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a wizard with a bone to pick
@joshserebryannik.bsky.social
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a wizard with a bone to pick @joshserebryannik.bsky.social · Mar 12
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new movie idea that my girlfriend said "maybe" to when i asked if i should post it

Sexual Predator - it's a regular Predator movie but his dick is out the entire time and he's touching people inappropriately
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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maxread.info
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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dumbmike.bsky.social
DONALD TRUMP:
You're banned from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN:
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DONALD TRUMP:
Thank you, my dearest friend.
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
I've been reading this as "Most Attractive Male Hobbits" and thinking that ForeignLanguages would be an astoundingly stupid name for a hobbit
fakehistoryhunter.net The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3d
I totally did not make any changes to this chart.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
Elon's Optimus is going to run out of battery about six hours into its first day trying to stop him snorting whatever he needs to come up with this shit
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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greenwell.bsky.social
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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jesseraub.bsky.social
TREBEK: something my date asked even after i leaned over to helpfully point out who this title character is

ME: what’s chappie?

TREBEK: you’re on the board
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
if vacancy factor hits 30% then broken windows theory turns into a real boy
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks
The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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k-mom and k-pop shop
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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phineas.bsky.social
John Woo: ‘Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my film is dying.’
Chow Yun Fat in the John Woo movie The Killer (1989). He’s wearing a suit sitting in a church that is shot in such a way as to appear to be absolutely full of lit candles. Also there’s a white dove just hanging out.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
art
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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thatbrenna.bsky.social
Host: Let's play Wheel Of Ornithology!

Me: Are there any jays?

Host: No sorry

Me: I'd like to buy an owl
July 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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baybayfriend.bsky.social
Elon I heard Joy Carol Oates say she’s never seen you drink a thermometer. She’s saying you haven’t even ingested one temperature.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
ms paint of a twitter post by Joyce Carol Oates that reads: "So curious that the richest man in the world doesn't have a favorite shape. Does he even know any shapes?" separate twitter post by an account named "shapesthetics": "The triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners, one of the most basic yet beautiful shapes in Euclidean geometry." reply to this post by Elon Musk: "Great shape:
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
Wheel of Fortune has gotten much raunchier since Pat Sajak left
jav.scd.lol JAV Titles @jav.scd.lol · 5d
Ripening S**********s in Uniforms 81, Ripening In Shin-Yokohama, Barely Legal.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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First feetfinder user
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
joshserebryannik.bsky.social
taking extra time off this winter for Brismas, the holiday celebrating Jesus' circumcision. please respect my beliefs thank you
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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craftyconsumer.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM