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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15h

Jeff from IT saying "Hey how's it going" (from the DOD cyber-awareness training)

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15h

Clearly that ship has sailed.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16h

You know he can’t read, right?

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 17h

lmao

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 18h

Wow, interesting. Just out of curiosity, was anything else happening with Soviet agriculture around 1930-33 while they were avoiding the Great Depression?

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

At least they show respect for the Real Americans of the rural heartland

Giunta also had expletive-laden criticism for the Young Republicans in states that were supporting or leaning toward Padgett’s faction.

“Minnesota - f----ts,” he messaged, continuing: “Arkansas - inbred cow fuckers Nebraska - revolt in our favor; blocked their bind and have a majority of their delegates Maryland - fat stinky Jew … Rhode Island - traitorous c---s who I will eradicate from the face of this planet.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not that they think that was successful in the CRM, but they do think those were the good guys and it would be successful if they can get violent anarchists as the face of opposition to them.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

That’s why you feed them mostly vegetables if you’re going to eat them, and why pure carnivores like cats aren’t good to eat.

Er, so I’ve heard…

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IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group @iucnparasites.bsky.social · 4d

Gyrostigma rhinocerontis, the best-known Gyrostigma fly and the largest African fly, parasitizes the White Rhino and Black Rhino. Adults emerge twice a year and mate, lay eggs, and die in the span of a week. They resemble wasps with their size and striking colors, a possible case of mimicry. (2/6)

A rare photo of an adult Gyrostigma rhinocerontis on a rhinoceros, presumably to lay eggs.
Credit: honeyguideacademy, iNaturalist Observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200072011

Two adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in South Africa
Credit: Komencanto
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinoceros_in_South_Africa_adjusted.jpg

A Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) in the grass.
Credit: Gerry Zambonini
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Rhino_(15797036788).jpg

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

TBH it really doesn't make much sense to exclude brentids but allow chalcidoids. Big loophole right there.

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like SOGA fits that even more, down to the name.

For the uninitiated, it’s the Sacred Order of the Geniculate Antennae (for weevil workers).

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

their manager

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

That person is a known freak and only about 100 people subscribe to it.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

I only know it because the Hawaiian native olive tree that was in that, but then they moved it to Nestegis and now something else (Nototelaea? something dumb) so nobody remembers Osmanthus anymore either. Plus here it’s better known by the local name, olopua.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

Yes it is

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

Famous in a very narrow sense, he’s one of the ICZN commissioners. I stayed with him while visiting the Riverside collection which he’s CM of. Interesting guy.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

Rocks? The kid of one of my taxonomist friends became a geologist, which I can't condone exactly but I guess it's an outlet.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

Why? It's the funniest part of this site.

somebody who put me on "block list of crazies" with three different sockpuppet accounts

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

And bongs are tobacco water pipes.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is lame. Also, general strike now!

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

This is good news, but hopefully future results will be published in a non-Frontiers journal, where the reviewers might notice things like symbols in a graph being different from the legend.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 3d

We’re making progress on intranasal delivery of our low cost recombinant protein Covid vaccine, in collaboration with @tulanemedicine.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Frontiers | Heterologous prime-pull mucosal vaccination with an adjuvanted RBD vaccine elicits robust IgA production and protects against SARS-CoV-2

Despite the efficacy of approved severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines in preventing severe disease and death, breakthrough i...

www.frontiersin.org

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2d

This whole thing is insane, but also, if they were to send him to Uganda, is there anything stopping him from immediately getting on a plane from there to Costa Rica? I'd think the main stumbling blocks would be the Ugandans (who don't want him there) or the Costa Ricans (who are ok with it).

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