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Jon Phillips

@jowiph.bsky.social

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Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Marylandic.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 4d

The FBI may no longer be relying on SPLC, but their anti-extremist resources are still extremely worthwhile, especially these days. So in that spirit, time to re-up the thread of extremist profiles I wrote for them on scientific racists

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’ve shared these a few times on the other site, but since everything is new again, here’s a thread of extremist profiles on prominent scientific racists I wrote for @SPLC roughly 10 years ago:

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not a professional law-knower, but this framing Presidential *powers* as "rights" rests on an implicit understanding of the President as sovereign, right? Or are those terms actually interchangeable in this context?

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 3h

Judge Nelson keeps talking about the president's "right" to federalize the NG. (cringe)

He and Chaffin are going back and forth about the differences btw Portland an L.A.

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 7h

Watch to the end, it's beautiful

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 8h

One of the best things I’ve seen in weeks 🤣. Treasure the small joys

'Daaa Yankees Lose' 😂 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. & Big Papi TROLL New York after ALDS elimination

YouTube video by FOX Sports

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20h

Making children listen to Lee Greenwood should get you arrested

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 20h

No, but with the tariffs it's not like I can order replacement parts anyway

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 20h

Uh, I think I somehow activated hard mode

A screenshot of the wildthing prompt screen, the prompt reads: "please write an academical article about the Influence and Role of Oracle Bone Script on Ancient Chinese Ancestor God Thought and Culture, with 200 references."

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 22h

The all-seeing eye never sleeps

A short haired gray cat curled up like he's asleep except one eye is open

The same cat, in a closer view. The eye is still open, the gaze directed past the camera.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite the same thing, but CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22, 1963 -- the day JFK was assassinated. Lewis himself lost consciousness less than an hour before the gunshot in Dealey Plaza.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 1d

The last post in this thread is a jump
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 3d

Fifth anniversary of this masterpiece

Heathcliff cartoon, 10/6/2020. Two mice observe that Heathcliff is dressed as the John Astin Riddler.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Love getting to the age where I have to shift from thinking "Damn, I'm older than that incredibly accomplished person was when they did all that" to "Damn, I'm older than that incredibly accomplished person was when they kicked it."

theSkullFACEproject @skullfaceproject.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1849, writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe passed away in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 40. It's been said his final words were, "Lord help my poor soul."

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 2d

This and the 'your pet is killing the planet' story appear every 2-3 months. Which, if you're keeping track, is far more often than 'billionaires will eventually kill the planet because it's all they really know how to do' stories, which stand at zero.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 3d

Remarkable stats here. Big year-over-year dropoff in international student arrivals, including a 44% dropoff from India. Smaller dropoff from China, but those numbers were already way down post-pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 3d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

arxiv.org

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