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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 14m

If this is enough to make you quit, the city is better off without you.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

The teen pregnancy rate has plunged in the United States by about 70% over the last 30 years (and with it, the teen abortion rate).

Apparently, the GOP doesn't like it.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

TBF, the UK kind of deserves the Jets right now.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

Try including magnetic fields.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

If only it were that coherent.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 10h

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 5h

This is something I hear periodically from foreign nationals: WTH is with all the drugs ads in your country?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13h

One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 7h

"Gymnasts won't win unless you abuse them" is another one of those things everyone knew that turned out to be complete horseshit.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 7h

I forgot about this piece. TBF, she wasn't the only one saying the US couldn't win w/o Karolyi's abuse. But since it was published: Silver, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver, Gold for team. Six straight al-around titles. I'd say we're doing OK.

Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 7h

I've seen people on my timeline bemoaning Jenkins's fall from a respected sports writer to whatever this is. Then I get linked this piece, in which she gushes over abusive coach Béla Károlyi and mocks his victims.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 7h

I did read it. It's a condescending factually-challenged fluff piece that can't get its slang right. The Free Press claims to want to do objective journalism but somehow always publishes pieces that tickle Right Wing fancies, such as the horrendous piece they did on George Floyd.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 10h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

You would be forgiven for not knowing that PSU made the national semifinals … last year.

Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 10h

NEWS: Penn State has fired James Franklin, source confirms.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

This is what Miller whacks to: the terror being instilled in various communities.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 8h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

“We’re effectively overturning decades of precedent but we don’t want to do it for reals in case a Democrat ever gets in the White House.”

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

This would be reasonable if they were consistently deciding in favor of status quo ante or not reviewing TROs. But given their deference to Trump every single time, it’s plain cowardice.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

When someone accidentally tells the truth.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 8h

That looks like a nightmare I’d have after eating too much cheese.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 11h

The people who are about to send healthcare costs through the roof want you to know it’s because we don’t let immigrants die in the streets.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 14h

Seems only fair since he’s been killing bears, children and wives for years.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 14h

They’re “fixing it” in the same way a hitman fixes a rival.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 14h

Trump v US should absolutely be Roberts’ legacy. It’s up there with Plessy or Korematsu.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15h

As a singular American figure, the 47th president might have a singular effect on Roberts's legacy. That's why the Trump opinion looms so large. It would be a tragedy for Roberts if his long tenure as chief justice were reduced to that single ruling and opinion because the portents of doom in the Sotomayor dissent prove accurate in the extreme-and turn what
Roberts meant as the solution to a problem of constitutional governance into a license for autocracy.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a gag in a Tom Hanks movie where he’s a medical student trying to bluff his way through an exam and when asked about a piece of anatomy guesses “uh … the poop chute?”

We’re now doing it for real.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

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