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daniel korenblum
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computational & biomedical engineer/scientist
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
They tried to spin the Boston Massacre as self-defense. But people knew and shared what they saw.
January 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
maybe bsky posts should be called "ploops" :-P #ploop
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
The world feels rough right now

So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.

🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today.

No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
bgodar.bsky.social Bryna Godar @bgodar.bsky.social · 3d
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
slate.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
As I note here, this is basically Trump taking his ICE raids global…

First Thoughts on Trump’s Excellent Venezuela Adventure talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first...
First Thoughts on Trump’s Excellent Venezuela Adventure
Let me share a few thoughts about the US action overnight in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Not for nothing, but men using tampons as a joke to dismiss a program as "not serious" is a really classic misogynist trope. We can all see what's happening here.
Bring ther BACK! Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn't good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons! KAT ABUGHAZALEH THINKS CAMPAIGN FUNDS SHOULD HELP FEED PEOPLE The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub. Jessica Washington December 26 2025, 6:00 a.m. Share bitice to open, the Calpaign diso neaps stock a community fridge available any time of day and hosts drives to collect specific supplies. A request for tampons for Chicago's Period Collective, for example, resulted in a massive outpouring of support. "We ended up getting over 5,600, and my campaign manager's car was just filled with tampons," said Abughazaleh through laughter. "I wanted him to get pulled over so bad." The point here is to "show" the campaign's values through providing for the community, rather than simply telling
December 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Holy shit!
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."
416 THE EPIC OF AMERICA The prospect is discouraging to-day, but not hopeless. As we compare America in 1931 with the America of 1912 it seems as though we had slipped a long way backwards. But that period is short, after all, and the whole world has been going through the fires of Hell. There are not a few signs of promise now in the sky, signs that the peoples themselves are beginning once again to crave something more than is vouchsafed to them in the toils and toys of the mass-production age. They are beginning to realize that, because a man is born with a particular knack for gathering in vast aggregates of money and power for himself, he may not on that account be the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life. We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round. The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure of all that the American dream has held of hope and promise for mankind. That dream was not the product of a solitary thinker. It evolved from the hearts and burdened souls of many millions, who have come to us from all nations. If some of them appear to us to have too great faith, we know not yet to what faith may attain, and may hearken to the words of one of them, Mary Antin, a young immigrant girl. who came to us from Russia, a child out of "the Middle Ages," as she says, into our twentieth century. Sitting on the steps of the Boston Public Library, where the treasures of the whole of human thought had been opened to her, she wrote, "This is my latest home, and it invites me to a glad new life. The endless ages have indeed throbbed through my blood, but a new rhythm dances in my veins. My spirit is not tied to the monumental past, any more than my feet were bound to my grandfather's house below the hill. The past was only my… EPILOGUE 417 splendid palace, whose shadow covers acres. No! It is not I that belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me. America is the youngest of the nations, and inherits all that went before in history. And I am the youngest of America's children, and into my hands is given all her priceless heritage, to the last white star espied through the telescope, to the last great thought of the philosopher. Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future."
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Wood can opalize too? First dinosaur bones, now this. How cool.
antifapatriot.bsky.social america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 18d
Fire Opal "Opalized Wood' From Virgin Valley District, Virgin Valley, Humboldt Co., Nevada

Credit: Exceptional Minerals
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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katenautiyal.bsky.social
New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice
www.nature.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
Seeing this play out due to a power outage is the best-case scenario; what would happen if the power were out after a quake or other natural disaster, where emergency vehicles needed to deploy through SF or LA at scale?
aniccia.bsky.social John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 21d
Failed Waymo robot blocking emergency services during a widespread emergency:

Grant St at Sacramento, heart of Chinatown, San Francisco

I've been warning about this scenario for ~7 yrs. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. SFPD will prob have to drive this out of the way.

OP:tiktok.joolyana
December 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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bwjones.bsky.social
Best two minutes of your day.

Trust me.
thatwriterguy.com Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com · 22d
Dog viciously mauled by a tiger.
#cats #kittens #caturday
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
`These members of the weasel family are known for their strength, fierce resilience, & solitary nature. Often associated with wilderness and harsh climates, these stocky mammals thrive in cold, mountainous regions..snow & wide-open territories limit human intrusion`

a-z-animals.com/blog/the-sta...
The States with the Most Wolverines in the USA
Wolverines are fascinating animals, though frequently misunderstood in North America. These members of the weasel family are known for their strength, fierce resilience, and solitary nature. Often ass...
a-z-animals.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
`Sign inCollin McGregor-Clean Up Jamaica (Studio One)`

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtBz...
Collin McGregor-Clean Up Jamaica (Studio One) Jamrec Music
YouTube video by Grovetownyute74
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December 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
Well, well, well…it looks like Frank was Antifa.🫡
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Oct 14
Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
`The Heptones - I've got a feeling`

#reggae #studioOneJamaica #JA #Jamaica #studioOne #Coxsone #Heptones #TheHeptones #roots

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The Heptones - I've got a feeling
YouTube video by Romain Beauxis
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December 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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houseofreggae.bsky.social
Happy 63rd birthday to Anthony Red Rose.

In 1985 Anthony went to King Tubby's new studio and recorded this dancehall classic.

Since then, wherever he goes in the world, he can "listen my voice through the tweeter box"...

youtu.be/KTXEK7fRzN4?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
12" of Anthony Red Rose - Tempo on Firehouse label. Released in 1985. Engineered by Peego & Fatman with King Tubby's All Stars.
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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graveolens.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2512.15139
/Buckling of knitted fabric wrapped around a rigid cylinder/
Kotone Tajiri, Tomohiko G. Sano
Buckling of knitted fabric wrapped around a rigid cylinder
Knitted fabrics exhibit high flexibility due to their periodic loop structures formed by bent yarns. Under compressive loading, they develop three-dimensional (3D) wrinkling patterns that reflect nonl...
arxiv.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
happy holidays :) this mix i bequeath upon thee

www.mixcloud.com/katchwreck/s...
steppers
all tracks fit the "steppers" style groove
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December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
katchwreck.bsky.social
#wrapstodon

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Wrapstodon 2025 for katch wreck
See how katch wreck used Mastodon this year!
mastodon.social
December 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Let's be clear about what this is. This is organized, state-sponsored white supremacist terror, presumably implemented at Stephen Miller's request.

And the fact that the GOP can't find the spine to object raises a lot of questions about the GOP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
katchwreck.bsky.social
`Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - Ecological Dub`

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JgS...
Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - Ecological Dub
YouTube video by anarchopreusse
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December 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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apnews.com
Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO's cultural heritage list.
UN recognizes compas, a Haitian music and dance genre that has marked generations and brought joy
Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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maxjtelford.bsky.social
Some more shenanigans on the Ctenophora Porifera debate from @rcply.bsky.social academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Sponges, ctenophores and the statistical significance of syntenies
Abstract. Shared fusions between ancestral chromosomal linkage groups have previously been used to support phylogenetic groupings, notably sponges with cni
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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houseofreggae.bsky.social
Remembering the legendary Toots Hibbert who was born on this day in 1942.

No-one sang quite like Toots. He was a true original. Here's one of many classic singles The Maytals recorded for Leslie Kong in the late 1960s...

youtu.be/94fG4A_jQuM?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
7" of The Maytals - Monkey Man on Beverley's Records label. Released in 1969. Produced by Leslie Kong.
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM