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Kash Patel's Challent coin -- isn't that a "Totenkopf"?
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Kash Patel's Challent coin -- isn't that a "Totenkopf"?
First No Kings rally!!
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
First No Kings rally!!
Gas Buddy today:
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gas Buddy today:
Best cure for transphobia - the facts:
![Sex is a spectrum
Agustín Fuentes has published a new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary. I just started reading it last night — and it’s very good so far — so don’t expect a full review just yet, but El Pais has published an interview with Fuentes in which he discusses the main themes. As you might guess from the title, he’s rejecting the idea that sex is a binary, and further, that the general implications of sex are not reducible. He’s an anti-Coyne. He’s also strongly advocating for a view of organisms that incorporates environmental factors beyond naked genetics.d genetics.
Q. You assert that sex is a biocultural issue… but many of the people reading this interview will think that sex is about biology, not culture.
A. That depends on how you define “sex.” If you’re speaking only about gametes, everyone understands that [an] egg isn’t a woman and [a] sperm isn’t a man. We have to rethink a little about what we’re talking about. Just think about our feet, which are biological traits. But at the same time, look at your foot and look at the foot of a person who has never worn shoes. The two are almost distinct: the structure of the bones, the muscles and the skin changes. When I discuss sociocultural contexts, we’re talking not only about the embodiment of culture, but the mutual exchanges between experience, perception, bones, muscles, digestive systems, vascular systems… there’s a lot of interconnection between our physical body and the world and the experiences we have. There’s always more intermingling and a bit more complexity.
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Mendelian revelation is that we’ve swung way too far the other way, treating the individual as nothing more than the combinatorial action of a set of genes. Development is a critical and complicated input in generating the information that makes up the individual!Then he gets into a point I’ve made multiple times before: there are so many distinct criteria …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvop3kbxd2uuq4cawftx5ahe/bafkreia6hcikyqxyitr5exxp4pguub32ccdjxhuqt6i5nn5zdq3b2zerii@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Best cure for transphobia - the facts:
Another set of Trump facts:
July 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Another set of Trump facts:
Soon it will be:
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Soon it will be:
Big Beautiful Bill!
May 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Big Beautiful Bill!
Might also ask Loretta Lynch if she has resigned her partnership and protested the cave-in at Paul Weiss yet.
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Might also ask Loretta Lynch if she has resigned her partnership and protested the cave-in at Paul Weiss yet.
Would love to see some f/stop, exposure, etc. numbers on these. Especially if they are untracked. This is Orion Nebula untracked, 50mm, f/2.8, 3 sec, ISO 10000.
March 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Would love to see some f/stop, exposure, etc. numbers on these. Especially if they are untracked. This is Orion Nebula untracked, 50mm, f/2.8, 3 sec, ISO 10000.
The GOP has it's own system MCI -- Money, Connections, and Influence. They think it is meritocratic! DEI should have been sold like this:
February 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The GOP has it's own system MCI -- Money, Connections, and Influence. They think it is meritocratic! DEI should have been sold like this:
Gotta keep the faith!
January 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Gotta keep the faith!
December 12, 2024 at 2:36 PM
What is bad is trying to sell it as something other than speculation. I.E.
December 10, 2024 at 4:57 PM
What is bad is trying to sell it as something other than speculation. I.E.
And how would we account for this?
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
And how would we account for this?
As I see it from my limited knowledge of basic economics. If foreign cherries are not cutting into demand for cherries in the U.S. there is no reason for a tariff.
October 27, 2024 at 11:44 AM
As I see it from my limited knowledge of basic economics. If foreign cherries are not cutting into demand for cherries in the U.S. there is no reason for a tariff.
Musk is a huge USG contractor with Starlink, Spacex etc. How can he be allowed to contribute to political campaigns. It is clearly unwise to allow this and even illegal but apparently not enforced. www.fec.gov/help-candida...
October 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Musk is a huge USG contractor with Starlink, Spacex etc. How can he be allowed to contribute to political campaigns. It is clearly unwise to allow this and even illegal but apparently not enforced. www.fec.gov/help-candida...
#TsuchinshanATLAS from North Carolina on the 14th
October 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM
#TsuchinshanATLAS from North Carolina on the 14th
Here it is in NC with a Nikon Z7ii, 50mm f2.8, 3-second exposure. Taken by a mediocre photographer!
October 15, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Here it is in NC with a Nikon Z7ii, 50mm f2.8, 3-second exposure. Taken by a mediocre photographer!
Kinda like this one!
September 3, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Kinda like this one!
But then maybe:
August 8, 2024 at 2:01 PM
But then maybe: