Melanie Ensign

Trump and the GOP are redrawing maps for one reason: because losing the next election will mean answering for their crimes.

Exercise and Decompression Risk Being physically fit can be important, and sometimes crucial, for dive safety. Physical fitness plays a role in both regular dive activities and emergent events. A quick and effective response to sudd...

How do you exercise if you dive most days? There is no simple solution, but understanding the factors can help with decision-making.

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He doesn’t know that he votes using a mail-in ballot from the White House? He’s registered in FL.

What Ocean Ramsey does is not shark science or conservation: some brief thoughts on “the Shark Whisperer” documentary Netflix has a new (sarcastic air quotes) “documentary” out about Ocean Ramsey, who longtime readers and followers know is a serial wildlife harasser who also coordinates massive online …

Enough of you asked me about this that I wrote some brief thoughts on Ocean Ramsey's particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense. I believe this addresses almost all of the frequently asked questions I receive, but as always I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith.

🧪🦑🌎🦈

This fucking guy.

I'm Just a (Privacy) Bill - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast Why don’t we have meaningful privacy laws in the US? While we haven’t been able to pass federal privacy legislation, many states have managed...

Passing #privacy legislation in the US is a seriously uphill battle - and it's hardly a fair fight. Today Vermont House Representative @mepriestley.com takes us behind the scenes, sharing crucial lessons that citizens & their reps need to learn.

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A painting of a bird beside the text "Dickheads are exhausting"

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Weak, damaged men afraid of therapy.

Here's a version that was archived.

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I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

The AI Industry Is Still Light-Years From Making a Profit, Experts Warn Some AI investors seem to finally be waking up to a huge problem: that the industry has not yet figured out how to make a profit.

JPMorgan CIO Lori Beer told the New York Times she has shut down hundreds of GenAI projects. Enterprises that entered GenAI pilots with dreams of transformation are now retreating, having discovered ballooning costs and marginal productivity gains.

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What a small & fragile pair.

This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew.

They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.

Les Mayonnaises 😂

The key to a happy relationship is never seeing your partner load a dishwasher.

It asks me to add my key to my bio for authentication….but it’s a lot of characters & doesn’t fit in my current bio. If the characters fit, I’d have no issue with adding it to my bio. But I’m already using all the characters Bluesky gives me.

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
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I can’t complete authentication without changing my Bluesky bio.

It works for me….but I can’t fit my key in my Bluesky bio….and well, I’m not rewriting my whole bio. :)

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

It’s cool. I hope you try it!

US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., adding more uncertainty to a Treasury market that has been...

".. Consumers in the US have absorbed an estimated 22% of tariff costs through June, but their share will rise to 67% if the latest tariffs follow the pattern of levies in previous years .."

@bloomberg.com
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It’s a constant reminder of corruption & uncertainty.

Militarized police who don’t know what they’re doing walking around every city with guns?

Welcome to Mexico.

Super excited for this one tomorrow — it’s the first in our newly revamped series based on subscriber feedback!

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Yea! Why should the rest of us be the only ones with spineless Representatives & Senators?

As expected, dispute appears to be over White House demands to break the law. These aren't 'disputes'. Law is clear on this. Only mystery is how it was that Long, a very Trumpy guy and not part of the ethics community, seems to have not gone along, or not enough.

Tom and Jerry and chill… 🐱
#caturday #bluesky #cute

As a former I grew up in the Unification Church. Like them, ICE is tearing families apart

“Trump has used many of the same scapegoats as Moon, but his most popular target is the immigrant community. Trump is using immigrants as scapegoats to distract us from his unpopular policies… and he is using ICE as the enforcement mechanism.”

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