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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 7h

Quiet quitting, but somehow to help your boss that made the place a cesspit to start with.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Anu Li @panikadoc.bsky.social · 15h

Check out this brief MPR piece on our research, including my study’s finding about prions binding to aquatic sediments.

U of M researchers studying how CWD lingers and travels in environment

U of M researchers studying how CWD lingers and travels in environment

Four years ago, deer infected by chronic wasting disease were illegally dumped on public land in Beltrami County. Since then, a team from the University of Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outr...

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 9h

"Viewpoint diversity." 😂

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 13h

“Since the 1970s, when California’s green turtles first surfaced, scientists have suspected that the animals represent an expansion of the species’ known range… these suspicions are almost definitely true.”

A shot of hope from @biographic.bsky.social.

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Go North, Young Turtle

As eastern Pacific green sea turtles were being slaughtered in much of their range, an intrepid group of turtles pushed north into uncharted waters.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 13h

Me over hear using ChatGPT for the 3rd time ever:

Tell me how a hair follicle is organized, anatomical. Show an image that you generate that is accurate. Keep in mind I am watching you an "There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes."

A chat GPT prompt that reads: Tell me how a hair follicle is organized, anatomical. Show an image that you generate that is accurate. Keep in mind I am watching you an "There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes."

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 13h

At issue is we've allowed lawyers and politicians to tell US what conflict of interest is (and they are a slippery bunch), versus US telling THEM what a conflict of interest is. And, this is what we get--slippery Jacob Hill.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 13h

It should be a felony. That's the law that needs to be passed.

Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 13h

He's a liar and even his supporters know it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 19h

My spouse uses her Leica in certain contexts (instead of Hasselblad and Mamiya) for reasons he mentions—unassuming/small. Cool pics this guy took!

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 19h

It’s propaganda. Please call it that.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 19h

notes that James Woods played an anti-government character in a movie who tried to overthrow the government--White House Down, so this is on brand.

Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 20h

This is Steve Grove's legacy. It's a light version of what Bari Weiss will do with CBS. Every one of these squids should be shamed in public for their lack of courage and their whitewashing of the facts.

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Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · 23h

Craig Calcaterra mentioned this song this morning marking the retirement of Dr. Demento and now it's my earworm. Incredible that I remember all the words. Now where the hell are my keys?

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They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa! with Lyrics - Jerry Samuels

YouTube video by Jerry Samuels aka Napoleon XIV

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 1d

Who is it?

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I saw a snowflake!
Sorry, we really needed this rain. #Minneapolis #MPLS

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

7/ Caught in a lie, Frey never apologized. Instead, we got his famously weasely “Language became more casual, including my own.” BTW this is the 1st election voters can hold Frey accountable for lying & Locke dying, but the incident is almost memory-holed in coverage. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...