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🇵🇭🇺🇸 👾🖖🏽 siya/he/him; gringo filipino in ALX/NoVA, PhD ekomomista, marine veteran; Vallejo born; #UCSC 🍌🐌, SF State🐊, UC Berkeley🐻. #NAFO 🇺🇦 🇹🇼, #FTTB, #DubNation, #NorCal, & #COYS. personal acct; skeets,likes,reposts are not views of employer or 🇺🇸 govt

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 24d

You can’t go wrong by saying “BOTH” for a lot of stuff you’re seeing here in the 🇺🇸 now

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d

This is either engineered to create mass chaos in the cruelest possible fashion, or is a consequence of complete incompetence. I suspect both, though by different people in the chain of command leading to this executive order.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 21h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Squall @squallleonhart.gay · 19h

ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE KEEP DYING 😭😭😭

D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

variety.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 23h

giant sucking sound of fees, commissions, and charges to the asset managers, me thinks

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 2d

The push by private equity and private credit firms to get their product into retirement accounts is so laughable. There is already a way to tap into the capital in 401ks — take your companies public!

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Wall Street Is Pushing Private Assets Into 401(k)s. We Asked Whether Anyone Wants Them.

Survey by Harris Poll on behalf of WSJ finds that only 10% of respondents are dissatisfied with their 401(k) investment offerings; yet many Americans are persuadable.

www.wsj.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 23h

lol this post showed up on my feed right after yours (great acct btw). fighting cocks errrywhere

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "Get the fuck out of my timeline"

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 23h

@repnikema.bsky.social TY for supporting federal workers + public services. Paul Osadebe & Palmer Heenan were fired for exposing civil rights & fair housing violations inside Housing & Urban Development. Federal workers exist to protect women + victims of civil rights abuses. Reinstate them.

Two men in suits carrying backpacks hug. One has a grim expression. The men were just fired from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for exposing the violation of fair housing and civil rights policies.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 1d

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 1d

Views | In his latest op-ed for The EDU Ledger, Dr. Keith Curry (@iamkeithcurry.bsky.social) shares a motivational call to action for higher education leaders to embrace bold, collaborative, and student-centered solutions.

Unapologetic Leadership: Yeah, Uh-Huh, You Know- What it is Maroon and Gray

Practitioners and policymakers must stop engaging in the same old, same old because that’s how you yield the same results. I am done with people saying, “This is how we’ve always done it” or “this is ...

www.theeduledger.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

if you watch these shorts you can see that tactical clothing and gear is essentially a guilty pleasure for men to have the same level of accessories as women

www.youtube.com/shorts/7x_qg...

Polish Army wz.93 Loadout 🇵🇱 #shorts

YouTube video by TrueMobster

www.youtube.com

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

must be why these equipment systems have names like MOLLE and ALICE here in the 🇺🇸

p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

avoiding hamstring or other injury risks on non-essential activities, perhaps?

p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

This is 20th in the league, relegation two divisions down bad. All the points came from the Jets kicker and defense!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

raise your hand if you know about Kessler syndrome from watching the anime series PLANETES 🖐️

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 4d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

exactly what I think of when I see articles on space debris

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

no expert here—I mainly follow the San Francisco 49ers who have a new stadium—but I know the Washington Commanders play in an old one.

what’s worse for me is the use (abuse?) of public tax revenue being used for private stadiums and arenas. not sure how often that occurs in the UK and elsewhere

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

ironic that Sumulong said that, then two decades later the Philippines was deep in Marcos’s authoritarianism, with the consent of the United States!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate that the Post quickly rectified this situation and added a credit that we did this story first.

The American Prospect first reported on the Labor Department’s comments that immigration policies are endangering the food supply and that American workers are unwilling to take agricultural jobs.

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p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

NFL looks better there than many 🇺🇸 stadiums!

p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 2d

a man in front of a wall with logos for carabao energy drink

ALT: a man in front of a wall with logos for carabao energy drink

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Spurs Women Blog @spurswomenblog.bsky.social · 3d

No points. But the team mostly withstood the onslaught (Walsh's long range strike the difference) and created a few chances in the final 10 mins. The biggest issue was that after doing so much good off the ball, we couldn't keep possession when we won it back. But 1-0 & organised defence =progress.

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