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I'm just a scientist, looking at a plant, begging it to thrive.


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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The campaign of convicted felon Donald Trump understands it’s shameful that convicted felon Donald Trump is a convicted felon so they’ll try to cow reporters into *not* calling convicted felon Donald Trump a convicted felon, but convicted felon Donald Trump is, factually, a convicted felon.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Unsure about the former but I will never unsee the Trump / Jabba comparison.

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Good evening to everyone but especially Billy Blanks' neighbor's weenie dog who occasionally shows up to offer encouragement in his Taebo videos.

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Potato Cat's avatar Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social
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@niedermeyer.io Ed I feel a *compulsion* to inform you that the CT apparently has no side impact intrusion protection. It's like a time traveler from 1965

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Comforting myself with a deeply silly screenplay idea for a dystopian future where we just try to elect the most John Wick-like candidates possible because this dumbass ruling has crystallized and been utilized in exactly the way discussed in this Skeet.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Listen if we get a dystopian future where the President literally goes around icing dudes that is not the _worst_ dystopia that could come out of this election.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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I get E-mails from them constantly but I suppose that is minimal effort that is not costing them much. And I appreciate that we've not been abandoned but in the next four months I am much more worried about them holding the Presidency, so I am okay if we get minimal visits.

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DNC, I know it's your white whale, but fuck turning Texas blue. I appreciate you have not abandoned us like so many people on here would have you do, but for the sake of this election please pour every resource into holding onto the states mentioned here for dear life.

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Josh Gondelman's avatar Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Andrew Parker's avatar Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social
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The only people who benefit from a fatalistic belief that the right-wing has irrevocably won (and nothing can be gained by ensuring they don’t win elections) is the right-wing. They want you demoralized. They want you focused on “why didn’t the democrats stop this” to distract from hating the GOP

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

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Andrew Parker's avatar Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social
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I’ve really tried to soften on the people who made a bad call in 2016 based on the premise that things couldn’t be that much worse under Trump But damned if I don’t want everyone talking about “see we did vote for the lesser evil in 2020 and it didn’t undo letting a fascist win in 2016” to fuck off

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Greg Greene's avatar Greg Greene @greene.haus
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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about ‘court packing’ and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment.” Correct.

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Molly Knight's avatar Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social
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Area op-ed columnist who thinks Taylor Swift is a bad role model because she’s 34 and unmarried with no kids also thinks Kevin Spacey deserves another chance:

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Kari Dru's avatar Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social
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I should probably do this after caffeine but fuck it. We're seeing a lot of horrible things come to fruition at once that have been *most of my life* in the making and I am not young. I'm seeing a lot of "I won't vote for anyone who can't fix X" when X was set in motion in the 80s, Or the 40s.

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The Republic Is Ours To Save's avatar The Republic Is Ours To Save @ejwillingham.bsky.social
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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Something about the phrase "uniformity of delivery" is terrifying in this context.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Also like, I know documentarians generally stay out of whatever is happening but literally filming a child being sexually assaulted has to be a bridge too far, right? Was it his footage or did he just repost it? Either way, ban was appropriate!!!

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Okay but why the fuuuuuuck would someone post literal CSAM? Like ... I get the documentation of horrors, but why did he think fucking _Twitter_ was the place to put it unless he just fundamentally has no empathy for the victim as a _child_. He re-victimized him by posting it!!!

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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I know some of these weirdos are against sunscreen but this is my first time hearing them go after sunglasses (and regular glasses?)

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Andy Craig's avatar Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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There is drama right now between him and Taylor Swift and far be it from me to defend Swift but it's very cringe inducing hearing people talk about how wrong she is to go after someone so nice.

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Jules 's avatar Jules @julesk.me
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Everything will be ok

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Using unwashed masses unironically in 2024?

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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The meme with the stick in the bike wheel spoke dot jpg XD

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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I remember at one point one blocked me and I always block back to prevent fuckery, and sure enough he unblocked and tried to make hay over me blocking him XD.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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As the carrier of a lethal anomaly this is my worst nightmare.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Ah. It's all coming back to me now. I don't think I had as many run ins with him as I did with some of the others.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Is this Jimmy or another one of the Vic hangers-on?

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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I don't think they understand what an insult that is to Cawrhorn XD

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c0nc0rdance's avatar c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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I see that the Foo Fighters just kicked off their UK tour, so it's time to drag out my "Why I Hate Dave Grohl" thread. TL;DR: The Foo Fighters funded AIDS denialist groups from 1999-2007 that lobbied to deny people life-saving medication. They have never acknowledged the deaths they caused.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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Oh God. That poor baby. The fact they kept funding her after the baby died makes it even more unforgivable.

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Brown Thumb Having Scientist's avatar Brown Thumb Having Scientist @chillyhibiscus.bsky.social
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How is it silky soft if it's 80% silver? I know silver is a soft metal but i wouldn't put it directly on my bits.

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Yell In a War's avatar Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

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Anthony31's avatar Anthony31 @anthony31.bsky.social
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“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” - Stephen King.🌱

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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Everyone’s mourning Donald Sutherland by naming really great movies, and I want to point out that he was also the best thing, often the single redeeming thing, in some lousy movies that people still love because Donald Sutherland.

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MyNameIsJeff🙋🏻‍♂️'s avatar MyNameIsJeff🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.lol
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🎶and I said what about SECOND breakfast at Tiffany’s🎵

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Ashton's avatar Ashton @ashtonk.bsky.social
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Environmentalists really should realize how much “you should suffer to prevent climate change” is exactly what oil lobbyists want them to say.

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