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@brettakulon

Former biophysicist; current biotech consultant. Grew up in a library, but also in the woods.

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When pondering “lethality,” this quote from Sherman in 1865 comes to mind:

“War means success by any and every means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do that, and bears, and all beasts, but men attain objects by intellect, and the introduction of physical power, moved upon strategic points."

11.03.2026 23:02 👍 135 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1

Happy birthday to Douglas Adams, a hoopy frood who never panicked and always knew where his towel was

11.03.2026 04:11 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Mr President sir, this is your top aide speaking. I am begging you to keep saying this brilliant line.

11.03.2026 22:51 👍 275 🔁 79 💬 16 📌 19

“You’re expendable but trans people are not” is exactly the energy we need in the face of the elite assault on our trans comrades and loved ones

11.03.2026 22:34 👍 86 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0
Guess it’s the end times with this weather

Guess it’s the end times with this weather

Sure

11.03.2026 21:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have a solution that will please both sides

11.03.2026 11:32 👍 224 🔁 49 💬 11 📌 3

Very hard not to read in the voice of Stewie

11.03.2026 12:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if we rename it the Strait of America. Then it becomes ours

11.03.2026 03:10 👍 1832 🔁 124 💬 45 📌 10
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 👍 22864 🔁 6173 💬 198 📌 377
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Ig Nobels to move awards to Switzerland due to concern over US travel visas The annual ceremony of the Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, is normally held in the United States. This September it will take place in Zurich after organisers deemed the US “u...

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research...

10.03.2026 18:08 👍 168 🔁 93 💬 4 📌 12
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10.03.2026 20:02 👍 267 🔁 84 💬 5 📌 10

As Casey Stengel would say, “Can’t anyone here play this game?”

11.03.2026 00:14 👍 156 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Daily mail article saying the Harry Potter series will be the steaming event of the decade

Daily mail article saying the Harry Potter series will be the steaming event of the decade

Lovely typo in a Harry Potter TV show article.

10.03.2026 22:42 👍 234 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 1

you draw up that ad for amtrak?
sure did boss, diarrhea money shot just like you asked

10.03.2026 20:09 👍 3144 🔁 459 💬 38 📌 6
mb ghalibaf 

An oil tanker crossed Strait of Hormuz escorted by US Navy ships? Maybe on PlayStation

mb ghalibaf An oil tanker crossed Strait of Hormuz escorted by US Navy ships? Maybe on PlayStation

checking in on the speaker of the parliament of iran

10.03.2026 21:48 👍 361 🔁 63 💬 7 📌 16
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They’re calling it the best-planned war of all time

10.03.2026 19:40 👍 590 🔁 111 💬 11 📌 17

but i thought the war was nearly complete? it can only good happen?!

10.03.2026 18:19 👍 529 🔁 49 💬 22 📌 2

Brian Wilson: I’m going to need 9 years and this list of musical instruments only made in the mountains of Nepal to create my masterpiece, it’s called Goofy Goo Bananas

10.03.2026 15:50 👍 1334 🔁 136 💬 30 📌 10

11 years in & ppl in industries who should absolutely know better still jump for his bullshit bc theyre hoping that this time the con will be true

10.03.2026 12:25 👍 60 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

More like fake scalp binding 😬

10.03.2026 12:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Jean-BAPtiste EMMANUEL ZORG!!!

10.03.2026 02:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is how I access bluesky

09.03.2026 23:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

09.03.2026 19:06 👍 12595 🔁 2102 💬 613 📌 306

It will be one of those inexplicable historical contingencies, how we carted him around and pampered his corrupt flesh while he spewed disgusting disgusting lies about his subjects, the world, life itself. I hope he gets a gilded pyramid at Mar a Lago that we can watch slide beneath the waves

09.03.2026 23:02 👍 51 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

You require more Vespene gas!

09.03.2026 21:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh okay

09.03.2026 20:06 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

09.03.2026 08:34 👍 11720 🔁 2791 💬 68 📌 83

Heavy handed, unrealistic, please revise.

09.03.2026 03:05 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Thou canst not tell where one drop of water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon

09.03.2026 00:47 👍 134 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 53

Costco should buy Tubi

09.03.2026 01:13 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0