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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth

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Professional P.I.T.A./more interesting IRL/post-menopausal but still immature/heavy construction/planting oak trees/geotechnical engineering & I might love you but I probably don't like you. Invited by @toddavies.bsky.social she/her/they/them

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hi @bsky.app @support.bsky.team I really liked when I joined how nearly all pictures had AltText. I liked how I could set a reminder to add it. I don't usually need it, but, I like to make it easy for others. Can the default be to need it and someone has to go into settings to turn the reminder off?

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 6h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

⚡️ UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Rep. Justin J. Pearson & Rep. Gabby Salinas send letter putting Gov. Bill Lee on notice that his deployment of the National Guard to Memphis violates the TN Constitution.

Lawmakers ask Governor for community investments to eradicate poverty instead of military occupation.

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 7h

Soon to played by Jack Lowden in the dramatization.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 8h

Happy #BannedBooksWeek. If you love libraries and hate censorship, I'd encourage you to do more than just read a banned book this week. Here are a few ideas:
1. Get involved in your local public library board
2. Join or start a friends group
3. Organize a people's assembly for your public library

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 13h

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 14h

Did you know that there once was (and might still be) an anti-aging face cream that used cells gotten from removed foreskins?

Maybe using the face cream causes later in life problems. To carry this to its "logical" conclusion

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 14h

TIL that one of my great grandfather's first cousins moved to Worcester, Massachusetts and his kids were all raised there.

I was raised as a Maple Leafs and Canadiens fan.

Not sure if this means I have to start being nice to Boston.

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 14h

Child abuse

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 14h

OMFG

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 14h

If y'all don't wanna count Puerto Ricans as Americans, why don't you give them their land back?

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18h

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW

Yes, the rumors are true... Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show. Performers and event details coming soon.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 15h

I, for one, want to know how she got a baby in her placenta. I'm not sure Tylenol is going to fix that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 14h

Also, his flight wasn't cancelled: It was his and his family's boarding passes that were cancelled. The flight took off without them.

NYT has gotten really sloppy.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16h

A Data Love Letter to the Subway is a fantastic data-driven animation visualizing the NYC subway system. “Imaginatively animating each train line’s age, length, and path, we wrote a poetic story that explores the trains’ interwoven encounters…” [kottke.org]

A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway

Giorgia Lupi and her team at Pentagram have created a data-driven animation for the MTA called A Data Love Letter to the Subway. More from Lupi (who calls this an “absolute dream project”): The project, “A Data L

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 16h

And she really thought she was doing a mitzvah here!!

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 16h

these type of people are why i'll never totally heal.

the cynic in me is always 1st on the scene like "this is bullshit", then the healed part be like "everybody's not a liar; give grace & be open"...

then the cynic is proved right.

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 16h

...and if it IS a good idea (for some value of "good"), that this would work to reach MAGA people, that's really, really, really a problem.

Soulaan-Lee 🖤 @baldbeaute.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sorry but this is not a good idea 😭😭😭

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 16h

Guess what? This is her video after?

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ADeuk1/

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 16h

Guess what? This is her video after?

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ADeuk1/

engage baiting might be the only way to reach the other side. It was @HyphyHippie who gave me the idea!

TikTok video by Pamela Wurst Vetrini

www.tiktok.com

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

A brunette white woman wearing a brown jacket and light green pants is holding a MP40 submachine gun and running towards the camera. Behind her is a dark doorway that soldiers wearing sand-colored berets and holding Enfield rifles are coming out of.

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamn. REI sucks.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

I know, but, still, crazy expensive and there is no actual need for it for the cremation.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful if true. Vid is too blurry for me to make out the street sign or license plates. Supposedly Chicago, Illinois.

youtube.com/shorts/KPh17...

Chicago Drivers Take Action Against ICE

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

Ecological
Eagle Ogical

...sorry

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

I call that eagle-ogical.

Yes, I'll see myself out.

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that some places REQUIRE THE PURCHASE OF A COFFIN WHEN THE BODY IS GETTING CREMATED ANYHOW??!?!

AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 1d

Honda Fit?

Those were amazing.