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Matt Thompson

@mvthomster.bsky.social

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Actual PhD in Plant Physiology (not from an LLM). Building platforms for Agriculture. E-bike commuter. ->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<- LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids #trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 9m

Roddy Ho vs Diana Taverner is genuinely funny

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 2h

Remember how angry right-wingers were about Waco? I do.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 13h

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid.

#Sufficiency

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I am the walrus @buttly.bsky.social · 2h

in this house we believe
science is real
live laugh love
reskeet viscacha posts

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3h

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 4h

^ Why he loved The Phantom Menace

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased. #sciart

Watercolor painting with blue and red blobby shapes

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 9h

No true Scotsman!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 10h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 10h

"but there are a lot of good cops"

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 10h

an artist ... the kind of person who could be profoundly moved and surprised, and *wanted* to feel that way all the time

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed, I drop off my youngest at school by e-bike and although it takes longer to get there (slightly) the time saved from not having to find parking on arrival far outweighs any cost

Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 12h

Endorse

I don't think most have yet adequately valued the "almost" in "almost the same utility"

E-bikes (and e-cargobikes) have the potential to significantly disrupt everyday transit

Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 13h

It might be speculative, but e-bikes are beginning to compete with cars (also BEVs) if the infrastructure exists.

Why would I pay for ten times the dealership price, repair and maintenance, and a hundred times the fuel costs when the e-bike has almost the same utility?

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 13h

Finally

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 13h

worst Catholic alive

Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 13h

you're right, back then he was starting to roll

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 13h

true, but when I'm accessorizing my camping gear (which I definitely do), I'm accessorizing "within my norms, and, yes, I love accessorizing, even when it's non-functional"

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d

Bull’s eye …

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 13h

Was not, for the record, a Phil major, but Stanford was a small place.

Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who names a data surveillance company Palantir is a deeply confused Ayn Rand enthusiast.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

oof yeah, that's real

Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

David Sacks also participated

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

his biggest claim to infamy was participating with a group of young conservatives from the Stanford Review in a campaign of harassment against a gay Resident Fellow in one of the Freshman dorms, all before he came out, decades later, of course

he is an unprincipled and cruel human, from his youth

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

Had the honor of being an undergrad with him and he was never not a piece of shit.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Massive fallen California laurel tree in the San Lorenzo River floodplain. This tree is in the Lauraceae family, a cousin of the avocado.

Giant tree fallen over, large child climbing on it. Sprout growing out of base.

Seeds of California laurel, green and purple.

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