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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1h

Me walking up Jeff Goldblum sexy to the Pyramids: "that is one big pile of rocks"

Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 16h

It really just seems like they built this huge cavern for stuffed displays of fish and sea life (now abandoned behind heavily graffitied glass) and the bats just decided to move in

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 16h

One of my deepest fears is never being able to fall asleep again and I just get more and more tired till I cant move anymore and I just lay there forever

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 16h

Visited a half abandoned zoo in Cairo today and they just have a bat colony there? You can walk through it? The bats fly in and out over your head? They're not trapped they just choose to live there??

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I've been awake for 35 hours and I'm scared to say that I'm no longer tired 😳

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

Big boi

A large statue of Ramses II in the grand egypt museum in cairo

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

This is indeed a very large museum

Interior of the grand egypt museum in cairo

Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in Egypt!

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 3d

leaving for Egypt and Jordan tomorrow! So excited

a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck

ALT: a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck

media.tenor.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

My early morning (around midnight last night) shot of M31 and friends

(haven't cleaned/applied darks/flats/biases) 🔭

andromeda galaxy with two of its satellites

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 13d

It's new york city baybeeee

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 18d

I discovered I was only using position number instead of position number and chromosome when seeing what genes were close to my SNPs 🧪🌾