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Coulrophobic Hydra tamer. Terrified of dyslexic zombies. Friend to arachnids. All of my puns are 100% organically groan. //|\oOOo/|\\ https://wolven.us/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-2332

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NEW β€” Video taken by a witness and shared with me tonight from DC’s Trinidad neighborhood shows FBI and Secret Service agents patrolling by foot and peering into cars with flashlights.

(Per witness, residents made fun of agents, saying they can't get women and that's why they were doing this lol)

12.08.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6683    πŸ” 1688    πŸ’¬ 320    πŸ“Œ 344

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.

14.08.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4920    πŸ” 2170    πŸ’¬ 499    πŸ“Œ 638

I went with Pee’n Eau Noir for the first pass. We’ll see if inspiration strikes again later.

14.08.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I took several French courses while I was in grad school, if for no other reason than to wrap my brain around something that wasn’t quantum mechanics, molecular spectroscopy, the electromagnetic Hamiltonian, radiative transfer, etc.

It also got me out of that basement office in Bloomberg. 🀣

13.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect that it’s going to be the software rather than the hardware that causes the most headaches for EV owners of the future. I guess we’ll find out!

13.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Devastating cuts to humanities education. If even somewhat accurate, this is terrible news for the University of Chicago. And a bleak outlook for universities elsewhere.

The scariest prospect is if, as Ando says, leaders of the faculty are promoting this rather than resisting as much as they can.

13.08.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

And now they’re working again.

I guess somebody got rebooted.

13.08.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now the list of folks I’ve DM’d with is back, but below that it says β€œUpstream Failure”.

Don’t think I’ve even heard of that band before. πŸ˜‰

13.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

13.08.2025 06:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18251    πŸ” 7120    πŸ’¬ 383    πŸ“Œ 969

Same ATM

13.08.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t see how this is at all relevant to current events. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

13.08.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A red book with the words β€œThe Road to Character” in white, and a black stick figure.

A red book with the words β€œThe Road to Character” in white, and a black stick figure.

Someone left this in the little free library and I’m just going to throw it
in the street for cars to run over because who needs to hear about character from the guy who, at age 52, left his family for his 24 year old research assistant *on this very book*.

13.08.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 485    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 6
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This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

medium.com/@steve.desch...

08.08.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 38

I've seen caterpillars doing a more fierce snake impression than this little guy πŸ–€

13.08.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

If I were a curator at the Smithsonian faced with a Trumpist review of the items in my care, I'd take the audit stooges into the deepest part of the unsorted acalyptrate fly collection and have them start there, drawer by drawer, until they die of old age having gone through half of them.

12.08.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1069    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 11

The less we know about how badly he’s screwing us over, the better?

12.08.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

<sniffling quietly> thanks man

12.08.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So beautiful… it brings tears to my eyes.

12.08.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to the federal takeover of Tusla, Oklahoma's police department.

More in tomorrow's Popular Information.

popular.info/subscribe

12.08.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2810    πŸ” 1050    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 50

They attacked at ten of four…

12.08.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

11.08.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 28553    πŸ” 11825    πŸ’¬ 549    πŸ“Œ 646

Seriously. I went to take another look at β€œStranger in a Strange Land” a few years back, having enjoyed it as a teenager, and had to stop after the first chapter. Some types of disbelief are impossible to suspend.

11.08.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

\(^O^)/

11.08.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jammie may be an old lady, but she is still in touch with her inner kitten. 😻

10.08.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

10.08.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1118    πŸ” 872    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 104

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 12478    πŸ” 9999    πŸ’¬ 639    πŸ“Œ 1662
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Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza, and Israel confirms it Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

10.08.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 415    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 34
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The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

This is fun.

β€œCan Bluesky say every word in the English language?”

10.08.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Wikipedia image of Jupiter following the impact of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, showing dark spots spread out longitudinally from each consecutive fragment t.

Wikipedia image of Jupiter following the impact of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, showing dark spots spread out longitudinally from each consecutive fragment t.

The dark spots on the eye remind me of Jupiter after the SL-9 impacts.

09.08.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

08.08.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1764    πŸ” 1070    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 293

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