John Thorburn
@lotharothp.bsky.social
Swimmer, fisherman, kayaker, hydro planner, hydroplaner.
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Monday night will see the peak of the Northern Taurids meteor shower. Good chance of seeing a few fireballs. Weather permitting. 🔭 🧪
November 9, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Monday night will see the peak of the Northern Taurids meteor shower. Good chance of seeing a few fireballs. Weather permitting. 🔭 🧪
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The perfect night to distract you with the wonders of art history: Monkeys Arresting a Cat at Night, a painting attributed to 17th-century Flemish artist Abraham Teniers
November 6, 2024 at 12:12 AM
The perfect night to distract you with the wonders of art history: Monkeys Arresting a Cat at Night, a painting attributed to 17th-century Flemish artist Abraham Teniers
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one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
November 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM
one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
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1 November 1925 | German Jew, Max Abrahamson, was born in Berlin. He emigrated to Czechoslovakia.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
November 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM
1 November 1925 | German Jew, Max Abrahamson, was born in Berlin. He emigrated to Czechoslovakia.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
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It would sure be a shame if this job application (that blatantly age discriminates) were to get flooded with bogus applications. A crying shame
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October 31, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It would sure be a shame if this job application (that blatantly age discriminates) were to get flooded with bogus applications. A crying shame
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Your state is too one sided for your vote to make a difference for president?
Someone's running for your library board to block all books with gay characters. Or running for the school board to set official prayers. Or for the election board to pick whose votes get counted.
Local matters.
Vote.
Someone's running for your library board to block all books with gay characters. Or running for the school board to set official prayers. Or for the election board to pick whose votes get counted.
Local matters.
Vote.
October 31, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Your state is too one sided for your vote to make a difference for president?
Someone's running for your library board to block all books with gay characters. Or running for the school board to set official prayers. Or for the election board to pick whose votes get counted.
Local matters.
Vote.
Someone's running for your library board to block all books with gay characters. Or running for the school board to set official prayers. Or for the election board to pick whose votes get counted.
Local matters.
Vote.
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GOP senator caught using video of Pennsylvania town to brag about her state of Nebraska www.rawstory.com/deb-fischer-...
GOP senator caught using video of Pennsylvania town to brag about her state of Nebraska
A Republican senator, facing an unusually competitive race, whipped up a campaign ad to express her pride over her state of Nebraska. Only one problem — the footage she used was from Pennsylvania."Neb...
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October 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
GOP senator caught using video of Pennsylvania town to brag about her state of Nebraska www.rawstory.com/deb-fischer-...
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Happy Halloween & here’s one of my miniature Elizabethan bat portraits to mark the day
October 31, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Happy Halloween & here’s one of my miniature Elizabethan bat portraits to mark the day
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I made a binder with colored pictures of all the signs our deaf dog knows.
October 31, 2024 at 4:53 AM
I made a binder with colored pictures of all the signs our deaf dog knows.
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I will never pass up an opportunity to point out that it costs Gilead approximately $6 to manufacture a month’s prescription of PReP, which would wipe HIV off the face of the planet if widely adopted and which was developed with federal funding, and they sell it at $1,500.
hey, here's a thought- let's nationalize any company that sounds like the evil corporation in a dystopian Paul Verhoeven SF movie
October 28, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I will never pass up an opportunity to point out that it costs Gilead approximately $6 to manufacture a month’s prescription of PReP, which would wipe HIV off the face of the planet if widely adopted and which was developed with federal funding, and they sell it at $1,500.
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Whatever is going on with $DJT is likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the United States, and it is totally flying under the radar.
October 28, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Whatever is going on with $DJT is likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the United States, and it is totally flying under the radar.
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Last time Nazis got out of hand, a whole bunch of Nazis ended up with a lot worse than punched faces.
Just saying.
Just saying.
October 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Last time Nazis got out of hand, a whole bunch of Nazis ended up with a lot worse than punched faces.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist & cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 & the results are mesmerizing. ⚒️🧪🪨👇🏼
October 24, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist & cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 & the results are mesmerizing. ⚒️🧪🪨👇🏼
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Honk if you’re a dumbass
October 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Honk if you’re a dumbass
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"The vast majority of humanity has no idea that Teslas can drive themselves."
~Elon Musk, making a material statement that is not forward looking. I get that you can say any bullshit about the future now, but this is about current ability. It's not true. No they can't. This is securities fraud.
~Elon Musk, making a material statement that is not forward looking. I get that you can say any bullshit about the future now, but this is about current ability. It's not true. No they can't. This is securities fraud.
October 23, 2024 at 11:37 PM
"The vast majority of humanity has no idea that Teslas can drive themselves."
~Elon Musk, making a material statement that is not forward looking. I get that you can say any bullshit about the future now, but this is about current ability. It's not true. No they can't. This is securities fraud.
~Elon Musk, making a material statement that is not forward looking. I get that you can say any bullshit about the future now, but this is about current ability. It's not true. No they can't. This is securities fraud.
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AT LEAST 2 million Cybercabs/year, maybe 4 million. Why not? At the point that you have Wall Street believing volume production of robotaxis is even worth talking about, you might as well say whatever. Say they will be made for free by the fae folk or some shit. It don't matter. None a this matters.
October 23, 2024 at 11:05 PM
AT LEAST 2 million Cybercabs/year, maybe 4 million. Why not? At the point that you have Wall Street believing volume production of robotaxis is even worth talking about, you might as well say whatever. Say they will be made for free by the fae folk or some shit. It don't matter. None a this matters.
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3/Sites like X's "election integrity" hub are dangerous because the point is not to gather real information about real elections.
The point is to make voters pissed off.
To magnify their feelings of alienation.
To stoke distrust for government and the officials who run elections.
The point is to make voters pissed off.
To magnify their feelings of alienation.
To stoke distrust for government and the officials who run elections.
October 23, 2024 at 6:56 PM
3/Sites like X's "election integrity" hub are dangerous because the point is not to gather real information about real elections.
The point is to make voters pissed off.
To magnify their feelings of alienation.
To stoke distrust for government and the officials who run elections.
The point is to make voters pissed off.
To magnify their feelings of alienation.
To stoke distrust for government and the officials who run elections.
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Your brain fires billions of electrical signals every second, but when they get out of hand, it can lead to devastating seizures.
Learn how the creation of treatments for epilepsy have unlocked some of the brain’s secrets: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/22/w...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪
Learn how the creation of treatments for epilepsy have unlocked some of the brain’s secrets: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/22/w...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪
Wildfire in the brain: What has neuroscience learned from studying epilepsy?
Your brain fires billions of electrical signals every second, but when they get out of hand, it can lead to devastating seizures. Learn how the creation and use of treatments for epilepsy have unlo…
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October 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Your brain fires billions of electrical signals every second, but when they get out of hand, it can lead to devastating seizures.
Learn how the creation of treatments for epilepsy have unlocked some of the brain’s secrets: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/22/w...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪
Learn how the creation of treatments for epilepsy have unlocked some of the brain’s secrets: pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/22/w...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪
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I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone praised Hitler you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
October 23, 2024 at 7:40 PM
I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone praised Hitler you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
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If you're at the end of your rope & you're about to give in to your worst impulses & life has battered you into a bloody, unrecognisable pulp, clap your hands.
If you're at the end of your rope & you're about to give in to your worst impulses & life has battered you into a bloody, unrecognisable pulp, clap your hands.
October 1, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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If you're at the end of your rope & you're about to give in to your worst impulses & life has battered you into a bloody, unrecognisable pulp, clap your hands.
If you're at the end of your rope & you're about to give in to your worst impulses & life has battered you into a bloody, unrecognisable pulp, clap your hands.