The Monarch Diaries
@monarchdiaries.bsky.social
Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
Pinned
my first test of a social science hypothesis:
If you leave a sizable bucket near a public path people will fill it with small bags of shit.
If you leave a sizable bucket near a public path people will fill it with small bags of shit.
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an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s
restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
youtu.be/W5_8U4j51lI?...
At Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s
restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
youtu.be/W5_8U4j51lI?...
Alice's Restaurant Massacre Illustrated
YouTube video by Andrew Colunga
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s
restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
youtu.be/W5_8U4j51lI?...
At Alice’s restaurant
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s
restaurant
Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s restaurant
youtu.be/W5_8U4j51lI?...
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Ternopil, 34 killed
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Ternopil, 34 killed
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Worldwide Tesla deliveries, not counting Optimus humanoid robots
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Worldwide Tesla deliveries, not counting Optimus humanoid robots
Disgusting.
BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee grants motion to dismiss Georgia case against Trump, others.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Disgusting.
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How did the US devolve into the late Qing dynasty, with Trump as the world’s oldest child emperor Puyi surrounded by scheming eunuchs?
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How did the US devolve into the late Qing dynasty, with Trump as the world’s oldest child emperor Puyi surrounded by scheming eunuchs?
Huge problem. They're gonna spring Peters, who got caught dead to rights tampering with voting machines.
👀
This should be getting nation wide coverage:
On November 14th, The Colorado Department of Corrections received a letter from the Federal Bureau of Prisons requesting that Tina Peters be transferred from state prison, where she’s been since Oct. 2024, to federal custody.
This should be getting nation wide coverage:
On November 14th, The Colorado Department of Corrections received a letter from the Federal Bureau of Prisons requesting that Tina Peters be transferred from state prison, where she’s been since Oct. 2024, to federal custody.
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Huge problem. They're gonna spring Peters, who got caught dead to rights tampering with voting machines.
The Boring Company is so great. All the Elon Musk scammy fakery, with none of the flashy techno wizard bullshit.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Boring Company is so great. All the Elon Musk scammy fakery, with none of the flashy techno wizard bullshit.
Guns have civil rights now
US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit reut.rs/4oYxcHn
US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit
The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, according to plans shared with Congress and reviewed by Reuters.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Guns have civil rights now
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Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail).
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail).
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
Yep. Ivermectin. We live in the bullshit age, after all.
InB4 “National Institute of Ivermectin Studies”
InB4 “National Institute of Ivermectin Studies”
Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
BREAKING via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social: The CDC's internal email server now lists Louisiana physician Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, as the agency's principal deputy director -- "an irresponsible choice," according to one public health expert.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Yep. Ivermectin. We live in the bullshit age, after all.
InB4 “National Institute of Ivermectin Studies”
InB4 “National Institute of Ivermectin Studies”
This is a slam dunk. Easiest resist ever, and dumbest authority theater
Now Trump is weaponizing the FBI to go after the Members of Congress who spoke out against him.
The President is corrupt and none of us should back down in the face of these intimidation tactics.
The President is corrupt and none of us should back down in the face of these intimidation tactics.
Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a slam dunk. Easiest resist ever, and dumbest authority theater
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In 1968, a soldier named Hugh Thompson defied orders to save Vietnamese lives during the My Lai massacre. Eventually seen as a hero, in real time he was vilified and nearly court-martialed
It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Catch-22 around Trump’s illegal orders | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Pennsylvania chooses a budget over the planet.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In 1968, a soldier named Hugh Thompson defied orders to save Vietnamese lives during the My Lai massacre. Eventually seen as a hero, in real time he was vilified and nearly court-martialed
It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
What is it Oracle actually does?
I mean, different from basically every boring company in the Big Computer Stuff space? Would anyone *really* notice if Larry’s shop went away, other than picking up a bunch of new clients?
I mean, different from basically every boring company in the Big Computer Stuff space? Would anyone *really* notice if Larry’s shop went away, other than picking up a bunch of new clients?
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What is it Oracle actually does?
I mean, different from basically every boring company in the Big Computer Stuff space? Would anyone *really* notice if Larry’s shop went away, other than picking up a bunch of new clients?
I mean, different from basically every boring company in the Big Computer Stuff space? Would anyone *really* notice if Larry’s shop went away, other than picking up a bunch of new clients?
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Detroit students from Western International High detained by ICE
Arrested on the city’s eastside, they were taken with family members to an ICE detention facility in Texas.
Arrested on the city’s eastside, they were taken with family members to an ICE detention facility in Texas.
Detroit students from Western International High detained by ICE
Arrested on the city’s eastside, they were taken with family members to an ICE detention facility in Texas.
www.bridgedetroit.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Detroit students from Western International High detained by ICE
Arrested on the city’s eastside, they were taken with family members to an ICE detention facility in Texas.
Arrested on the city’s eastside, they were taken with family members to an ICE detention facility in Texas.
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Current* conditions near Charlevoix, MI:
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Current* conditions near Charlevoix, MI:
Trump: “Get me someone from central casting!”
Central casting: *sends Capt. America McGraw from Generation Kill*
Central casting: *sends Capt. America McGraw from Generation Kill*
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump: “Get me someone from central casting!”
Central casting: *sends Capt. America McGraw from Generation Kill*
Central casting: *sends Capt. America McGraw from Generation Kill*
Having to put white mommy into their brown mommy prison camp is clearly hitting these ICE chuds where it hurts.
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Having to put white mommy into their brown mommy prison camp is clearly hitting these ICE chuds where it hurts.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
However the vast majority of these secret agents are Maxwell Smart
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
However the vast majority of these secret agents are Maxwell Smart
“Diplomacy is the gentle art of letting people have it your way.”
Daniele Vare
Daniele Vare
Zelensky announced that a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing” will take place today. Following the Geneva talks, he said there’s real momentum toward peace, with solid results already achieved and more work ahead. Key priorities and next steps have been coordinated among the partners.
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Diplomacy is the gentle art of letting people have it your way.”
Daniele Vare
Daniele Vare
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Turns out the deal Trump bragged about, the one where China would buy 12 million metric tons of US soybeans by year end, was never an actual deal.
It was a “concept” of a deal.
It was a “concept” of a deal.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Turns out the deal Trump bragged about, the one where China would buy 12 million metric tons of US soybeans by year end, was never an actual deal.
It was a “concept” of a deal.
It was a “concept” of a deal.
This is madness.
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is madness.