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This PSA to active Military Dems put out: bsky.app/profile/slot...

Remember the plastic surgeon in Utah who threw away Covid-19 vaccines, giving kids saline shots instead, and selling faked vax cards? Pam Bondi just dismissed all charges. RFK Jr. says the guy deserves a medal for his "commitment to healing!" More ignorance and broken oaths.

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)

The Smell Test

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

This #fossilfriday, we move in time to the #Permian when the #amphibian Seymouria sanjuanensis lived in what is New Mexico today. Clusters of large animals like this one are rarely found in the #fossil record, especially this well preserved. Photo: Amy Henrici

For #fossilfriday here is the Golden Gate walrus - a partial snout and tusk of a walrus dredged from late Pleistocene sediments on the seafloor below the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco! This is the southernmost record of modern walrus in the eastern Pacific. On display @calacademy.bsky.social

Worth listening to @techwontsave.us on how news is increasingly consumed through social media and now "AI" platforms www.techwontsave.us/episode/288_... and then reading this BBC piece...

mRNA 🧬 vaccines - but not other kinds - trigger an innate response that can allow the immune system to 'see' and attack tumours, animal studies suggest 🧪 If true, the covid vaccines should do this - and now we have the first evidence this is so www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

It's a good time to lean into using Wikipedia as your first point of call for researching stuff. It certainly shouldn't be your last, but it's always a great jumping-off point, with links aplenty.

Instead of standing on the sidewalk waving a sign, Hubs and I went about our morning spreading the word at a packed local breakfast joint and busy grocery store. Quite a few side-eyed looks and muttered disapprovals. HA! Here’s to making those who avoided the protest downtown see me!! #NoKings

Axolotls for democracy. #nokings #saltlakecity

#nokings #saltlakecity

Just so we’re clear…

A Mighty Wind

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Damnation, why did I only just see this *today*, Brian.

I'm not making this up. LLMs always will. Says the math.

The antivax destruction coming from RFK Jr is unspeakably bad. Many many people will die. Babies will be harmed for life. Unspeakably. Bad. Impeach RFK before it’s too late, Congress.

They seem to think we recruit, indoctrinate, train and meet every other weekend to dress up in tactical gear and engage in exercises to prep to kill fellow Americans We apparently even have membership lists and strict lines of authority That’s not Antifa. That’s Trump’s idiot America

Charlie Company stevebrodner.substack.com

Not to mention, it's a crime against the First and Fourteenth Amendments to dehumanize people, and restrict their access to social media without the consent of platform owners.

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

Or maybe round them up and gas them. In chambers. More efficient And these malignant turds wonder why we call them Nazis

Their beliefs are ugly Their policies are ugly Their souls are ugly Their leader is ugly

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

“If we are to have another contest in the future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixon . . . but between patriotism & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other." —U.S. Grant

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

There is mounting evidence that indicates that Long COVID is a complex condition that continues to affect the health of millions of people worldwide. Browse this collection of Long COVID research from Communications Medicine. #medsky 🧪

Found a nice resource for feather identification. Cooper's hawk primary feather from our driveway.

Delish. Utah Republicans tried to get a judge to delay her order to redraw the state’s gerrymandered House districts, arguing it was too late to do so. The judge told them that there was plenty of time…and cited Texas’ recent redistricting as an example of why. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

RFK JR SCAM Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, NY, Maine, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Arkansas Wyoming, Louisiana Texas, Minnesota, Michigan Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania Massachusetts, Alaska

Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, NY, Maine, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Arkansas Wyoming, Louisiana Texas, Minnesota, Michigan Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania Massachusetts, Alaska

My pet peeve: A certain breed of Dem "influencer" that spreads MAGA-like conspiracy theories about a stolen election or other such fact-free nonsense. They go viral because misinformation is popular, but who wins in a world where misinformation is the sport? Election stolen! Trump dying! Secession!

For anyone in Toronto in Oct. - 50 years of discovery: #BurgessShale research @romtoronto.bsky.social www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/eve... #FossilFriday

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

I believe the best thing about joining a fossil dig, is being surrounded by brilliant people with shared passions! This is why I tell every child I meet that has a passion, if no one understands you now, just keep living. You will find your "tribe". #paleontology #paleontologist #fossils #dinosaur

This striped formation may contain the oldest intact rocks on Earth.* A new study suggests that they are at least 4.16 billion years old--relics from a time before plate tectonics, probably before oceans, even. * The pocket knife is a more recent element. 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/eart...

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Misleading. I should have said “major” data centers. Utah has quite a few more.

The debate around Musk and the Royal Society is just so frustrating. If those who think it is right to retain him as an FRS were to say "Here, despite his having been a direct accomplice to the dismantling of scientific institutions, destruction of scientific data, spreading of...

This #FossilFriday i wanted to share this tiny #Staurozoan fossil from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland. It was the paratype of #Haootia but now belongs to #Mamsetia . We consider that it might be the #Stauropolyp. See the coronal muscle of the calyx & 1 arm. compare the arm of a modern #Lucernaria

Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.

AI and data centers gobble up lots of electricity. If legislators aren't on top of this, homeowners and renters pay through large jumps in electric costs. Big tech uses. Consumers pay the price. wapo.st/3J6nouM

Something amazing to start your morning-- the transformation of a damselfly from it's underwater grabby-face form to a delicate flying predator. 🧪

Back in the 1970s, researchers angsty with the idea that birds were dinosaurs seized on the discovery of Longisquama, a very weird and enigmatic reptile with featherlike structures. But as it became clear that the dinosaur/bird link was undeniable, Longisquama proved very hard to place.