Dan Yocum

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Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.

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@tiamarie.bsky.social this is up your alley.

Have you been looking for doom metal (more or less) semi-improvised, performed (with circular breathing!) on an EWI? My kid has excellent news for you if so: youtu.be/0QpzGoldX8c?...

Jawbone (The Unused Impulse)youtu.be Improv on EWI4000s in D. For the best experience, listen with headphones or on a system with a good bass responseContinuing with my little drone kick, I've b...

Because of course, after The Right got soundly trounced in France, the fascists in Israel need to flex. Fuckers.

The Israeli army is launching intense airstrikes on Gaza City Now.

We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us.

Hot, hot, and moist.

Get thee to a nunnery.

Hot, hot, and moist.

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That is good to know. patreon.com/lowqualityfa...

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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When the France election results are good

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

@milti.bsky.social Steve. photos.app.goo.gl/E4J1BL9YPzo7...

New video by Dan Yocumphotos.app.goo.gl

Me: I’d like something a little bitter with a strong sweet finish. Sommelier: Oh sir! I have the perfect vintage. This is a ‘65. It has a nose full of authoritarianism, a brash first sip full of tannins that, upon community disapproval, turns into slightly salty sweetness that skulks away.

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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William Shakespeare

Therefore we marvel much our cousin France!

Nate Silver was seen slinking from the polling offices.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Thank gods!

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✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

Look at these dork wolves.

It is a good day.

@checkwithscience.com I miss fdisk.

Pears for Fears

make a band more vegetable: Nine Inch Kales

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Me, reading the news: Gosh what could be more spiritu-ethically disturbing than scientists growing minibrains out of a guy's brains More news: www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

Scientists just grew the 1st-ever 'minibrains' from multiple people's cellswww.livescience.com Hybrid brain organoids could be used to test how people respond differently to drugs before clinical trials begin, researchers say.

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To all you positive posters. THANK YOU. Sometimes, you're the one bright spot in a newsfeed of angst, fear, and outrage.

Just go short.

man, when you become a man of a certain age and start getting the hair of a man of a certain age, it gets hard to figure out what in the hell you’re supposed to do with it

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This made my morning

For once I’m ahead of the curve.

QED, and farewell

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From Skylar Grayson: Today’s article explores how the prevailing structure of undergraduate research experiences systematically excludes some groups of students, and one possible solution to making research more accessible and equitable. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/07/06/c...

A CURE for Undergraduate Research Inequities?astrobites.org Today’s article explores how the prevailing structure of undergraduate research experiences systematically excludes some groups of students, and one possible solution to making research more …

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Link: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Just for Xeets and Giggles (07.06.24)open.substack.com People, especially the political press, are still talking about the debate more than a week later. Much of the pile-on was the same, but some welcome, funny takes broke through the noise. Biden has be...

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This week’s Just for Xeets and Giggles is out, and MAGA billboards remain unintentionally funny. For the whole collection, see the link in the replies!

Radiohead of Lettuce

Make a band more vegetable: Carrot Cake

👏 stop 👏 burning 👏 shit 👏 Solar. Wind. Nuclear.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

Dear @nytimes.com, I really don't care about your feelings. kthxbai, Dan

The ability to consistently have the worst possible framing is incredible.

@nytimes.com's new goal is to reach the top of ranker.com's worst clickbait rating page: www.ranker.com/list/clickba...

The ability to consistently have the worst possible framing is incredible.

The Worst Clickbait Headlines That You Just Won't Believewww.ranker.com Is there a worse scourge of the Internet than clickbait and clickbait headlines? What is clickbait? It's the all powerful headline that knows how to grab you ...

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I'm sure the useless media won't spend any time on this because they don't want to be "alarmist" & they can't both sides it, but you need to understand this: THERE WILL BE POGROMS IF TRUMP IS PUT BACK IN THE WH. We just watched the gov of TX pardon a racially motivated murderer imagine that x 1000

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.