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John Boekeloo @boekeloo.bsky.social · 7h

Here is a good timeline on the 666 5th Ave loan. Trump has been extorting Qatar for a quite some time. Jared Kushner has been the biggest beneficiary of Trump's corruption. www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeli...

Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy

A comprehensive account of Jared Kushner, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House support for the blockade of Qatar after the Qataris rejected Kushner Companies.

www.justsecurity.org

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

Creative friends are the best.

eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 7h

one thing i'm very happy for our daughter is that she has artists and musicians in her life. one of our crafty friends sends her hand-illustrated letters, and this week's came with a sweet watercolor. 🐈

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. Absolutely.

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

Jess is one of my favorite peeps.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 13h

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

The Qatar Crises was engineered.

It absolutely was.

Qatar’s wealth fund refused Kushner’s “invitation” to invest.

He and his buddy in Saudi Arabia then implemented the first steps that would become the Qatar Crises.

It was payback and setting up extortion down the road.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

With zero debate, no votes, and no explanation offered to the American public, Trump gives Qatar a NATO like Article 5 like agreement whereby America will respond to any attack on Qatar with force.

In a sea of corruption stories in this administration, this is one of the biggest.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

Backstory:

Jared Kushner in the 1st Trump administration engineers the Qatar Crisis (look it up) to punish Qatar for not investing with him.

Trump org partners w/Diar.

Qatar gives Trump several billion dollars for a golf course there.

Qatar gives Trump a 747 that U.S. taxpayer pays for.

Cont…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 7h

Peeps always look so good in their dress blues.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, got home late last night.

Alice was pleased to see me.

Alice, a tortoiseshell cat on blankets in a bed.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · Mar 26

Don’t fear death. Fear the regrets and shames that linger when it comes.

Get out there and make them right. Live. Breathe. Create.

Spread joy.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 2d

'I somehow never appreciated the only person equally worshipped by punks, rappers, preachers, cowboys, metalheads, rastas, soul singers, bluesmen, grandmothers, & Bob Dylan - the fault must be everybody's.'

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

It about time to make an open source platform replacement, eh?

AT Protocol based TikTok @jay.bsky.team ?

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RIP TikTok 🪦

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

go.stonking.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

He’s a monster.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for releasing this discussion on how to confront autocracy.

youtu.be/gRNaIMR00Fc?...

How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama

YouTube video by Obama Foundation

youtu.be

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

This is the strategy:

bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 21h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

When you move so far right that you have become a fascist, everything else seems like left bias.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

Pirate Wires—founded by Peter Thiel protege Mike Solana (with an investment from Thiel— whines that Wikipedia calls Trump an “authoritarian.” 10/10/25 … 1/ www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-...

Wikipedia Declares Trump an Authoritarian

a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion

www.piratewires.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

Two options here:

1) They really did intend to fire them and underestimated the fire and pushback.

2) They are absolutely incompetent.

Either option is bad for America.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Stephan Preibisch @preibischs.bsky.social · 1d

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

“You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why? Why?"

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media needs to be playing these videos non-stop and following up on clear abuses of power.

Where is the investigative journalism?

I’ve seen perhaps hundreds of these videos and they are happening all across the country right now.

These are not isolated events.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

I laugh every. single. time. I see this.

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 1d

Look I respect the hustle.

A far side cartoon shows two spiders have built a web at the bottom of a playground slide. One of them says “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

I laugh every time I see that.

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