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jfloyd314.bsky.social
If anything, accusations of pro-Trump media bias in 2024 were grossly understated. It's a remarkably clear tell that the media has gone from breathlessly obsessed with Biden's age and health to utterly disinterested in Trump's (clearly much worse and actually disqualifying) age and health.
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.

We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump looked pretty rough today -- note that both of his hands are discolored

(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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hairoline.bsky.social
@marisakabas.bsky.social managing to concisely lay out what's going on, without screaming and cursing like when I do it
Screenshot of text from the article linked in repost
December 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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bendts2cents.bsky.social
NM "has the highest proportion of private equity-owned hospitals in the country at 38% — the national average is 8%."

I often find my local paper problematic. And paying them for news means I get to learn important things like this.
abqjournal.bsky.social Albuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 2d
Only a small minority of New Mexico physicians are responsible for most malpractice payments, according to an analysis of the National Practitioner Data Bank, a federal repository of data about malpractice payments and physician disciplinary actions.
1% of New Mexico doctors responsible for half of $68 million in malpractice payments in state
www.abqjournal.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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effies.bsky.social
I love this piece and I will always reshare it when I see it
chowleen.bsky.social eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
December 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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scalzi.com
The most important post on Bluesky today
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I like to use up the tiny mismatched ends of filament rolls by making tiny dragons and turtles and these might be my favorite tiny turtles yet.
Tiny little turtles whose bodies are light green and blue, with neon orange shells
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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bookdeals.bsky.social
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot 1) by Becky Chambers $2.99
Genres: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
2022 Hugo Award Winner
2022 Stonewall Book Award Winner
#books #booksky #ad

amzn.to/3YjnBiO
December 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
The temperature wall cruising east across the US right now makes for some really stunning air temp maps
Screenshot of a radar app showing an air temperature map layer. Much of the eastern US is in warm colors due to some unseasonably warm air, like 60 Fahrenheit in Ohio. However, to the west, there is a big blob of blue and purple signifying cold temperatures below freezing. It is moving eastward, with a dramatic barrier cutting across Illinois at the moment, following a line of thunderstorms.
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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schmutzie.com
🧵 Important thread for writers.

Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
robinmarty.com Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2d
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos."

It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk

#NukeSKY

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A screenshot of the first page of document by Hans Bethe labeled "The Story of Los Alamos." It is a scan of a weathered document and shows classification review marks and classification markings crossed out. On the right, going horizontally up the page, is a handwritten phrase reading "redacted version." The OCR of the first page is as follows: "the laboratory was established as the the last of the tour maJor proJeots in the atomic bomb program. the purpose ot the three earlier proJects vas to manufacture active materials which could be used in an atomic bomb. 'I'vo of themthe project of Dr. Lawrence at the University of California and of Dr. Urey at Columbia University vere concerned vith the separation of the active isotopes 235 from ordinary uranium using ~o different methods. The third, the Metallurgical La~ratory at Chicago, developed methods to produce the entirely new element plutonium by means of a nuclear reaction. All of these proJecte vere , in the Spring of 1943, at a stage of transition from re- " search to actual production. At this stage it seemed appropriate to establish a furthsr laboratory to investigate the actual construction ot an atomic bomb. ~is laboratory vas built at Los Alamos, near Santa Fe, Hew Mexico. As Director, General Groves who vas in over all charge of the atomic bomb project, appointed Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer, vell-known theoretical physicist from the University of California. The laborator1 vas first in tended to be quite small vith a total staff of one or two hundred. It aoon vas found that the problema in deaigning an atomic bomb were much too difficult and varied to be solved by such a small statf and the laboratory aoon grew to more than ten ti~es its original size"
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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erininthemorning.com
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.

The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
Coyote in the snow.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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zaneselvans.org
An elaborate gingerbread construct in the shape of a dumpster. It's frosted green, and on the front, in flames, is the number "2025". Sugary flames erupt from the open half of the dumpster as well, in yellows and oranges. The "ground" around the dumpster is littered with chocolatey crumble garbage.
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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brynntannehill.bsky.social
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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msteudeman.bsky.social
Universities embracing generative AI be like:
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 3d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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chrish-b.bsky.social
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon | Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons. | www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
Omg omg omg omg omg
Omg lol it's our all black little cat, Familiar, who is very magical, standing on the little side wall thing at the top of the stairs, bathed in rainbow light from the plastic privacy film on the bathroom window. It absolutely looks photoshopped but I swear this is just a regular photo taken on a Google pixel 6a.
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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wxdam.com
81°F inside right now. My mom is cherishing it. She told me I need to "talk to my doctor about why I get so hot all the time," meanwhile the candy in the candy dish is melting.
wxdam.com Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 3d
Greensboro N.C. hit 75°F again today, setting or matching the airport's fifth (and final) daily record high of the year.

Feb. 4: 75°F (prev. 73°F 1991)
Apr. 4: 87°F (prev. 86°F 1934)
Apr. 5: 87°F (prev. 87°F 1942)
Dec. 25: 75°F (prev. 74°F 2015)
Dec. 27: 75°F (prev. 74°F 2015)
December 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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jamiepeppard.bsky.social
Rubio & Miller made up a lot of shit about Venezuela to advance their personal policy goals. Secret directives, secret orders...Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
December 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM