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Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.

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@actualnames.bsky.social There’s a restored grave at this place dated 1327 for a monk named Slumpo.

14.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mods mods I spilled my juice MODDDS

14.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Winnie the Pooh turned into plants

Winnie the Pooh turned into plants

Annihilation (2018)

14.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 560 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Introduced the 4 year old to Boris - Pink and he’s a fan

14.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

14.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 4223 πŸ” 1064 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 28
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Wonderful Days, c.1970 by Masahisa Fukase

14.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability πŸ™„

14.03.2026 06:20 πŸ‘ 5296 πŸ” 873 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 37

Amazon mechanical Turk about 15 years ago, and it still exists and is frequently used

14.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It brings me some solace to know that whatever's happening down here, there are still some absolutely incredible human-made and human-driven robots wandering around Mars, looking at cool rocks and dirt and sending us pictures just because we're curious about planets and our own origins in the cosmos

14.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1419 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 3

Just so we’re clear, even ordering it is a war crime, whether or not it actually happens

13.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone involved is so bad at their jobs and should resign in disgrace

14.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Having lived through the Iraq war a Whitehouse being so bad at propaganda that they have to resort to this kind of embarrassing extraconstitutional threat is really something

14.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The continuing adventures of Nurgles favorite son

14.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really don’t love replacing all of public health with β€œbro do you even lift?”

14.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think simultaneously everyone in tech knows this and also it’s not going to be as bad as people claim, especially when the only reference point are big companies that notoriously overhired and were doublefucked by ZIRP and the instant research credit both ending.

14.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

2006 slop.

No one cares if you were in the Army or Marines.

You need to be able to use complete sentences, not be a crypto shill, not sign on to the latest "tax break" mania gripping the party, you should despise liars and cheats, and you shouldn't care about attending the right cocktail parties.

14.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 476 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 7

I don’t want psychopaths - there’s no D Party that has its own Hannity or Hegseth or Lutnick types - but I’m really tired of Ds who can’t shake a crippling sense of nostalgia for a time that either no longer exists or never existed at all.

This is why AOC excels. She’s not petty, but she’s a hater.

14.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There are lots of people we can put in jail in a couple years but kushner seems like one of the easier ones. You know there are big boy federal money crimes going on here

14.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

14.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 13366 πŸ” 5974 πŸ’¬ 945 πŸ“Œ 420

We probably would be calling it that if the Cold War hadn’t happened

14.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This isn’t β€œall tech” or even most of it. I’ve been working in tech for almost 15 years and never actually worked with anyone who’s into this stuff, but they are very influential particularly in the VC scene

14.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our cargo bike replaced probably 90% of our car trips

14.03.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Modern cargo bikes don't replace bicycles, they replace cars. If you haven't ridden since childhood, the capability will shock you.

Groceries are the perfect gateway errand for daily mobility. The bikes are ready. We just need the infrastructure.

14.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 349 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10

If you don’t know what I mean when I say parts of the Silicon Valley tech scene are a cult this is a helpful thread

14.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remain very annoyed at the "actually everything is a war crime and every US government official is a war criminal" crowd because now that we have the actual pro-war crimes administration it's very hard to get people to understand that this is actually quite a bit different

14.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
In addition to Senators Van Hollen, Kelly, Gillibrand, Booker, and Kim, this legislation is cosponsored in the Senate by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Angus King (I-Maine), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.).

This legislation has been endorsed by a broad range of organizations: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Americans for Tax Fairness, Community Change Action, Demos, Get Out the Vote PAC, Indivisible, Institute for Policy Studies, MoveOn, National Education Association (NEA), NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Oxfam US, Patriotic Millionaires, People’s Action, Public Citizen, Social Security Works, Strong Economy for All Coalition, SURJ, Take on Wall Street, and United for a Fair Economy.

In addition to Senators Van Hollen, Kelly, Gillibrand, Booker, and Kim, this legislation is cosponsored in the Senate by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Angus King (I-Maine), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.). This legislation has been endorsed by a broad range of organizations: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Americans for Tax Fairness, Community Change Action, Demos, Get Out the Vote PAC, Indivisible, Institute for Policy Studies, MoveOn, National Education Association (NEA), NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Oxfam US, Patriotic Millionaires, People’s Action, Public Citizen, Social Security Works, Strong Economy for All Coalition, SURJ, Take on Wall Street, and United for a Fair Economy.

Exceptionally blackpilling list of endorsers and consponsors on Booker et al's tax cut bill www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

13.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 136

I played a lot of diplomacy and this is super easy. Armies in Oman and UAE support fleet in gulf of Oman attacking fleet in Persian gulf, army in Qatar attacks fleet in Persian gulf. Persian gulf fleet has nowhere to retreat and disbands after the turn. Why has nobody tried this yet?

14.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Harriet Tubman $20 bill, which we were supposed to get, is something I think about a lot.

13.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 593 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 11
Museum specimen box holding two complete and one fragmented specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula (collected by R. Mitchell)

Museum specimen box holding two complete and one fragmented specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula (collected by R. Mitchell)

Hand holding a specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula at an angle, highlighting the perfectly hemispherical septa and the small opening for the siphuncle running along the inner margin.

Hand holding a specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula at an angle, highlighting the perfectly hemispherical septa and the small opening for the siphuncle running along the inner margin.

Seeing that video of Spirula the first time was amazing ... nobody imagined it oriented that way in life. It has these beautiful little internal chambered conchs like a nautilus, but entirely within the bottom part of the mantle!

So, it's basically balancing upright on the floaty end.

10.03.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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The first in situ sighting of the Ram’s Horn Squid (Spirula spirula) was collected during our 2020-2021 time in Australian waters, led by Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12...

09.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 214 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 17