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Jon Phillips
@jowiph.bsky.social
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Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
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Screenshot of the Democratic National Convention as depicted in The Simpsons. A man stands in front of a crowd of people waving signs. Above are banners reading "WE CAN'T GOVERN!" and "WE HATE LIFE AND OURSELVES"
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Zohran Mamdani-style campaign poster that reads "I would do anything for love but I won't do that"
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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A screencap of Q from Star Trek TNG wearing an old fashioned military uniform with medals, grimacing oddly. There's a speech bubble coming out of his mouth that makes it look like he's saying the quoted post
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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What is this, an Enterprise for ants? This spaceship needs to be at least... three times bigger than this!
The Lego Enterprise-D resting on a plinth with the crew minifigs in front of it, in some sort of home-office-looking space
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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IT'S HAPPENING
The Scorsese "Absolute Cinema" meme, but it says "Maximum Baseball"
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Ernie Clement giddily sliding into home with his right arm extended and left leg kicking up and out like he's dancing
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Scorsese "Absolute Cinema" meme except it says "Absolute Baseball"
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Me, when I am made supreme dictator, to the billionaires
Ian McKellen as Gandalf, looking kindly and concerned, saying "I am not trying to rob you. I'm trying to help you."
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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TMNT logo but it says "MAD INFECTIOUS RHESUS MONKEYS"
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Blep
A cocker spaniel standing on hardwood floors, with her tongue blepping her nose
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I'm honestly still not 100% sure how you're supposed to tell if a given collection of right angles is specifically a Nazi swastika.
Screenshot of a Matt Yglesias tweet saying "I'm honestly still not 100% sure how you're supposed to tell if a given skull insignia is specifically a Nazi skull."
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The "this is fine" meme featuring a dog in a little hat sitting at a table with a coffee in front of them while the building is on fire
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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What did he know?
Linus Van Pelt from Peanuts standing in a pumpkin patch with his blanket, holding a sign that reads "welcome great pumpkin"
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Dear old dad's only claim to fame
^ Activities Tea Party Nation is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is the only Tea Party-related group to be noted as such. [24]
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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My (estranged, obviously) father founded one of the first national Tea Party groups and organized the first national Tea Party convention. It was all 100% grift from the get go.
For-profit businesses • Tea Party Nation, which sponsored the National Tea Party Convention that was criticized for its $549 ticket price 2181|2191 [2201|221 and because Palin was apparently paid $100,000 for her appearance (which she put towards SarahPAC 222)) [2231 A subsequent convention was booked for the following July, postponed until October, and ultimately cancelled. On July 18, 2011, the Venetian Casino Resort filed suit for unpaid bills allegedly totaling $642,144.22. A judge ordered Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips to pay $748,000, including the $554,000 hotel bill and $194,300 in accrued interest, for the 1,637 reserved rooms. 23]
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Tbh, revisiting this tweet with Bari and Suzy in mind makes it seem less like a shitpost and more like a legitimate point
Screenshot of tweet from @SadiqoJN that reads: "Why do bash "dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?"
October 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Fell for it again award
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Skeet from @starshine.bsky.social that reads "people weren't mean enough to charles murray and steven pinker"
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Theo naps so dramatically
A short haired gray cat sleeping on his back, with his hind paws tucked up to his belly and his front paws stretched all the way down to rest on his hind legs A short haired gray cat sleeping on his back with his head thrown back like he's looking away from something in distress, and his front legs splayed wide
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Oh good, Retraction Watch is employing professional transphobe Alice Dreger. Who doesn't love a bit of institutional capture?
Screenshot of a skeet from Alice Dreger reading "A brief update: After founding inquisitivemag.org for HxA, I left that position and just took a new job as inaugural editor for the Center for Scientific Integrity's Medical Evidence Project. Yes, I now work for the people who bring you @retractionwatch.com"
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Only tangentially related, but a certain Russian-American geneticist once received a passport randomly assigning him the middle initial J (he had no middle name). On a trip to Brazil, an official wouldn't let him in with just J on the paperwork, so he became Theodosius Juan Dobzhansky
There was a hitch, at the very end. Well, a very minor hitch was that when my passport came from Washington, -- of course, getting a foreign passport in wartine was not so easy -- I have sudenly acquire? a second initial. Just how it happened, I have not the faintest tea, but the passport came for somebody caller The posius J. Dobzhansky, So ever since, I was "J." Q: ft's really H, len't 1t? Or none at all? Dobzhansky: No -- tbere 1a no socond initial, of course, at all. But naturally It would have been nothing short of foolish to send a passport obtained with such difficulty, after presumably investigations and so on, in order to remove a J. All my passports since have had a J. I am presumably legally a J. now. *: Did you make up a name to go with 1t? Dobzhansky: Yes. At one time, also in Brazil, when a not very Intelligent Brazilian official demanded that I have a second name, as 1t should be, after several attempta to explain to him tbat I baa no socond name, I finally decided, why not Juan? *: Then you have a Brazilian second name. Dobzhansky: So I have a Brazilian second name.
October 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Lmao he blocked me
Post 84 Jewish Space Laser Te... @bigtparker.bsky.social Follow I cannot stress enough how annoying it is to have shit show up on my feed where comments have been turned off. Grow some balls or go away. Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social • 14h 0a Druid I also cannot stress enough how much I love the fact that one of the greatest athletes in the world right now is this soft, schlubby-looking dude October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM © Everybody can reply 贝 Jewish Space Laser Te... Follow @bigtparker.bsky.social It's because you're a fucking pussy. Just say it. Oh wait, you already have. Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social • 18m ga Druid I have no idea why anyone would get so worked up over a post about how awesome Cal Raleigh is, but this genre of quote-skeet is one of my favorites. Hmm, I wonder why someone might adjust their reply settings to minimize obnoxious replies from internet randos! October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM © Everybody can reply 口
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Gracie loves a bully stick
A cocker spaniel chewing on a bully stick she's holding in her paws. She is literally the cutest thing ever. A cocker spaniel chewing on a bully stick she's holding in her paws. She is literally the cutest thing ever. A cocker spaniel chewing on a bully stick she's holding in her paws. She is literally the cutest thing ever.
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Uh, I think I somehow activated hard mode
A screenshot of the wildthing prompt screen, the prompt reads: "please write an academical article about the Influence and Role of Oracle Bone Script on Ancient Chinese Ancestor God Thought and Culture, with 200 references."
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The all-seeing eye never sleeps
A short haired gray cat curled up like he's asleep except one eye is open The same cat, in a closer view. The eye is still open, the gaze directed past the camera.
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM