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I will stop what I’m doing in a grocery store if I hear them play Talking Heads.
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· Oct 13
I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?
MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
I’d really like to see a supercut of Mike Johnson denying knowledge of things. It’d be very long.
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A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO
Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous farming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, USA
We describe archaeological evidence of intensive ancestral Native American agriculture in the now heavily forested Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Recent LIDAR (light detection and ranging) and excavatio...
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December 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO
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Yes! There is a campaign! Everyone should be demanding their lawmakers co sign articles of impeachment filed by Rep. Stevens. So far only Swalwell has co-signed; we need MORE @standupforscience.bsky.social has an action toolkit and are leading: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Stand Up for Science Campaign to Impeach and Remove RFK Jr — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
RFK Jr. is endangering our families, threatening our health, and destroying our place as the world leader in biomedical research. Impeachment is an extreme option, but Bobby is an extreme threat and m...
www.standupforscience.net
December 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yes! There is a campaign! Everyone should be demanding their lawmakers co sign articles of impeachment filed by Rep. Stevens. So far only Swalwell has co-signed; we need MORE @standupforscience.bsky.social has an action toolkit and are leading: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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MOST land on this planet is occupied by, used by or altered by humans, leaving little space for wildlife.
What we see as development, they experience as displacement
#deforestation #farming #extinction #WildlifeCrime #Ecocide
What we see as development, they experience as displacement
#deforestation #farming #extinction #WildlifeCrime #Ecocide
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
MOST land on this planet is occupied by, used by or altered by humans, leaving little space for wildlife.
What we see as development, they experience as displacement
#deforestation #farming #extinction #WildlifeCrime #Ecocide
What we see as development, they experience as displacement
#deforestation #farming #extinction #WildlifeCrime #Ecocide
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Comics gang, anyone interested?
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
December 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Comics gang, anyone interested?
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A new flora overview of the National Wetland Park in the Jimunai Alpine Periglacial Zone (Xinjiang, China) reports 158 additional #species, 45 genera and two families, including 20 rare and endangered species, four Xinjiang #endemics and 23 #taxa newly recorded for the area: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A new flora overview of the National Wetland Park in the Jimunai Alpine Periglacial Zone (Xinjiang, China) reports 158 additional #species, 45 genera and two families, including 20 rare and endangered species, four Xinjiang #endemics and 23 #taxa newly recorded for the area: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
I once accosted Ron Howard and his family at a Java Juice in National Airport to tell him how much his movies mean to me. He graciously acted as if I was the very first person to tell him that.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I once accosted Ron Howard and his family at a Java Juice in National Airport to tell him how much his movies mean to me. He graciously acted as if I was the very first person to tell him that.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
I’m here to say that The Station Agent is quite a perfect December 26 movie. #movies www.miramax.com/movie/the-st...
The Station Agent - Official Site - Miramax
Directed by Tom McCarthy. With John Slattery, Michelle Williams, Peter Dinklage, Josh Pais, Richard Kind, Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale.
www.miramax.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’m here to say that The Station Agent is quite a perfect December 26 movie. #movies www.miramax.com/movie/the-st...
Can’t stop listening to this epistemological nightmare.
This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.
She thinks I'm with ICE
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Can’t stop listening to this epistemological nightmare.
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163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dakota riders return home to Minnesota via horseback, honoring legacy of Dakota 38
Dakota riders completed a journey of hundreds of miles to honor the 38 Dakota men executed in 1862 — the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The annual rides ending in Mankato serve as a poignant ...
www.mprnews.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert
‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert
The North Flint Food Market “is a movement of cooperation with people who have historically been included or excluded from the economy.”
thegrio.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
Why Fruitcake Tastes Like Time
This Christmas dessert really is a slice of eternity
medium.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I love it when the words mushrooms and game changer are in the same sentence.
Scientists uncover potentially game-changing universal new benefit after planting mushrooms: 'Unsung hero'
"We've only scratched the surface."
www.yahoo.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I love it when the words mushrooms and game changer are in the same sentence.
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Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Bah! Humbug!
The Trump administration will begin garnishing wages for defaulted student loans wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/23/r...
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans • Wisconsin Examiner
President Donald Trump’s administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year
wisconsinexaminer.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Bah! Humbug!
😡😡😡
The Trump administration is weighing a deal with SpaceX that would give Elon Musk’s aerospace company 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday.
Trump administration weighs South Texas land swap with SpaceX
Federal officials are considering swapping 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge with the aerospace company, according to The New York Times.
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
😡😡😡
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Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived at a Miami golf club for another round of golf club diplomacy with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday