Tom Flamson
@tflamson.bsky.social
Public Health Research Scientist. Erstwhile Anthropologist, Brazilianist, and World Humor Expert™
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I dunno how one can claim to be against fascism, and then... aid fascism at the same time.
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I dunno how one can claim to be against fascism, and then... aid fascism at the same time.
You ever see someone put their foot in their mouth so far their head goes up their ass?
Have you considered that perhaps you’re not entirely objective when it comes to this subject?
December 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You ever see someone put their foot in their mouth so far their head goes up their ass?
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corinne & i were eating pizza & had on some low-stakes background tv & we did not expect a full-throated FUCK JK ROWLING, DON’T BUY POTTER SHIT segment from shane & ryan in the middle of the “we’re increasingly drunk reading youtube comment ghost stories” show but we stopped eating & clapped. ~13min
Ryan and Shane Get Even Drunker and Read Creepy Stories • Too Many Spirits
YouTube video by Watcher
m.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
corinne & i were eating pizza & had on some low-stakes background tv & we did not expect a full-throated FUCK JK ROWLING, DON’T BUY POTTER SHIT segment from shane & ryan in the middle of the “we’re increasingly drunk reading youtube comment ghost stories” show but we stopped eating & clapped. ~13min
Worth sharing just for "yuribus", but this is a really insightful look at what's going on with identity in Pluribus, pus a stray reminder that Andrew Sullivan sucks
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Worth sharing just for "yuribus", but this is a really insightful look at what's going on with identity in Pluribus, pus a stray reminder that Andrew Sullivan sucks
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"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
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“That seems like a crime to me,” said a woman who witnessed the incident. “Imagine if they had killed those kids.”
The full story: lataco.com/indio-vehicl...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Amaray D. Alvarez
The full story: lataco.com/indio-vehicl...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Amaray D. Alvarez
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“That seems like a crime to me,” said a woman who witnessed the incident. “Imagine if they had killed those kids.”
The full story: lataco.com/indio-vehicl...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Amaray D. Alvarez
The full story: lataco.com/indio-vehicl...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Amaray D. Alvarez
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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
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once trump kicks the bucket this is going to blow up even bigger like after Jimmy Saville died I think
December 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
once trump kicks the bucket this is going to blow up even bigger like after Jimmy Saville died I think
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man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.
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Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism.
“For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations”
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
“For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations”
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.
www.statnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism.
“For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations”
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
“For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations”
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
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A "debate" where the two sides are a conservative operative and an Epstein files guy. Remember what I said about how "stacked panel" propaganda works.
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A "debate" where the two sides are a conservative operative and an Epstein files guy. Remember what I said about how "stacked panel" propaganda works.
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Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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A photo I took in 2018 when people living in Trump-branded buildings voted to take his name off. Feel like there’s more of this to come.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A photo I took in 2018 when people living in Trump-branded buildings voted to take his name off. Feel like there’s more of this to come.
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after what biden did with space force, yeah my hopes aren't high.
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
after what biden did with space force, yeah my hopes aren't high.
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
It appears he did, yes
December 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It appears he did, yes
"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
December 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
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Put the Christ back in Christmas except for stuff that Christ would say we are canonically/biblically evil for doing
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Put the Christ back in Christmas except for stuff that Christ would say we are canonically/biblically evil for doing
Got back to my car at the train station parking lot after wasting all day downtown on California's pointless RTO grift, only to discover... @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov owes me a new catalytic converter!
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Got back to my car at the train station parking lot after wasting all day downtown on California's pointless RTO grift, only to discover... @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov owes me a new catalytic converter!
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That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.
Replacing collapsed bridge 'nigh on impossible' cost for council
The Spey Viaduct was completed in 1886 but partially collapsed into the Moray river at the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.
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I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
“The Israeli soldiers had rigged [a] can of food with an explosive.”
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
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The suit accuses the companies of receiving personal information through California’s state health insurance exchange.
After Markup investigation, LinkedIn and Google face lawsuit alleging improper access to health data – The Markup
The suit accuses the companies of receiving personal information through California’s state health insurance exchange.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The suit accuses the companies of receiving personal information through California’s state health insurance exchange.
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The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
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Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
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Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour