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Tim Hanshaw

@timhanshaw.bsky.social

Armchair futurist. Good at trivia. Worried about the country and the world. Trying to stay positive. Failing @TimH@mas.to on Mastodon

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Will there ever be accurate information again?

12.08.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

hey remember when "serious thinkers" on the left were telling us this about roe

11.08.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

11.08.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 10744    πŸ” 3389    πŸ’¬ 483    πŸ“Œ 125

I guess we’re okay with this.

(Feel free to RT this over the next few days, weeks, years, forever)

11.08.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1391    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 17
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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

10.08.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 657    πŸ” 414    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 23

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

08.08.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2032    πŸ” 588    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 36
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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.

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.

10.08.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 608    πŸ” 358    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 55

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like β€œoh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

10.08.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 26591    πŸ” 5165    πŸ’¬ 413    πŸ“Œ 216

today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like β€œbro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey

09.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8731    πŸ” 910    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 88
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Makes you wonder, huh?

09.08.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4998    πŸ” 1104    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 29

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

30.07.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3682    πŸ” 1316    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 65
A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

09.08.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 40982    πŸ” 5718    πŸ’¬ 1226    πŸ“Œ 482

behold: a woman

08.08.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9090    πŸ” 2163    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 67
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Broadway musicals came up again on the Fire Escape Cast we just recorded.

08.08.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Constitution dictates that the census is a count "all persons" conducted every "ten years." Donald Trump has no power to alter either the timing or who is counted.

07.08.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6123    πŸ” 2035    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 154
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

It is entirely reckless to abandon this lifesaving research.

Our country is a global leader in vaccine research and disease prevention and this will seriously undermine our ability to respond to future health threats.

This makes us less safe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

06.08.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 459    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 12

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 18088    πŸ” 6786    πŸ’¬ 558    πŸ“Œ 289

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

05.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 22462    πŸ” 5836    πŸ’¬ 726    πŸ“Œ 353

WASHINGTON (AP) β€” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

05.08.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2980    πŸ” 1344    πŸ’¬ 550    πŸ“Œ 1204
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Trump has an able liar and hypocriteβ€”aka a propagandistβ€”as head of his National Economic Council.

05.08.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1042    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 9
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I'd like Megyn Kelly to name one time when she walked into a room and apologized for being white, blonde, and blue-eyed.

In fact, it was these features that launched her career and earned her millions of dollars.

05.08.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 492    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 11
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New data shows workers are mostly ignoring return-to-office orders Bosses to workers: 'Return to the office every day, or else.' Workers to bosses: 'No.'

The disconnect between upper management and the workforce is worth noting: www.fastcompany.com/91378094/new...

05.08.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Man who pardoned a convicted murderer because he liked who was killed makes illegal order backed by no law to arrest elected officials for a crime that doesn’t exist. You know, because they are the law and order party.

Release the Epstein files.

05.08.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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hey you want to see some old timey pictures of the toledo rockets mascot
www.utoledo.edu/mascot/histo...

04.08.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 448    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 34

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

03.08.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4090    πŸ” 1380    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 62
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Keep the two distinct in your head.

03.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7586    πŸ” 1778    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 50
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the ending of this explainer might surprise you

03.08.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4775    πŸ” 1144    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 109
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These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

03.08.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 362    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12

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