
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · Jun 1
Gonna start a thread of the classic SNL sketches here and add to it as I see them

#1 Land Shark (Nov 8, 1975)
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Landshark - SNL
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 11h
The decision to kill other people's infants is a personal one.
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Mar 28
CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.

“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
charlesornstein.bsky.social Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Mar 28
SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
I’ve often wondered if some media studies professor had written anything about this somewhere - normalizing inclusion of the author as part of the story. But this works too!
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
I remember watching this shift happen in National Geographic. When I first started reading in 2007, very rarely did any of the articles include the authors perspective (explicitly). It really stood out when some of them started inserting themselves in the story. Now it’s surprising when they don’t
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h
But I worry that what the larger media culture took from blogs is ... "we like personalities now! We like people. Performers! That's what keeps seats filled." So, in the 2010s, there was an endless focus on first-person journalism. To be a journalist was to be a personality, a unique perspective ...
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
This has the classic “it was my understanding there would be no math“ line in it, so I’m counting it

Debate ‘76
(S2 Ep 1, September 18, 1976)

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Debate '76 - SNL
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12h
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16h
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 15h
“The vast majority of global conservation money goes to a few top species, known as charismatic megafauna or flagship species. Meanwhile, amphibians account for about 25 percent of threatened vertebrate species, but get only 2.5 percent of funding.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 15h
“As a result, the countryside became littered with rotting, germ-filled animal corpses that infected the rivers and drinking water—and also boosted the population of rabies-carrying feral dogs. In an ideal world, the disappearing vulture population would be a conservation priority. But it isn’t.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 15h
“Starting three decades ago, vultures nearly disappeared from India after millions of them were accidentally poisoned by medicine used on cows, which turned out to be toxic to vultures.”
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The astonishing superpowers of nature’s most unloved animals
From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17h
It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 16h
“Key to its restoration were written records of the intricate system through which landrights had been passed down for generations. Hidden away in houses and buried in archives, they aided the long legal fight of Közbirtokosság leaders to reclaim their villages after Ceaușescu’s overthrow in 1989.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 16h
“For the decades that Romania was under communist rule, the Közbirtokosság was lost. Indeed, the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu aimed to wipe out places like Karácsonyfalva and their ways of life. He failed, communism fell, and the village regained communal control of some 2,700 acres of land in 2000.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 16h
“The Közbirtokosság, the village’s governing body, manages the water, woods, and pastures, splitting their use, resources, and income among 347 “shareholders.” Though timeworn, the system of governance is remarkably sturdy.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 16h
“In medieval times, the Hungarian Empire granted Székely villages like Karácsonyfalva control of their lands. This system of communal landownership has persisted, with a few interruptions, for centuries.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 16h
“For at least a thousand years, the Székelys, a group of ethnic Hungarians, have lived in Transylvania, where a traditional form of governance protects their connection to the land.”

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Transylvania may hold the secret to a long and happy life
This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life be the key to tranquility?
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1d
I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“Given accelerating language loss even in the languages’ homelands, threats to immigration, and the rising costs of city life, time may be running out. This urgency is what drives the work of the Endangered Language Alliance, which has started to map this landscape.”

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Founded in 2010, the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) is a non-profit dedicated to documenting Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages, supporting linguistic diversity in New York City and be...
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“Many immigrants have arrived in just the past few decades from linguistic hot spots such as the Himalaya, West Africa, insular Southeast Asia, and heavily Indigenous zones of Latin America. Today, however, many of the forces that brought people together are beginning to pull them apart.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“But New York City—the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world—may be hitting peak diversity. Its 700-plus languages represent over 10 percent of the global total.”

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The city of 700 languages
New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way?
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“Meanwhile, as sea ice continues to melt, larval krill are losing an important habitat where they can hide from predators, find food, and develop into adults.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“However, there are new pressures on the species from both humans and climate change. Krill are increasingly harvested as aquaculture feed, and the animals’ oil is highly sought after as a dietary supplement.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“In Antarctica, the species is more than just a vital part of the food chain. Krill are also a carbon sink, eating phytoplankton that have absorbed CO2 and then excreting pellets to the seafloor, where it can take thousands of years for the absorbed carbon to resurface.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 17h
“Antarctic krill are a keystone species that allows everything else in the Southern Ocean to flourish. Learning more about their habitat on the seafloor could inform our understanding of virtually every predator on the continent.“
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How a super tiny crustacean makes life work in the Southern Ocean
For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are doing there.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17h
This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
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