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michaelcaley.bsky.social
studs up, and no attempt to play the ball, nailed on red
jm539581.bsky.social JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 15h
Borderline red card 🟥
January 18, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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pbump.com
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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kosmi.bsky.social
Lake Jingyu Hu in western China.

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Nov. 14, 2025.

h/t @brockmannconsult.bsky.social 😊👍
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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jamescham.bsky.social
We should talk about standard deviations rather than rating 1 to 10 and I have made this handy table to provide intuition.
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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federalreserve.gov
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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mrglobaltoo.bsky.social
Please Share!!!!
January 10, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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pbump.com
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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peark.es
Hell yeah sister.

Full video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrG4LSMB/
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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pbump.com
Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️
Landslides on the arete between Mt Vancouver and Mt Logan. Elevation difference between the central peak and the glacier is 500 m. Large landslides on the southwest side of Mt King George. The main debris lobe on the right is approximately 1000 m wide. The elevation difference between the peak and glacier is approximately 1900 m. Landslides on the west side of Mt King George. The central debris lobe is 500 m wide. Large landslide on the southwest side of Mt King George. The main debris lobe is 1800 m wide, and material traveled approximately 6 km from the source area.
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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drewmcweeny.com
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Today is the 55th anniversary of the official opening of the silliest pub the world ever saw, the Windsock in Dunstable
An impossible to describe, preposterous-looking pub with two big pointy bits of roof with a massive curve between them and a floating section sticking out the side. It looks like it lifted off at some point and then landed badly
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
Central California is currently experiencing one of the most remarkable temperature inversions I've ever seen in this part of the world. The Central Valley remains miserably damp & chilly under dense fog layer, but it's balmily warm & sunny just 2,000ft up nearby mountain slopes!
Map showing current temperatures in California (from PivotalWeather.com). It depicts balmy and even record warmth in the mountains and hills, as well as SoCal, with temperatures into the 70s and 80s in these areas, but very chilly temperatures in the Central Valley remaining in the low 40s under a dense fog layer.
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is incredible.
zeets.bsky.social Zito @zeets.bsky.social · Dec 9
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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tautology.uk
My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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dannyodwyer.bsky.social
if you did this 200 years ago they’d drown you in a lake
justkeepskeeting.pro de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · Nov 25
this is mesmerizing
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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howtoreadthisch.art
The newsletter is out! This week, we talked to the genius at Tracklib who makes videos showing how music samples are identified and remixed in songs.

He shared a draft version of their video for "One More Time" by Daft Punk.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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darraghmurray.bsky.social
Colour in data visualisation is not purely aesthetic - its strategic as well #databs #datasky #datafam open.substack.com/pub/thedatav...
Colour as Strategy and Aesthetics: What the Bureau of Meteorology’s Radar Teaches About Data Visualisation
An ill-fated radar redesign reminds us that colour decisions are never cosmetic, they define how data is read and believed.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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drjeffmasters.bsky.social
Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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weatherdak.bsky.social
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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jeremydehartwx.bsky.social
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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jeremyhsu.bsky.social
NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM