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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

It's cool that domesticated pigs *immediately* go feral.

Like, basically overnight their bodies literally transform, they reshape themselves to become faster, stronger, better predators.

Which is one reason why they thrive so well in disasters.

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 3d

Data available upon request

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3d

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

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3d

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

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3d

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

“a supply chain attack”

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 2d

The data’s in Excel.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 4d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 3d

The principle of least data. What data is needed specifically to answer a question or understand something? If you collect more data than you actually need, then you remain responsible for all of it and labor in the case of a breach.

Dheeraj DeeKay @meetdheeraj.bsky.social · 3d

Tech bros and govt will have you believe that privacy is about protecting data from accessed by wrong hands and so on. While it is that but more importantly it is about protection against creation of such data in itself.

Lot of data that gets generated honestly should cease to exist immediately.

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Final Fagtasy III: Pixel Remaster @jygglypuffdaddy.bsky.social · 9d

the way you learn everything you need to know about a person by asking them "beyoncé or taylor swift"

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 9d

If it’s not lipstick and wigs, I don’t wanna know

NPR @npr.org · 9d

Women have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to living longer. They outlive men by about 5 years. This gender gap is true for many mammals, but a new study shows how human males could narrow it. n.pr/4nE51go

Why do women live longer than men? Study offers clues to close the gap

Women have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to living longer. They outlive men by about 5 years. This gender gap is true for many mammals, but a new study shows how human males could narrow it.

n.pr

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 10d

Robot personhood/rights is conceptually bogus and legally puts more power/rights in the hands of those that develop and deploy robots/AI systems

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 10d

Yup. Just eat the marshmallow. Or not, if you don't like marshmallows.

James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 10d

There is no second marshmallow.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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🍂 fall firmstival 🍂 @ind3fatigable.online · 10d

Code isn't king.
Rules aren't king.
None of this shit matters.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 10d

-regular sunscreen usage

-promptly treat what seems like low-grade medical stuff b/c it will probably get worse with age

-accumulate positive life experiences

-be part of community & society, eg volunteer, donate, know your neighbors

-therapy is easier now than later

-art/hobbies are Good

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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ceej @ceej.online · 12d

it’s the job of a ceo to eat shit on behalf of the corporation. if you can’t do that without gagging, hire corporate comms. if you don’t want to do that maybe you shouldn’t be a ceo, which again, you don’t have to be. this is like complaining that your throne of skulls is too pokey

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ceej @ceej.online · 12d

when you become a boss you lose the right to chop it up with the employees in the break room. you gave that up in exchange for power. if you want a business AND the camaraderie, start a co-op

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

The perfect encapsulation of Politico.

"Of course the White House is lying, but it's a pretty savvy lie, so let's see how it plays?"

It's all a fun little game with no stakes to them. It's like they're recapping episodes of Real Housewives.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14d

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.bsky.social · 14d

October is here & there are rules. First off, corn mazes are fun but they’re no place for the living. Avoid. Secondly, don’t split up to go and investigate a weird noise, that’s what they want you to do. And lastly, if you see a guy running around with a pumpkin for a head, it's too late for you.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.

youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15d

it turns out if you start to choose to do the right thing for your life and you health, no one who actually cares about you will think negatively about you for making those tough choices

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 15d

literally anyone who has done abortion rights work in the last 30+ years could tell you that "destroy science by any means necessary" was the only thing on the bingo card

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 15d

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 16d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 15d

So a Trumper with an assault rifle massacred people in a church and burned it down because he hated Mormons. But we're so used to seeing THAT, it'll be out of the news by the end of the week.

No flags at half staff for the slain worshippers I guess.

Jason Allen, a Burton resident, told CNN that even locals who didn't personally know Sanford recognized his truck.
With flags flying from the back as Sanford drove it through town, "you couldn't miss the truck," Allen said. Sometimes, he said, Sanford would
"switch one of his flags out for a 'F*** Biden' flag."
Sanford, who went by "Jake," was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman, according to military records and social media posts. He grew up in the Flint area and had lived for years in the suburb of Burton, public records show.

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Donny @dgschell.bsky.social · 16d

Have you ever considered that too many slow burn shows today are *too* slow burn?

Like, the story doesn't start going until episode four and then by the finale on episode eight you realize that barely anything actually happened?

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome to the club, diva

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16d

Pushing AI into everything right now makes sense because we’re in the thick of an anti-expertise era, and everything it “makes” relies on malicious dilettantes believing that whatever it spits out is good enough for whatever industry or consumer base to which it’s parasitically affixing itself.

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