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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

The real economy is already in a deep recession. The fake AI economy is a smokescreen. And now I'm afraid that the government will throw any amount of money at it to keep it from popping.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

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BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 1d

Otherwise we would never have known.. #crime

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 3h

The battle for Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court this fall is already one of the most expensive retention elections in U.S. history. Some experts think it may break the national record by Election Day.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 2h

Doctor tomorrow, out most of the day, see you after!

STILL AT 85/2500 -> THIS SHIT IS NOT GOOD.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

talk to the toes

a tux cat half asleep with a grumpy look on her face. a leg/paw is curled around resting in front of her face. the beans are pink

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

And Jack Posobiec said Antifa has been a problem since the Weimar Republic, am I hearing that right?

And Andy Ngo was bleeding from his eyes and ears when a milkshake hit him?

And Portland is currently on fire and the windows are boarded up?

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jaypea but spooky @jpstarling.bsky.social · 11h

If rights aren’t universal, what you’re protecting isn’t rights, it’s privilege.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 1h

Fetterman is a problem
This one still wouldn't have passed, but eventually it will matter

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 1h

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 3h

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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🦍 It's Elections Time. Check Feed Pls @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 1h

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 3h

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 here's a smiley octopus on a terracotta plate from Getty Museum 😀
Detail from Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate, 4th c. BCE, attributed to the Binningen Painter
getty.edu/art/collecti...
#CephalopodAwarenessDays

Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate (happy-looking octopus detail)
attributed to the Binningen Painter
3rd quarter of 4th century BCE
terracotta
6.5 × 26 cm (2 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Paestum, South Italy
Greek (South Italian, Paestan)
Getty Museum Obj. No. 96.AE.240

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1h

Obvious lie. The Nazis already executed Sophie Scholl.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 3h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Peggy Carter next to Steve Rogers in Captain America. I'll let you decide which is the founder and which is the girlfriend.

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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦 @thehardyboycats.bsky.social · 5h

Glamour model Frankie, working his angles 🐾

A handsome cat with tabby stripes on his back and forehead, a white front and a Christmas tree shaped splotch on his nose, sitting in an empty cupboard. He’s sitting tall with his hind legs casually sticking out to his side. His fur is plush and luxurious, and he’s staring into the camera with a blank expression. A true supermodel.
#CatsOfBlueSky

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about "Imagine if any Democrat did this" is that MAGA built a communion of people who exult in imagining that, every day, in open defiance of all the truth outgroups can make available to them

But also: Imagine if any Democrat did this

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1h

SAP America, the U.S. arm of German software giant SAP, laid off employees at its Palo Alto offices, according to a state filing.

SAP cuts dozens of Bay Area jobs as part of new layoff strategy

The layoffs are part of a shift toward steady, smaller job reductions that CFO Dominik Asam described as “like brushing your teeth.”

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 1h

In 1941, my ten-month pregnant mother was given turpentine to drink to bring on labor
I mean, it seems to have worked, but...

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 5h

…Are they going to ban UFOs from that airspace as well? 🤣

Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷 @typevolant.com · 5h

The airport next to Maralago now says on the FAA National Airspace System status website that it is closed to weather modification aircraft.

What in the hell???

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 7h

It is insane to not pay our troops.

Democrats are here. Republicans need to come back from their vacation, work with us, and we need to pay our troops.

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 3h

Though watch out for the Easter Island episode
It will break your heart

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 3h

San Francisco’s rainiest day since last winter is possible next week as energy from a recurving West Pacific typhoon dislodges cold air from Canada and whips up a storm along the West Coast.

Powerful typhoon is set to trigger an unusually strong California storm

San Francisco’s rainiest day since last winter is possible next week as energy from a recurving West Pacific typhoon dislodges cold air from Canada and whips up a storm along the West Coast.

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