Franklin Wirtz
maxtwelves.bsky.social
Franklin Wirtz
@maxtwelves.bsky.social
Navy Veteran, Spokanite, dad
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Now in Seattle, Washington at a No Kings Day rally:

"We will not let the light of constitutional democracy flicker out simply because of one power-hungry orange man."

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
June 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“America’s best beer can idea”
Feel like there needs to be a word for the particular kind of nature that prevails in national forests

Maybe beer can wilderness?
December 18, 2024 at 5:36 AM
First, we crash a billion dollar probe into the surface of Mars and now I’ve thrown out my black spatulas.

Why can’t they get the maths right?
December 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Oh no!

Bluesky thinks I’m into knitting and I don’t know how to undo this.
December 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Population density of Taiwan
December 16, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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As a Buddhist, I believe in non-violence to solve our problems.

I have yet to see those condemning the left for lionizing Luigi Mangione even once criticize the right’s vile embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, or Trump and Vance inviting Daniel Penny to be their political prop at a football game.
December 15, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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Baobab trees are so incredible. Natural cisterns in dry places, they also provide fruit, honey, useful bark fiber, medicine. This one had a small door on its side and l, inside, a peg ladder used by Hadza hunter-gatherers to access the upper reaches. 300 traditional uses documented in W. Africa.
December 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
December 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Good lord. I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing Amur falcons in southern Mongolia. Astonishing birds. They move so fast you’re left wondering what you say.
Look at this map. Look at it! This is what Amur Falcons do! Their migration is jaw-dropping. You do not want to miss Suresh Kumar's @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social webinar next week! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/amu...
December 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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🧪 How to construct a summary paragraph (abstract)

This is a super guide from #Nature and potentially applicable to most disciplines.

More in ALT text.

Source:
www.nature.com/documents/na...

#science #academia #publishing #medicine #biology #chemistry #physics #biomaterials #biomedical #writing
December 9, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Great stuff. Core principles align well with lessons from East Africa.
November 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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90 days ago Bluesky had 6.18M users
30 days ago Bluesky had 10.85M users
Tomorrow Bluesky will have 15M users

This is absolutely wild, thanks for believing in us y'all
November 13, 2024 at 6:50 AM
OK, here's my first attempt at the kind of thread I used to do on the hellsite. At a guess, the first place we'll really see the economic impact of Trumpism will be from mass deportation — and it will be worse than many people, even macroeconomic modelers, imagine 1/
November 12, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Trump is the same pitch as the supplement industry.
November 7, 2024 at 5:42 AM
This is the way
As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.
November 5, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Here's Philly rap legend Freeway canvassing with LeVar Burton singing the Reading Rainbow theme. You can see how much it touched Burton.

National media loves to hate Philly because of the Eagles fans from the Northeast, but fuck all that noise Philly is the best.
November 4, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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This message from Bernie is worth your time.
October 30, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Historian friends: I'm chairing a search for my department to hire a historian of the United States, with very broad parameters. We had to fight hard to get this position, so we hope to get a large and competitive pool. Please hare the ad and encourage people to apply. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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October 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Somehow I make an appearance at this AI-hallucinated Meeting of the Great Minds. It's a great illustration of ... something ... because the words put in my mouth are vaguely sensible-sounding but not at all what real me would actually say.

www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
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October 29, 2024 at 12:26 PM