John Harrold
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I've started doing something similar for fun. In this paper with a vector image I embedding a picture of my son with a balloon. It's faint but if you zoom in you can see it (you have to download the PDF). It's open access though.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
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That we keep the screwworm at bay is a huge public health achievement. If we are having issues with screwworms it’s because we have cut the public health officials that maintain these efforts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
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I would only ask MTG to consider what happens when he does this to democrats and others. What do those people face?
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Elea Chang
3 days ago
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong,
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of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind:
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnqk/?igsh=Y2E5NjA1MjBtaTZp
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This is the last in this thread, but I don't think most folks appreciate it. Expensive clothing today lasts longer and you end up spending a comparable amount or less in the long run.
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Jeffrey Epstein sitting in Professor X's Cerebro helmet to locate every sex offender on the planet and broadcast to them a single global telepathic pulse that says "i,,m the .email pedaphole"
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@hunterw.bsky.social
I know you have the mention of a certain northeastern based publication muted, but you may want to unmute it today.
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Philip Bump
5 days ago
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
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This is episode of Criminal is a good companion to Sam's article below.
thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
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Folks are dunking on Kim here but as
@kenwhite.bsky.social
points out she has a good heart and is trying to do actual good. I'd point out that the ability integrate new knowledge to reevaluate her beliefs at 45 is something many folks are incapable of.
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Adam Serwer
8 months ago
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆
8 days ago
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Emily C. Hughes
9 days ago
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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rahaeli
10 days ago
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
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Davis Vaughan
10 days ago
Let me introduce you to `replace_when()` in tidyup #7 🙂
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Atul Gawande
11 days ago
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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This is nice.
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Gerry Doyle
11 days ago
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it it said you get free electricity
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This is the way.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
12 days ago
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
12 days ago
Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things. we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
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Anil Dash
13 days ago
There's a character in Monsoon Wedding who is an unforgivable abusive predator, so Cuomo could have quoted Mamdani's parent's work, too.
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Sydney Bauer
13 days ago
I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
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So
@giadapistilli.com
isn't blocked by any lists I subscribe to. And also not blocked by me. So I can see her profile. I've never read anything by her. But she's only posted 283 times. I think any exposure/engagement issue she may has more to do with her than being on some random block lists.
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Sam Adams
13 days ago
we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter
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Peter Sterne
15 days ago
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
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John Goldin
16 days ago
youtu.be/w1fzg9GC5UU?...
I really enjoyed this overview of the history and geography of Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam's Map, Explained
YouTube video by Daniel Steiner
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Schnorkles O'Bork
18 days ago
These yahoos don't understand that biotech has a completely different set of incentive structures to fight frivolous litigation, they aren't broke newspapers.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆
18 days ago
saints walk amongst us
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Saloni
19 days ago
This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade. But other scientists like Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics. In a new 4hr podcast episode of *Hard Drugs*, we answer: Will AI solve medicine?
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Will AI solve medicine?
https://spotify.link/E3ThEtYvRXb
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Radley Balko
21 days ago
New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
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Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-jordan-silverman
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Steven T. Dennis
21 days ago
Carolyn June Dennis, 1944-2025 “There is no perfection on the physical plane.” This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵
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Where are all the debate bros, free speech absolutists, win the battle of ideas with more speech people?
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Embrace the Void
27 days ago
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x
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Matt Novak
24 days ago
Schiff voted to confirm one of Trump’s judges roughly an hour before his account posted this.
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Darakhshan Nehal
24 days ago
This, from an author who doesn't have a health science background, explains it so beautifully that the gen population can understand it if they have a doubt. This IS science communication, and is superior to a fancy chart that wins a competition but can't be interpreted by the gen population.
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The linked post in this skeet sums up how I use LLMs in practice and this figure is a good graphical example.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
25 days ago
I often get attacked for posting about the potential harms caused by dietary supplements, and I do not care. It’s important for the public to have accurate information. Supplements are made by companies just like Big Pharma, except without intensive FDA oversight. They can cause harm.
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Herbal supplements were supposed to make them healthier. Instead, they got sick
Common compounds like turmeric and ashwagandha can overwhelm the liver and lead to health complications
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/oct/23/herbal-supplements-liver-health
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Matt Fidler
25 days ago
This month, I'm excited to introduce two new estimation methods in nlmixr2: Laplace (laplace) and adaptive Gaussian Quadrature (agq).
blog.nlmixr2.org/blog/2025-10...
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
26 days ago
Monty Python understood p-hacking
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26 days ago
I don’t speak much Dutch at all, but I am having serious bike acquisition urges after watching this video for a senior citizen bike
4wielfiets.nl?fbclid=IwY2x...
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U heeft hem gevonden! De leukste en enige echt veilige fiets waarmee u niet kunt vallen. Boek een gratis proefrit bij ons in het Innovatie en Expertise centrum in Leiden.
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Ashton Pittman
27 days ago
Yep, we've seen the massive
#NoKings
rallies, with tens of thousands gathered in big cities across the country. But y'all look at this small protest of 11 people in the small, small town of Kosciusko, Mississppi. That's democracy, too.
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Mississippians Say ‘No Kings’ From Kosciusko to Gulfport
Thousands of Mississippians took to the streets in No Kings protests on Saturday, Oct. 18, from small towns to the state’s largest cities.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/no-kings-protests-draw-mississippi-crowds-from-kosciusko-to-gulfport/
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Raffi Melkonian
26 days ago
I was reading a thread on the economics of being in a mid-tier rock band, and saw this comment. Hadn’t really thought about it!
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Katelyn Burns
27 days ago
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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Karl Bode
27 days ago
I come back a lot to the idea that "no politics at the dinner table" was harmful and let this kind of shitty ideology fester undiscussed
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David Wearing
28 days ago
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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John Pfaff
28 days ago
Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
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Liberal Currents
28 days ago
“Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group.”
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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-rape-is-epic-no-fatties-young-right-wing-men-are-obsessed-with-male-power-and-male-bodies/#/portal/signup
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amanda moore 🐢
30 days ago
Portland ICE facility now.
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@dereklowe.bsky.social
This is right up your alley if you haven't seen it already.
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