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The Charity Engine guy. Over 1.5 billion CPU-hours donated to science and medicine so far www.charityengine.com/grants

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · Nov 29

Ten years ago, Charity Engine began donating computing time - over 200 million hours so far - to the Institute for Protein Design's brilliant Rosetta @ Home project.

Its founder, David Baker, won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Beyond proud to be a supporter! www.ipd.uw.edu/news-pages/t...

The Power of Charity for Protein Design - Institute for Protein Design

August 15, 2014 In this post we explore the power of charity to supply the massive computing capacity needed to support our protein design research. As shown in Figure 1, thanks to hundreds of thousan...

www.ipd.uw.edu

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 12h

a man with a beard is saying bio-digital jazz man

Alt: Kevin Flynn saying "bio-digital jazz, man"

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA mafia ALL using the exact same tactic when their answer would embarrass Dear Leader: ignore the question, insult and attack the questioner *just for asking it*.

Watch for it, they do it every single time.

It's coached. Pre-empt it

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 13h

This disgusts me beyond words. It will no doubt disgust everyone involved with the franchise as well.

Tron fights for the users, not for billionaire fascists 🤮

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 19h

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 14h

"Who will rid me of this troublesome priest"

Blumenthal should beef up his security right now

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 17h

Highlander 2.

The prosecution rests

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 20h

When the editor thinks @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is being serious

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it did bsky.app/profile/mark...

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 2d

The signs were always there www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the...

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 2d

Old poker adage: work out what your opponent wants you to do, then disappoint them.

Your opponents are praying for more Corbyn

News headline from Corbyn's last days as LOTO "Conservatives take eye-watering 26 point lead over Labour in the polls"

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 2d

The signs were always there www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the...

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www.surfsantamonica.com

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 2d

A rare - in fact, unique - miss. Hope you'll revisit this topic and let the experts weigh in

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 2d

Everybody needs to watch this right now, especially Mark Zuckerberg.

What if connecting the world... is actually ruining it?

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 3d

Ok Mr 0 followers

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 3d

How did I miss that!

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Sir Duction got all the ladies tho

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Corruption, infighting and incompetence are more toxic to voters than any policy.

Forget what Rascist UK is saying.

Report what they're DOING

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK don’t like to pay for anything…

Incredible conversation kicking off between former candidates and vendors to the party.

Even this statement by an app developer: www.thecafeapp.com/pressstatement

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Linehan's descent continues. Musk is bad enough, but simping for Raichik as well 🤮

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Be a shame if someone mass-produced misprinted flags with the wrong number of stars or stripes

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Some insanely cool science to brighten your timeline

Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 5d

Data from the Cassini spacecraft shows that there is complex organic chemistry happening in the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

It took 17 years to get the result! The finding boosts the case that life could possibly exist inside this little ice-covered world. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Left: Cassini image of Enceladus showing its geysers. Right: This illustration shows the process of light, soluble and reactive organic compounds making their way onto ice grains emitted in jets of water from Saturn's moon Enceladus, where they were detected by the Cassini spacecraft.

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

I'm old enough to remember when Barbarian on the Amstrad caused public outrage because you could chop off your opponent's head.

Funny how times change

The Economist @economist.com · 4d

Saudi Arabia is making a multi-billion-dollar push into gaming, an industry that is now worth more than cinema, streaming or music. The idea is to create a new domestic industry

How Saudi Arabia became a video-game superpower

Electronic Arts is part of a multi-billion-dollar bid to dominate gaming

econ.st

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 4d

Such fine specimens of manhood. Hegseth must be proud

ICE officer whose head is one giant red flabby neck

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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 5d

Missing the big one he'll be remembered for tho

Trump and Epstein, smiling, Trump's hand on his shoulder. Caption "What do you get if you cross Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein" "Pedo files"

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 5d

Remember when I first read about that, immediately changed my opinion of him.

Talented, visionary, but gods what sort of douchebag swindles his own best friend

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 5d

Never understood why Musk assumes an impoverished, resource-lacking, tiny underground Martian colony will somehow be a shining beacon of fecundity.

Not exactly the fertile crescent, is it

markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 5d

Also stops Congress from releasing the Epstein Files