Isaac Rabinovitch

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social chooseAncestry orc

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I've been seeing people saying that because JK Rowling routinely uses UK libel law to silence critics, Gaiman's failure to immediately do so shows his guilt. That's incorrect, and I think it's worth talking about why - it goes to important facets of defamation law abuse. 🧵⚖️

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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly funguswww.nature.com How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 July 2024

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

TIL a big reason we have so many heat islands: landlords hate trees. www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...

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The history of the name of Astoria, Queens helps teach us that it’s never worth it to try to suck up to rich people

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1) Same 2) Same 3) Same

Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership

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Roses are red Zoomers be zoomin'

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford

To put it very bluntly: If they are going to do those things, they were always going to do them. The possibility of the President being prosecuted after (and, based on prior precedent, ONLY after) leaving office was never going to be a sufficient restraint to stop that.

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The only thing I'm confident in predicting is this: "Democrats should nominate someone who isn't Joe Biden" "No, no. Not like that!"

Proof that @gregdoucette.bsky.social is as conservative as he claims to be!

“Expel those fuckers and fix the court” is institutionally radical but substantively conservative in the sense of preventing a slow-moving coup destroying the constitution

Nice try.

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"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system." You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-autopi...

Tesla autopilot appears to veer electric vehicle onto train track it mistook for roadnz.news.yahoo.com Local police urged drivers to remain ‘vigilant while using Tesla's autopilot feature,’ noting that it ‘can fail’

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There’s unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody’s afraid of you.

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Me, when I think about the ability of our media to accurately process and convey what happened today.

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I would like to see Biden give an address to the nation from the Oval Office explaining what the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity means and what its possibilities are. Then hit the campaign trail attacking "the MAGA Court" for shredding the Constitution to give felon Trump license to crime.

With the stated intent to engage in a massive deportation roundup, the option to use the Insurrection Act, and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity, I think it's worth noting how fast the total Trump takeover will occur. Weeks. That's it.

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Ashley Fairbanks

I hate capitalism. I hate Joe Biden. But tell me how it's not me and my people that wind up completely fucked under a right-wing administration if we all choose to opt out. Tell me what to do.

This piece includes a cool pic illustrating how these two dwarf galaxies are visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. Makes me regret not travelling more. And yeah, fuck Magellan. Personally, I like the Arimi (indigenous people of Tanzania) myth about the Clouds the best.

I know, I know, but I still have to make a living, too. So here's today's newsletter about renaming the Magellanic Clouds, plus black hole and Mars news. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/renaming-m... 🧪 🔭

Renaming the Magellanic Cloudsbadastronomy.beehiiv.com Time to rethink some more astronomy names. Plus a distant huge black hole, and Mars gets whacked a lot

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Sean Skunk-Cabbage ⚓

I simply don't buy the very common argument of "none of the options available to me are extreme enough so I'm going to continue to do nothing" If you can't even hold your stomach and do some harm reduction how the fuck am I supposed to expect you'll be there when we need to march and strike?

Comedy is comedy, but farce is what happens on the worst day of your life. – Michael McKean

I can't speak for Muslim Americans, but I suspect that even if Biden were as tough with Bibi as Reagan was with Begin, it would help.

18/ the big concern in michigan is the large muslim-american population who are, justifiably and understandably, pissed off at biden for not doing more to restrain israel in gaza. i have no idea how important this will be, but if israel and hamas agree a biden-backed ceasefire it probably helps.

Hey @gregdoucette.bsky.social, can Trump hold your state?

3/ now, for trump to win, he has to do three things: 1) hold nc 2) flip georgia and arizona 3) make headway in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania for biden to win, he has to hold wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania.

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important points here.

However, the Court’s GOP majority did not issue a test for “official” v. “Unofficial” acts so that it can remain the ultimate arbiter of what can or cannot be prosecuted

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Scribes in ancient Egypt wrote while sitting down for extended periods. A new analysis of their skeletons found they probably had pain in the knees, fingers, thumb, ankles, shoulders, lower jaw, right collarbone, neck and back. Perhaps you can relate. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...

Ancient Egyptian Scribes Suffered Back Pain, Toowww.scientificamerican.com The skeletons of scribes from ancient Egypt show deterioration from sitting and kneeling

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Why do pundits never finish reading the Wikipedia articles that they base their columns on?

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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The strongest indicator that Gavin Newsom fans don't know what they're talking about is how many times I've seen people earnestly argue that his nomination would guarantee Democrats the California electoral votes, as if California currently has a chance of going for Trump in 2024.

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This is my favorite part of the New York Times editorial demanding that Biden drop out. Yeah, just “create a process to select someone more capable.” No biggie! Just create a process! How hard can that be?

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If images of Gavin Newsom don’t cause you to hear the horror synth from The Thing I don’t trust you