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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Panel from original Batman comic book, a brooding Bruce Wayne is thinking out loud: "CRIMINALS ARE A SUPERSTITIOUS COWARDLY LOT. SO MY DISGUISE MUST BE ABLE TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. I MUST BE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, BLACK, TERRIBLE.. A. A..."

The frog costume guy stands in opposition to ICE thugs in Portland

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5h

The best time to flee was a decade ago. The second best time is anyway you can by any means possible *if you can*

And be as quiet as a mouse as you do it. No newspaper articles, no goodbye parties, don’t tell people you’re leaving until you’re safe elsewhere

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 8h

My cat, who never sits on my lap, actually sat on my lap this morning. And is still there right now. I had to call in sick to work so he can sit on me as long as he wants.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

If you ever end up recording a final message, ensure you dedicate a good chunk of it to roasting your nemeses, like Jane Goodall did

futurism.com/future-socie...

In an interview for a new Netflix documentary filmed months before her death, famed British primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.

“Absolutely, there are people I don’t like,” she told interviewer and TV writer Brad Falchuk, “and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.”

When asked if she would like Musk to be on the spacecraft alongside them, she sounded off.

“Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host,” she said. “Along with Musk, it’d be [president Donald] Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters.”

“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off,” she concluded.

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19h

♥️ @kurzgesagt.org youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is #ChemNobel day!! 🥳🥳 While we are all waiting eagerly for the announcement, my cat Salem suggest to you #chemsky friends some important reading to quench the nerves,

1) ACS important content: www.acs.org/pressroom/re...

And... 1/2 🧵

The Chemistry of Cats | Reactions Science Videos - American Chemical Society

A look at some of the key "meow-locules" that make up the chemistry of cats.

www.acs.org

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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 2d

This is so disappointing. Fundamental **aka DISCOVERY ** science underpins training of the next generation of scientists, irrespective of if they go into translation labs or not. Failure to support it = turning off the tap. No discoveries, nothing to translate. Weak workforce #NHMRC

Sophia Davidson @sciencesophie.bsky.social · 2d

My major note? It completely leaves out fundamental research as a priority 🤯

Which is wild, #NHMRC’s job is to "support the highest-quality research, from 👉BASIC science👈 through to clinical, public health and services research" (NHMRC Corporate Plan: nhmrc.gov.au)

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 6d

Complete waste to have an AI actress who just looks like a regular human. We already have those. She should have a hand growing out of her face or something

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8d

Cat: meow?

Me: I don't know how to explain better that you literally just ate fish, you are literally stuffed full of fish. You physically cannot eat more fish, just look at you.

Cat: meow.

Me: No time does not work differently in the "cat dimension" that is not even a thing

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 10d

I may have been at a small advantage, but I had a great time racing in the Australian Orienteering Sprint Championships at The University of Queensland on the weekend 🏃‍♀️🌳

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 10d

I was part of the organising team for the Australian Orienteering Long Distance Championships over the weekend overlooking Wivenhoe Dam west of Brisbane🏃‍♀️🌳 Hot, steep, speedy running, fun, and very successful!

Orienteering control between two very nice conglomerate boulders

Orienteering control on a small cliff in open runnable forest

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10d

I went into today pretty sure we were in fascist consolidation end game phase.

I'm leaving today still pretty sure we're in fascist consolidation end game phase, but also increasingly convinced that the Fascist Strongman is confused about it and keeps calling off the viziers' end game chess moves.

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic results for orienteers at the 2025 Trail Running Short World Championships, with Tove Alexandersson and Frédéric Tranchand coming home with wins www.irunfar.com/2025-trail-w...

2025 Trail World Championships Short Trail Results: Tove Alexandersson, Frédéric Tranchand Triumph

Results of the 2025 Trail World Championships Short Trail in Canfranc, Spain, won by Sweden's Tove Alexandersson and France's Frédéric Tranchand.

www.irunfar.com

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 16d

Tylenol waged a massive PR war after someone tampered with like one bottle. It was so successful that it’s studied in media and PR classes decades later. Did anyone think they would let RFK lie about them?

BKinDetroit @bkindetroit.bsky.social · 16d

Tylenol ain't taking this shit

From tylenol.com

A statement from the Tylenol website stating that Tylenol does not cause autism

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 16d

Nope, not an April fool's. Just complete insanity.

"built for eduction" but it hallucinates bs and never tells you that you or it might be wrong

"enhanced privacy and security" just don't worry about ethics or environmental impact

RIP Oxford

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 19d

In case anyone was still wondering if Trump's America is really fascist, the man himself has confirmed it

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20d

Standing against fascism is now domestic terrorism—by presidential decree.

Anyone committed to fighting fascism can now be deemed an enemy of the state, arrested, and held—possibly without full due process—on the claim that they're a "terrorist."

Just like that, we lost America.

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 20d

I am anti-fascism

Should not be a controversial position.

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 20d

There's so much alcohol in ripe fruit from natural fermentation by wild yeast that chimpanzees eat the equivalent of a beer every day www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #BedtimeScience 🍎🦠🍻🧪

Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per day

www.theguardian.com

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 22d

Our work @benschulz.bsky.social on the specificity and the mechanism of activation of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is now on Glycopedia ⬇️🎉🥳, the largest repository of #glycotime news and educational material online!

Thank you Serge Perez 🤓❤️

glycopedia.eu/2025/09/09/r...

Regulation of N-glycosylation efficiency by eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase - Glycopedia

Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) catalyses the key step of N-glycosylation, transferring immature N-glycans to select Asn residues in nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Asn are more li...

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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 23d

Sorry, but the government cant approve a 50-year extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world...then 3 days later pretend it cares about the climate.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The government has laid out the perils of the climate crisis – but will Albanese meet the moment?

Grave remarks on the potential shocks to people, property and the economy are all too familiar. Putting a credible number on the emissions target is the harder part

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 26d

There’s so much evil in the world right now. So much in your face obvious evil that this unforgivable omnicidal act by Murray Watt and the ALP probably slides below the surface. But the impact of this on countless people and species, and First Nations culture, outweighs much of the rest. Despicable.

Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Schulz @benschulz.bsky.social · 27d

I happened to pass that one this morning. It's looking very impressive, and now its outstanding position and view are even more obvious, but it's a little strange that you can see the whole garden and pool from the street.

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