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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15h

For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, 🧵

My Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 8h

These people would be better served by investing in better battery technology/infrastructure than whatever the fuck they’re trying to do here

Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 9h

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

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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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 8h

trying to figure out how this fits with rfk's theory that covid was “ethnically targeted” to spare ashkenazi jews and i think the answer is just that rfk is a giant antisemite.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

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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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 8h

The number of times I have to post about how the number of people demanding personhood for machines before personhood for Black people, women, etc, is TOO-DAMN-HIGH-DOT-MEME.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 8h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10h

gold standard science baby!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 13h

I am on record as saying it would have been better if trump had won in 2020 because they wouldn’t have had time to ruminate on project 2025. I keep hearing people say Biden was the best president of their lifetime but he can’t be because trump is president again.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h

we've had two democratic presidents obsessed with turning the page and all it did was give the gop time to sharpen their knives before plunging it in our collective backs.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14h

I can't stress this enough: opposing birth control isn’t a fringe position in the anti-abortion movement—it’s the norm. 'Mainstream' groups like Students for Life say so explicitly on their websites!

But because mainstream outlets don't report on it, most Americans don't know

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 23h

Oof, this is genuinely disappointing to hear. I have been a big Katie Porter supporter in the past, but this is pretty disqualifying to me.

Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

Porter was legitimately abusive to her staff, and we shouldn't sweep that under the rug.

This isn't about her gender, it's about her quality of character. Playing it off as being a gender issue undermines the fact she's well-known in OC circles for abuse, particularly toward those w/ less power.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

"I support the military occupation of my own state" is a wild wild thing to say.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump (l) meets with Stephen Miller (2025)

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t decide which is the wilder use of “BREAKING” by a government official:

1. “BREAKING: I’m launching undercover operations” — Texas Attorney General

Or

2. “BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory” — FBI Director

FBI Director Kash Patel &
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
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DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras. x.com/ jesserodriguez...
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Attorney General Ken Paxton &
@KenPaxtonTX
X.com
BREAKING: I'm launching undercover operations to infiltrate and uproot leftist terror cells in Texas.
Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead.
ORNEY

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 2d

I saw something earlier that said he is aware, since his wife got like a bar of signal and suddenly got a million texts about it

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 2d

Gefilte fish

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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