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Board certified retina surgeon. Fly fisher, photographer, homebrewer. MIT, Dartmouth and Stanford and public school alum. Unrepentant hacker. Ukrainian-American. My best friend is a pit bull. #FELLA
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7h
That’s not an “optical illusion.”

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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 2d
These guys all look like they were grown in a vat from the adipose cells of Trump’s ass.
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Ele Blue ✨️✨️✨️ @electricbluevi.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Birthday to one of my all-time favorite albums -
🎵 Blackberry Belle by The Twilight Singers 🎵

Immaculate.🖤
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Blackberry Belle - YouTube
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 2d
Incredibly Ten and Vs. both came out in 1993! Zero-to-rock in 3.2s. #20SongsByYear 20/20. With the impulse from this track the wave’s momentum peaked heading into ‘94…

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Pearl Jam - Go (Remastered)
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 5d
King Buzzo. #20SongsByYear 19/20 1993

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Melvins - Night Goat
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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 4d
Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d
the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)
Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d
"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 5d
King Buzzo. #20SongsByYear 19/20 1993

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Melvins - Night Goat
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
PJ Harvey rocks. #20SongsByYear 1993 18/20

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PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 6d
Perfect. Happier than ever to put on my Brass Rat today.
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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 6d
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. source: https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education. As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 6d
☝️MIT can’t be bought. apple.news/A2phj-ZGTSb-...
MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages — The Wall Street Journal
The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d
Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
Make it stop
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d
I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...
Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official
Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
This thread is pure gold
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d
I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d
NEW: Here's the two-count indictment against NY AG Letitia James. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
Same
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7d
I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d
This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
Yeah, not really the premise of the original question but in the spirit of “some artists are just good”:

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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
I’d be embarrassed for myself for even entertaining the thought of writing this article.

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A Trump Nobel prize? Breaking down the arguments — CNN
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary public lobbying campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize hasn’t proven very convincing.
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
Worm in brain
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d
"Baby in her placenta"
RFK Jr. Complains About TikTok Video of Woman Taking Tylenol With a 'Baby in Her Placenta'
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 7d
PJ Harvey rocks. #20SongsByYear 1993 18/20

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PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 8d
The 80s weren’t that far away. #20SongsByYear. 1993
Molly by Sponge album art
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 8d
From the era of actual MTV. #20SongsByYear. 16/20

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Primus - My Name Is Mud (Official Video) (Digitally Remastered) [HD/2160p/60fps]
YouTube video by WTFMusic ᴴᴰ
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 8d
The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 8d
And they took away the refunds you would be owed for flight cancelations.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d
Reminder this is all happening because Republicans refuse to let you have affordable health care.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9d
Air traffic control facilities across the United States are reportedly experiencing staff shortages amid Trump’s government shutdown.

These shortages are taking place in Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Washington, and more.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d
If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?
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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 8d
Kind of ironic that he finds being bought and sold like a commodity humiliating in this instance.
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