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“It's like a bizarre experiment. Let's see what happens if no one in the world touched anyone else for an entire year and lived apart and ate alone, or with a couple of other people and lived near their screens? What would happen? What will the real world look like now?" - Laurie Anderson, 2021
When the going gets tough, the tough take over the community movie house and watch all five “Twilight” movies in a row, in costume, with contests and red flags to wave for hundreds of cringe moments. “Every time you hear “newborn,” pass the apple right.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
When the going gets tough, the tough take over the community movie house and watch all five “Twilight” movies in a row, in costume, with contests and red flags to wave for hundreds of cringe moments. “Every time you hear “newborn,” pass the apple right.”
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Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
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Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
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While there are many things wrong with the world in 2025, one of the things that’s totally right is the incredible democratization of science--how curiosity, affordable technology, and perseverance can now bring the universe within reach.
The non-NASA images here are my son's! ☺️
The non-NASA images here are my son's! ☺️
which one is your favorite? Keep in mind NASA does WAYY more science with these images and data. NASA is absolutely valuable and goes so beyond anything citizen scientists can do! B-ROLL CRED/ Ellion ...
TikTok video by sadrastro
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November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
While there are many things wrong with the world in 2025, one of the things that’s totally right is the incredible democratization of science--how curiosity, affordable technology, and perseverance can now bring the universe within reach.
The non-NASA images here are my son's! ☺️
The non-NASA images here are my son's! ☺️
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An Everyman’s Guide To Viewing And Photographing The Northern Lights
The apps and tools you need to make the most of the aurora borealis
Wes Siler
#northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/an-everymans-guide-to-viewing-and
The apps and tools you need to make the most of the aurora borealis
Wes Siler
#northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/an-everymans-guide-to-viewing-and
An Everyman’s Guide To Viewing And Photographing The Northern Lights
The apps and tools you need to make the most of the aurora borealis
wessiler.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
An Everyman’s Guide To Viewing And Photographing The Northern Lights
The apps and tools you need to make the most of the aurora borealis
Wes Siler
#northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/an-everymans-guide-to-viewing-and
The apps and tools you need to make the most of the aurora borealis
Wes Siler
#northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/an-everymans-guide-to-viewing-and
This Remembrance Day, first I watched the intense documentary “Sugarcane,” then an intense display of the Aurora Borealus.
Did shifting pink shafts & green curtains of light comfort kids at St. Joseph’s Mission Indian School? Soldiers trapped in WWI trenches?
thewalrus.ca/my-father-wa...
Did shifting pink shafts & green curtains of light comfort kids at St. Joseph’s Mission Indian School? Soldiers trapped in WWI trenches?
thewalrus.ca/my-father-wa...
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This Remembrance Day, first I watched the intense documentary “Sugarcane,” then an intense display of the Aurora Borealus.
Did shifting pink shafts & green curtains of light comfort kids at St. Joseph’s Mission Indian School? Soldiers trapped in WWI trenches?
thewalrus.ca/my-father-wa...
Did shifting pink shafts & green curtains of light comfort kids at St. Joseph’s Mission Indian School? Soldiers trapped in WWI trenches?
thewalrus.ca/my-father-wa...
Nothing puts the fun into potlucks like Latin binomials. 🙈 😆😬Staphylococcus aureus … Bacillus cereus … Clostridium perfringens … Norovirus… Salmonella … E. coli … Campylobacter … Giardia … Toxoplasma gondii …
bktitanji.substack.com/p/an-id-doct...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/an-id-doct...
An ID Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Holiday Potlucks Food Poisoning Free
Because nothing says “festive” like avoiding an impromptu Norovirus outbreak.
bktitanji.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nothing puts the fun into potlucks like Latin binomials. 🙈 😆😬Staphylococcus aureus … Bacillus cereus … Clostridium perfringens … Norovirus… Salmonella … E. coli … Campylobacter … Giardia … Toxoplasma gondii …
bktitanji.substack.com/p/an-id-doct...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/an-id-doct...
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On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
A shocking coup was executed Wilmington, North Carolina.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
Pogromnacht = “Kristallnacht:”
“Nazi officials blamed Jews for the riots (pogrom), & imposed massive fines on German Jewish community. Similar pattern with the 1919 Elaine Massacre, when White mobs killed African Americans, then state sentenced 12 Black men to death, blaming them for the violence.“
“Nazi officials blamed Jews for the riots (pogrom), & imposed massive fines on German Jewish community. Similar pattern with the 1919 Elaine Massacre, when White mobs killed African Americans, then state sentenced 12 Black men to death, blaming them for the violence.“
#tdih 1938 in Germany & Austria: organized terrorism by Nazis against Jews.
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Nov. 9, 1938: Pogromnacht in Germany and Austria
Violent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Europe in which hundreds of synagogues were destroyed; 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools were plundered; 91 Jews were murdered; and 30,000 Jewish ...
www.zinnedproject.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pogromnacht = “Kristallnacht:”
“Nazi officials blamed Jews for the riots (pogrom), & imposed massive fines on German Jewish community. Similar pattern with the 1919 Elaine Massacre, when White mobs killed African Americans, then state sentenced 12 Black men to death, blaming them for the violence.“
“Nazi officials blamed Jews for the riots (pogrom), & imposed massive fines on German Jewish community. Similar pattern with the 1919 Elaine Massacre, when White mobs killed African Americans, then state sentenced 12 Black men to death, blaming them for the violence.“
(1/2) Twelve local playwrights created (10:00) plays that adhered to these prompts:
* The play must be titled THE PICKLE JAR.
* The play must contain the death of at least one character.
* A natural disaster or weather event must occur.
* At least one character must sing.
(cont.)
