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Whadjuk Noongar country. Medical research writer / Clinical research consultant. Lost immunologist. Cavaliers basketball. Research integrity. Just a namby-pamby fact-checker.

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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I haven't written about this, but there is *zero* risk of non-frivolous ballot litigation if the nomination is settled by the Convention, including in Ohio which changed its date. Until the delegates select a nominee, there is no nominee. Whatever happens, this is *not* a reason not to change.

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Straight up shooting the messenger. If you didn't know already, Project 2025 is being run by mouth-breathers.

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Yes, was his reaction that I was most concerned about. Regarding injury - when you know, you know, and it looked like he knew. My guess is a calf muscle or back spasm. Back issue can be dealt with but a pulled calf will take weeks. Fingers crossed!!!

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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There's a few high-level athletes I know that have admitted to employing Nickleback for their hardest training sessions. They wouldn't even describe it as a guilty pleasure, but as a fuel. I still judge them.

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

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Winning! And they could do it the Aussie way too....stroll down to the local school (converted into polling booths on the weekend). Buy a hot dog and a coffee from one of the foodtrucks. Walk inside. Vote. Stroll home....

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Well done and hats off to St Vincents Private for pushing back against healthcare insurance company greed.

The Australian healthcare system is better than most other countries. Let's keep it that way.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

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Sounds exactly like Putin talking about Ukraine đŸ€”

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Media Matters for America's avatar Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Carl T. Bergstrom's avatar Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com
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Thanks, John, but Mastodon is two doors down on the left. I think that’s where you’re supposed to go take a big shit on other people’s birthday cake.

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Might pop into the museum with my kids next week during school holidays. Thanks for the heads-up!

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Joe Sudbay's avatar Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social
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Sotomayor;

Never in the history of our Republic has a President had
reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal
prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate
the criminal law....With fear for our democracy, I dissent.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

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Tom Nichols's avatar Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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It was a complete shitshow and it's on Biden and his team.

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6’3” pool boy bitch 's avatar 6’3” pool boy bitch @milesklee.bsky.social
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watching the stoned Subway employee put mayo on my chicken teriyaki sandwich

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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If you are someone who wants to argue Biden has survived before and proved the doubters completely wrong a number of times, fine. I’m just relaying what is happening in the corridors of Democratic power rn, and it’s extremely, no-shit panicky in a significant way.

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Am obviously just one of many many reporters getting their phones blown up by elite Dems in positions of influence, power, money freaking the fuck out tonight. All I’ll say before pivoting to writing copy is this is Not the usual bed wetting, Biden should step aside fan fic. Tonight was different

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Neon Chinchilla's avatar Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social
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America is not a serious country.

Come on. The fact that this man did this and has a judge playing defense for him over it? Utterly ridiculous.

"Careful you don't spill the diet coke on the highly classified documents when you're in there!"

www.thedailybeast.com/new-pics-sho...

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CS's avatar CS @roadmeetsfeet.bsky.social
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Feel like it's part of the assassin bug family. Maybe the Wheel bug? If so, they are actually helpful in controlling other insect populations. They hunt on plants but don't eat them. They are voracious eaters.

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Wolfcat's avatar Wolfcat @wolfcat.bsky.social
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Assange is going to be utterly insufferable isn't he.

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He's probably served enough detention, but I get the feeling there'll be much whitewashing of Assange's actions when he comes home.

US military secrets aside: let's not forget he had a large hand in Trump succeeding in 2016.

Assange & Jim Comey, what a team.

foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/w...

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HĂ„kon Nordhagen's avatar HĂ„kon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social
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"Some 45% of total shipping demand is for transporting fossil fuels. That means some $42 billion per year is spent on fossil shipping fuels to transport other fossil fuels to their point of use."

rmi.org/the-incredib...?

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When I was early 40s, one morning I woke from a brilliant deep sleep. Lying on my side. Felt fantastic. Lifted my head off the pillow and something in my neck clicked. Several days on NSAIDs later, I could laugh about the fact that I couldn't even say "I should have stayed in bed".

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So far. The founder lives in Moscow and has yet to fall out a window.

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John Morrison's avatar John Morrison @localcelebrity.bsky.social
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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T.C. Aurelius 's avatar T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest
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Coincidentally, someone who was 20 in 2020 is also 44 or 45 now

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“While on your international holiday, you might like to peruse potential future homes. Click here for ideal destinations and use code #OrangeHitler for maximum discount.”

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Hadas Weiss's avatar Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social
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it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed

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Derf Backderf's avatar Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
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“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” –Dorothy Parker

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Let’s be fair to Thomas. YOU try spending six weeks in a camper with an agitated woman talking nonstop about dead people voting in Georgia and see if YOU don’t want to keep your fuckin gun.

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Leah Stokes's avatar Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be.

Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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I had no idea! Wish I'd checked it out then I lived in the 216.

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Derf Backderf's avatar Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
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Was downtown Cleveland today and the film crew was turning the old Cleveland Leader Building into The Daily Planet for the new Supe movie! Large crowd of fellow geeks smiling and applauding and taking photos.

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c0nc0rdance's avatar c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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Two of the four people in this photo from the Trinity test died of acute radiation from the demon core. Given the cowboy antics of the earliest atomic age, it's surprising more weren't killed. A reminder that every lab safety rule is written in blood.

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