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Dan Killam

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Marine biogeochemist, malacologist, eclamgelist. He/him


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he literally said they're aborting babies after birth and no one pushed back. I high school debate club kid would have mopped the floor with both of them. was painful to watch

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Continues to amaze me what they publish out of the thousands of amazing submissions they assuredly receive per week

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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher's avatar Prof. Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com
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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court just undid decades of regulatory law, making it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.

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these people are desperate to co-opt taxpayer-funded education to proselytize religion. it's like they know their ideas can't succeed on their own merits

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Me: "I WANT TO HEAR NEW INDIE MUSIC!" My music apps: ok grandpa, here's some more early 2010s dance-punk, time to go to bed Me: "daft punk is playing at my house, my houzzzzzz"

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Even more late stage capitalism. They are killing things that people would pay for because they can make more money as a write-off.

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Costco is getting into housing! Could get glasses, vacation packages, tires, toilet paper and a coffin all without leaving the footprint of your building!

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Makes the rounds from time to time

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Ah yes, I really want to signed up for a newsletter from this parking app! -said no one in the history of humanity

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I'm following you because you're just no good. shifty. I admire that.

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FDR but very afraid to give progress updates

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I miss when a link would just work and I didn't need a whole flowchart to understand who could access on what devices

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I love the smell of long-term continuous data in the morning. Also in the afternoon. And at night for comparison purposes

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It's incredible how effective the propaganda campaign against SF over the last few years has been. Everyday people seem to think it's Apocalypse Now there. I've visited a dozen times in the last year and it's just the same to me as it's always been, except more empty, because of the propaganda

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This is why CA's enforced beach easements are the best. Most states have public access to the tideline, but it doesn't matter if you can't get to it

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I cite myself because my career is building on the previous stuff I did. I don't ever really have to reach to do so. I've worked on topics that few others touch. Recommending my work be cited in reviews, however, I try to avoid.

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We need a name for the feeling of disappointment when I realize a meeting invite is going to use MS Teams

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Achim Zeileis's avatar Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org
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PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI!

This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors.

Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

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From the same intolerable navel gazers that invented quiet quitting

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The ocean resists being studied. Poseidon eats our sondes for breakfast

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For an independent, her site seems mighty dependent on screen ratio

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Dr. Sebastian Echeverri, PhD (he/his)'s avatar Dr. Sebastian Echeverri, PhD (he/his) @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
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TL Note: as written, "bugs" is best defined as meaning "all arthropods". when using "bugs" to refer to just insects, the evolutionarily accurate construction is "bug is shrimps"

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When I change a PowerPoint file extension to .zip to easily extract the embedded media

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Apparently, people keep typing "Utah" in Google Maps navigation and get stranded on the same remote mountain.
1. This would make a great setup for a slasher novel
2. Who navigates to <state>?? You can't be slightly more specific?
www.abc4.com/news/cent
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Honestly, they can have me. As a treat

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Splish splorsh I was making some borscht

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one small rock, as a treat

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Yes, that is the norm

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wow, well that will be a huge improvement, and sounds like it will resolve a lot of the reliability/theft issues

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The chargers at our office just got beheaded for their copper. I am increasingly pessimistic on the idea of such mass-deployed public charging in general. Have you heard of solutions to deter copper theft?

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Noll's avatar Noll @nollthere.bsky.social
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Insert an Invert: False Crabs. I went with a hermit crab. I hate that there's trash in their habitats that they can use as a shell but it is certainly visually whimsical. I feel like a bit of a hermit crab myself these days, especially one living in a spicy can of peppers.

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#InsertAnInvert2024
Carcinization - False crab

False crab is a taxonomic group that includes many crustacean species that look halfway between shrimp and crab, with some looking crabbier than others. King crabs, mole crabs, and hermit crabs are some of the best known false crabs. 🎨 🐡

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It's amusing how you posted some reasonable and your responses are full of people doing mental gymnastics to find reasons to disagree with it

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I will keep up the fight! Thanks for the inspiration

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My tomatoes this year have been a huge fail. Not sure what happened 😔

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, it killed more than 400 Americans per year, with children being the most vulnerable. Due to childhood vaccination, deaths from measles were nearly entirely eliminated in the US in the 1990s. The rise in antivax rhetoric is killing children.

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No comment on the man, but as a portrait I really dig this. Very Southern Reach

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Saw quite a few BLM signs next to No on Measure M (failed RC ballot measure a few years ago)

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Santa Cruz is NIMBY Mordor

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Also it is pretty amusing when the NIMBYs are alumni. Common dynamic in Santa Cruz. Pulling up the ladder behind them and all that

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Whatever it is...they clearly got each others' backs

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