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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1h

3/3 Please leave me alone already, I’m dying: Martin Luther on his deathbed, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose day is today.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 9h

Damn dude

bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 10h

“He has added nothing to our understanding of human character.”

-Henry James… on Charles Dickens!

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 10h

You are probably like a #47 pencil but go on about your gains 🙄 (complimentary)

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 10h

Endlessly fascinating! namerology.com/baby-name-gr...

NameGrapher

Explore the historical popularity of United States baby names Start typing in the lefthand text box and the graph will update. Click the option buttons for different types of results.Tips: Be sure to ...

namerology.com

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty popular 70s and 80s!

Graph showing the peak of popularity of the name Stephanie

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 12h

My argument would be she used to look like she could wield power with the Senate very close. Now it is clear she has no leverage and she also has some votes on some terrible appointees that can hang around her neck, when in the past she got the empty no votes she could sell as “being concerned”

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 12h

People I know in Maine thinks he has the juice and they all said Gideon was a bad choice and had all these Maine reasons why she would not register with folks. They think Collins is not long for the Senate

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 13h

Just say he has no authority to do this you absolute knobs

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14h

They've been arguing in court repeatedly that there are no plans for a shutdown and that they will honor all statutory obligations.
Not sure what a legal system does with a government that simply isn't credible.

Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

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.

reut.rs

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 15h

1 if train crowded 4 if just me but I get it

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 17h

I guarantee something unintentionally like this has been sold at the immensely and famously sketch South Side BK in Pittsburgh PA. It is back to being real BK now but they run out of (checks notes) Whoppers and also show up on Pittsburgh scanner a fair bit! www.cracked.com/article_2801...

The Story Of The Rogue Burger King In Pittsburgh

Every city has its own fast food urban legend, here's Pittsburgh's.

www.cracked.com

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 20h

Continues theme where subhed is some guys were wrongly convicted of the crime

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 20h

Nassau Police Charge Man With Raping and Killing Teenager in 1984

Theresa Fusco was left in the woods near the roller rink where she had worked. “I loved her and I miss her,” her father said. “She lives in my heart.”

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 21h

we are recruiting a postdoc with interest in using genomics and molecular biology to study transcription factors. We have an R35 to fund the project/salary.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21h

JAM (3 x 🔫)

👻 Boo!-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 21h

Well he found his little lonely love
His bride of the northern woods
But, she took me to the Opera House
Like she said she would
Then she sighed and she fell from the balcony
Shakespeare's bent to touch
She never had any time for me
'Cause I didn't protest enough

Lake Ontario! Live! @lake-ontario.live · 21h

Current* conditions near Kingston, ON:

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 22h

I present your tRNA CCR4-NOT paper to the ugrads in Advanced Mol Bio but maybe will have to switch it out haha for this one

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 23h

Quality control on the font sizes on the new PA license plates is below Cheez It level

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 1d

I think the only way I would have laughed harder is if you said the Horta. No- not even then!!!

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOD YOU CRAZY FOR THIS ONE FOUNDIE

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the way >>>

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, WHAT? The IRB gone. The IRB!

What an extraordinarily dangerous, harmful, unethical bunch of MAGA and MAHA lackeys we now have running US public health, healthcare, and health research; they have totally lost their moral compass (assuming they once had one?).

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...