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The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
What's cool about gravitational lensing is theoretically if you're at the perfect angle you can use it as a giant telescope. There's papers out now talking about using the lensing from our own sun to do this. Physics is super cool.
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No April fools this year please.
Weβre all very tired
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When you assume bad things are always done in secret, it can take much too long to realize proclamations of ill intent are serious.
I think this is the hang-up.
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boomer: youβre lazy
millennial: you ruined the economy
gen z: tf is an encyclopedia britannica
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more and more people are saying you should check out my podcast, weird little guys!
i'm in the middle of a multi-episode arc about white supremacist terror in the final years of apartheid as part of an exploration into trump's recent interest in "white genocide" narratives.
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Heβs 100% right and we need dudes who talk like this
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Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshitβabout five months too late!
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Iβm the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When youβre at war, you dress for war.
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EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...
A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Their plan would gut the agencyβs claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
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Please do
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Democracies Consider America an Adversary Now
How Two of Our Closest Allies Are Approaching the U.S. During Trump 2.0
Some reflections from my recent travels to @sxsw.com and a conference at McGill.
Increasingly, our allies are describing us as an "adversary" or even an "enemy."
americansunlight.substack.com/p/democracie...
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Iβve watched Kurdish grandmothers walk up and defy whole ass NATO armies. Schumer is a coward
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Beware!
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π€£Slap anyways π
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The United States is not safe for foreign nationals. Avoid all travel to the US if not necessary. If you are inside the United States plan a safe and immediate exit. Let others know your location at all times and do not travel without your documentation.
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Meanwhile over on Xβ¦.
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Iβm not giving up. I refuse to live in a world where my daughter/granddaughter have less rights than I did. Where the LGBTQIAβs, 2SBIPOC, Immigrants, Women are treated less than human. Iβm still grieving but continue to fight the fight π
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The one and only
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And how does it taste
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The NYPD seized a shipment of βMost Wanted CEOβ playing cards en route from manufacturer to the creator to ship out to customers.
The NYPD is currently led by Jessica Tisch, who comes from one of the countryβs wealthiest families & took particularly intense issue with the cards.
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We've just sent the greatest maga minds to South America to find El Dorado
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This episode was amazing. You did a great job connecting the past to the present and looping MAGA into all of it
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Bidet all the way. I'm not falling for that Big Ass bullshit
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Porque no los dos???
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Will do. Thanks for the info!
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I don't plan to allow it. My grandparents told me how to deal with Nazis and it's not with words. The tide is slowly turning and people are realizing what's at stake.
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And a glow up is the best revenge.
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The fact that he doesn't care doesn't matter. We care and it's about proving a point.
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