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Garrett Merz

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Physics PhD turned AI4Science postdoc at UWisconsin-Madison Data Science Institute. Gardening, banjo, roller derby, organizing. Empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
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StefanThinks @stefanthinks.bsky.social · 13 days
You want me to go into details? The place where the devil is?
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 12 days
Frog Lots Illiopolis, IL
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 14 days
Northern flicker is ready for his close-up 🔥😍
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CaryJo @caryjo.bsky.social · 12 days
the sky and the light tonight are just astounding
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amy @arb.bsky.social · 2 mo
i just feel like more of you need to be aware of finland's eurovision contestant, who calls himself windows95man
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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 2 mo
Eclipse: You shall wait for years, make careful plans, drive hundreds of miles for five miraculous minutes. Aurora: U up?
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Brad @llyr.bsky.social · 2 mo
Horse Encounters of the Best Kind
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Victim of the algorithm @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 2 mo
C'mon man, the horse I rode in on had nothing to do with it
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2 mo
We turn to the arts because they help us ask the important questions in life.
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Emily Mills @millbot.bsky.social · 2 mo
Been covering the UW Madison protest encampment for the past 10 days & finally got my act together to write about it for @tonemadison.bsky.social
Solidarity and obstinance sprouted anew after a police raid on UW-Madison's pro-Palestine encampmenttonemadison.com The protest marked a week of growth and peace, as some local officials showed support and others refused to take the movement seriously.
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Emily Mills @millbot.bsky.social · 2 mo
Great piece by @scottgordonwi.bsky.social for @tonemadison.bsky.social re: lazy & disingenuous coverage by many legacy media types of the student protests:
Protests, access, and the official storytonemadison.com Please stop bellyaching about encampments having media-trained spokespeople.
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 2 mo
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top contender for what to do with my birthday amazonbux is a countertop sonic nugget ice maker. our fridge does not have an ice maker at all. gonna sit on this for a few days unless 30 people reply "do it"
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Adam Rothman @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2 mo
The student protesters should call their encampments "AI Innovation Zones of Excellence"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2 mo
Happy May Day, join a union!
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 2 mo
🥳 Happy 98th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 “If working apart we are a force powerful to destabilise our planet, surely working together we are powerful enough to save it…in my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could & should witness a wonderful recovery.” 🌿🧪🌍
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Garrett Merz @garrodactyl.bsky.social · 2 mo
PA! THEY DONE WORMED THE KENNEDYS AGAIN!
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Garrett Merz @garrodactyl.bsky.social · 2 mo
Oh sure so when you're full of worms you can be God-emperor but not President???
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2 mo
Still makes me laugh.
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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 3 mo
Another image of yesterday's mackerel sky.
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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 4 mo
going to see local ninja rockabilly band The Narutones
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 2 mo
Today in on-the-nose photojournalism.
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Emily Mills @millbot.bsky.social · 2 mo
Day started with aggressive tear-down of encampment & arrests of students & faculty, ends with even more tents erected & much bigger rally. UW-Madison. ✊🏻❤️🍉
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.bsky.social · 2 mo
the cause of labour is the hope of the world happy May Day
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marty, @the.whitecanof.monster · 9 mo
death to all computers
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 2 mo
Really not very comfortable with my university’s Dean of Students and PD Chief sending out a vague email about protests and how there “will [be] consequences” the day after two universities in the same conference deployed snipers with long rifles trained on students!
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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com · 3 mo
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Member Of The Communist Party, Charlie Brown?
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3 mo
in my day star trek was mid as fuck and ran twenty years at 1400 episodes a season it made us tough and strong
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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 3 mo
you pass a million places like that on back roads in the south, vacant and forgotten, and now i can't help but wonder who lovingly walks through them in their dreams peering into the walk-in beer coolers and ratty backroom toilets of memory as well
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 3 mo
I just took out the trash and there was a teenager in the alley, quietly jumping rope by themselves. This is excellent eerie foreshadowing in the calm before the big storm, and only goes to further my claim that Columbus is a haunted TV sitcom town.
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Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social · 3 mo
become unlunchable