Abby's Dad
@joshalderman.bsky.social
Nerdily truthful, unintentionally euphemistic / doorman for cats.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
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Trump spent over a year painting himself into a corner and losing the Epstein file vote.
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trump spent over a year painting himself into a corner and losing the Epstein file vote.
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Thinking of the Helmand Culture woman from Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran with the sick ass golden artificial eye again.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thinking of the Helmand Culture woman from Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran with the sick ass golden artificial eye again.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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A friend brought me two loaves of fresh homemade bread, and I realize I’m thousands of years late on this, but we should all quit what we’re doing society-wise and just bake bread for each other.
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A friend brought me two loaves of fresh homemade bread, and I realize I’m thousands of years late on this, but we should all quit what we’re doing society-wise and just bake bread for each other.
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Popping up the shop, want anything...?
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Popping up the shop, want anything...?
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You know how whenever you get trolled on here or even if someone’s just being a jerk, people say “block ‘em” because that’s practically the only safeguard here?
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You know how whenever you get trolled on here or even if someone’s just being a jerk, people say “block ‘em” because that’s practically the only safeguard here?
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
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Nope, it’s +/- 136k
Gotta figure the BLS confidence interval this time is way higher than +/- 136k, right?
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nope, it’s +/- 136k
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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The dark truth is that if London or Paris were being bombed like this, many in the US would tune it out just as readily. And if it were Warsaw or Berlin, London and Paris would do the same.
Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
Cosmic fucking horror
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The dark truth is that if London or Paris were being bombed like this, many in the US would tune it out just as readily. And if it were Warsaw or Berlin, London and Paris would do the same.
Silence is golden.
My being silent is goldener.
My being silent is goldener.
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Silence is golden.
My being silent is goldener.
My being silent is goldener.
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Reposting the sign for my own benefit
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposting the sign for my own benefit
It's a simple rule in life
Be very very nice to the lady with the knife
Be very very nice to the lady with the knife
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's a simple rule in life
Be very very nice to the lady with the knife
Be very very nice to the lady with the knife
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the vodka🎶
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the vodka🎶
He fix a whisky drink
He fix a whisky drink
He fix a whisky drink
He fix a whisky drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the whisky🎶
He fix a whisky drink
He fix a whisky drink
He fix a whisky drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the whisky🎶
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the vodka🎶
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He fix a vodka drink
He sings the songs that remind of the good times
He got a pretty decent deal on the vodka🎶
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Whole thing is just this tweet but instead of shelter cats it's the daughters and nieces of english nobility
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Whole thing is just this tweet but instead of shelter cats it's the daughters and nieces of english nobility
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"Did you finish that oysterfest mascot?"
"Sure did, boss. Real fucking sexy. Just like you asked."
#embroidery #WIP #HaliSky
"Sure did, boss. Real fucking sexy. Just like you asked."
#embroidery #WIP #HaliSky
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Did you finish that oysterfest mascot?"
"Sure did, boss. Real fucking sexy. Just like you asked."
#embroidery #WIP #HaliSky
"Sure did, boss. Real fucking sexy. Just like you asked."
#embroidery #WIP #HaliSky
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
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Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
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One thing I didn't put in this essay is that I spent quite a bit of time giving this tech a shot. And I'm not an amateur I was a senior software and network engineer before I moved into social scientist. In everything I tried, the veneer of utility peeled back very easily
Opinion on the potential and future of so-called "generative AI" is polarized to the point of hyperbole. But if you peel back the extremes, we're having an important debate.
My take on the ethics of AI.
conservechange.medium.com/is-ethical-a...
My take on the ethics of AI.
conservechange.medium.com/is-ethical-a...
Is “ethical AI” possible?
In which I discuss Luddites, skilled labor, and the difference between an LLM and a hammer.
conservechange.medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One thing I didn't put in this essay is that I spent quite a bit of time giving this tech a shot. And I'm not an amateur I was a senior software and network engineer before I moved into social scientist. In everything I tried, the veneer of utility peeled back very easily