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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 36m

“But women can always get a man if they just lower their standards!”

Cool story bro. You lower yours first.

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Kris 🐝 @joyfulenby.bsky.social · 42m

How weak is your God that a beer can and kneeling for the anthem were something he needed saving from?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 44m

Fair enough

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 3h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 2h

The old rule was have important data in at least three formats, and one should be physical.

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 7h

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 46m

Not a hard spot?

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 47m

Yeah it’s not actually simple, but I’d figure it out if I had to. And the logistics of being allowed to stay in another country are the really challenging part, so… yeah, would be nice if THAT part of the puzzle got solved. Sigh.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 1h

Honestlyyy I kinda figure it’s a win for me if they don’t let me back in, then I have an excuse to stay out!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2h

Just an absolutely massive number of people reading/hearing “this is a good and important thing to do if you can” as “this is the only good and important thing go do and will fix everything immediately” and assuming that everyone else also suffers from their appalling reading comprehension

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3h

the concept of "necessary but not sufficient" is dead thanks to the internet, everyone wants one neat trick the doctors don't want you to know.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2h

All kids deserve free meals.

Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 3h

Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

PRESIDENT OF MY BUTT

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

CHUCK TINGLE FOR PRESIDENT

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for censoring the pic so we don’t have to see his face so much

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah that’s it exactly. Too many people don’t understand that a vote for President isn’t a love letter, it’s a chess move. You’re picking the person you‘d rather have to fight in order to create the world you want.

No candidate is perfect but some are more persuadable to do better than others.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 3h

Stede adapts by next choosing an extremely raunchy song (it’s not a romantic love song, it’s about fucking!) and he’s a bit awkward at first but he gains confidence and starts throwing in gyrations and everything.

Ed ABSOLUTELY blows him in the bathroom after.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately I did see some “see, we didn’t have to vote for Harris to end the genocide” crap.

Trump’s bs was always going to fall apart, and it’s very possible that Harris wouldn’t have done better for Gaza but at least we would have some basic stability here to work from, ya know?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

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.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Side note: we’ve gotten used to it, but solar panels are kind of an insane technological advancement.

Virtually every other form of energy production, from coal to nuclear, is ultimately about turning a turbine to crank out energy.

But not solar. Solar just…sits there and makes energy. Like magic.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe I didn’t call it out loud, but I called it in my mind.

Israel isn’t going to stop murdering Palestinians until, at minimum, the US has a government that isn’t run by genocidal, enabling psychopaths.

Vote better next time.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 5h

This is a really important point.

They’re performing power for an audience.

For us.

To convince us that they have more power than they do.

They’re fear-harvesting.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 5h

His father’s reply changed his perspective. “I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

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

www.nytimes.com

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 15h

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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