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WIRetiredGuy@jsgjames.bsky.social |
124 followers 865 following 184 posts
Retired 30-year IT guy (at two large public universities). Living my best life with two cats, family, and friends. Yes, I took these eclipse photos.
#Wisconsin #Astronomy #Cosmology #Hiking #Music #Opera #Cats #LiberalAF #Photography
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.
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Big DeVito Energy
@mayawest.online
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Miracles are real and they are provided by science I am in tears. we can *prevent HIV transmission*.
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Will be back to regular posting soon enough, with better internet, and hopefully will post some photos of an amazing road trip adventure. Here's a sampler...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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lol we're so fucked
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Martin D.B. Brown
@martindbbrown.bsky.social
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'Pundit' seems generous
Far-right pundit Candace Owens downplays Holocaust, says Nazi hatred is 'indoctrination' www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024...
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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WIRetiredGuy
@jsgjames.bsky.social
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TFW you accidentally discover that your ARM mortgage payment is increasing by 25% in three weeks. 😒 #mortgage #finance #CreditUnion #wisconsin
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Here's exactly why this matters: the GOP knows that the country is quickly becoming more diverse. Democracy -- allowing more people to vote -- means that they are out of office. Being anti-democracy is a fancy way of saying you would like the return of John C. Calhoun.
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Sparky Clarkson
@sparkyclarkson.bsky.social
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Eagerly awaiting NY Times 3-month series of daily articles covering Trump's obvious mental decline
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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…is a society which tries to keep us all supported. And that is precisely what Republicans and conservatives are trying to destroy. So Do Not Let Them.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Because, again: Disability is the only minority anyone can join at any time, & which everyone will join, if they're lucky enough to live that long. A disease, a quirk of genetics, a bus, a bad fall from a curb. Anything. And the only thing we have that could consistently make this fact survivable…
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
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I was Kentucky's state geologist at the time. Nearly every one of the dozens of journalists I spoke with during and after the flooding asked about the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining and climate change in a historically flood-prone region. People—at least some people—wanted answers.
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
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A 1000-yr rain event over eastern #Kentucky in July 2022 resulted in floods that killed 45 people. Here's a link to my just-published open-access paper looking at topography, precipitation variability, mountaintop removal coal mining, and flood severity. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aeg/eeg/arti...
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isaac
@sevier.io
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This is a good overview of a lot of what's wrong with the utility system we have. The main issue is that we run the grid for profits rather than for human well-being, and there is no amount of "reform" that can solve this fundamental design. To run the grid differently, make power public.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Focusing on presidential swing states is good and all but crucial shit is happening all over the nation at the state level and it is nearly impossible to go wrong getting involved anywhere a trans care ban or abortion ban has come down.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:
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isaac
@sevier.io
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Over and over i've been rebuked by men who want to seem like the more rational actors in the electricity policy discussion-- that public ownership and universal electricity service are stupid, fantastical, unrealistic. For what? To play Team Capitalism? Meanwhile the fundamentals stay broken.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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We must speak honestly, act honestly, and build transformative agendas that solve multiple, "difficult to solve" problems at once. Poverty in the wealthiest and most polluting nation on earth is existential crisis at mass scale. Fossil fuel interests are using that to delay action.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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So we have to move to a different terrain. And, frankly, find more solid footing that addresses the *root cause* of the problem. Renewables and grid upgrades to bear the increased electricity needs from home electrification will cost money. That's fact. Hiding or avoiding that truth breaks trust.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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The social conservatives and Christian nationalists know this is a crisis and they are *acting like it*. They are promising to act swiftly to address this problem directly. (Even though it's a lie.) They also *blame renewables* and this is widely believed.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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There are 48 million adults (not counting children) in the U.S. who cannot afford their energy bills right now. The Dem and left climate and energy community has to do more than promise that renewables or the green transition will eventually trickle down to solve this problem.
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POLITICO Europe
@politico.eu
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The left-wing New Popular Front coalition unexpectedly placed first in France’s recent snap elections, but according to President Emmanuel Macron, that doesn’t count as a victory.
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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people keep telling me i'm wrong but any change to the ticket raises substantial litigation risk. i don't care if you think a pledged delegate can switch affiliations after the primary but before the convention and, more importantly, Sam Alito sure as hell doesn't care what you think.
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running against democracy: www.al.com/news/2024/07...
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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One major problem in the US is that we talk a LOT about rights and not at all about duties. But the two are opposite sides of the same coin; my right is someone else's duty, and vice versa.
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David Roberts
@volts.wtf
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Today on Volts: a startup called Mattiq is using a combination of nanoscience, AI, & electrolysis to generate novel materials that can substitute for carbon-intensive materials in chemicals, plastics, & fuels.
