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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 5h

Damn, the covidaids people managed to get their pseudoscience into a journal, now it's never going to go away

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 17h

The abuse of science: the anti-science movement using cherry-picking to pretend SARS-CoV-2 has similar effects to HIV

How the "World Health Network" and all associated have lost even the last bit of credibility

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The abuse of science: the anti-science movement using cherry-picking to pretend SARS-CoV-2 has similar effects to HIV

How the "World Health Network" and all associated have lost even the last bit of credibility

marcveldhoen.substack.com

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 19h

I am once again flabbergasted at how little political hobbyists on this site actually understand politics that they seem to think that a political party has no vested interested in getting strong candidates to run for open seats and that something underhanded is going on of they try to do that

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 19h

TIL that "sitting governor of a state getting into an open primary is astroturfing, actually"

Competitive primaries that are organic and don't rely on the party establishment coming in with a big sack of money begging someone very old to save them from someone with actual political beliefs.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, it's a separate species that's really only rebounded in the last couple decades.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 5h

Put sunscreen and rash guards on your kids, y'all. Otherwise they'll end up unable to sleep because there's no comfortable position due to having to get a sketchy mole sliced off their back.

And I'm once again regretting we weren't the kind of baptists that made kids swim in t-shirts.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 14h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 21h

Jennifer McMahon: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the girl who gets kidnapped by fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle: ah yes yes yes
Doyle: as the resident expert on fairies and fairy behavior
Doyle: i can say that's pretty standard fairy behavior

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve written in defense of black bloc before, but, in some protest situations, older normies in regular clothes are a harder target for law enforcement than youth in black bloc gear.

Normalcy won’t always stop cops bent on brutality, but it will make the optics of such brutality play differently.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 9h

It’s worth remembering that this was the explicit intention of many civil rights marches—regular Black southerners in their Sunday best, facing off against militarized police. It’s why those images of the children’s march in Birmingham (1963) or Bloody Sunday at Selma (1965) are so iconic.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

Last time Florida allowed a bear hunt, the hunt ended early because people killed a bunch more bears than they were supposed to, which is one of many reasons why it's controversial, because the population isn't so big that people getting shoot happy can't collapse the species.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

This is not being a edgy lefty calling it murder by the way. It's just straight up what it is when you target and kill people that aren't a threat and also aren't a belligerent

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 6d

The trump administration has been murdering people off the coast of Venezuela. This is not a small technical thing or an abstract constitutional testing of the war powers. Even if everyone on the boats were exactly who the Trump admin says they are they aren't enemy combatants, just criminals.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

Every time this comes up there's a contingent that comes to tell us he's training Americans to accept violence or something and personally I would just rather people accept that murder is wrong.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

Guys you don’t understand this is all coded

Shark costume = demolitions expert

Giraffe= crew served weapons (mortar speciality)

Garfield : CQC and prisoner restraint

Cow : counter intelligence and drone operations

THESE ARE PROFESSIONAL KILLERS

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

STOP THE ANTIFA TERRORISTS

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 6h

ah yes major news outlets doing major news outlets things were “infiltrating the Pentagon” all along

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

This isn't Canada where annual bear hunts are necessary for wildlife management, but a bunch of people really want their trophy hunts to shoot bears they won't even have the decency to eat, and Ron DeSantis cronies at Fish and Wildlife gave it to them.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

The Florida Black Bear was nearly hunted to extinction because people were afraid of a species that's only killed one human in all of recorded history, and the species is not so recovered that it's anywhere near the levels that the habitat can't support. But DeSantis' buddies wanted to shoot them.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

See also, all of the people who are convinced that crocodiles are an invasive species that needs to be killed, the people terrified of threatened indigo snakes, and who think we should go around shooting coyotes even though they eat the actually invasive iguanas.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

Just once, I'd like people to actually learn literally anything about wildlife in Florida before being confidently wrong because they don't know how little they know about the state's biodiversity. There's a reason why most of the Florida hunting and fishing crowd oppose bear hunting in the state.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7h

But of course when the story about people opposed to the Florida bear hunt getting a bunch of the bear tags made the national news, people who don't know squat about the Florida Black Bear species are leaving comments all over social media about how near hunting is necessary for wildlife management.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

every helicopter i hear over my apartment, every fifteen minutes, reinforces that these motherfuckers are afraid of us and they fucking should be afraid of us. on saturday, let’s show them why.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

they’re still flying this shit over my apartment every night, and i am less afraid of them than ever.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

go ahead. keep flying blackhawks over my apartment. it only makes my opinions WORSE

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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 7h

I would pay real money for a magazine that hired writers with object permanence to write about obvious scams

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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jack o @obrienjohnjack.bsky.social · 8h

unbothered. thriving. what’s the opposite of locked in? freedom.

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty funny that he seems to genuinely think he needed the Nobel to enter heaven but a bunch of Norwegian Eurocrats damned his soul to hell and gave some Venezuelan lady his ticket to the pearly gates.

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