Eric Gates
ericgates.bsky.social
Eric Gates
@ericgates.bsky.social
Tell me something I don't already know. I'm here to learn and share things you and I didn't already hear on NPR or PBS, or read in the NY Times.

My Arthurian name is Sir Wrongalot.
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BREAKING:

House Democrats just released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims — among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. tinyurl.com/5yj3dfpx
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🚨BREAKING:
2015 email shows journalist Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein on how to handle Donald Trump.

“You can hang him in a way that generates a benefit for you… or save him, generating a debt.”

Epstein’s reply: “What do you think it should be?”
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Aptera.us lists today on the Nasdaq! SEV

Here's why this maters:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cX...
Aptera Motors
Aptera is the world’s first Solar Electric Vehicle that requires no charging for most daily use - giving you the freedom to do more with less impact on the planet.
Aptera.us
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Aptera has received approval to list its Class B common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”). The Company’s Class B common stock is expected to begin trading on October 16, 2025, under the ticker symbol “SEV”. → aptera.us/nasdaq-listi...
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
After learning that a person could use AI to write computer code, I decided to do a little test.

This free web game is the result.

deepfriedturkey441.github.io/butterfly_do...

Do you like it? It also runs on mobile, where you tap to flap the butterfly's wings instead of pressing the spaceber.
Butterfly Dodge
deepfriedturkey441.github.io
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We are born with an innate compassion for animals, it's only later that we're taught to look away. 💔

👉 Choose veganism - Get FREE HELP: https://bit.ly/VeganFTA22 🌱

#quotes #quoteoftheday #quotesdaily #veganquote #compassion
May 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Chat with their AI version and let it go.

Meditate, experience the feelings and the thoughts, and don't attach.

FTFY
the transformative benefits and societal advancement of AI that we’ve been promised
Umm I'm not so sure about this.
May 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, other nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside. Here are some of the pitches offered by countries and schools around the world.
The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Yup!
May 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Negative emotional distractions can impair our focus, but through practices like meditation, we can train our minds to be more resilient and maintain attention even when faced with emotional challenges.
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🧠🖼️ Emotional images hijack your focus

Negative emotional distractions (like distressing images) reliably disrupt sustained attention and enhance memory for those distractions.

Affect changes attention - and lingers.

🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...

#SciComm #Cognition 🧪
Characterizing the effects of emotional distraction on sustained attention and subsequent memory: A novel emotional gradual onset continuous performance task - Behavior Research Methods
This study examines the impact of emotional distraction on sustained attention using a novel gradual onset continuous performance task (gradCPT). Sustained attention is a foundational cognitive proces...
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Elbows up, Canada! 🇨🇦

Get out there and vote.

Don’t let what is happening to us, happen to you.
April 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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From @aptera.bsky.social (1/2):

"Since announcing our new investment perk, over 40% of our priority delivery slots have been claimed — representing more than $4 million committed."

☀️ See the Aptera Solar EV feed

#electricvehicles #solarev #aptera #solar #electriccar #cleanenergy #evlife
April 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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As long as Donald Trump desecrates and defiles the White House with his despicable presence, there should be massive protests at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — every damn day.
April 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Please share with your friends and family Who share our mutual concerns about climate change:

aptera.us/our-path-for...

Mobility without the destructive side effects.

This charade of carrying on as if we’re not in a crisis—and as if our own children aren’t in imminent danger—must end now.
Get Priority Delivery — Our Path Forward | Aptera
Get Priority Delivery — Our Path Forward Aptera exists because of you—our solar mobility movement.  Over the last few years, thousands of you have stood behind our mission to create the most |
aptera.us
April 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A conspiracy-peddling gossip blogger and RFK megafan is feuding with her entire staff (i.e. people who helped write her Substack). While this is too stupid to recap in full, if you need a primer on who Jessica Reed Krauss is, I profiled her a few months ago: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Meet the conspiracy-peddling gossip blogger who’s cast herself as a Trump-RFK player
After defending Ghislaine Maxwell and Johnny Depp, Jessica Reed Kraus built a platform in paranoid politics.
www.motherjones.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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This is so well done…

Take the time to read through it, but pace yourself. It’s painfully accurate.

As tariffs kick in tomorrow, as China, Japan and Korea form an alliance, Step 14 illustrates itself.
March 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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“When we look at Auschwitz we see the end… It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.”

- @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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It can happen here. It is happening here.
March 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Been a tough week for many. How are you holding up, dear friends?

Take a mindful breath.
Feel the earth under your feet.
Know you belong.

Repeat x3.

I am glad that you are here!

Little Vrtti says hi!

#mindfulness
#cats
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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If we’re gonna start talking about the spouses of judges, we’re gonna need to pour some Ginni Tonics and Martharitas (TM @strictscrutiny.bsky.social).
Leavitt: This judge is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama

Reporter: He was originally appointed by George W. Bush and elevated by Obama. Feel I should clear that up.
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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There is no lèse-majesté inadmissibility in US immigration law!
"Messages discussing the Trump administration's treatment of scientists were found. He was reportedly accused of messages "that reflect hatred toward Trump and can be described as terrorism ." His professional and personal equipment was reportedly confiscated, and the researcher was sent back."
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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@ivan-ehlers.bsky.social is a writer, illustrator and graphic designer. He created this wonderful page of Billionaire Merit Badges for the New Yorker magazine this week.

link to @newyorker.com page:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
March 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM