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Alan Jackson@akjackson.bsky.social |
62 followers 91 following 432 posts
Retired geophysicist, data science hobbyist, writer of letters to the editor, troublemaker
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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You don't see GOPers publicly pulling their hair out over Trump praising Hannibal Lecter at every speech. They just push ahead to get their guy--their policy goals--in power. Dems need the same monomaniacal focus. Is Biden old? Yes. Does it suck? Yes. Does it actually matter here? No.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Democrats have always been their own worst enemy.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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They see โBiden is oldโ bc the media frames it that way, and then self-defeating Dems hop on board. Trump is giving speeches that are UTTERLY INCOHERENT AND DERANGED. But the media ignores, and the Dems would rather worry abt the aesthetics of their guy than attack Trump. I mean: DE. RANGED.
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Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
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Twice in the past month I have been asked to do an interview for the New York Times. Citing their hard right turn, I declined both. Everything I have seen from that paper in the past month has only bolstered my confidence in those decisions.
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@unfitz.bsky.social
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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Kevin Koehler
@kevrockcity.bsky.social
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Read this story and then ponder how many good apples in the police department and prosecutor's office *absolutely knew* who was the real murderer was and conspired to railroad this lady to protect him.
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Malaclypse the Middle
@malaclypse.bsky.social
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The whole child-raping thing sure seems bad: bsky.app/profile/star...
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Seriously. He's so clearly more mentally fit than Trump. I say this as someone dealing with a parent with advanced dementia. Trump seems like he's got dementia, Biden seems like he's slowing down a normal amount for his age. You can argue they're both too old. They are! But those are the choices.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Bidenโs age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness: Justice Gorsuch's horrifying opinion in the Grants Pass case recalls an earlier heartless dissent. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Having just read "On the Move", I wonder if a disaster like this would inspire people to give up hydrocarbons, or just inspire them to "save themselves" by moving...
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Garry Peterson
@resiliencesci.bsky.social
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paper:
The growing inadequacy of an open-ended SaffirโSimpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world
Wehner+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"...a number of recent storms have already achieved this hypothetical category 6 intensity and ....more such storms are projected as the climate continues to warm."
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One Who Walks Among the Dead
@anubisthejackal.bsky.social
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I can't for the life of me find it (I slim a lot of stuff) but someone in last day or so claimed that some law proposed by some right wing whacko would, effectively, make being transgender illegal vis a vis restrictions on what they consider "porn". IE, being transgender is pornographic.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Could also be Thatcher ending coal mining subsidies - at a time when North Sea gas production was rising.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.
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NanBP
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Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project, former Republican and Republican strategist that I most loved to hate when he was doing political ads against my guy, said the Gop is planting the talking points and weโre just repeating them. You would think we would learn..
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Since the court is illegitimate, prosecutors should just ignore them.
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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There are fires in BC that continued burning all winter beneath the snow...
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Dr. Jeff Masters
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
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New study: A Houston Cat 3+ would cause >$100 billion in industrial damage and "likely be the worst human, economic and environmental disaster in U.S. history." Solution: build a $3-$6 billion, 25' Houston Ship Channel barrier, paired with the $34 billion Ike Dike. bit.ly/3vu08AA
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Angie Rasmussen
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FDA found infectious H5N1 at relatively high titers in bulk raw milk from 4 states with known infected herds.
Pasteurization inactivates H5N1. Do NOT drink raw milk!!!
www.fda.gov/media/179708...
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Angie Rasmussen
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
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Yes. The more evolutionary experience a virus has with a given host, the more selection pressure to adapt to grow and transmit efficiently in that host.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.
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Blue Heron Farm
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If it's so bad that you couldn't possibly vote against Trump to stop fascism and apartheid at home, then surely it has to be bad enough that you should stop paying for it. Otherwise it's just virtue signaling while admitting you're perfectly fine hurting people at home to do it.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Maybe I'm a Pollyanna, but I don't believe the polls. Their sampling is too broken and their results are being driven by the statistical corrections they have to apply. Recent election results have almost always been way off from what polling predicted.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Trump would be so much better.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Why are Democrats so self-loathing?
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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They are not serious people who actually follow the news.
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Alan Jackson
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And yet pollsters said 77% of respondents said they were going to watch. Polls have become meaningless and no one wants to admit it.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com
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Opinion: To serve its country, New York Times Editorial Board should leave the paper. See also: Wall Street Journal.
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The Eyewall
@theeyewallwx.bsky.social
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Tropical Storm #Beryl will likely become Hurricane Beryl, and it could even become a major hurricane as it moves into the Caribbean. Hurricane impacts are likely in the Windward Islands and Jamaica & elsewhere should monitor Beryl's progress. Our update: theeyewall.com/beryl-is-on-...
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Too many Democrats are idiots. Now is the time to support Biden, not play into the Republican BS.
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I just used the new feature to turn off post replies after a post has gone if the rails and whooowheee does that feel good. Now I'm going to go back and block every person who says Biden and Trump are the same.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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I guess that means it's okay to disrupt SCOTUS.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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This from someone who admitted he can't even do algebra.
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Kevin Elliott
@kjephd.bsky.social
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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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SCOTUS has declared that a law degree is sufficient for judges to be experts in every field. Interesting since Justice Roberts in an earlier decision admitted that he couldn't even do algebra. So going forward, Federal regulations will be decided by vibes instead of actual facts and expertise.
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Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Importing this @volts.wtf thread from the bad place. It opens with a link to a piece that used official data to establish that yes, crime rates are indeed very much down recently. But hereโs the thing, Project 2025โs Trump 2.0 promises to destroy that world in which we can โknowโ things like this.
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Too Big to Fail
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Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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People forget about ocean acidification in addition to global warming.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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A lot like eugenics. Bad science as an excuse for sociopathic behavior.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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Shouting fire in a crowded theater is fine. That's what he is saying.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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If you can't say something nice...
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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School shootings are very rare. But theyโre so traumatic when they happen. So weโve decide the solution is to impose consistent, regular low-level traumatic reminders on millions of children that weโve resigned ourselves to the chance they could be gunned down bc we donโt care enough to prevent it.
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Alan Jackson
@akjackson.bsky.social
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I'm so old I used Gopher and Veronica before html was invented.
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