never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
10.08.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 1132 ๐ 483 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 29@smullins.bsky.social
Inorganic chemist. Taught my mom to love d electrons. Please use scissors with the parafilm roll.
never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
10.08.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 1132 ๐ 483 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 29I learned about it maybe 2-3 years ago.
10.08.2025 00:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wonderful mama bird building her nest and feeding baby birds until they are old enough to fly on their own. Stunning. substack.com/@denzien/not...
09.08.2025 12:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0a major argument in favor of LLMs is they will speed up scientific research, especially in human health.
but when they are spending >10x the biomedical research burdget every year, it is very hard to argue that the money wouldn't be better spent simply paying for biomedical research.
AG Ellison points out there are 2 stories:
'Transgender athletes are hurting competition in womens & girls sports'.
"Hereโs another story: Sports teach teamwork, camaraderie & all kids, including trans kids deserve to participate in that. I like the 2nd one better" @keithellison.bsky.social #NN25
And Congress certainly did not grant these authorities with the Director of Management and Budget, no matter how much he wants to be a deputy dictator.
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Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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My quote of the day
For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.
Jacob Weisberg
Who gets hurt, when from *the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in US history.*
06.08.2025 17:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
05.08.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 7621 ๐ 1864 ๐ฌ 152 ๐ 135Bus shelter poster declaring "Know Your Parasites" Image of ticks - "external parasites" "remove with tweezers." Image of worms - "internal parasites" "remove with medication." Image of Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos "Billionaires" "economic parasites" "remove with wealth tax."
If you wanna know who took all of your money, HINT - it's the people with all of the money.
05.08.2025 22:44 โ ๐ 191 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 3I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)
04.08.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 250 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2Extraordinary, and much lacking, moral clarity in plain speech:
substack.com/@aaliam/note...
I mean, my mother could be a candidate and I would not give her my bank/card info to enter a donation on my behalf.
Thereโs no need. Itโs just as expedient to enter the info yourself at the candidateโs fundraising website.
Brings back memories from convo when DCCC cold calling me on maybe back in the Tea Party era. So I guess I have a long history with those types of political fundraising strategies. I am not your mark.
03.08.2025 18:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gonna be honest, I never clicked any links bc I thought these spam texts were just the latest version of โNigerian Princeโ scam.
Didnโt realize the call was coming from inside the Dems national house.
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03.08.2025 17:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Welcome to Jurassic Pork ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings
Good reminder that N95s are designed to filter out small particles!! Recommend attention to getting a good fit. This video demos some basics, start at 3:45. youtu.be/G-c2sIzNE-A?...
(The rest of video comes from perspective of users in an industrial workplace.)
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01.08.2025 03:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
AQI map showing most of MN in the red (unhealthy category).
Itโs the most perfect summer day (70ยฐ & sunny) but my kids canโt go outside because the air is toxic to breathe due to wildfire smoke from Canada.
Wednesday-Saturday is a very long time to be trapped inside.
Climate change is here.
This entire thread (read up) is good and informative. And this point specifically is very important.
31.07.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0good morning
30.07.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 1392 ๐ 376 ๐ฌ 24 ๐ 92This is amazing #chemsky
31.07.2025 02:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.
30.07.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 541 ๐ 138 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 8Well I guess we watch the Federal Register for dates of the public comment period
30.07.2025 21:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I deeply appreciate the work you are doing and it is a key source for how I keep myself and others informed. ALSO, clearly this is a long haul journey, so taking care to not burnout is essential!
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