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Sophia Florence

@sophiaflorence.bsky.social

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ChemEng/data/applied math (pharma formulations + disinformation), writer/comedian (stand-up and horror films), health/science/tech policy consultant, copywriter, host of the Crumbling Podcast (about disinformation histories), Connecticut enthusiast.

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · Apr 25

The Crumbling updates:
1. New tiers on Patreon with shirts and stickers www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast
2. We'll be revealing our new co-host soon
3. We've got two episodes on the NCAA coming out, two more interviews, then a long series on libertarianism, and then one on Ed and Lorraine Warren

Get more from The Crumbling on Patreon

Podcast

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5h

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah that's what my instincts are telling me about this too.

Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 5h

drug products, especially with light-sensitive API.

Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 5h

It might be worth following if only because TiO2 is a critical excipient for a lot of tablet coatings used in the US as well. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think if they wanted to pick a bone with it in sunscreens, they may also do so for tablets, which could have a big impact on stability for some

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 10h

A firm run by a former Republican elections official has bought Dominion Voting Systems and “vowed to follow the executive order Trump signed last spring seeking sweeping changes to election policies that multiple judges have put on hold for violating the Constitution”—what could go wrong?

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 9h

Big this energy

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 9h

Have people read this? Because this reads like a plan to do something also horrific!

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 9h

FWIW, check out the recent post I made about it. Like yeah, I still think a lot of the people posting it are not in good faith, but there's a video of him circulating talking about training his dog with a shock collar which I watched, and unless he misspoke for some reason, it's pretty damning.

Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 10h

Also like even before the Biden admin designated that, plenty of us were talking about how nihilism was a massive cause of horrific violence. I like Ken, but I am a little worried about how things are shaping up with him in this space.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 12h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 12h

And considering the people who started posting about this are contrarian dickbags, I treated it as less credible. I'm always going to do that as well. Doesn't mean I won't be convinced by the evidence, but it does mean there are some people I won't take just at their word.

Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 12h

Okay so, re: the whole shock collar thing, I'm not sure what to say about this video. Like I jumped to Hasan's defense because I didn't see anything proven about people's assertion, but...well...maybe I'm wrong!

breehanbre.bsky.social @breehanbre.bsky.social · 12h

Because he already said, he uses one: old.reddit.com/r/Livestream...

Famous streamer talks about training his canine companion with an electric neck device.

Posted in r/LivestreamFail by u/Greenleaf208 • 15,261 points and 1,881 comments

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 12h

I hadn't seen this before. I'll reshare it. I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong, but I don't like to jump on making accusations when I can't get the full picture of something.

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 12h

Okay see this is bad!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 13h

This is absolutely insane. I feel like something that leaves a radioactive plume over Indonesia should probably be one of those things that we heard about a month and a half or whatever it was ago when this first happened

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 15h

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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weinberg @weinberg.social · 14h

seriously. horror fans are as nitpicky as they are loyal to the genre. whenever AI is found in a horror movie, they notice. and by they I mean we.

🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 15h

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Julie Poole @juliepoole.bsky.social · 14h

@kitoconnell.com is doing such great work.

This bill is disgraceful.

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 14h

“It’s assumed that trans people are going to be fined, arrested or kicked out of places when in reality it’s the [public] entity that takes on the burden.”

SB 8 targets schools, libraries and other venues, allowing the state to "investigate" and levy massive fines.

How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions

A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”

www.texasobserver.org

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