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Biologist, nonprofit CSO (opinions mine), fair-weather farmer, recovering academic, progressive christian. Probably a helluva lot older than you are. Almost Heaven, Durham County, NC

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · Nov 13

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

- Winston Churchill, 1941

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 13h

The genius of American capitalism at work. Invest in Big Oil's climate disaster machine, then hedge the profits into industries providing recovery from climate-induced weather disasters. It's a win-win!

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13h

Companies in the business of preparing or recovering from natural disasters are outperforming the S&P 500.

Asheville's rebuilding after Hurricane Helene shows them in action. Read The Big Take ⬇️

Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth

Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

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ℝ𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕖ℂ𝔸 🟧 @rindieca.bsky.social · 2d

Woo hoo! Checks are on the way!
#NoKings
#FDT

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 4d

Blocked. 🖕

EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 4d

Jeezus I'm so sick of AI slop.

Imagine a world in which the hottest tech stocks are those of companies whose products do not work.

Actually you don't even have to imagine. We're here.

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4d

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

gonna move to BROKK, the N/B/V/C runs right there

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4d

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

that's short for BROKKYN ofc

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

Ahhh Manhattan though, where in addition to the Hudson and East rivers, we've got the famous Middle River running down the center

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Jason B. @jdb820.bsky.social · 7d

Re: @ncdemocrats.bsky.social in 2010.

This is when I get the Bat Signal out for @eqvanalytics.bsky.social to mention that the NC Dems sleepwalked through 2010 in complete denial of their imminent collapse and the media then downplayed everything.

This isn't just voters.

bethjacksonlb.bsky.social @bethjacksonlb.bsky.social · 7d

Voters blew it.

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 9d

Why is this cat-puke in my feed?

EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 9d

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Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 9d

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 10d

This isn't incompetence or stupidity. it's pure evil. They seek a return to the Dark Ages, when fear, ignorance, and illness kept the peasants enslaved. They perceive science as their enemy.

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

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 11d

At last, a U.S. university finds its balls.

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MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 11d

So if, unlike me, you're a current #Starlink subscriber (presumably b/c you're cool with nazi internet) and you'd like a year's free service, just threaten to cancel your subscription and take advantage of this desperation offer from the fast-failing satellite internet purveyor.

EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 11d

Man, #Starlink 's subscriber growth rate must have nosedived right into the toilet since Melon Husk went full-nazi. Even though I cancelled my subscription 2 years ago, lately they are bombarding me monthly with new efforts to hook me back in.

Snippet of an email from Starlink offering:

"50% off for 2 years! We’d love to have you back. If you resume your Starlink service on any plan, you’ll get 50% off monthly service for the next 24 months. Reactivate Now!"

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 11d

If Peter Thiel's Christian I'm a Martian.

He's just the latest of history's paranoid strongmen to co-opt religion to cast opposition to him as "the work of Satan" in order to move the peons (today, MAGA Christians) to fight to the death for his self-interests and against their own.
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Quotes from the WaPo article reporting tech billionaire Peter Thiel's Revelations end-times secret rants.

"Thiel argued that critiques of technology and calls for stricter regulation by Thunberg and others appear to echo biblical interpretations of an Antichrist who will win power by offering the world “peace and safety” from apocalyptic destruction, according to the recordings. He previously cited Thunberg in a June interview with the New York Times."

"Thiel, whose net worth is around $27 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, also used his private talks to criticize financial regulations. He said such rules were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.
“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment."

"Thiel said in his third lecture, on Sept. 29, that only a religious argument could inspire the proper response to the threat of a growing web of global rules, according to the recording.
“There are a lot of rational reasons I can give why the one world state’s a bad idea: Turn the planet into a prison; I think the tax rates would be very high,” he said, according to the recording. “But I think if you strip it from the biblical context, you will never find it scary enough. You will never really resist."

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 29d

#Rapture

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 13d

#LeaveTheLeaves 🍁

National Wildlife Federation @nationalwildlife.bsky.social · 13d

So, who’s in those yard waste bags? 👀

🐛 Moths
🦋 Butterflies
💡 Fireflies
🦎 Salamanders
🐝 Native Bees

A new study shows that when you dispose of your leaves, you’re also throwing away about 45% of your spring butterfly and moth populations. 📉

Learn more 📲: https://ow.ly/w6bu50X7Yc3

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 12d

I find myself agreeing with George Will no more than once every eon. This is one such epochal moment. Russia is playing the West like a fiddle.
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Opinion | What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?

This isn’t a Russian “gray zone” war with Europe. It’s a real war. And the West is dithering.

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent explainer, from a highly qualified expert, regarding why the current crusades against "ultra-processed" foods is simple-minded (and in fact dangerous) nonsense, no matter whether it is being spewed by magats *or* hippies.

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Opinion | Dietary fat was a scapegoat. Now MAHA is naming a new one.

Targeting ultra-processed food repeats America’s missteps on nutrition.

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 15d

It's appalling how we allow the tech bros to build huge, noisy, water-swilling, power-gobbling "data centers" (AKA "cat video AI slop factories") right up against residences and neighborhoods, and to build them w/ no concern for size, number, or need. They're coming for you next. wapo.st/46VhHs3

Opinion | What it looks like in the world’s data center capital

Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 17d

wizard frog is insane

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 18d

A great explainer.

But what about whale cancer? /s

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19d

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 20d

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to learn that the economy is beginning to crater like it's being steered by a senile shitgibbon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

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