Folks. This one is going to blow your mind.
www.volts.wtf/p/electrolyz...
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Colin Woodard
@colinwoodard.bsky.social
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There's a lot of bad news out there on the climate change front, but Bigelow Lab scientists monitoring deep ocean currents report the Gulf of Maine (and its whales, cod, and kelp) may be getting a bit of a break from warming.
tos.org/oceanography...
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Joseph Finn
@josephfinn.bsky.social
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*bursts through the front door*. Everyone shut up new Lady Astronaut novel in March!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"“What are we going to do,” [Gilda Bayegan, Texas Republican] said from the podium, “ … stone women next?”"
I assume there's a paragraph or two on that around page 700 of Project 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
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The most severely affected watershed—aptly named Troublesome Creek—saw a disproportionately high number of flood deaths. It has also seen about 1/4 of its surface area mined during the past few decades. And, to make things worse, it received a higher than average amount of rain for that storm.
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
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The answers are complicated. There is no way to go back in time to run a controlled experiment with identical paired watersheds. Geology doesn't work that way. But, lidar-based cumulative flux model results suggest that mountaintop removal mining may have substantially increased flood severity.
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Artologica
@artologica.net
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I've been painting pretty bacteria again : ) Buy this one if you like clostridium artologica.etsy.com/listing/1759...
🧪🐡🦠
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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One point I was only able to mention briefly but that bears spelling out: Roberts' opinion makes things worse *even in the very specific ground of presidents' ability to engage in politically-motivated prosecutions of their rivals.*
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www.theunpopulist.net/p/justice-ro...
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
@mumbly-joe.bsky.social
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He also drove a big fucking spike through the fig leaves in Trump v Anderson, didn't he? Literally no way left for Congress to pass "enabling legislation" of 14.3 that isn't either unconstitutional or unenforceable.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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And so Roberts leave behind a much greater temptation to future presidents to go after, not their predecessors (normally who cares about them?) but their would-be *successors,* or their current active opposition. Politically motivated prosecutions have become more likely, not less. 7/7
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's time to revisit the idea of expanding the Supreme Court, which means it's time to dismiss the misunderstandings about FDR's "Court-packing controversy."
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...
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Molly Shah
@mommunism.bsky.social
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Donate now and get your votes in today! www.gofundme.com/f/sspqf-10k-...
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Premee Mohamed
@premeemohamed.com
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The local anthology for Capital City Press that I helped to guest-edit is up now! Get a (free! online!) cross-section of some of Edmonton's amazing writers through this collection of short pieces and poetry! 😍
capitalcitypress.wordpress.com
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Silky Weineck
@silkyweineck.bsky.social
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Turkey momma and her brood settling in for the night yesterday. 🪶
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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The details of this are surprisingly good! There's no reason that members of Congress should be trading single name stocks, even if it's being done on their behalf by an advisor. *SENATORS ANNOUNCE DEAL ON CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING BAN: NBC
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Tim Pratt
@timpratt.org
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I used to do a little curious head cock while I stared at them, too, like, "what is this strange specimen I have encountered, is it some kind of unusual worm"
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Tim Pratt
@timpratt.org
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some car wanting to turn left honked at me when I was in the crosswalk, while I had the walk sign, and I didn't stop dead and slowly turn my head and stare them straight in the eyes for a slow 5 count, just continued like I hadn't noticed them is this personal growth or is my power waning
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Ethan Siegel
@startswithabang.bsky.social
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Strongest “missing link” in black hole physics discovered at last
Here it is: our first surefire intermediate mass black hole!
Not stellar mass, not supermassive. At no less than 8200 solar masses at the core of Omega Centauri, it's a huge discovery!
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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The GOP push to destabilize the 2024 election has already begun, with lawsuits filed in a host of states around familiar Trump talking points: mail-in ballots, supposed voter-registration fraud, etc. “This is how you build a story that enables political interference in the post-election process." 🎁
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Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
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I missed this xkcd when it came out earlier, but it made me laugh out loud. The joke, which is aimed at a very small group of people, is that the graph is shaped like the light curve (the change in brightness over time) of a classic supernova. Brightens fast, peaks, fades slowly.
xkcd.com/2878/
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Wisconsin Examiner
@wiexaminer.bsky.social
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ICYMI: Lawmakers approve money for biohealth tech hub, communities affected by UW shutdowns wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/lawma...
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WIRetiredGuy
@jsgjames.bsky.social
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Could not have counted how many Brewers games I might have attended had I been able to take light rail from Madison to Milwaukee!
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WIRetiredGuy
@jsgjames.bsky.social
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And WI had to pay $million penalty to the company that had already started building facilities in Milwaukee to build the railcars for it. But, you know, maintenance costs and all that 😱
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