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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 3h

OMG what a totally sweet if unhygienic act! Good kitty, sort of!

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 4h

"I helped!" meowed Wendy.

Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner

Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.

www.upi.com

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 4h

Awesome! There was a rosy maple moth on our patio once and I was so excited. Such amazing improbable creatures.

a close up of a moth on a person 's socks .

ALT: a close up of a moth on a person 's socks .

media.tenor.com

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 6h

So I'm just not sure what the mechanism is that's actually supposed to happen with a tax revolt by states. States systematically seizing and shutting down mechanisms of federal revenue collection in an organized way would be possible but pretty complex, and would probably look pretty aggressive.

Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 6h

States could raise an actual revolt with armed resistance, but it's hard to see them doing that right now and framing it as primarily being a beef about taxes. It would make more sense for it to be much more broadly justified.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 6h

Liberal states could take some action to protect people who are tax boycotting, but it would be complicated. They could also actively seek to impede federal tax collection, but that would also be difficult and complicated.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 6h

How liberal states specifically would do a tax boycott is not clear to me. Individuals and businesses across the country could do one, but the states aren't collecting the taxes for the feds so they can't just not send taxes.

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6h

To be absolutely clear, and here I am being sincere and a bit less positive- I think that if this truly just turns into "Congressional appropriations are just the King's Purse and Trump can do whatever he wants with them", which will be determined on the 1st, Blue states should tax revolt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 16h

(I'm not even dissing AI use this time. With or without AI, these people are trying to draw conclusions from markers that are not sufficiently reliably connected to the phenomenon they're trying to measure)

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 16h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 8h

from the author of

Why the Protests Help Trump
The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.
May 2, 2024

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 14h

The Worm represents flexibility, adaptability, surprise, determination. Reversed: hunger, greed, traps, unchecked growth. (A sand striker can grow almost 10ft. The spacecraft entering its jaws represents its broad diet and large appetite.) #inktober #invertober2025 #SpacetoberChallenge #OC_tober

A pen on paper drawing of a tarot card named THE WORM and numbered XXII. The open jaws of a sand striker or trapjaw worm are in the center, emerging from the sand. Underneath the sand is a very long sinuous segmented worm. Important fact: the main body of a worm is called its TRUNK. A small Apollo lunar module is entering the jaws.
The prompts are written to the right of the card: trunk, sand striker, spacecraft, tarot card.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 9h

I visited an AM transmitter site once, and there was a "tuning shack" that was basically just giant impedance matching components right before the actual antenna, and every single piece of metal was giving off audio. It was creepy.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 9h

same phenomenon is how people hear radio in their teeth btw, which is real

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 9h

the other day i was transmitting on 28 MHz and my voice came out my subwoofer so i had to unplug it and That’s Amplitude Modulation Baby

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of people--in federal/state/local government, in national/local media, in the RNC and the DNC--who need him to fail. Their livelihoods depend on him failing.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

What's going to be difficult is untangling active sabotage (which he will definitely face from all angles) vs. genuine failures

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

c'mon man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

Arguably you have to go back to 1929 to get the last crash in the US before 2000 related to a bubble like that. That's part of why the .com crash was earth shattering to the financial elite (for a minute). They were telling everyone who'd listen they'd made that kind of crash completely impossible.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

It feels like a lot more crashes but it's probably just the two so far. We've had other big recessions but stuff like the savings and loan crisis and the COVID recession seem like they likely weren't linked to a hyped product. You maybe could find a case for the S&L crisis.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18h

"A group of non-revenue-generating energy companies have collectively ballooned in value to more than $45 billion in hopes that tech companies will one day pay for their yet-to-be-built power.The biggest of these is the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo..."

The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks

Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.

www.wsj.com

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 19h

Actually I don't think general m**ls makes any cereals I'm allowed to eat so if there actually was a lot of content about their stuff I probably would have to mute it. I love cereal but I'm not allowed to eat iron fortified food cause they could you know seriously hurt me (the hemochromatosis).

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 19h

Gotta keep the cereal and nut content out of the feed?

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