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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 3h

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.

Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?

Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)

We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
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two men are pushing a small boat through the water .

Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

israel has been holding over 1,700 people hostage the whole time it has been demanding the release of its hostages

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3h

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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

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turnip_juice | dima @turnipjuice.bsky.social · 2d

I'm open for work and personal commissions! Open to discuss any kind of idea in general!
If you're interested write me in DMs or to my E-mail -turnipjuice[dot]contact@gmail[dot]com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 6h

Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below:

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CME_T @cmet.bsky.social · 10h

Fulgrim being the mood, the icon and the moment

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Franek @franekk.bsky.social · 15h

Sit and look

#pixelart

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not surprising ending the follow tracker is a personal choice given how much focus and heat it was getting, but it was terrible timing re:optics

A user was banned after using their labeler’s labels to show bsky team’s bias

Link is still not back.

Waiting a couple of weeks would’ve been wiser

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bree speech absolutist 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 7h

i get that you’re probably cracking a joke here but i don’t know if it’s being read that way by the people seeing this post. the real reason the labeler is being taken down 👇

bree speech absolutist 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 19h

have you not seen the witch hunting of random people over spurious “connections” like following the wrong person? the labeler is shutting down not because of a sudden change of heart about fucking jesse singal or people who follow him, it’s shutting down because scoiattolo rightly worries that…

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 6h

I certainly read it as a joke.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 23h

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19h

You either defend trans people and people of color now, or you go out alone when it's your turn. Just like Niemoller thought the Nazis would leave him alone if he was a good German. You're as wrong as he was. You'll find out.

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 7h

Some of them are not stupid yes, but as a whole they are. They are trying to grab authoritarian state power while also dismantling the state. Even one of their silly cargo cult intellectuals (And Office Space Micheal Bolton impersonator) is getting worried. www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 21h

most notable about posobiec is not pizzagate but that he started out as a dimestore gamergate-style antisemitic troll "GoTfan"

he exemplifies how fascism elevates total nobodies, gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for pathetic losers to rise through party ranks to become movers of history

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 1d

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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Belzée 🏳️‍⚧️ Studio HeroQueer @sheroqueer.com · 7h

Sharing it because last year, i lost my grandmother because of this shit
My stepmother has is too
And as a transwoman, a lot of us are concerned by this

Belzée 🏳️‍⚧️ Studio HeroQueer @sheroqueer.com · 1d

Since it's october, it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month (also called Pink October in France)
Dont forget to be tested to detect sign of breast cancer ! And if you can, support your local charities !

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7h

Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca
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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways.

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 7h

Almost the weekend, time to restart the 'he is dead' discourse. See if we can push it so far they wheel him out again to prove he isn't dead.

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Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · 7h

Een debat met FvD over klimaatverandering is alsof je een debat organiseert met anti-vaxxers over vaccinatie. Als dit bericht klopt, is het ronduit onverantwoord dat een nieuwsorganisatie dit voorstelt. In ‘debat’ gaan met wetenschappelijke desinformatie betekent meewerken aan valse balans.

Volt Nederland @voltnederland.org · 1d

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 7h

Ow god that sign.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 12h

Charlie Chaplin ‘distracted boyfriend’ 1919 [image reversed to match orientation] but distracted away from the 2015 stock image by a passing Punch cartoon ‘entente cordiale’ from 1904.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 23h

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 1d

The new viral season has now started. This is wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels in the Netherlands.

The start is around the 2023/2024 season and there is a clear upward movement from the previous season (last week). This is in line with other countries and indicates the next wave
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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