Transitional Fossil
@transitfossil.bsky.social
retired mechanical engineer and computer scientist. avid swimmer. amateur classical guitar player. atheist. liberal. feminist. anti-fascist. never trump.
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BIZARRE LORE: Epstein's Cellmate + The Barr Connection
YouTube video by Noor Jasmine
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December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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So far the phenomenon of AI scraping everything as training data is heavily biased toward English language data.
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So far the phenomenon of AI scraping everything as training data is heavily biased toward English language data.
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NYT interviewed over 30 of Epstein’s former employees, victims, & associates. They dug through long-forgotten court cases & lawsuits.
The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes & friendship with Epstein that we’ve read in years. trumpfile.substack.com/p/new-claims...
The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes & friendship with Epstein that we’ve read in years. trumpfile.substack.com/p/new-claims...
New claims of Trump pursuing underage girls
Drugging women, Epstein sex parties, and pressuring minors to drink? The Epstein Files are heavily redacted, but this incredible reporting from yesterday isn't.
trumpfile.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
NYT interviewed over 30 of Epstein’s former employees, victims, & associates. They dug through long-forgotten court cases & lawsuits.
The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes & friendship with Epstein that we’ve read in years. trumpfile.substack.com/p/new-claims...
The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes & friendship with Epstein that we’ve read in years. trumpfile.substack.com/p/new-claims...
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Some Trump Admin policies can be traced to long held goals of the right. Some to donor priorities. Other to culture war biases.
This, the government suppression of an entire industry, is due to a property dispute the President had 15 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This, the government suppression of an entire industry, is due to a property dispute the President had 15 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Some Trump Admin policies can be traced to long held goals of the right. Some to donor priorities. Other to culture war biases.
This, the government suppression of an entire industry, is due to a property dispute the President had 15 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This, the government suppression of an entire industry, is due to a property dispute the President had 15 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The problem is not “corporate media” per se. It’s media owned by conglomerates. For most of US history, including the last 65 years when mainstream journalism had its Greatest Hits of speaking truth to power, it was owned by private interests. Who sometimes were mission driven, but also by profit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The problem is not “corporate media” per se. It’s media owned by conglomerates. For most of US history, including the last 65 years when mainstream journalism had its Greatest Hits of speaking truth to power, it was owned by private interests. Who sometimes were mission driven, but also by profit.
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Russia is prepared to confirm in a legal agreement that it has no intention of attacking the European Union or NATO. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday.
Sometimes something unplanned happens.
Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.
Sometimes something unplanned happens.
Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Russia is prepared to confirm in a legal agreement that it has no intention of attacking the European Union or NATO. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday.
Sometimes something unplanned happens.
Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.
Sometimes something unplanned happens.
Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.
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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
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I’d literally take a new grad RN over RFK jr as HHS secretary.
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’d literally take a new grad RN over RFK jr as HHS secretary.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Mob boss. Always the revenge and retribution to the blue states. He did that to wind farms on the East Coast.
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Mob boss. Always the revenge and retribution to the blue states. He did that to wind farms on the East Coast.
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NEW: Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually.
The FDA reports testing only a few dozen of them every year, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
Here’s what we found when we did our own testing:
The FDA reports testing only a few dozen of them every year, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
Here’s what we found when we did our own testing:
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually.
The FDA reports testing only a few dozen of them every year, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
Here’s what we found when we did our own testing:
The FDA reports testing only a few dozen of them every year, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
Here’s what we found when we did our own testing:
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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As it relates to Pam Bondi, I don't think the "inherent contempt" charge goes far enough. She should be in prison. But then, so should the entire regime
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As it relates to Pam Bondi, I don't think the "inherent contempt" charge goes far enough. She should be in prison. But then, so should the entire regime
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Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
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One more 🖕🏼from the Trump Administration.
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One more 🖕🏼from the Trump Administration.
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Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯
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Believe the women.
That’s literally all we had to do.
We need to believe the victims.
We need to acknowledge how many men are predators.
We need to explore the reasons victims don’t come forward.
We need to take sexual assault more seriously.
We need to punish predators.
That’s literally all we had to do.
We need to believe the victims.
We need to acknowledge how many men are predators.
We need to explore the reasons victims don’t come forward.
We need to take sexual assault more seriously.
We need to punish predators.
December 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Believe the women.
That’s literally all we had to do.
We need to believe the victims.
We need to acknowledge how many men are predators.
We need to explore the reasons victims don’t come forward.
We need to take sexual assault more seriously.
We need to punish predators.
That’s literally all we had to do.
We need to believe the victims.
We need to acknowledge how many men are predators.
We need to explore the reasons victims don’t come forward.
We need to take sexual assault more seriously.
We need to punish predators.
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All my life, I've heard, "It's never been harder to be young." That is a platitude, not necessarily true (like "The world has never been more complicated"). But when I read things like this, I think: nightmare. apnews.com/article/scho...
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her.
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All my life, I've heard, "It's never been harder to be young." That is a platitude, not necessarily true (like "The world has never been more complicated"). But when I read things like this, I think: nightmare. apnews.com/article/scho...
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"Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words, and actions is as important as being kind to others." ~Author Unknown
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words, and actions is as important as being kind to others." ~Author Unknown
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“Christianity was present in Africa long before the imposition of colonial rule;
however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian societies, its influence was relatively limited.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-hi...
however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian societies, its influence was relatively limited.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-hi...
A brief history of Christianity in Africa's Religious Traditions
Christianity was present in Africa long before the imposition of colonial rule; however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Christianity was present in Africa long before the imposition of colonial rule;
however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian societies, its influence was relatively limited.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-hi...
however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian societies, its influence was relatively limited.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-hi...