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I read some things, try some things, and when they work I sometimes share some things.

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They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

07.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 3902 πŸ” 771 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 24

I am just now catching up on the fact that the FDA was demanding Uniqure do sham brain surgeries (from what I can tell, comprising simulated burr holes and 10-12 hours of anesthesia) in their placebo arm for their Huntington's therapeutic, and I'm absolutely floored that this was a serious demand.

07.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7

The meaning of precision in geographical degrees.

Β±100Β°: You don't know where it is.
Β±10Β°: You know it's on a specific continent.
Β±1Β°: You know it's within about an hour's drive.
Β±0.1Β°: You could bike to it.
Β±0.01Β°: You could walk to it.
Β±0.001Β°: You could probably see it.

07.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah so it sure sounds like the u.s. government is disappearing people including us citizens from o’hare

07.03.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Draft is Ready. Now We Need You. Share your perspective on the state of nature in the U.S.

The draft Nature Record National Assessment is now open for comment!

Take a look and tell us what we got right, what we missed, and what changes you’re seeing where you live.

Your perspective will help shape the final record of nature in the U.S.

naturerecord.substack.com/p/the-draft-...

06.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 3611 πŸ” 1697 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 106
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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

"Freshwater ecosystems across the country are in crisis, β€œoverdrawn, polluted, fragmented and invaded.” Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, with reduced biodiversity. An estimated 34 percent of plant species and 40 percent of animal species are at risk of extinction."

07.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6

Godspeed You! Doughy Salaryman

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes

06.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 1937 πŸ” 239 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 28

beyond switching to an electric vehicle and installing solar panels (financially out of reach for many people), there is little people can personally do to mitigate the costs of prolonged energy and gas price spikes, tariffs and/or disruptions from immigration raids

06.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

I keep thinking about how working class people will suffer so much if the price of gas spikes and the government continues to spend $1B/day on international conflict (plus ICE's budget for immigration raids) instead of education, research, international aid, clean energy, and healthcare

06.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 483 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 4

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

06.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 2384 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

β€œNever again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

06.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 303 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 8143 πŸ” 2393 πŸ’¬ 139 πŸ“Œ 280

Want to talk about water usage? Start learning to use and think in acre feet.

πŸ™‚

That goes for both sides of the Data Center Discourse.

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing will ever top that original picture but I need people to understand that this is probably one of the most unreal guys alive. A totally impossible guy. Like by all rights he should not exist but at the same time he could of course only exist in the dimension we’re all trapped in.

06.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 705 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 80

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

06.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 411 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

That feeling when you owe 53,173,939 refunds, with interest ...

06.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 551 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 19

I maintain that "relatability" is one of the worst things to happen to creative writing and it must be combated

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 636 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

06.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 1969 πŸ” 616 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 19

1. Potions
2. Wishcasting 101
3. Strange Magick: A Survey
4. Anatomy of Newts: Not Just Eyes! (interdisciplinary Gen Ed, this one enrolls a ton of STEM majors)

Oh wait you were serious?

06.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

06.03.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 425 πŸ” 257 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

I'm pretty sure it's still around in *some* form, but yeah...

At least the stress cubes were fun, though! 🀣

06.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a collage of these three tweets
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

05.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 7679 πŸ” 2280 πŸ’¬ 176 πŸ“Œ 403
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

05.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1360 πŸ” 729 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 12

A walking paradox, apparently; a Colby completely corrupted by the cheddar.

...I'll see myself out.

05.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You just wait; I'm going to MAKE you that T-Shirt ;)

05.03.2026 05:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You were *definitely* better than "pretty good" considering how much of that equipment was successfully returned (and in good shape!).

05.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

05.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 4377 πŸ” 1808 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 30
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

04.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 8117 πŸ” 2406 πŸ’¬ 260 πŸ“Œ 524