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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · 3d

📚💡💙 #TheGeniusBat #StMartinsPress #YossiYovel

Learn many amazing ways of bats - and the who's and hows that have given us this knowledge. And it's all highly readable thanks to Yossi Yovel's writing.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · 8d

Lots of great - and surprising - info.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 16d

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · 27d

💡📚 #SoYouWanttoOwnGreenland #NetGalley #MelvilleHouse

Trump is far from the first. Geopolitics made clear.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 12

They can’t stop lying about Charlie Kirk…

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hahahahaha

Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wonderful bowl!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 31

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Sep 1

Same here - I have thought about watching Scarface, but gotten no farther.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 31

RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?

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Alt National Endowment for the Humanities @altnehgov.altgov.info · Aug 28

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚

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no one sees me anyway @dhighl5184.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 22

And obviously they do indeed belong there. Savor the feeling!

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 20

wowza

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

Rep. Jeff Van Drew claims he’s spoken to “large numbers” of dead people who had mail ballots sent to them

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 13

Entertaining and informative survey of the uses and evolution of rope through the ages.

#booksky #nonfiction #Ropebook #@TimQueeney #StMartinsPress

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 11

Steve "Somebody has to do it."

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Jeffrey Epstein procure and sexually abuse young women, was transferred to a cushy minimum-security prison in Texas in the midst of Trump needing her support with the Epstein files.

We all know what's happening but shouldn't lose focus. www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors

They've already told us everything we need to know...

www.jezebel.com

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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · Aug 2

Accurate data is neither blue nor red.

Beau @runningsignal.com · Aug 2

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 2

Nova

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 2

I found a buyer for my grandmother's elephant collection. The price wasn't important, but the woman's son was involved with the circus so it was going to him.

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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · Aug 2

Found shopping lists. They're harder to find now, but always somehow interesting.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · Jul 23

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

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