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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving to any fellow Canadians out there in the aether.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11d

Linked to this yesterday, but I am re-upping today because this is the best piece of practical research I have seen lately. It deals with what's gone wrong in political coverage.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12d

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice."

YES.

Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14d

I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)

kottke.org @kottke.org · 14d

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

You don’t have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?

Stirring Bars are Superstition?

www.science.org

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · Aug 30

When Will You Die? - They Might Be Giants (Official Video)

YouTube video by ParticleMen

www.youtube.com

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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · Aug 30

Both my wife and I had our 50ths during the lockdown.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Aug 30

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 30

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · Aug 25

What can 13C CPMAS NMR tell us about household dust bunnies? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2010/03/hous... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · Aug 24

We can be happy now. We just need orgy-porgy and soma.

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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · Aug 24

I think so. Either waffles/pancakes/french toast with optional savory side of bacon/sausage/scrapple/etc, or everything but pancakes/waffles/french toast. See for example the iconic Scrambler from Mickie’s Dairy Bar, Madison WI vs any of their gut busting pancake options. mickiesdairybar.com

Mickie's Dairy Bar

Cozy local institution serving hearty portions of breakfast fare at communal tables. Currently takeout only.

mickiesdairybar.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · Aug 23

Don't believe I'm not a child sex predator? Well, don't take it from me. Take it from my good friend, the world's worst living child sex trafficker, whom I'm about to pardon!

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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · Aug 15

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 15

Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting theonion.com/man-who...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · Aug 15

it finally happened

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

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Free Radical @freeradical1.bsky.social · Aug 14

Anything involving high pressure. The KBr press for making sample-doped salt plates for IR spectroscopy bothered me in particular.

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · Aug 13

i love how academics start every talk saying "thanks for the opportunity to speak"

THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP
I LOVE TO YAP

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is the definition of "uterus" as appears at the top of a Google search when you're looking to find the meaning of the word.

...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.

Screenshot of Google/Oxford languages definition of uterus. uterus
/ˈjuːt(ə)rəs/
noun
noun: uterus; plural noun: uteri; plural noun: uteruses
the organ in the lower body of a woman or female mammal where offspring are conceived and in which they gestate before birth; the womb.

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thought these were high heels 👠

Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · Aug 11

Climbing into my #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection: a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) 🦎 this large male was getting up there in age when he was collected, as shown by his worn down teeth and bone pathologies.

Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...

Image of a 3D model of a veiled chameleon skull, with bones colored to demonstrate skull anatomy, on a black background. Model is shown in lateral (top), antero-lateral (middle), and anterior (bottom) views. A small image of the whole museum specimen is shown with a scale bar in the bottom right corner.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 9

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Aug 8

Really happy with this watercolor. I ❤️ the rainbow gradient. I was going to add words, but I decided to just leave it alone 🧠🐡 artologica.etsy.com/listing/4348...

black brain image on rainbow gradient watercolor

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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · Aug 9

a high point for my weekend: friend's HS-age kid has assignment to explain / show computer model of heat transfer. my reaction, essentially:

a close up of a person with the words " it 's a unix system i know this "

Alt: Jurassic Park: Lex looks at a computer and exclaims, "it 's a unix system! i know this "

media.tenor.com

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · Aug 8

In light of current events, I've decided to make bluebberry cobobbbler this evening.

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