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Brian Wolven
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Coulrophobic Hydra tamer. Terrified of dyslexic zombies. Friend to arachnids. All of my puns are 100% organically groan.

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https://wolven.us/

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-2332
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brianwolven.bsky.social
New holiday acronym coined in response to our just-completed trip to the grocery store—OFIFOEFY—pronounced pretty much how it looks, or however you’d like, really.

Our Fridge Is Full Of Eggnog F*ck Yeah

Say it with enthusiasm, and a tasty glass of the same.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Trump sent Vance there twice. He threatened to cut off all federal spending to the state. He vowed to back primary challengers of any Republican who voted against him here. He posted their names online, prompting his fans to send them death threats.

But all that failed, so now he wasn't involved.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.

Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔
THEY TRIED TO BURY ME BUT THEY DIDNT KNOW I WASA POTATO The Velvet Bandit
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭
riddle in the style of elf on a shelf. Image showing a famous space telescope on top of a spherical object filled with air that you would blow as a kid with soapy liquid.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
Wow. Canadian winters are not just dark in the “lack of sunlight” sense.
🎅🔪🩸
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
…at night the ice weasels come.
clementcomposer.com Emmanuel Clement @clementcomposer.com · 1d
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
Oh, the weather outside is frightful And since we've no place to go It doesn't show signs of stopping How I hate going out in the storm The fire is slowly dying
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
We don’t exactly need more Christmas ornaments in this household, but I couldn’t resist these two when we got our tree tonight.
Two space-themed ornaments hang from the branches of a Fraser fir tree. One depicts a space-suited figure “sitting” in the arc of a crescent moon. The other also has a space suited figure floating amongst a collection of planets that vaguely resemble objects in our solar system.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit December 9, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial. During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting. Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well. Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is … It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth. What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda. When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic. Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image. America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.

I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
alcibiades1234.bsky.social 𝔻𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕖 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 3d
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
jesus christ
post from reddit, title "Plastered all over the Pentagon today." poster on a column that says "I WANT YOU TO USE AI" with a illustration of pete hegseth pointing
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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atrupar.com
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?

TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
I think perhaps this is where the worlds of @artologica.net and @astrokatie.com collide.

#squirrels #general_relativity
Hyperacute Interdynamics
xkcd.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
It's day 9 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here, have a hermit crab 😘
a light pink hermit crab stands in like. idk, imagine they're about to start dancing in the musical chicago, with legs all spread out? That's how they're standing. On a leaf.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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vexedmuddler.bsky.social
Timiny Cricket wants to help @brianwolven.bsky.social open the Eel Facts scratch-off calendar from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social & @skypeascientist.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ethankocak.com
If geckos have taught me anything, it’s that the Virgin Mary reproduced via parthenogenesis and Jesus should be a female clone of Mary
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
I prefer to just ask stackoverflow, but yes, yikes. Many ffmpeg operations are the CLI equivalent of a run-on sentence. 😵‍💫
manton.org Manton Reece @manton.org · 9d
The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really understand or edit it without AI.
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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artologica.net
#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 1 Mitosis in Drosophila 5, Ink on Yupo, 2025 #sciart
black and blue ink painting with oval shapes
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
For my first #ArtAdventCalendar this year I'm going for the piece that I'm proudest of, I really had a good play and experiment with it and am so happy with how it turned out. I'd had the idea for a while and then everything clicked...

#ArtSky #WildlifeArt #Moths
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a group of 23 moths of different colourful species flying and perching around a lit light bulb, surrounded by foliage. The foliage and light bulb are all drawn in black, in the top left is a section of trailing ivy which leads to two thin branches, on of which has a Kentish Glory moth clinging to it. The light bulb is hanging in the centre of the image from a woven single light cord and the edison style bulbs filament is glowing. In the bottom right corner of the image is a large leaf with an equally large female emperor moth perched on it, just above this is a series of tall grasses, one of which has a scarlet tiger moth clinging to it. There is also a small clump of grass in the bottom left corner of the image which very slightly obscure a large emerald moth beneath. The other moths include a mint moth, peppered moth, ethmia pusiela, scarce forester moth, barred hook-tip moth, ruby tiger moth, brimstone moth, mother shipton moth, blood-vein moth, cinnabar moth, schreckensteinia festaliella, large fruit tree tortix moth, elephant hawk moth, buff ermine, red underwing moth, hummingbird hawk moth, hypercallia citrinilis, chrysoclistra linnella and the herald moth. All of these are either perched facing or flying around the light bulb.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
And let's get December going!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1

Nightwatch 22x44in 56x112cm
Oil on Canvas
2023

#Art #Painting
Abstract landscape of a storm front at night with lightning in the distance
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
It's done!!! 30 days of #Nudivember. 30 glorious nudibranchs. One tired artist.
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
brianwolven.bsky.social
This happened on November 11, whereas the event that led to the grounding of the Airbus aircraft because of problems with their fly-by-wire systems supposedly took place on October 30. I wonder what the levels were on that date?
UK space weather probe captures biggest solar radiation spike in almost 20 years
New balloon-mounted space radiation probes developed by the Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey have captured their first measurements of a major solar storm, confirming the research team'...
phys.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM