Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
Duck Duck Goose gold medalist; salt hobbyist; genome scientist by trade.
Erdős number: 2
CA (Forged in TX)
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Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hydrogen bomb test Hardtack I Poplar: Detonated July 12, 1958, from a barge off of Namu island in the Bikini Atoll. 9.3 megatons yield. Aircraft in video: Martin RB-57D.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
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California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
Listing all of these groups who are selling out America is exactly what we want our leaders to do.
Tapper: You sell trump kneepads—
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Listing all of these groups who are selling out America is exactly what we want our leaders to do.
Even if the Dem cave on the shutdown is somehow smart somehow, and it might be, it’s still dumb that they didn’t bring the party along with them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Even if the Dem cave on the shutdown is somehow smart somehow, and it might be, it’s still dumb that they didn’t bring the party along with them.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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Imagine going to extra school for learning all the laws real good and then they stop using them. Hilarious.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Imagine going to extra school for learning all the laws real good and then they stop using them. Hilarious.
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I struggle to believe that Musk is smart enough for any of that. I encounter a lot of people online, supposedly smart people themselves, who swear he's a smart guy but in the entire time I've been aware of him I have never heard him sound smart for three sentences straight.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I struggle to believe that Musk is smart enough for any of that. I encounter a lot of people online, supposedly smart people themselves, who swear he's a smart guy but in the entire time I've been aware of him I have never heard him sound smart for three sentences straight.
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I can't even think of him mentioning specific locales on Mars, it's always just "Mars". I could tell you about places I'd like to visit, scenery I imagine, mysteries and histories I am eager to know, how I'd cry seeing Earth and Venus shining together in the quickly fading blue-gray twilight
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I can't even think of him mentioning specific locales on Mars, it's always just "Mars". I could tell you about places I'd like to visit, scenery I imagine, mysteries and histories I am eager to know, how I'd cry seeing Earth and Venus shining together in the quickly fading blue-gray twilight
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A more specific point re Musk: he never even talks about beauty or wonder *about space*.
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A more specific point re Musk: he never even talks about beauty or wonder *about space*.
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
When has he ever talked about Mars as a place, as opposed to a thing, blank hexes on which to drop *his* creations. Or even talk about joy and thrill of scientific discoveries there?
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
You think you have problems? Did you sit down to spend a much needed hour playing Call of Duty only to find it in the middle of a five hour download of a new version? Tragedy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You think you have problems? Did you sit down to spend a much needed hour playing Call of Duty only to find it in the middle of a five hour download of a new version? Tragedy.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
I am uncertain but this seems like a reasonable possibility. The key problem is that the election is too far away to just hold out until then. If it were closer holding out is a no brained. Given how far away it is it’s not so clear.
My take is Democrats stepped up and fought, put a spot light on healthcare subsidies and why they are increasing. They won some big races using the shutdown. They got some small wins but we always knew we wouldn’t get anything big. It’s all the setup for the sweep at midterms. MAGA is dumb!
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I am uncertain but this seems like a reasonable possibility. The key problem is that the election is too far away to just hold out until then. If it were closer holding out is a no brained. Given how far away it is it’s not so clear.
I do think that whatever your shutdown calculus is if it’s not centered on defeating Republicans in 2026 it’s trash. All of the suffering is worth it if we can crush Trumpism, none of it’s worth it if we get ACA subsidies but Trumpism survives the midterms.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I do think that whatever your shutdown calculus is if it’s not centered on defeating Republicans in 2026 it’s trash. All of the suffering is worth it if we can crush Trumpism, none of it’s worth it if we get ACA subsidies but Trumpism survives the midterms.
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If Democrats would have won and gotten the ACA subsidies we wouldn’t win the midterms. We need Trump and MAGA to over reach and fuck over hundreds of millions of Americans so we can win the midterms.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If Democrats would have won and gotten the ACA subsidies we wouldn’t win the midterms. We need Trump and MAGA to over reach and fuck over hundreds of millions of Americans so we can win the midterms.
This point seems very sound except I’m slightly suspicious whether the average voter knows what Dems were demanding. I suspect voters blamed Republicans for the shutdown because a Republican is in the White House not because they have given two seconds thought to what the sides were demanding.
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This point seems very sound except I’m slightly suspicious whether the average voter knows what Dems were demanding. I suspect voters blamed Republicans for the shutdown because a Republican is in the White House not because they have given two seconds thought to what the sides were demanding.
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some day everyone will have understood this all along
Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
some day everyone will have understood this all along
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it might sound silly, but what I love about the graphic in this post is that it accurately depicts the right-handed twist of dsDNA as well as the major and minor grooves
when it comes to something so fundamental and so important, it's urgent and necessary to get the details right
no room for slop
when it comes to something so fundamental and so important, it's urgent and necessary to get the details right
no room for slop
I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
it might sound silly, but what I love about the graphic in this post is that it accurately depicts the right-handed twist of dsDNA as well as the major and minor grooves
when it comes to something so fundamental and so important, it's urgent and necessary to get the details right
no room for slop
when it comes to something so fundamental and so important, it's urgent and necessary to get the details right
no room for slop
This is literally the religion of millions.
I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This is literally the religion of millions.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I see a lot of comments on Nancy Pelosi and not enough of them lead with “She impeached Trump twice”.
She impeached Trump twice.
She impeached Trump twice.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I see a lot of comments on Nancy Pelosi and not enough of them lead with “She impeached Trump twice”.
She impeached Trump twice.
She impeached Trump twice.