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Data scientist, occasional thing-knower
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Skimming the big unsorted (panic?) Epstein drop completely unscientifically. Found something mildly interesting anyway. Text file 032682, email chain between epstein and a redacted, probably gulf friend / associate. Discussing visits and some Saudi project. /1
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Chris Herbert
2 days ago
Can I recommend this recent podcast interview,
bsky.app/profile/dexd...
, with
@merici.bsky.social
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phylan
2 days ago
heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times
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Big Fat Popehat
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Bluesky Says They Like Drinking And Sex. But They Ran Eric Swalwell Out of Office for Drinking and Sex. My Anger At This Hypocrisy Is Exactly Why I Can Only Write For The Atlantic.
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didnât hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didnât reduce employment. /1
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Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didnât Kill Jobs
UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady â and only pennies were added to menu prices.
https://capitalandmain.com/despite-apocalyptic-warnings-california-fast-food-wage-hike-didnt-kill-jobs
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Big Fat Popehat
2 days ago
âYour Honor, may I confer with my client for a moment?â âCertainly, counsel.â [brief scuffle, sharp crunching noice] âThank you Your Honor.â
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Will Stancil
2 days ago
I think it's instructive to ask why one can't say "I am middle-class, can mostly afford things, have seen my financial circumstances and personal consumption improve somewhat over the last five years, and many of my friends are similarly positioned": it's because the internet will yell at you
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Headbutted a defendant. Clients, am I right
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Public defender arrested for battery at Saline County Courthouse
A public defender was arrested in Saline County court on Monday.
https://katv.com/news/local/public-defender-arrested-for-battery-at-saline-county-courthouse
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pixelatedboat aka âmr blueskyâ
3 days ago
Itâs profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that thatâs what Daredevil is for
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"it's supposed to be rehabilitative" aside, excommunication requires particular fairly high bar offenses, like murdering a pope, and when did Vance do that
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Aaron Rupar
5 days ago
Artemis II was overshadowed by other bad things in the news but what it accomplished was frankly amazing. We are capable of incredible and unprecedented things. Iâm in awe at how far we safely sent humans into space.
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well yeah that's why they made that pact with Satan?
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Skeets McGee
4 days ago
Do not give Molly Shah money. Do not give money to anyone Molly Shah suggests you give money to. Do not give any money to accounts "verified by Molly Shah" In fact if you see Molly Shah, hide your wallet.
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Big Fat Popehat
5 days ago
Did I ever tell you about the reason I can never go to the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center again? /1
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Obscurem đ
5 days ago
Luckily not everyone has to flee. Here's a story of someone who is currently at NASA and helped this mission:
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Systems Engineering Supervisor Amy Lendian - NASA
"So here I am, a transgender woman, an engineer, working at Kennedy Space Center, and I get to work around these really smart, wonderful people, supporting the Artemis mission, sitting in the control ...
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/systems-engineering-supervisor-amy-lendian/
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Anna Holmes
6 days ago
Itâs time once again for âyou do not need to share the horrors in order to communicate that they are horrible. You do not need to imbibe the horrors to bear witness to them. Be kind to yourself and others right now.â
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Will Stancil
6 days ago
Okay this isnât really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had âinternal ICE sourcesâ: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day
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psa you don't have to click play on bad things
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donoteat
8 days ago
how do you take 22 minutes to say "cheesesteaks and pussy"
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Big Fat Popehat
9 days ago
I mean it's New York City. I assumed you all just dragged the mattress to a street corner and set it on fire.
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alright, rabbi Eliezer, fair enough. The vote is five to *two*
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Starfireâs Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
9 days ago
I donât understand why Pokemon Legends Arceus doesnât allow you to take up brigandry when cast out into the woods to die. Itâs not like my level 71 Lucario canât kill everyone in this podunk village if they try to stop me.
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SMBC Comics
10 days ago
Suddenly regretting that I didn't just draw a word for word graphic novel of the entire book twice. COMIC â
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hi
PATREON â
www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE â
smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
10 days ago
There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today
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jam
10 days ago
idea for a podcast called "Source: Dude Trust Me" where the hosts take turns recounting the facts described in a nonfiction book they read at least 12 calendar months ago
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what I learned from my first second looking at this picture is that I have played too much Terra Invicta
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just a reminder that bae supports bofors deez nuts
www.baesystems.com/en-us/articl...
