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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · Sep 13
If you're confused by my going semi-anon just DM me and I'll clarify
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apocalypticanow.bsky.social
This administration is dedicated to killing children
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h
*CDC PANEL VOTES TO DELAY HEPATITIS B SHOT FOR SOME NEWBORNS
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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hypoautonomic.bsky.social
Daniel Guérin
1938
A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS ILLUSION consists in regarding fascism, despite the horror it inspires, as a progressive political phenomenon - as a passing and even necessary, though painful, stage. Rash prophets have announced ten times, a hundred times, the imminent and inevitable crumbling of the fascist dictatorship in Italy or Germany under the blows of the victorious revolution. They have asserted that fascism, by driving class antagonisms to their highest degree of tension, is hastening the hour of the proletarian revolution, even going so far as to contend that the proletariat could conquer power only by passing through the hell of the fascist dictatorship. Today it is no longer possible to keep up such illusions. Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins - a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. Events have proved that fascism physically destroys everything opposing its dictatorship, no matter how mildly, and that it creates a vacuum around itself and leaves a vacuum behind it.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
Turkey leg or ham hock?
A black and white Sheltie with his back legs splooted ahead of his front legs
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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neurograce.bsky.social
Scientists in government ftw
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Just checked in with the Santa Cruz city election office .. paperwork isn’t available yet, but I’m planning to run for District 6 City Council.
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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scientits.bsky.social
I cheered at the end
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
kenvogel.bsky.social Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.

Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.

www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
I've done a fair bit of analytical work in my career and I'm absolutely amazed that folks can handle such tiny samples
coreyspowell.bsky.social Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 2d
When you're dealing with a precious sample of an asteroid, you want to make use of every bit. Here you can see scientists harvesting a miniature chunk of Bennu for analysis. The piece they are moving is just 30 microns (1/1000th of an inch) wide! 🧪🔭

www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
"You can't beat the market, unless..."
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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astrokatie.com
I haven’t seen this label used before but it seems apt. The video contains a good discussion of what “science populism” is and how it’s harmful.

youtu.be/sQnOFGWsXNM?...
Ep 0: The Rise of the Science Populists
YouTube video by Bad Boy of Science
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
@rami.spaceaustralia.com mobile radio astronomy unit?
jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social Jeff (no, the trading opinionated assets one) @jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social · 4d
HE HEARS YOU

(And probably signals from deep space too)
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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sodrock.bsky.social
Did not have Costco being the strongest American institution on my bingo card (I’ll take it)
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
The encounter that took what was already a great #BearSeason2025 right over the top. Arctic foxes are not the easiest to find around Churchill so getting to spend time with this cutie who is still changing into their winter coat was amazing. #mammals 🌿
A tiny Arctic fox looks up from where its standing in the ice and snow along the coast. Its fur isn't pure white yet because It hasn't finished the transition to winter fur. A tiny Arctic fox looks curiously from where its standing in the ice and snow along the coast. Its fur isn't pure white yet because It hasn't finished the transition to winter fur. A tiny Arctic fox sniffs the the ice and snow along the coast, looking for food. Its fur isn't pure white yet because It hasn't finished the transition to winter fur.
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
Babies!!!
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · 4d
Ok everyone let's get in formation 💃

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae captures several dazzling open star clusters. 🌌💫 These clusters are young, loosely bound families of stars that will eventually drift apart over millions of years. 🔭🧪

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A bright central cluster of stars of various sizes, surrounded by glowing pink and orange clouds of nebular gas. The clouds are uneven, with both smooth regions and thin, threadlike structures. Darker patches appear where dust partially blocks the light, creating contrast against the brightly lit areas.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
The response to the essay was extremely reasonable. I would have been a much more terse "you're way off the mark here and you write like a child."
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
80% off sunday scaries because *no one* is prepared to come back to work tomorrow
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
woah
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social
We all need Leslie Jones energy to survive Thanksgiving.

I’m dying 😂🤣☠️
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
In the early days of Covid, finally ran out of ideas why our house kept having flies... it was a cracked pipe like this and it was a smell to remember
ugarles.bsky.social Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 10d
well that's your problem right there
the sanitary stack, a 4" diameter cast iron pipe that ferries the shit out of the top floor bathroom, with a three foot long vertical crack
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
Gm
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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readuction.bsky.social
How do you guys keep your cast irons from bending your dishwasher racks? Mf heavy
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Solo exploring a 100% pitch black lava tube for over a mile underground. I brought some portable lights to place and set up this shot.
A photo of me standing in the center of the large cavernous room of a lava tube. Two lights illuminate different paths while my headlamp illuminates the ceiling.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
INNOCENT
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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erikklemetti.bsky.social
Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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oneshoup.bsky.social
Their coins are so cool. "Ah yes, ZEUS NIKE, Zeus the victor is putting his hand on the 8 spoked wheel of Dharma. He's cool with the Buddha and king Menander II is cool with both"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menande...
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM