Baron von Chop
@baronvonchop.bsky.social
Chopper of onions, maker of pancakes. he/him
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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holy shit
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
holy shit
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FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
Where do I even begin? Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social has created an absolute masterpiece. I only wish I’d had the chance to experience it on the big screen. The story of Frankenstein has been told countless times, but never like this.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
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Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
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Today has been perfect Dick Cheney kicks the bucket and mamdani wins
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Today has been perfect Dick Cheney kicks the bucket and mamdani wins
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Give us a couple of $20-$40M Star Wars movies by cool directors every year. Let them bend canon and utilize all the Lucasfilm prop, costume and set designers. Unionize the VFX artists and train them to direct too. Intro the new characters in shorts before the other movies. Play w/ genre and tone.
give us a character driven, medium budget Kylo / Ben movie that marries andor style writing with the mythic qualities of the jedi
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Give us a couple of $20-$40M Star Wars movies by cool directors every year. Let them bend canon and utilize all the Lucasfilm prop, costume and set designers. Unionize the VFX artists and train them to direct too. Intro the new characters in shorts before the other movies. Play w/ genre and tone.
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At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.
Get you an author who posts this type of thing about their novels
west passage characters and their favorite halloween candy:
Kew: Butterfingers
Frin: those caramel apple lollipops
Yarrow: Tootsie Rolls
Arnica: it's all good
Old Yarrow: raisins
Peregrine: Hershey's Dark Chocolate
the Ladies: whatever's in YOUR bag
Tertius:
Kew: Butterfingers
Frin: those caramel apple lollipops
Yarrow: Tootsie Rolls
Arnica: it's all good
Old Yarrow: raisins
Peregrine: Hershey's Dark Chocolate
the Ladies: whatever's in YOUR bag
Tertius:
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Get you an author who posts this type of thing about their novels
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Jackasses braying about how there need to be fewer (x) depicted in their (y) because they have been interacting with (y) for YEARS and have never ONCE met an (x) who likes it are self-reporting on a cataclysmic scale, and don't even have the decency to realize it.
Another one I see all the time in tabletop roleplaying. All demographic info we have right now points to about an even split between genders (with a not insignificant number of nonbinary players). Yet you still get dudes who say women don't play RPGs.
My dude...they don't play WITH YOU.
My dude...they don't play WITH YOU.
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Jackasses braying about how there need to be fewer (x) depicted in their (y) because they have been interacting with (y) for YEARS and have never ONCE met an (x) who likes it are self-reporting on a cataclysmic scale, and don't even have the decency to realize it.
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crying about whales in the club
Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
crying about whales in the club
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This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
October 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline
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Alright, listen up, new figure of speech! If someone is pointing out institutional or systemic flaws that most people just happily ignore, you can say that that person sees the crabs!
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Long term exposure to this podcast could cause lasting damage; please affix your gas mask before listening. #DoctorWho #ClassicDoctorWho #PatrickTroughton #TheMacraTerror thedoctorswatcher.podbean.com/e/lifes-a-ga...
Life's a Gas (or, The Macra Terror Episode 3, s04e29) | The Doctor’s Watcher
The episode where we gas each other up. Can our heroes survive without gas masks? In this podcast, we see through the thick haze of conspiracy. This episode was recorded on 23 August 2025. Email us…
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October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Long term exposure to this podcast could cause lasting damage; please affix your gas mask before listening. #DoctorWho #ClassicDoctorWho #PatrickTroughton #TheMacraTerror thedoctorswatcher.podbean.com/e/lifes-a-ga...
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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White PDXers, now is the time to reach out to and be ready to close ranks around your BIPOC neighbors. You are the whitest metro city in the US, and that is going to paint instant targets on the backs of anyone who isn’t.
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
White PDXers, now is the time to reach out to and be ready to close ranks around your BIPOC neighbors. You are the whitest metro city in the US, and that is going to paint instant targets on the backs of anyone who isn’t.
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I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry
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Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”