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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 24d
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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antire.al
the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.

@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
May 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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barbarapocock.bsky.social
As we wrap up another Trans Awareness Week filled with celebration and pride, let’s take a moment to observe a more solemn occasion - Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we honour & remember those who have tragically lost their lives to transphobic violence, discrimination and hate.
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
working at the nyt
4 panel comic Panel 1: Newspaper editor and two reporters gather around a desk. Editor (looking mad): We need five more articles calling trans people evil by the end of the week Panel 2: Reporter points to something out of the window behind the editor Reporter: What’s that up in the sky? Panel 3: Up in the sky we see a bat signal, but the bat is replaced by a gross pedo chasing a little girl. Editor (in a very nonchalant manner): oh my god that’s just Epstein’s kiddie-fucker signal calling all the kiddie fuckers Panel 4: Editor bangs violently on desk and yells: FOCUS
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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danglinghemmie.bsky.social
dude trying to shoot NFL officials accidentally kills largest landlord in USA. lol sure
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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crimew.gay
if you are seeing this video, maia and freya have most likely been arrested protesting the UN AI for Good summit in Geneva, the birthplace of the Geneva Conventions.
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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edzitron.com
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works: Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright? No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it. See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE harassed a lawyer who provided advice to an undocumented family about their immigration case, including *shutting off his wifi so his Ring camera couldn’t record the interaction.*

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The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”
April 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.

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“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
April 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I think it’s important to realize the Atlantic editor is ex idf and has a history of promoting the US imperial line not because it’s a “conspiracy” but because it’s good for people to know Pete H doesn’t have his number on signal by accident, but only added him to that particular chat by accident.
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
If you wanted to explain how the police protect the interests of capital in a single picture
Huge row of police protecting a Tesla factory in Chicago after vandalism was reported
March 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Governor Tim Walz says when Democrats are back in power, people are "not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA; they're going to expect universal healthcare."
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
surfinglapislazuli.bsky.social
Eat a piece of a toilet. You can put anything on it to make whatever part you eat better. Just eat any part. Porcelain, pipe, whatever.
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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mondoweiss.net
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world.

https://buff.ly/3XgX2L2

#Palestine #Israel
Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News.

Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.
February 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Cutbacks Force FAA To Unplug Giant Magnet That Keeps Planes In Air
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Trump Cutbacks Force FAA To Unplug Giant Magnet That Keeps Planes In Air
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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conspo.obviously.moe
fish attack go
February 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
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February 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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esqueer.net
Horrifying news out of upstate New York. Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota was found dead after being tortured for over a month and then finally murdered by a group of 5 people, including a teenager.

www.whec.com/top-news/nys...
NYSP: Man missing in Canandaigua tortured and killed; Five people charged
New York State Police have announced multiple arrests in the missing person case of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man originally from Minnesota.
www.whec.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM