Brian McCullogh
@webmccullogh.bsky.social
73 year-old retired guy, didn’t expect to have followers. Joined to continue reading interesting posts from favourite f&sf authors, science writers, and learning new things from other interesting people. Occasional likes, replies, and reposts.
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨
A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry!
To join our mailing list for this project:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry!
To join our mailing list for this project:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨
A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry!
To join our mailing list for this project:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry!
To join our mailing list for this project:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
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they suggested that the mere possibility of some unknown, yet-to-be-detected threat warranted limiting vaccines to higher-risk populations—as if an experiment in that very approach hadn’t already been run in the United States several decades ago.
This Is What It Looks Like When RFK Jr. Wins
His handpicked ‘experts’ just voted to roll back hepatitis B vaccine guidelines—and reverse a historic public health victory.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
they suggested that the mere possibility of some unknown, yet-to-be-detected threat warranted limiting vaccines to higher-risk populations—as if an experiment in that very approach hadn’t already been run in the United States several decades ago.
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Anyone who continually gives you unsolicited advice is critiquing you
Please understand they want to shame women into a thinness/ aesthetic that renders them unable to rest/ resist.
This will not stop in our current climate
Please understand they want to shame women into a thinness/ aesthetic that renders them unable to rest/ resist.
This will not stop in our current climate
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Anyone who continually gives you unsolicited advice is critiquing you
Please understand they want to shame women into a thinness/ aesthetic that renders them unable to rest/ resist.
This will not stop in our current climate
Please understand they want to shame women into a thinness/ aesthetic that renders them unable to rest/ resist.
This will not stop in our current climate
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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The first principle of this is a load-bearing English middle class belief that all mental disorders are faked, that anyone sick for longer than a week is malingering, that people who say they are allergic to things are lying for attention, and so on.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The first principle of this is a load-bearing English middle class belief that all mental disorders are faked, that anyone sick for longer than a week is malingering, that people who say they are allergic to things are lying for attention, and so on.
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
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My owl bonafides have been questioned, so, here: the Ballad of Curly.
I promised animal stories, so: the Ballad of Curly, Best of Owls. CWs for thread: domestic abuse, animal-on-asshole violence.
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My owl bonafides have been questioned, so, here: the Ballad of Curly.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Danger Rug, Danger Rug, Nuthin's Stranger'n Danger Rug! 🦈🦈🦈
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Danger Rug, Danger Rug, Nuthin's Stranger'n Danger Rug! 🦈🦈🦈
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This is how they dismantle Medicare without saying they’re dismantling Medicare.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is how they dismantle Medicare without saying they’re dismantling Medicare.
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Your reminder that EotS is a snitch and part of the surveillance state and we do not teach our kids how to get used to being watched all the time. 😜
Santa's spy known as Elf on the Shelf is turning 20 this year. That's two decades of family memories and parental creativity and the occasional panic over where to move the elf to.
Parents under pressure offer creative tips for moving Santa's spy Elf on the Shelf
Santa's spy known as Elf on the Shelf is turning 20 this year. That's two decades of family memories and parental creativity and the occasional panic over where to move the elf to.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Your reminder that EotS is a snitch and part of the surveillance state and we do not teach our kids how to get used to being watched all the time. 😜
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
tapping the sign
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I do not care what how much propaganda Silicon Valley tries to spread saying otherwise, a machine vomiting up slop is never ever going to be art to me the way an human being sitting and making something with their soul, knowledge and skill set is.
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I do not care what how much propaganda Silicon Valley tries to spread saying otherwise, a machine vomiting up slop is never ever going to be art to me the way an human being sitting and making something with their soul, knowledge and skill set is.
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"I see that you are advertising for your restaurant in the town square. How DARE you not give me the full meal for free?!"
FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"I see that you are advertising for your restaurant in the town square. How DARE you not give me the full meal for free?!"
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people like to say that Trump and/or the GOP are acting as if they never expect to be out of power, but that's at least as true for SCOTUS' Republican supermajority, and, absent any kind of court reform, much more likely to be true
More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
people like to say that Trump and/or the GOP are acting as if they never expect to be out of power, but that's at least as true for SCOTUS' Republican supermajority, and, absent any kind of court reform, much more likely to be true
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i agree with a lot of the picks here fwiw but it’s a real weird ‘100 best episodes’ list that doesn’t differentiate in any way between reality shows and scripted ones
The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer
Ranking the 100 best television episodes of the 21st century, from Mad Men to Succession to Game of Thrones.
www.theringer.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
i agree with a lot of the picks here fwiw but it’s a real weird ‘100 best episodes’ list that doesn’t differentiate in any way between reality shows and scripted ones
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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It's a longshot people will get this joke
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's a longshot people will get this joke
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If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
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And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
When I worked at The Wherehouse, I kept having to take "Legend of the Overfiend" out of the kids section because "It's an animated movie, it must be okay."
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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If Microsoft wants to push this fake Ai slop... then I'm moving to Linux.
It's not even Ai, it's just plagiarism and fascist surveillance state writ large. True Ai would mean Microsoft was doing a Heckin' Slavery of a thinking organism. And also a genocide and torture.
It's not even Ai, it's just plagiarism and fascist surveillance state writ large. True Ai would mean Microsoft was doing a Heckin' Slavery of a thinking organism. And also a genocide and torture.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If Microsoft wants to push this fake Ai slop... then I'm moving to Linux.
It's not even Ai, it's just plagiarism and fascist surveillance state writ large. True Ai would mean Microsoft was doing a Heckin' Slavery of a thinking organism. And also a genocide and torture.
It's not even Ai, it's just plagiarism and fascist surveillance state writ large. True Ai would mean Microsoft was doing a Heckin' Slavery of a thinking organism. And also a genocide and torture.