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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 1h

It’s really something, the cognitive dissonance of watching our scientific community be dismantled while every day there’s an announcement of a new, unimaginably cool and useful discovery

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 14h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
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news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

Pounded in the Ass by the Torment Nexus

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 5h

They’ve finally invented the machine from legendary SF novel, Don’t Have Sex With The Torment Nexus

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 4h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 5h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · Jan 8

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10h

If you're one of the thousands of federal employees who Russ Vought/the Trump admin just RIF'd, I'm very interested in hearing from you about the work you've been doing and what services will now be hurt/gutted with you gone.

Anonymity granted.

[email protected] / Signal: jbendery.41

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 9h

This but unironically

Screenshot of a tweet by “birdsrightsactivist” (@ProBirdRights) with a photo of a small songbird, and text reading “I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 11h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Alexandra, an artist, designer, cartoonist and science communicator! I am currently looking for both representation for my illustration and comic work as well as design work for comics or cover art!

Get in touch: www.alexandragallant.com

abstract illustration of consciousness - neurons floating in space, with interconnecting and branching tendrils and sparks

An illustration - a bunch of overlapping veins and arteries with different translucent organs interspersed throughout the illustration, the effect is a tangled web of branching vessels with various 'organ' shapes overlaying on top, including a lung in the center of the page

colorful illustration of a dozen toucans on a soft sea foamy green background

Two pages from a comic I'm working on

Page 1 is a single panel

'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside'
Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain

Page 2 is 4 panels

Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach
Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible)
Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it)
Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 12h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 13h

good god, he actually literally said this

Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 13h

A line worthy of SNL from Leader Johnson: "The most threatening thing I've seen yet are the naked bicyclers in Portland."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14h

Interviewing Senators/Representatives about the shutdown has zero information utility

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Stephen Luntz @sluntz.bsky.social · 19h

I'm starting to think the whole invasion of Portland is just a way of subsidizing the inflatable costume industry.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 22h

Roger sure looks like he was taken aback.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 22h

Hahaha omg you NEVER KNEW THIS? That’s fantastic.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 23h

"the 13-year-old alien"

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 1d

My dad, the Hai Karate Guy, told me a story about going to a TV audition and sitting next to James Cromwell, who was absolutely incensed that my dad thought he had the right to try out for those parts

So, as far as I'm concerned, James Cromwell can go fuck himself sideways

Socks 'n' Boots @socksandboots.bsky.social · 1d

What's the ruling on commercial actors appearing in TV shows and movies? It took me a few hours after seeing One Battle After Another that the reason "Bob" looked familiar to me was because he was the Dilly Dilly King.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 1d

It reminds me a little bit of the Michael Caine line about JAWS 4: "I have never seen Jaws 4, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific." Good for him.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 1d

My dad was well known enough in the 1970s and 1980s -- strictly from his work in television advertising -- that strangers would recognize him and call him out on the street. He loved it.

I don't get calling it "tacky" for well known actors to appear in TV ads.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 1d

My father was one of the best known TV commercial personalities in the 1970s and even I don't think I buy this.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 1d

The source for this -- because I didn't know it either -- is the 1943 film THOUSANDS CHEER.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t care if trump personally cured childhood cancer we do not praise the fucking guy who wants to be a king for anything, ever

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