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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2h

Famously, not paying the military has never caused negative consequences for regimes

CNN @cnn.com · 7h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 17h

So many great ways to observe the interstellar comet. It's tricky to see in this movie, but it's there. As the comet gets closer to the Sun, PUNCH, a solar corona imager, will make daily observations. As the PUNCH data pipeline gets better (it's a new mission) this data will improve. 🧪 #planetsci

kwalsh4a.bsky.social @kwalsh4a.bsky.social · 2d

While 3I Atlas is getting to harder to see from Earth, heliospheric images in space are still tracking. Here is a movie from PUNCH tracking it yesterday (8-October).

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 22h

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

"I urge you: never sell out your authority"

News agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a sense of ethics”.

p.a.lapid, phd 👾🖖🏽🤙🏽 @palapid.bsky.social · 1d

da pope! first affirming migrant rights and now this

(and yes the headline is clickbait-y by design)

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 16h

Doesn’t he! I noticed the top comment on that video is him thanking and giving credit to the organizers.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 18h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

That guitar kid… He’s gonna go places.

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

So, so good!

I miss peak flashmob. ::sigh::

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

Every once in awhile, it occurs to me that this whole ::gestures vaguely at the United States:: might simply be Obama’s joke at the White House Press Corp dinner living its best life in Trump’s head.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 19h

I mean it’s all just stupid trolling shit-talk on Russian tv… doesn’t change the fact that they have over 250k dead Russians from the war in Ukraine so far and their gas-station economy is on fire.

Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 19h

Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Igor Korotchenko claimed that massive strikes against Ukraine are "humanitarian" in their nature. He complained about Trump not getting the Nobel Peace Prize & urged Denmark to give him Greenland as a consolation prize.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AU4...

Igor Korotchenko praises Russia's humanitarian strikes & bemoans Trump being denied the Nobel Prize

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

www.youtube.com

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

To be clear, THIS song:

youtu.be/6PMiP90ntZ8?...

The Frog Chorus & Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together

YouTube video by Zig Zag

youtu.be

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

I’m imagining the #NoKingsProtest, nationally, organizing this song as one gigantic flashmob. This, but everywhere:

youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...

The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!

YouTube video by Julien Cohen

youtu.be

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

As a Texan, I think I might like it if there were less gerrymandering around here. I’m pretty sure it might be a not so great thing. Ya know?

::sigh::

justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 17h

“Niceberg! Dead ahead!”

Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.art · 1d

Retired Army Major Mick Stanley, 85, has completed his final charity row in his homemade boat, Tintanic II

Major Mick, 85, makes final journey on Tintanic in West Sussex

The army veteran has sailed a total of 500 miles (804km) in the boat to raise money for charity.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 1d

A little throwback to our visit to the Strong Museum of Play! 💾

They had John @johnromero.bsky.social’s original Apple II on display. Incredible to see it again, and such an honour to know it’s been memorialised!

#DOOM #Quake #Wolfenstein #johnromero

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

We need to see a fuck-ton of litigation and suing as American citizens seek redress from ICE misidentification of American citizens.
Make the need to do things properly too expensive for this government to ignore.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 1d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 1d

One year ago today, a spectacular aurora display graced the night sky across much of the globe. This was my view in *Oklahoma.* What a beautiful world we are fortunate to live on. #photography

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a SAR arc and moon-lit clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

The andromeda galaxy between a red SAR arc and the Milky Way.

Numerous pinkish aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky and spotty clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky over relatively still waters of a large lake.

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 1d

Happy Ira Schnapp Day, here’s a bunch of house ads

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 1d

Whee! @microsff.com is one of the great joys in this world.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

this is art

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 4d

The time traveller closed the book and stared blankly ahead.

"So," said the author, "was that what-"

"No! That wasn't at all- It's a warning!"

"Allegorical, but y-"

"It's not you I need to kill, it's the person who read this and still wanted to build the Torment Nexus!"

"Kill?"

"I must go!"

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 2d

The AHA offers travel and childcare grants to help graduate students, early career historians, un/underemployed historians, and community college and public high school teachers attend #AHA26. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️

Annual Meeting Funding - AHA

The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.

www.historians.org

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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 1d

And…

Lucky Man.

😏

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