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Jon Phillips

@jowiph.bsky.social

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Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Marylandic.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 3d

The FBI may no longer be relying on SPLC, but their anti-extremist resources are still extremely worthwhile, especially these days. So in that spirit, time to re-up the thread of extremist profiles I wrote for them on scientific racists

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’ve shared these a few times on the other site, but since everything is new again, here’s a thread of extremist profiles on prominent scientific racists I wrote for @SPLC roughly 10 years ago:

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 14h

Incredible

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 14h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 16h

Not quite the same thing, but CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22, 1963 -- the day JFK was assassinated. Lewis himself lost consciousness less than an hour before the gunshot in Dealey Plaza.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 17h

The last post in this thread is a jump
scare

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19h

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Fifth anniversary of this masterpiece

Heathcliff cartoon, 10/6/2020. Two mice observe that Heathcliff is dressed as the John Astin Riddler.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 1d

Love getting to the age where I have to shift from thinking "Damn, I'm older than that incredibly accomplished person was when they did all that" to "Damn, I'm older than that incredibly accomplished person was when they kicked it."

theSkullFACEproject @skullfaceproject.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1849, writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe passed away in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 40. It's been said his final words were, "Lord help my poor soul."

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 1d

This and the 'your pet is killing the planet' story appear every 2-3 months. Which, if you're keeping track, is far more often than 'billionaires will eventually kill the planet because it's all they really know how to do' stories, which stand at zero.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable stats here. Big year-over-year dropoff in international student arrivals, including a 44% dropoff from India. Smaller dropoff from China, but those numbers were already way down post-pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 2d

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

arxiv.org

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

I've only gotten them on overnight translatlantic flights, but it at least used to be pretty standard for first class on domestic flights (Not that I know this from personal experience flying first)

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

And yet people act all confused when the the flight attendant comes through the first class cabin to offer them a moist toilet

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! (and tagging @joolia.bsky.social just in case this is helpful and she doesn't see it)

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

That's just being a responsible consumer

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

It's really disappointing, tbh. Not sure I'm going to buy another product after this.

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Heads up for anyone else who purchased the product, it's being recalled due to quality and safety issues

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Thank you for shopping at Amazon."

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

When I moved from Memphis to Seattle in Jr High, I got sent to the principal's office more than once for calling a teacher ma'am. Clearly a vicious attack on her person

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

the reason he wrote the piece is essentially as a warning to the New Right to get serious about regime consolidation because he knows most of the radical Trumpist courtiers don't have a plan outside a vague "own the libs" ad-hocracy

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

If he knows this, he also has to know that fleeing the country will not save him.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

retvrn

Brother Aquatron - VX-33c
8 Track The Egg 1960s AM-FM Radio

oval radio with an 8 track player

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Life, uh, finds a way

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

(But not in a libertarian way)

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing screams "fulfilled" like identifying as a "former homosexualist" and a "reformed sodomite"

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Alternatively: Twenty first century digital boy

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

We just have to remember not to kick out the telephone sanitizers

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

Oh shit, are there still tickets for Hildegard?

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 2d

same energy as when spotify told me hildegard von bingen was touring near me earlier this year. like, are you sure?

Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 3d

She hath risen.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 3d

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’ve shared these a few times on the other site, but since everything is new again, here’s a thread of extremist profiles on prominent scientific racists I wrote for @SPLC roughly 10 years ago:

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