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🌲🇺🇲 Endangered species protection for Sasquatch 🇺🇲🌲
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i saw a tiktok about how doing violence in childhood is a sign of picky eating and i can't stop thinking about it
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.

This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The night was cold and dark.

“Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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I think the most illustrative example of why AI is so terrible are those fake animal videos. Sure, let's drain the fucking oceans to create videos of animals being funny, something you can easily experience by being near any given animal for 5 seconds
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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On the 2nd day of fossils, my true love gave to me...

An arthropod with 2 elements preserved.

A heavily pyritized arthropod, possibly Emeraldella brutoni, from the 500 million year old Weeks Fm. of Utah with a phosphatized gut tract. Green is phosphorus. Pink is iron.

1/x

#12DaysofFossils
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable."

Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.
Nephew of Poway rabbi injured in 2019 synagogue shooting among those killed in Australia attack
One attack victim was nephew of Poway rabbi
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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me: I would like a small jar of weed that smells like candy but when you vape it there is a note of hot dog on the exhale.

GreenBoyz420growCo: All of our weed does this. you are in luck hot dog breath
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The number one source of bombing plots in the US is the FBI. This criminal complaint reads worse than the Whitmer kidnapping plot that ended up being a complete invention by a paid FBI informant.

There's a certain kind of person who just wants to do cloak-and-dagger, vanguard movement shit too
static.foxnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Time travel. Not for kids!
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug.

We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.

He has proven these points virtually every day since.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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"put a pebble in your shoe to fool gait analysis" is the Free Space of 'Got Coaxed By The FBI Into Incompetently Planning Terrorism Bingo'
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT SATE YOUR THIRST.
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Also noting that the Trump administration is taking a similar approach with radiation

An executive order on radiation that Trump issued in May criticized the linear method of assessing cancer risk and directed the NRC to consider adopting new exposure limits
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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One of the victims of the antisemitic massacre in Australia was a Holocaust survivor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack
At least 16 people including one of the alleged gunmen died at the shooting in Sydney on Sunday, aged between 10 and 87
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM