Patrick
@pgvdw.bsky.social
Playwright, learning designer, parrot whisperer, growing stuff for native bees and lotsa birds.
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"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
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Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.
More Israeli air attacks across Gaza as it continues deadly West Bank raids
Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Colonialism in Europe: the Swedish government's assault on the indigenous Sami
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October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Colonialism in Europe: the Swedish government's assault on the indigenous Sami
redlinecollective.substack.com/p/the-sami-i...
redlinecollective.substack.com/p/the-sami-i...
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The best thing I have encountered on this site (or perhaps any site) ever.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The best thing I have encountered on this site (or perhaps any site) ever.
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“Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar’s…story is one of the many to emerge from Israel’s war on Gaza, which UN experts have described as a genocide.
According to the UN Children’s Fund, some 64,000 children have “reportedly been killed or maimed” in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.”
According to the UN Children’s Fund, some 64,000 children have “reportedly been killed or maimed” in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.”
Gaza girl shares story of being found alive in morgue after Israeli attack flip.it/a5qsij
Gaza girl shares story of being found alive in morgue after Israeli attack
Raghad al-Assar, 12, continues to suffer trauma after her home in central Gaza was bombed, killing two of her sisters.
flip.it
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar’s…story is one of the many to emerge from Israel’s war on Gaza, which UN experts have described as a genocide.
According to the UN Children’s Fund, some 64,000 children have “reportedly been killed or maimed” in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.”
According to the UN Children’s Fund, some 64,000 children have “reportedly been killed or maimed” in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.”
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Under Trump 2.0, tech platforms have proven to be much more responsive to the demands of a rising authoritarian than to pressure from workers, users, or civil society, writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we to have to do it ourselves, he says.
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Under Trump 2.0, tech platforms have proven to be much more responsive to the demands of a rising authoritarian than to pressure from workers, users, or civil society, writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we to have to do it ourselves, he says.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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www.yahoo.com/news/article... either this, or Trump’s dirty destructive energy
New study reveals that solar panels are preventing premature deaths across the US: 'Their broader societal benefits are underexplored'
"These are benefits that extend well beyond electricity prices."
www.yahoo.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
www.yahoo.com/news/article... either this, or Trump’s dirty destructive energy
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18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs is sent to jail for a third time as Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition in Russia
u.afp.com/SnNA
u.afp.com/SnNA
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs is sent to jail for a third time as Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition in Russia
u.afp.com/SnNA
u.afp.com/SnNA
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
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'Timothy Roberts, president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, said police already had the ability to challenge protests in court, as they recently demonstrated.
"But with respect to neo-Nazis, they have let this one straight through to the keeper."
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"But with respect to neo-Nazis, they have let this one straight through to the keeper."
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Neo-Nazis 'spewing out hatred': Speakman
NSW Police should have gone to court to stop a neo-Nazi stunt outside Parliament House, Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
'Timothy Roberts, president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, said police already had the ability to challenge protests in court, as they recently demonstrated.
"But with respect to neo-Nazis, they have let this one straight through to the keeper."
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"But with respect to neo-Nazis, they have let this one straight through to the keeper."
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Wonderfully wet and wild.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wonderfully wet and wild.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
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Also, there are two sides to the perception that this was some kind of coincidental collaboration. W&C may not have intentionally "pinched" Franklin's data but Wilkins certainly felt that way.
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In private, Rosalind Franklin's colleague at King's College, Maurice Wilkins, begrudged that James Watson and Francis Crick had pinched their data. As per this letter that surfaced at auction.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Also, there are two sides to the perception that this was some kind of coincidental collaboration. W&C may not have intentionally "pinched" Franklin's data but Wilkins certainly felt that way.
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Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
![Comments from Watson and Crick reveal the gender harassment that Franklin endured in the lab. Throughout The Double Helix, Watson's famous 1968 book recounting the race to the famous structure, Watson condescendingly refers to Franklin as "Rosy," a nickname never used to
her face. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents," he writes, though neglecting to critique his male colleagues' cosmetic or sartorial choices.
He adds that her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA." For that reason, " [c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. ... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab." In the 1993 book Nobel Prize Women in Science, Crick was quoted as saying, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt-let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreiewhgtr2ax623ct6za3ap67uvjdxz5sjac7nirhnhcohb4gl75xii@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
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'A former Australian soldier recruited to support a controversial Albanese government deportation plan is demanding answers after discovering a bikie gang [Finks] had infiltrated the critical border security operation.'
www.theage.com.au/national/min...
www.theage.com.au/national/min...
‘Mind-boggling’: Whistleblower reveals how global bikie boss won Nauru security deal
A former soldier recruited to support an Albanese government deportation plan wants an inquiry after finding a gang had infiltrated the border security operation.
www.theage.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
'A former Australian soldier recruited to support a controversial Albanese government deportation plan is demanding answers after discovering a bikie gang [Finks] had infiltrated the critical border security operation.'
www.theage.com.au/national/min...
www.theage.com.au/national/min...
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Mourning Land That Leaves: Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish. themargin.us/features/mou...
Mourning Land that Leaves - The Margin
Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish
themargin.us
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Mourning Land That Leaves: Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish. themargin.us/features/mou...
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"She was an equal player."
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"She was an equal player."
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Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
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uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline.
First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this
First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline.
First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this
First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this
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I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD
Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"
She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.
Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"
She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.
Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'
Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.
www.rollingstone.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD
Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"
She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.
Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"
She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.