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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 3h

Wtaf!!!

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4h

of course, science says no such thing: every biologist I know who isn't a bigot knows sex is phenomenally complicated in the non-human world. Human sex is complicated too, but with the added fun of culture, which defines what our sex *means*.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4h

in fact, I'm pretty sure the first people I ran across who opposed gender diversity (and griped about "feminists with blue hair") were militant atheist skeptics

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4h

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 4h

I know I was answering the headline

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 5h

You can donate to Ahmed’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1426...

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 5h

Pundit implies expertise. She has none

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

www.democracynow.org

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 5h

No. Next question

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 5h

Ahem I am here

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 5h

I can do what I can but I’m not on her often enough. Also what happened to Link

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 11h

This is the level we're dealing with here

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 11h

I have fond memories of Maley being astonished that the IFLS founder was a woman, because she could not conceive of a woman being a scientist.

Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 20h

Senior journalist.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 11h

Diane Keaton? Ah. Eff.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t read this shit without finding my sanity standing on the edge of a precipice

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 18h

Bad but also relieved they will be rehired

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

This is social. As someone who was in the audience when someone threw shoes at our former pm and found it shocking, it’s deeply ingrained and you know my brain works the same way

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds reut.rs/4mVWtAd

Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds

Much could still go wrong.

reut.rs

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a z!0, find a fascist

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I can relate : I’ve had exactly the same feelings/experiences

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

So like the entire US govt since WWII

Dr. Steven Quest @drstevenquest.bsky.social · 1d

If your organization supports the use of force to accomplish regime change and is openly talking about the trillions in investment opportunity in a country you want to lead, you’re a problematic Nobel Peace Prize winner. You’re not Desmond Tutu or Nelson Mandela.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

We are very privileged and conditioned in that way; which is normally a good thing. But now we have to step up and it’s terrifying

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I’m both too old and too young for this

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the call of Cthulhu was coming from inside the house

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe I not only have to deal with colonial bullshit but now there’s all new colonial bullshit with some hard core fascism to deal with

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Sam @februaryfriday.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this.
Autumn + Dad urgently need funds for shelter. They often have to pay last minute, which is v stressful. They deserve a break.
$130 for one night
$550 for a week - 11 ppl with $50
Anything helps
bsky.app/profile/alpa...

Autumn @alpacawax.bsky.social · 1d

autumnalpaca.carrd.co
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕

70/130 1 Day
70/550 2 Weeks

13hrs until payment due for shelter. Food is covered with leftovers from tonight, so just shelter needed. Anything helps, still under a frost warning/freeze advisory, van still v broken.

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