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Parsingphase
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Polyglot endy Anglo-American geek with a European backstory, now in NE MA.

Posts may contain wildlife photos, native gardening, 3D printing, coding, backyard trailcams, and democratic ideals. Alt-text absolutist.

Dystopia requires far too much reading.
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Parsingphase @parsingphase.dev · Nov 29
Intro / bio thread - because 256 characters for a profile isn't enough…
A young Bald Eagle looks up curiously from a frozen pond.
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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protip.altgov.info
They brought back measles bc nostalgia seems like a great idea until you follow through on the notion.
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9h
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it

What is elimination and why does it matter?

Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
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helenbranswell.bsky.social Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 19h
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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kathleenromig.bsky.social
Even as the Social Security Administration falsely claims that phone wait times are down to single-digit minutes, callers are recording dance routines to the hold music as they wait over two hours . . . equal parts adorable and horrifying!

parade.com/news/80s-sta...
parade.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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rincewind.run
senate brain is a disease, man
burgessev.bsky.social Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16h
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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sltrib.com
Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: Good Grief
Bagley Cartoon: Good Grief
Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: Good Grief
www.sltrib.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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olivia.science
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.

Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.

Deals with this regime are meaningless.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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luckytran.com
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.

This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
Canada is currently experiencing a large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles that began in October 2024 with cases in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. PAHO's Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission reviewed recent epidemiological and laboratory data, confirming sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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ramirez.house.gov
I've said it before, and I will say it again.

We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do.

8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure

For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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newrepublic.com
The latest capitulation by Senate Democrats is another sign that the party needs new leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2029...

@rokhanna.bsky.social on Right Now With @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Two things from the last few days:

1. Republicans want to starve Americans so badly they'll deploy armies of lawyers to make sure it happens.

2. Democrats are not prepared to stop them, especially if action slightly inconveniences their air travel.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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bmitra.bsky.social
Proud to be a signatory on this. Please read and sign if you agree. ✍🏽
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I don’t think there’s any political cost for a Democrat running for office to just completely and explicitly and repeatedly saying fuck Chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#DailyBird 🤖
Northern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon), 18th June 2024
es: Chochín Criollo, fr: Troglodyte Familier
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 892mm, 1/400s, f/13, ISO 1600
#Birds #NorthernHouseWren #BirdOfTheDay #DescribeYourImages
A slender brown wren raises its yellow beak in song.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
parsingphase.dev
#YesterdaysYardBirdsy.app/profile/parsingphase.dev/post/3ljfn54m4ls23" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (#Birds:#BirdsongDetectionhickadee
2 Downy Woodpecker
3 Tufted Titmouse
4 Northern Cardinal
5 House Finch
6 Hairy Woodpecker
7 Common Grackle
8 House Sparrow
9 Dark-eyed Junco
10 Blue Jay

#Birds #BirdsongDetection <a href="/hashtag/HaikuBox" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HaikuBox
Bar chart of the above data: Black-capped Chickadee: 379 calls Downy Woodpecker: 308 calls Tufted Titmouse: 303 calls Northern Cardinal: 303 calls House Finch: 176 calls Hairy Woodpecker: 148 calls Common Grackle: 139 calls House Sparrow: 123 calls Dark-eyed Junco: 109 calls Blue Jay: 105 calls
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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altibel.bsky.social
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#DailyBird 🤖
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla), 26th April 2024
es: Chingolo Campestre, fr: Bruant Des Champs
Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1120mm, 40% crop, 1/400s, f/14, ISO 10000
#Birds #FieldSparrow #FISP
A round little pastel-toned sparrow forages in dray grass.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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kendrawrites.com
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I N 1985, PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to serving for the rest of my life. However, I resigned Friday, relinquishing that lifetime appointment and giving up the opportunity for public service that I have loved. My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White House's assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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sean-hecker.bsky.social
Judge Wolf’s decision to step down so he can be freed to speak candidly about this Administration’s attempts to undermine democracy and our court system is incredibly important. It would be amazing to see more, respected senior judges join forces. Now feels like the right time.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Others who have held positions of authority, including former federal judges and ambassadors, have been opposing this government's efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today's existential threat to democracy and the rule of law. When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was appointed, so my resignation will not create a vacancy to be filled by the president. My colleagues on the United States District Court in Massachusetts and judges on the lower federal courts throughout the country are admirably deciding a variety of cases generated by Trump's many executive orders and other unprecedented actions. However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly removed the temporary restraints imposed on those actions by lower courts in deciding emergency motions on its "shadow docket" with little, if any, explanation. I doubt that if I remained a judge I would fare any better than my colleagues. I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy. I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves. I cannot be confident that I will make a difference. I am reminded, however, of what Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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cajohnson-craig.bsky.social
This is Nuremberg Laws shit
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.

one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.

when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
parsingphase.dev
#YesterdaysYardBirdsy.app/profile/parsingphase.dev/post/3ljfn54m4ls23" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA)#Birdsl#BirdsongDetectionee
2 Dark-eyed Junco
3 Common Grackle
4 House Sparrow
5 House Finch
6 Tufted Titmouse
7 Downy Woodpecker
8 White-breasted Nuthatch
9 Hairy Woodpecker
10 Blue Jay

#Birds #BirdsongDetection <a href="/hashtag/HaikuBox" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HaikuBox
Bar chart of the above data: Black-capped Chickadee: 408 calls Dark-eyed Junco: 334 calls Common Grackle: 245 calls House Sparrow: 231 calls House Finch: 204 calls Tufted Titmouse: 174 calls Downy Woodpecker: 146 calls White-breasted Nuthatch: 138 calls Hairy Woodpecker: 86 calls Blue Jay: 53 calls
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM