SwampLizard
@swamplizard.bsky.social
SLP. PhD student in Neuro. This account is mostly for posting bad political jokes as some sort of coping mechanism.
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The Grinch: dead at 37, got into the chocolate
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Grinch: dead at 37, got into the chocolate
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The interior of the reindeer eyeball permits 60% of UV light to strike the reflective layer common in animals with good night vision: the 'tapetum lucidum'.
But the reindeer's has different fluid pressure between winter & summer that changes the spacing of reflective collagen.
But the reindeer's has different fluid pressure between winter & summer that changes the spacing of reflective collagen.
ScienceShot: Reindeer Eyes Adjust to Arctic Dark
Changes boost light-gathering capacity during continual darkness of Arctic winter
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The interior of the reindeer eyeball permits 60% of UV light to strike the reflective layer common in animals with good night vision: the 'tapetum lucidum'.
But the reindeer's has different fluid pressure between winter & summer that changes the spacing of reflective collagen.
But the reindeer's has different fluid pressure between winter & summer that changes the spacing of reflective collagen.
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State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage
State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
State of my workout routine: just had to displace an ancient and stagnating civilization of spiders while moving my weights out of the corner of our garage
It wasn’t until I heard the Eminem say “Guess that's why they call it windowpane” that I thought about how windows have feelings too. The power of music.
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It wasn’t until I heard the Eminem say “Guess that's why they call it windowpane” that I thought about how windows have feelings too. The power of music.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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dating tips
December 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
dating tips
Has humankind who has reached the moon and split the atom found an easy and non-tedious way to shave over the sink and dispose of the hairs? I tried those tarps and didn’t love it, because the hairs stuck to it and then wouldn’t dump off in the trash, just making a different sort of mess, elsewhere.
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Has humankind who has reached the moon and split the atom found an easy and non-tedious way to shave over the sink and dispose of the hairs? I tried those tarps and didn’t love it, because the hairs stuck to it and then wouldn’t dump off in the trash, just making a different sort of mess, elsewhere.
Something deeply wrong in a culture where institutions throw their own faculty under the bus because no religious or conservative opinion can ever be delivered poorly, or ever receive critique.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Something deeply wrong in a culture where institutions throw their own faculty under the bus because no religious or conservative opinion can ever be delivered poorly, or ever receive critique.
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Art not made with AI.
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Art not made with AI.
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New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
wapo.st
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
(west wing opening music as guy in suit runs down the hall) RE-REDACT IT! RE-REDACT IT!
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
(west wing opening music as guy in suit runs down the hall) RE-REDACT IT! RE-REDACT IT!
This is why you never assume someone is pregnant and has cancer and is a mummy, unless they bring it up first
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is why you never assume someone is pregnant and has cancer and is a mummy, unless they bring it up first
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Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right
This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage
The Meese Center is basically empty now.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
Weiss, Trump, and the other losers defining our expertise-skeptic era jump into roles they’re unqualified for, try to make things happen by command and pure will, and constantly find out some shit is actually kinda hard to do and there’s a reason people don’t usually do things they way they did them
Global TV has the rights to air "60 Minutes" in Canada. Networks like CBS sometimes deliver taped shows to affiliates like Global TV ahead of time. That appears to be what happened here: Friday's finished version of "60 Minutes" was digitally shipped up north.
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Weiss, Trump, and the other losers defining our expertise-skeptic era jump into roles they’re unqualified for, try to make things happen by command and pure will, and constantly find out some shit is actually kinda hard to do and there’s a reason people don’t usually do things they way they did them
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60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
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It's hard to tell what's actually happening in the video that purports to show Epstein's suicide but 1) the video is hosted at justice.gov and 2) it's in a directory called Data Set 8, which would be the next release.
It looks fake to me, but that doesn't explain why it's on the real DOJ site.
It looks fake to me, but that doesn't explain why it's on the real DOJ site.
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's hard to tell what's actually happening in the video that purports to show Epstein's suicide but 1) the video is hosted at justice.gov and 2) it's in a directory called Data Set 8, which would be the next release.
It looks fake to me, but that doesn't explain why it's on the real DOJ site.
It looks fake to me, but that doesn't explain why it's on the real DOJ site.
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“You have arrived in hell.”
That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants.
Human Rights Watch said
“Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence”
This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.
That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants.
Human Rights Watch said
“Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence”
This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.
December 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“You have arrived in hell.”
That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants.
Human Rights Watch said
“Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence”
This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.
That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants.
Human Rights Watch said
“Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence”
This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.
The comforting aspect of this Bari Weiss situation is knowing, absolutely, that all of her lame contortions and disingenuous appeals to integrity that just so happen to protect monsters will not protect her. Trump will make her public enemy #1 regardless, because relative fealty is never enough.
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The comforting aspect of this Bari Weiss situation is knowing, absolutely, that all of her lame contortions and disingenuous appeals to integrity that just so happen to protect monsters will not protect her. Trump will make her public enemy #1 regardless, because relative fealty is never enough.
If anyone ever wanted to sue the heritage center for something, now’s the time
The lawyers at the Heritage Foundation have now pretty much all resigned; apparently Opus Dei has no need for them any more. www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If anyone ever wanted to sue the heritage center for something, now’s the time