* The play must be titled THE PICKLE JAR.
* The play must contain the death of at least one character.
* A natural disaster or weather event must occur.
* At least one character must sing.
(cont.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
(1/2) Twelve local playwrights created (10:00) plays that adhered to these prompts:
* The play must be titled THE PICKLE JAR.
* The play must contain the death of at least one character.
* A natural disaster or weather event must occur.
* At least one character must sing.
(cont.)
* The play must be titled THE PICKLE JAR.
* The play must contain the death of at least one character.
* A natural disaster or weather event must occur.
* At least one character must sing.
(cont.)
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Wo. Rivers running orange from mines is all too familiar in 🇺🇸& 🇨🇦, past & present. TIL about Fe, Cd, Al, Zn and other heavy metals mobilized by *permafrost thaw*. 😬 Not just in rivers, not just in Alaska…and it’s 🔄. Feedback loop, tipping point — or both? #Climate
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Why are Alaska’s rivers turning bright orange? Scientists have a theory. — National Geographic
The dramatic shift is a warning sign—and scientists say the changes that aren't yet visible to the naked eye are just as troubling.
apple.news
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Wo. Rivers running orange from mines is all too familiar in 🇺🇸& 🇨🇦, past & present. TIL about Fe, Cd, Al, Zn and other heavy metals mobilized by *permafrost thaw*. 😬 Not just in rivers, not just in Alaska…and it’s 🔄. Feedback loop, tipping point — or both? #Climate
apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
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I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
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Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...
Bank of America, Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are four of the ten.
Just 10 banks are responsible for nearly 75% of the $15 billion in Amazon oil financing from the last decade.
We know who they are. We know what this will cost us. We can apply pressure to make them stop #KeepItInTheGround
Read the report: stand.earth/wp-content/u...
We know who they are. We know what this will cost us. We can apply pressure to make them stop #KeepItInTheGround
Read the report: stand.earth/wp-content/u...
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Bank of America, Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are four of the ten.
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Here's the whole thing - I paid:
November 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here's the whole thing - I paid:
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Saw a witch. Followed the witch. Then two, three, four, a dozen more witches.. so followed some more.. until finally, at last, we found all of the witches. #HappyHalloween 🎃
Wicked witches of west cliff, conjuring up twilight.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Saw a witch. Followed the witch. Then two, three, four, a dozen more witches.. so followed some more.. until finally, at last, we found all of the witches. #HappyHalloween 🎃
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Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo
Read up-🧵for context. (summary: 3 degrees C of global warming is NOT benign.)
Daniel’s observation — that wealthy / tech meisters are probably just as divorced from the complexity of Earth’s systems as they appear — is not reassuring.
Unclothed emperors will be Earth’s doom.
Daniel’s observation — that wealthy / tech meisters are probably just as divorced from the complexity of Earth’s systems as they appear — is not reassuring.
Unclothed emperors will be Earth’s doom.
We've really, urgently, got to move past "mean state thinking"--and another (among many) ironies of the situation is that it's precisely the folks so bullish on rapid and transformational technological change that seemingly ignore the complexity and non-linearity of our Earth system.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Read up-🧵for context. (summary: 3 degrees C of global warming is NOT benign.)
Daniel’s observation — that wealthy / tech meisters are probably just as divorced from the complexity of Earth’s systems as they appear — is not reassuring.
Unclothed emperors will be Earth’s doom.
Daniel’s observation — that wealthy / tech meisters are probably just as divorced from the complexity of Earth’s systems as they appear — is not reassuring.
Unclothed emperors will be Earth’s doom.
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I would love for someone to write a book on this precise thing. Some offerings:
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I would love for someone to write a book on this precise thing. Some offerings:
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.
“…the more wealth is accumulated in a few hands, the more responsibility for the climate crisis is concentrated among a small number of powerful individuals, who use their money and influence to deny, delay and distract from emissions reductions.” (via 💩 they💰.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“…the more wealth is accumulated in a few hands, the more responsibility for the climate crisis is concentrated among a small number of powerful individuals, who use their money and influence to deny, delay and distract from emissions reductions.” (via 💩 they💰.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is the most-read post on my Rhetorical Tricks substack. I hope it helps. It's where I explain my unified theory of how to understand and predict Trump's actions in his second term.
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jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...
Trump is or is becoming the Leviathan
And it's really not good
jennifermercieca.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is the most-read post on my Rhetorical Tricks substack. I hope it helps. It's where I explain my unified theory of how to understand and predict Trump's actions in his second term.
jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...
jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...
Confusing bluntness and authenticity is like accepting the WWA as the proper context for governance.
The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.
The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.
To voters, that's legible as "authenticity" -- that's why Trump scores high on honesty even though he' s a huge, proven liar. This is kind of a political superpower, it turns out...
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Confusing bluntness and authenticity is like accepting the WWA as the proper context for governance.
The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.
The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.
It’s best to not be Terminally Online, especially since now and then, someone will translate and summarize the joke, like the way you can tune into a soap opera twice a year without missing much plot or character development.
Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s best to not be Terminally Online, especially since now and then, someone will translate and summarize the joke, like the way you can tune into a soap opera twice a year without missing much plot or character development.
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Latest model projections regarding #Melissa are painting an increasingly dire scenario for Jamaica and possibly western Hispaniola (esp. Haiti) in terms of widespread risk of catastrophic flooding from exceptional rainfall amounts--possibly exceeding 3-4 feet (30-40+ inches).
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Latest model projections regarding #Melissa are painting an increasingly dire scenario for Jamaica and possibly western Hispaniola (esp. Haiti) in terms of widespread risk of catastrophic flooding from exceptional rainfall amounts--possibly exceeding 3-4 feet (30-40+ inches).