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Made the tough decisions to restore the Star Road and defeat Smithy then retired to make mediocre cheese steaks
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Better Things Are Possible
12 days ago
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,
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Big Fat Popehat
14 days ago
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Alex Wellerstein
14 days ago
So there is an official French ministry of defense documentary about their nuclear testing program and it has footage to illustrate the work the French did to set up a nuclear testing "city" in the Sahara which amusingly (?) devotes quite a few shots specifically showing how they made bread there.
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Natick Bobcat
15 days ago
Come ON people! âWolf takes bite out of Hamburgerâ was RIGHT THERE
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Wolf bites woman in a shopping area in Germany's 2nd-biggest city
Authorities say a wolf has bitten a woman in a Hamburg shopping area, in what experts call Germanyâs first known wild wolf attack on a person since 1998.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-hamburg-wolf-attack-caught-binnenalster-202f5edec5d05edd72ba2e677c33514d?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Wolf
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Maia
17 days ago
the iron bank seeks to impose the moral universalism of the markets onto the particularist regionalisms of westeros in this essay i will
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they may, however, be deceiving us
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17 days ago
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Juliet Shen
17 days ago
two amazing back to back images in
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
presentation
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AsAmNews
18 days ago
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the
#NoKings
Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
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in fairness there's a lot of underutilized space under Nebraska
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20 days ago
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
26 days ago
Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. đŠ
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In honor of Mr. Rogersâ birthday, hereâs your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. Weâre adults now. Weâre supposed to *be* the helpers.
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Jack Jenkins
26 days ago
NEW from me: In a ruling from the bench this morning, a federal judge granted Minneapolis clergy access to immigrants detained by DHS in a federal facility as the case proceeds, allowing the faith leaders to provide pastoral care after denying them for months
religionnews.com/2026/03/20/f...
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Judge grants Minneapolis clergy access to detainees in ICE holding facility
(RNS) â 'This is one important step in our struggle for justice and my call to live out Jesusâs command to care for the captives,' said the Rev. Susie Hayward, who is cited in the legal case and was in court for the ruling.
https://religionnews.com/2026/03/20/federal-judge-sides-with-minnesota-faith-leaders-grants-access-to-immigrant-detainees/
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Volt Beleriand
27 days ago
my hot take is that its fine if movies are this horny so long as we add the proviso that the monster the hero sleeps with actually be a monster instead of just a human with some extraneous monstrous characteristics.
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Richard Waite
about 1 month ago
Now that everyoneâs paying attention to global energy markets and effects of faraway events on prices and decision-making, is it a good time to talk about the indirect land use effects of dedicating cropland to biofuel production or nah?
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Starfireâs Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
about 2 months ago
Her (dumb tree hugging freak nobody likes, probably a communist): and from the increased calories per acre, it becomes possible to implement socioeconomic reforms which Me (a magnificent war goddess feared and respected): and thatâs just lesser magic weapon; greater magic weapon is *real* sparkly
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Starfireâs Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
about 2 months ago
Iâd get all the good court mage jobs too. Some bitch ass druid competing for the position would drone about crop yields to some inbred prince whose eyes are glazing over. Then I would pull out Olâ Sparkly and his eyes would light up at my sword witchery.
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Starfireâs Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
about 2 months ago
Spellblades are so dumb and I love them so much. If I had the power to rewrite reality and bend nature to my will, Iâd make my sword glow sparkly blue too.
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Hildur KnĂștsdĂłttir
about 2 months ago
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Julia Gfrörer BICS Yellow 393
about 2 months ago
People tell me Iâm a great mom
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Musicology Duck
2 months ago
dear peace monks, you donât know me but DO NOT GET ON THAT BUS
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it
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2 months ago
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Alexis â
2 months ago
small crab eating a grape (important)
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Natalie Dressed
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Woke 2: Front Toward Enemy
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