@dickensdad.bsky.social
retired scientist, medical historian, one-time hippie, liberal🏳️🌈
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3,000,000 Pink flamingos, Kenya.🦩
Simply amazing sight ☺️
Simply amazing sight ☺️
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
3,000,000 Pink flamingos, Kenya.🦩
Simply amazing sight ☺️
Simply amazing sight ☺️
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
Just because a movie has snow does not make it a christmas movie
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just because a movie has snow does not make it a christmas movie
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May the odds be ever in your favor
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
May the odds be ever in your favor
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with @andrew.heiss.phd : Google Scholar now supplies AI-generated articles that don't exist; they get cited in articles that then get published
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
with @andrew.heiss.phd : Google Scholar now supplies AI-generated articles that don't exist; they get cited in articles that then get published
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How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
These Chrome extensions see everything — and take everything. It may already be too late.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
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WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
NBC nightly news: lots of coverage of responses to Reiner murders. Absolutely no mention of trump's shitty comments
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
NBC nightly news: lots of coverage of responses to Reiner murders. Absolutely no mention of trump's shitty comments
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#ProudBlue #Resist
Think you are afraid of what’s happened in the past 11 months? It’s going to get worse if Stephen Miller has his way. The New Republic has an article that will open your eyes to the way immigration rules will end up excluding all but the chosen white people if he gets his way.⬇️⬇️
Think you are afraid of what’s happened in the past 11 months? It’s going to get worse if Stephen Miller has his way. The New Republic has an article that will open your eyes to the way immigration rules will end up excluding all but the chosen white people if he gets his way.⬇️⬇️
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#ProudBlue #Resist
Think you are afraid of what’s happened in the past 11 months? It’s going to get worse if Stephen Miller has his way. The New Republic has an article that will open your eyes to the way immigration rules will end up excluding all but the chosen white people if he gets his way.⬇️⬇️
Think you are afraid of what’s happened in the past 11 months? It’s going to get worse if Stephen Miller has his way. The New Republic has an article that will open your eyes to the way immigration rules will end up excluding all but the chosen white people if he gets his way.⬇️⬇️
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On May 16, 1940, the British newspaper Daily Mirror published this cartoon, dedicating it to those who were calling for negotiations with Hitler. In the image, a man holds two posters reading: “Peace by negotiation” and “Make a deal with Hitler now!”
Many years have passed, but nothing has changed.
Many years have passed, but nothing has changed.
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
On May 16, 1940, the British newspaper Daily Mirror published this cartoon, dedicating it to those who were calling for negotiations with Hitler. In the image, a man holds two posters reading: “Peace by negotiation” and “Make a deal with Hitler now!”
Many years have passed, but nothing has changed.
Many years have passed, but nothing has changed.
So trump is apparently saying it's okay to kill anyone who is anti-trump
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So trump is apparently saying it's okay to kill anyone who is anti-trump
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On this day in 2012… Read more on our Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/on-this-day-in-2012-sandy-hook-elementary
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
On this day in 2012… Read more on our Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/on-this-day-in-2012-sandy-hook-elementary
Scary! I asked ChatGPT to create a picture of Santa Claus. It fit all my mentioned attributes. But Santa clearly had MY FACE! Unasked for! I did not then or ever submit a photo to ChatGPT. It apparently searched the web and found me. Eerie. Not happy.
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Scary! I asked ChatGPT to create a picture of Santa Claus. It fit all my mentioned attributes. But Santa clearly had MY FACE! Unasked for! I did not then or ever submit a photo to ChatGPT. It apparently searched the web and found me. Eerie. Not happy.
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A bonus Daily Cartoon by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A bonus Daily Cartoon by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
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The harder this asshole works to prohibit regulation of AI,
the more obvious the need for regulation becomes.
That’s why it’s number 2 on my list of candidates demands. You should NOT vote for ANYONE not deeply committed to strongly regulating AI, crypto currencies and surveillance tech.
Period
the more obvious the need for regulation becomes.
That’s why it’s number 2 on my list of candidates demands. You should NOT vote for ANYONE not deeply committed to strongly regulating AI, crypto currencies and surveillance tech.
Period
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The harder this asshole works to prohibit regulation of AI,
the more obvious the need for regulation becomes.
That’s why it’s number 2 on my list of candidates demands. You should NOT vote for ANYONE not deeply committed to strongly regulating AI, crypto currencies and surveillance tech.
Period
the more obvious the need for regulation becomes.
That’s why it’s number 2 on my list of candidates demands. You should NOT vote for ANYONE not deeply committed to strongly regulating AI, crypto currencies and surveillance tech.
Period
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RJ Matson presents: Stocking Stuffers
Stocking Stuffers
A cartoon by RJ Matson
contrarian.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
RJ Matson presents: Stocking Stuffers
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US President Donald Trump’s plan to require tourists to hand over their social media data ahead of next year’s World Cup generated outrage.
Trump’s ‘chilling’ social media snooping rule imperils World Cup, critics warn
“Even the worst authoritarian states in the world do not have such an official policy,” Irish centrist MEP Barry Andrews said.
www.politico.eu
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
US President Donald Trump’s plan to require tourists to hand over their social media data ahead of next year’s World Cup generated outrage.
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In January, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will roll out a pilot program that will use AI to review Medicare patients' requests for care.
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In January, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will roll out a pilot program that will use AI to review Medicare patients' requests for care.
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
God is finally punishing the Chiefs for their right wing views and support for trump. (Of course I don't really believe such magical nonsense,but if gays can cause hurricanes, I can pontificate with the best of 'em)
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
God is finally punishing the Chiefs for their right wing views and support for trump. (Of course I don't really believe such magical nonsense,but if gays can cause hurricanes, I can pontificate with the best of 'em)
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And not following unlawful orders also applies to ICE kansasreflector.com/2025/12/07/a...
American soldiers have long faced unlawful orders. They need courage and our support to resist. • Kansas Reflector
The question of resisting illegal orders becomes a flash point in American politics every generation or so.
kansasreflector.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And not following unlawful orders also applies to ICE kansasreflector.com/2025/12/07/a...