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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 4h

Principal Skinner line revealing Lisa’s identity

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 7h

The Busch Push

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 8h

Goddamn the Phillies for inflicting the NLCS on the rest of California.

Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 8h

Dudes will say HELL YEAH

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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 15h

Might be worth mentioning that this is from a piece from May 2023, during the writer's strike...
www.npr.org/transcripts/...

David Simon, Creator Of The Wire, On AI, Television and the WGA Strike : Consider This from NPR

The Hollywood writers' strike has meant three weeks of late-night comedy and soap opera reruns for television fans. And for some fans, it might feel familiar. 15 years ago a Writers Guild strike laste...

www.npr.org

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 18h

Miss me with this AI slop

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21h

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

One last postseason diaper blowout for Clayton Kershaw. A beautiful sendoff for a legend.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 1d

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

Naw. Dodgers out. Then we rest.

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

Auntie Fa

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps Dabo Sweeney would prefer NC to SC?

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

@annamerlan.bsky.social

Tired: Who is the leader of DOGE???

Wired: Who is the leader of Antifa???

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

lol, ur forgiven!

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

No, they don’t, usually. They do when profession or family status is relevant to the crime reported on. It isn’t here.

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

I read that. Still not sure why the detail is important enough that it was included in the headline?

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

Someone please explain how/why it’s relevant that he was an Uber driver?

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t wanna get a vaccine or mask up because shots give me owies and masks make me stuffy.”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t a team do this on PBS like 25 yrs ago?

Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

lol wut

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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