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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 14h

put the computer back in the enclosure. we are no longer asking.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

however even they will only be allowed to use it in the Internet Room.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 2d

[app prompt] ask about what tire pressure they’re running :)

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

Vladdy Jr looking like superman leaping into a slide at home

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

elder millennial news director ending his big speech with "now lets go do the heckin newserino"

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah it’s been pretty neat so far. A lot of sounds and different features but it always manages to have a listenable tone

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 3d

I made it 2 1/2 years but finally broke down and bought the baby synth

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 4d

Also why I don’t fuck with baking soda

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 5d

Being hella full of endo and ectoparasites is both paleo and spartan/whatever-time-period-soldier. it should be wildfire in the fitness grift world

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your posts in the Discover feed @hockeybear.space · 5d

2025 Week 6: @ Nebraska

Guardian column by Adrian Chiles, edited to look like it's from Michigan State quarterback Aidan Chiles.

The headline, unchanged, says: "What should you do if a cow attacks? I’ve finally found the answer."

The subhed, slightly modified, says: "Run away or stand still? Make yourself look big or make yourself look small? I asked a cattle rancher how to react when a walk in Nebraska turns nasty."

The article is filed under the category "Opinion: Animals" and is dated Sat 4 Oct 2025 15.00 CDT.

The original picture from the article has been replaced with a photograph of a scrumptious steak. Photo credit: Trey Wingo

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 21d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Ned @ned-h.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely gonna give it a listen!
Here's a non-Audible link for those of us who've hated Amazon since they first came for our local bookshops.
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Spiderlight Audiobook on Libro.fm

“Tchaikovsky nimbly takes the narration from horrific to humorous to epic and back again.”—Library JournalThis program is read by the author.Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy quest from Adrian Tc...

libro.fm

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 6d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 16d

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 6d

It costs ~2k to have a seat to see horses run for 2 minutes in an event that happens every year. Those numbers seem pretty good to me

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 6d

Man every time I have to log in to Facebook to check some local chat and I see someone I friended 14 years ago Sharing Their Opinions I instantly regret it

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

if you see groups of women my exact age and demographic out on the street asking if you're a swiftie and if you'd like to talk about the new album, just give them a friendly no thanks and keep it moving. it's a big holiday for them

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 7d

The fucken ice cream section alone

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 10d

Super excited about this review/new data preprint on aquatic plant photosynthetic methods - turns out its *hard* to measure stuff underwater! Led by awesome grad in the lab @ellliieee.bsky.social with postdoc @wickellomics.bsky.social and some brilliant people at LiCor! 💧🌿

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 13d

Techniques and challenges in studying photosynthetic diversity in freshwater aquatic vascular plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.677520v1

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🎃 [A Spoopy Handle] 🎃 @thatirontube.bsky.social · 9d

Attention Transit Warriors

October 1st has brought the Amtrak holiday sweater

www.store.amtrak.com/1864814/1864...

Amtrak's ugly sweater, with dark blue body and arms with decorative snow flakes, bells, and pointless arrows, red collar, cuff, and waist. the front has a prominent F40 locomotive and text "train bells ring... are you listening?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 8d

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 8d

We’ve had shutdowns! And generally the party with control of the most branches didn’t use the opportunity to do deeply serious harm that was too unpopular to pass conventionally to the average voter. Our media ecosystem is shit but I believe people are capable of understanding that

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 9d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social · 9d

The elevation one is particularly galling to me. I have like 4 local routes, I can’t just cycle in the puy de dome to get my elevation above my 30 day baseline AI