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Heather Shearer @heather-sea55.bsky.social · 1d

🧪 cool and fascinating #SciComm

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Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah man, for sure

Google trend chart showing Charlie Kirk flattening two weeks after his murder

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 55m

My Lithops (rock plants) have a flower!

The Kodama tree spirits from Princess Mononoke keep an eye on them.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1h

The areas being deprived of federal funding are largely areas that provide the tax revenue for federal funding.

Trump is setting up resource-based incentives for secession, whether he planned this or not.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1h

This is a cold civil war.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 13h

Those orange balls aren't going to gargle themselves.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1d

This headline is obviously ultra-simplified but at some level it's correct, my retirement account is at the mercy of the stupidest, most gullible prats (acting collectively on the belief that everybody else is stupid) in the world

CNBC Headline: Dow futures jump 400 points after Trump says China situation ‘will all be fine’

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely jaw dropping, spectacularly preserved & beautiful fossil crinoid (left) and blastozoan (right) echinoderms. These fossils are from the Bromide Fm of Oklahoma and nearly all specimens shown here are from the type collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 🧪

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 1d

This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Paleobiology Research Group at OU @oupaleobiology.bsky.social · 1d

New paper from Dr. Selina Cole's lab!

"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"

Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

I added something special to my Paleo library last week.

This is the 3 volume North American Crinoidea from Wachsmuth and Springer from 1897.

This is considered the "book" for early crinoid research.

Volume 3 is just the plates with stunning artwork.

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

I have Asterina starfish in my saltwater tank that reproduce this way.

Our love will tear us apart.

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Yayger 🐸 @yayger.bsky.social · 2d

Don't look away, America. This is your country now.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WTF 🤬
Goons brutally pushed a peaceful protester to the ground and dragged them across the floor.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2d

A cop killed someone again and it’s just a “deputy involved shooting.”

KTLA 5 @ktla.com · 2d

Off-duty OCSD deputy fatally shoots armed man under the influence in rural Southern California mountain area

An off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a man who appeared to be under the influence in a remote part of Southern California. Information provided by the Riverside County …

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

We love guns more than kids. I don't see how you can interpret this as anything other than a diseased country in the latter stages of destroying itself.

OPB @opb.org · 2d

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says a nation irredeemably gone to hell like its government kidnapping children and whisking them out of state.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

“Who are you?!”

“Ask me who I was.”

“Who were you then?”

"A pal! A wonderful thing! Something of an enigma, you might say."

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2d

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 2d

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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