AReynolds
@acreynolds.bsky.social
Biologist who is looking for a non creepy place to follow thoughtful conversations and science content.
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This deep-sea octopus wants to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day on behalf of the OOI Regional Cabled Array team! ❤️
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February 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This deep-sea octopus wants to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day on behalf of the OOI Regional Cabled Array team! ❤️
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
My neighbor died of Epstein-Barr virus. And my father had a horrible case of shingles on his face (he did not get the vaccine when my mom did). It went into his mouth and eye.
February 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM
My neighbor died of Epstein-Barr virus. And my father had a horrible case of shingles on his face (he did not get the vaccine when my mom did). It went into his mouth and eye.
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling").
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
January 18, 2026 at 2:42 AM
A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling").
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
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Brutal.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lost 20% of its staff between Nov. 2024 and Nov. 2025, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Brutal.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
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HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
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Be ungovernable
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Be ungovernable
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Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
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Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
Proud parent moment: When my 4th grader asked if I have been to the heart of NYC and when I asked what he meant he started to describe a 20th century poet—Langston Hughes! Turns out they are reading ‘Harlem’ in his class. He started to recite it and was genuinely excited about poetry.
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Proud parent moment: When my 4th grader asked if I have been to the heart of NYC and when I asked what he meant he started to describe a 20th century poet—Langston Hughes! Turns out they are reading ‘Harlem’ in his class. He started to recite it and was genuinely excited about poetry.
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
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When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.
September 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.
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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
August 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
I’m so glad that they found the bacteria responsible for this horrific disease. I was fortunate enough to observe Pycnopodia helianthoides up close when I was an intern in college, at Friday Harbor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’m so glad that they found the bacteria responsible for this horrific disease. I was fortunate enough to observe Pycnopodia helianthoides up close when I was an intern in college, at Friday Harbor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Living shoreline accountability post: Today our community raised over 3K to make a match donation in a grant proposal for a living shoreline, having never done anything like this before. We did this by….playing cornhole.
July 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Living shoreline accountability post: Today our community raised over 3K to make a match donation in a grant proposal for a living shoreline, having never done anything like this before. We did this by….playing cornhole.
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Via @brianstelter.bsky.social. This is an example of what I've been trying to explain for the past decade: a dangerous demagogue like Trump is an "unaccountable leader," someone who uses rhetorical tricks to avoid being held accountable. Ask him a question and he calls you "an evil person."
July 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Via @brianstelter.bsky.social. This is an example of what I've been trying to explain for the past decade: a dangerous demagogue like Trump is an "unaccountable leader," someone who uses rhetorical tricks to avoid being held accountable. Ask him a question and he calls you "an evil person."
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really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves
Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
July 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves
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Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.
I have no doubt that Laura Loomer would be wearing a Nazi arm band in 1930s Germany.
But that does not make this concentration camp (or if you prefer, gulag) into an extermination camp.
It diminishes what happened at Auschwitz.
But that does not make this concentration camp (or if you prefer, gulag) into an extermination camp.
It diminishes what happened at Auschwitz.
July 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.