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Charles Louis Richter

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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i bet that could skeletonize a watermelon in under two minutes

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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yeah i bet that rendering facility needs to be freshened by light sea breezes year round

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When you’re coming out of anesthesia and someone asks if it’s 6:30 or 6:50

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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almost forgot: the other day i assisted a lanternfly nymph into an orb weaver web and got to watch the resident immediately pounce and start scurrying around the surface of the prey, making several orbits of the insect's equator while wrapping it in silk

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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turtle chips! not pictured: truffle (savory) flavor

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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Hmmm, might I suggest you go back, try an alternate camel for the punchline?

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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we can't stop here--this is cat country!

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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also note the title of this particular strip

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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there is nothing in the text of this comic that indicates sluggo has not in fact created an enormous and catastrophically deadly pipe bomb

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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check out these royals from the Robot Kingdom

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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the heritage foundation is a bunch of hijackers standing over the bodies of the flight crew and telling the passengers that no one else needs to get hurt if everyone just stays seated and does as they say

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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keeping an eye on the replies to make note of anyone who says bolton

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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nudges result in sproinging in any direction except into the mouths of the pitchers typically they are stompable after a few hops

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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yes, I've already seen one adult this week!

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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it's a fourth instar spotted lanternfly nymph, and they are all over the place this yeae

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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annoyingly, i haven't seen any sign that the lanternflies are enticed into the pitchers!

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pee wee herman-palladino's avatar pee wee herman-palladino @markpopham.bsky.social
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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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does anyone at the nyt recall what trump's daily schedules looked like

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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i just wish there were an easy way to discover how many people actually made a weirdo recipe like this--like, sure, it got reprinted in a ton of newspapers because that's how they handled content, but did people actually MAKE and EAT it??? i want to know!

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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recipes for clam frappe were all over the newspapers at the turn of the 20th century, then popped up starting about 1913 and again in the 30s to clarify: you're freezing the broth to a mush like a granita, NOT the clams themselves it was billed as an invalid food or just a nice start to luncheon!

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someone on Twitter pointed out that the NYT to Biden at this point is exactly Piers morgan to meghan markle- a pompous legacy media figure that has reacted to being rejected by someone they were sure would want them like a deranged stalker bent on revenge at any cost

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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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biden needs to go on TV and say that SCOTUS has just given him, joe biden, the power to commit any crime he wants as president, and that this erasure of a bedrock principle of the rule of law and the constitutional order terrifies him as an american citizen

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can't believe the conservative justices ruined bannon day like this

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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biden, in his official capacity as president, can now pack the supreme court with however many justices he feels like without the advice and consent of the senate--what are they going to do, *prosecute* him???

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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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ApocalypticaNow's avatar ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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These lawyers are so arrogant with power that they're posthumously pardoning Nixon

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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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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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supreme court rules that some presidents (you know the ones) can tick a box next to any order to indicate it is an official act

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"A republic, if you can keep it." Plot twist: we can't.

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SCOTUS last week: Chevron is overruled because it’s our job to interpret law! Not the executive branch! SCOTUS today: who’s to say if the president behaved lawfully! 🤷‍♀️

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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feels like there's unfortunately plenty of precedent to include sending a black ops team to apprehend an individual who is known to be plotting the downfall of the republic and shipping him off to an undisclosed location as part of a president's official acts

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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supreme court rules that fighting a whole-ass war about not being ruled by a king is overturned

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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yeah, anyone who would go from "a fetus has an organ" to "a fetus has a legal ownership claim on that organ" is not arguing in good faith because they're conflating entirely separate meanings of "to have" now we can get back to the important point of it being just regular, not weird, cannibalism

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i bet you could deduce that from my careful acknowledgement in my previous post of the fact that what's in the mother's body is the mother's in the sense that it is in the mother's possession and control

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we are talking about the fetus's organs, none of which are "the mother's organs" just because they formed in the mother's body, unless we're talking solely in the sense of "under the mother's possession and control" which is not the sense in the original posts at all

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a fetus's heart is not the mother's organ in a biological sense

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Helen Rosner's avatar Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social
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When you eat “your” placenta you’re not eating your placenta you’re eating your baby’s placenta — it’s not autocannibalism, it’s just plain old ordinary cannibalism

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make a band bready House of Pain

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