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"There are no answers; only choices." – S. Lem I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music. Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 8d

Josef Koudelka, Prague, 1968

Resistance fighter on top of Russian tank

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Sam 艷 @samlia.bsky.social · 18h

Ask her what does antifa stand for??

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Ellen M. @graphxgrrl.bsky.social · 7h

The more that comes out about various city projects and priorities that Harrell’s team stalled, blocked or killed—I feel like Wilson could have an extraordinarily effective first 90 days by just dusting off all the shovel ready projects and scheduling them.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 14h

A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scenes as the public was kept in the dark about the upgrades.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist

# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...

www.theurbanist.org

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 5h

#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 11h

Are these official government records that must be retained?

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 12h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 12h

segregation and division runs deep in mitofa

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12h

leftist terror cells

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Michael Beierlein @mbeierlein.bsky.social · 2d

Reason #75767 why you should stay away from this publisher.

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 2d

Recent MDPI paper including diagram of a bacterial cell with a mitochondrion 🤦‍♀️ The authors propose a mechanism for the toxicity of silver nanoparticles: "Ag+ ions in AgNPs bombard the bacterial mitochondria’s electron transport chain, resulting in cell death".

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 7h

They know full well that Trump is a lame duck, is 80 years old, and is rapidly declining health.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 7h

Wikipedia is blunt: "A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test,[1][2][3] is a pseudoscientific[4][5][6] device or procedure…"

Polygraph - Wikipedia

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 9h

Slightly different balance struck by the engineers from BT Fusion but similar nominal performance and lower price on the Kinetix.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t know yet but friends love ‘em. We put a Kinetix 22 on our TIRF rig and it is terrific.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12h

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12h

leftist terror cells

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12h

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

I am Yëxela, a nonstick frying pan that upon being heated emits an odor of lingonberries and then warps irreversibly

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

I am Arön, a $6 fairly dim smart light bulb that only fits chandelier style fixtures, but is IFTTT compatible.

nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 13h

I want to play this game but my name doesn’t have any Swedish letters

I’d be a weird coathook though

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 1d

Some have tried to make you believe things about SARS-CoV-2 that are not substantiated by the virus itself or by our knowledge about infections. One of these was claiming "damage" or "dysfunction" of the immune system. They cherry picked some infectious diseases
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 15h

I have seen no persuasive argument that the last election was stolen, beyond Trump-level conspiracist bullshit.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 17h

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 16h

I and the other two PIs feel very, very fortunate.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 18h

new microscope day

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19h

That is not an assumption. It is a prediction. Those words mean different things.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19h

Counterpoint: these people are almost unbelievably stupid.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19h

AC Nielsen will hold them accountable.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19h

The ratings will crash. She doesn’t have the Fox or OANN juice and no one else will care.