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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · Sep 13
If you're confused by my going semi-anon just DM me and I'll clarify
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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bryb.bsky.social
You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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goosette.bsky.social
crab, one of life's simplest joys
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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junlper.beer
for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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cpsc.gov
If you lose power and are using a portable generator, remember to only run it outdoors at least 20 feet away from your home. Portable generators can produce deadly levels of carbon monoxide in minutes. Make sure you have a working carbon monoxide alarm on every level of your home.
nws.noaa.gov National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 1d
In the wake of Monday's cold front, a second cold front will cross the Pacific Northwest Wednesday followed by another atmospheric river. Each of these features will bring additional periods of gusty winds, mountain snow, and heavy to excessive rainfall with renewed flooding. weather.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
I think strongly that academia and today's science culture have a lot of room for improvement, but the problems are well known, and folks are working diligently on them.

Outsourcing science wholesale to the private sector is a huge mistake.
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d
Caleb Watney of IFP talking about why academia and science sucks.

Broken record here, but we can’t have this discussion without talking about agendas and conflicts of interest.

IFP is funded by tech and rightwing billionaires who want to privatize science. 1/
Caleb Watney @calebwatney NSF is launching one of the most ambitious experiments in federal science funding in 75 years. The program is called Tech Labs, and the goal is to invest ~$1 billion to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century. Instead of funding projects, the NSF will fund teams. I'm in the @WSJ today with a piece on why this matters (gift link): wsj.com/opinion/ scienc... Here's the basic case: 1) Most federal science funding takes the form of small, incremental, project-based grants to individual scientists at universities. 2) The typical NSF grant is ~ $250k/year to a professor with a couple of grad students and modest equipment over a few years. This is a
December 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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electricland.bsky.social
Baby Bunty in her album-cover era
Bunty, an Airedale terrier, as a puppy. She’s sitting outside and gazing wistfully into the distance, bathed in a golden early-morning glow. You would never believe she was a razor-tipped demon.
December 4, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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jessimurray.bsky.social
Here’s another one of her in her “is that puppy even real???” stage of cuteness. With sploot.
Tiny corgi puppy in full sploot on the hardwood floor surrounded by various toys
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
"what if we did price fixing but with ai"
December 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
Teaching my kids to use "holy forkin' shirtballs" instead so they won't get in trouble at school
December 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
With measles outbreaks raging across the country, and with anti-science individuals (mis)guiding our government, I am working on establishing a mandatory MMR vaccine policy at my new practice to protect the young infants we regularly see. Would any experts mind weighing in on this?
At NOVA Pediatric Orthopaedics, we strive to provide evidence-based medicine options when caring for your children, and we pride ourselves on maintaining a pressure-free, shared decision making environment. We also practice medicine in a world where provable science is called into question by grossly unqualified individuals motivated by glory and personal profit. As board certified, and state licensed professionals, it is our duty to commit to caring for our patients in a safe environment. To that end, we will not be accepting patients who are eligible for, and have not received their MMR vaccinations. Exceptions will be made only for valid medical reasons not to be vaccinated. The recommended vaccine schedule for MMR cannot start before age six months, and our practice sees numerous infants younger than that everyday. We must provide those patients with a safe environment and I cannot do that if unvaccinated children might expose them to an incredibly communicable and dangerous virus. Measles can linger for up to two hours after an infected person leaves a room, and vulnerable patients (unvaccinated infants or immunosuppressed cancer patients, for example) have about 90% chance of contracting the virus. The evidence for the effectiveness and safety of these vaccines has been proven by prospective studies that have been repeated in numerous countries. In a Cochrane Review of 138 studies with a total of 23 million patients, the authors showed no causative link of the vaccine to autism while providing a 97% effectiveness in preventing infections. The number of patients who have participated in studies on this single vaccine exceed the total patients in the pediatric literature. If you wish to schedule a discussion regarding this policy with our medical director, Dr. Gantsoudes, you may do so. There is a nonrefundable fee for this discussion. If you wish to learn more about the safety and effectiveness of the MMR vaccine (and others) please visit this website.
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Hello, Susan
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
Headline: what Gen Alpha misses by not slow dancing
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
So on the 12 days of Christmas does the true love give a new partridge on each of the days? etc?

If that's the case it makes for a little math quiz to figure out which gift was given in the largest quantity
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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rajoyce.bsky.social
Like every other such study.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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willoremus.com
this might be the first time i've seen a community note on x that serves as a punch line to the tweet
X post by Keith Edwards reads: "BREAKING: an image has leaked showing Trump using a walker moments after he signed an executive order banning states from regulating AI" Image shows President Trump using a walker Below the image is a proposed community note awaiting ratings. The community note reads: "No state is allowed to do anything about this photo." It links to a NY Times article about Trump's new executive order against states regulating AI. (Yes, the image of Trump with the walker is AI-generated)
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
shinycrab.bsky.social
The only Cantos we allow in this house are the Hyperion variety
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Playing around with a close-up B&W edit of the best footage I have ever captured on this Earth. Hoping compression doesn't prevent y'all from seeing the incredible rain of debris.

Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala (March 2023)
June 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
socialmedialab.ca Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 5d
There's still room to drop further. "Trump’s handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling" apnews.com/article/trum...

With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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derek.bike
when you’re mean to me this is who you’re being mean to
screenshot of a video game with a blue dog (Bluey) riding on a bicycle on green grass
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
We asked, you voted! Hexanitrogen is your 2025 Molecule of the Year! To get all the details on the spectacular finalists, check out our full coverage at cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

#chemsky 🧪
C&EN Molecules of the Year: Hexanitrogen
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
shinycrab.bsky.social
taking my bedtime diet coke and evening coffee to my sleep study tomorrow to demonstrate my caffeine immunity
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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banditelli.org
Alright I went with the foreground I took with this shot. A car driving in front of me, 60 second exposure. The final version is a little darker and foreboding than the first one, but I think that fits the vibe of the shot more.

Incredible psyched to be able to get this 33 miles from SF.
Plains and a fence with the light of a car driving by below the milky way
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM