Brian Schefke
@brianschefke.bsky.social
Historian of biology. Native NCS speaker.
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Brian Schefke
@brianschefke.bsky.social
· Sep 21
So I screwed up my old Bluesky account (don't ask) and now I'm starting over on this one.
In a nation like the US, it shouldn’t be hard.
Just feed people, my god
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
In a nation like the US, it shouldn’t be hard.
I cannot tell you how much this hits the mark.
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I cannot tell you how much this hits the mark.
Bouie is correct. This is why race & IQ hucksters have to make what they do look like science. It's to bamboozle people with what looks like legitmate scholarship, because the basic claim is very easy for most people to reject.
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Bouie is correct. This is why race & IQ hucksters have to make what they do look like science. It's to bamboozle people with what looks like legitmate scholarship, because the basic claim is very easy for most people to reject.
There isn't a single "template". Mamdani-type candidates might work in some places, might not in others.
frankly, yes, Cuomo ran the worst campaign of all time on top of being a disgraced sex creep
Mamdani is exciting, his campaign was great, I like the guy, but just objectively I don’t think you can look at his campaign and assume it’s the template for future democratic electoral hegemony, right?
Mamdani is exciting, his campaign was great, I like the guy, but just objectively I don’t think you can look at his campaign and assume it’s the template for future democratic electoral hegemony, right?
And against Cuomo, who was gutshot
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
There isn't a single "template". Mamdani-type candidates might work in some places, might not in others.
21st century technology meets 19th century physiognomy.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
21st century technology meets 19th century physiognomy.
Neofeudalism is closer than you think.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Neofeudalism is closer than you think.
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This is the local report: theneedling.com/2019/09/02/s...
Sunshine Soon to be Replaced by Eternal, Inescapable Darkness
By Seadiff Nass, Needling Meteorologist The forecast isn’t looking good. No, my friend, it looks grim indeed. I’ve been studying my meteorological charts and my radars, and the number of spid…
theneedling.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is the local report: theneedling.com/2019/09/02/s...
What's also sad is that a crime that would be a generational event in many other countries has been exceeded many times over in the US.
George Banks, who killed 13 people, five of whom were his own children, in a 1982 shooting rampage in Pennsylvania that was one of the nation’s worst mass murders at the time, has died at 83.
George Banks, Convicted Mass Murderer, Dies at 83
He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children.
nyti.ms
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
What's also sad is that a crime that would be a generational event in many other countries has been exceeded many times over in the US.
Look, Spanberger is far better than her opponent, and if I lived in Virginia, I'd vote for her. But this kind of talk doesn't help anyone and it puts the lie to the "big tent" rhetoric we've been hearing for months.
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Look, Spanberger is far better than her opponent, and if I lived in Virginia, I'd vote for her. But this kind of talk doesn't help anyone and it puts the lie to the "big tent" rhetoric we've been hearing for months.
Well that sucked.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Well that sucked.
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
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This World Series has been nothing but natural 1 attack rolls and natural 20 saving throws.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This World Series has been nothing but natural 1 attack rolls and natural 20 saving throws.
Been saying for a while that one of these days, ICE is going to bust through the "wrong" door and someone standing their ground is going to smoke one of them.
Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Been saying for a while that one of these days, ICE is going to bust through the "wrong" door and someone standing their ground is going to smoke one of them.
I'm less concerned that AI will destroy humanity and more concerned that AI will make it easier for humanity to destroy itself.
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I'm less concerned that AI will destroy humanity and more concerned that AI will make it easier for humanity to destroy itself.
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Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.
See if you can spot the dogwhistle. Hell, it's more like a dog horn.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
See if you can spot the dogwhistle. Hell, it's more like a dog horn.
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There's a massive hatch of wooly aphids right now and the Robins are here for it!
This Ms. knew the seeds on the Oregon Ash would make a picture perfect frame.
#birds #becurious
This Ms. knew the seeds on the Oregon Ash would make a picture perfect frame.
#birds #becurious
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
There's a massive hatch of wooly aphids right now and the Robins are here for it!
This Ms. knew the seeds on the Oregon Ash would make a picture perfect frame.
#birds #becurious
This Ms. knew the seeds on the Oregon Ash would make a picture perfect frame.
#birds #becurious
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The common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, has made several recent appearances in Riverhead, New York. The rare cameos have drawn birders across state lines, telephoto lenses and binoculars in tow.
A Rare Visitor to Long Island Is Driving Birders Cuckoo
A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, has made several recent appearances in Riverhead, New York. The rare cameos have drawn birders across state lines, telephoto lenses and binoculars in tow.
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Hell, you can't even get the culinary delight of the stale Kaiser roll with margarine!
I appreciate when journalists tell the whole truth, like “Chicago is a great city, it is not burning to the ground, but Jesus, the bagels are terrible”
Such a good point here from @davekarpf.bsky.social: If Dems don't engage forcefully enough on Trump's terror raids, Trump/MAGA propaganda filters down to the "inattentive public" and risks persuading people this is normal and acceptable.
Check out our full exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Check out our full exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hell, you can't even get the culinary delight of the stale Kaiser roll with margarine!
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real jobs don't exist so i make a living borrowing against my tranche of data center lease backed bonds to purchase nvidia stock then borrowing against the nvidia stock to buy more data center lease backed bonds
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
real jobs don't exist so i make a living borrowing against my tranche of data center lease backed bonds to purchase nvidia stock then borrowing against the nvidia stock to buy more data center lease backed bonds
Maybe that 18-inning game on Monday took more out of the Dodgers than it did the Jays, despite the result. #mlb #worldseries
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Maybe that 18-inning game on Monday took more out of the Dodgers than it did the Jays, despite the result. #mlb #worldseries
Kruse is right, but what I think sometimes frustrates people isn't so much the idea that they should vote for candidates who are the "lesser of two evils", but the idea that even wanting "less evil" candidates is "purism" (a concept that is badly abused in a lot of these conversations).
Fine, here's a more recent example.
The Religious Right spent decades voting for whatever candidate it saw as the lesser of two evils, becoming a voting bloc within the GOP coalition - first a minority, then a majority - & bending it to its agenda.
It took fifty years, but they got Roe reversed.
The Religious Right spent decades voting for whatever candidate it saw as the lesser of two evils, becoming a voting bloc within the GOP coalition - first a minority, then a majority - & bending it to its agenda.
It took fifty years, but they got Roe reversed.
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Kruse is right, but what I think sometimes frustrates people isn't so much the idea that they should vote for candidates who are the "lesser of two evils", but the idea that even wanting "less evil" candidates is "purism" (a concept that is badly abused in a lot of these conversations).
"This neighborhood would be great except for the Eye-talians speaking Eye-talian next door".
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"This neighborhood would be great except for the Eye-talians speaking Eye-talian next door".