Avelino Maestas
@avelino.bsky.social
Welder, blogger, baker, gardener, gamer, bookbinder, photographer. He/him.
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
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Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008.
WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Claude making a scientific discovery
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2d agoFour days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Dude really could not handle having no microphones last week.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterdayPresident Donald Trump will be addressing the nation tomorrow from the Oval Office at 2 pm ET.
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
One of the absolute laws of Republican governance is that things always end up bad for people, and that it takes years or decades to return to baseline. We’d probably be doing actual The Jetsens stuff if we didn’t have to rebuild every time a Republican becomes president.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d ago2026 was supposed to be the year that sidelined US homebuyers got some relief. Then, the Iran war and fears about rising inflation came along. Here's what to know.
This stuff keeps reminding me of Gamergate. And then I think back further, to when women were the "computers" and then became the main programmers who might be called developers today.
the "abandoned parents" movement is one of the most loathsome groups of people imaginable, freaks intent on tormenting and controlling their adult children and losing their minds at the slightest pushback.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3d agoMany experts believe that estrangements are becoming an epidemic, driven by shifting family norms and changing therapy practices. on.wsj.com/4rBwger
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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This is going to happen in the northern hemisphere eventually; the areas where we can reasonably grow the amount of food necessary for our population will be in Canada at that point.
Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 3d agoWhen farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
it's remarkable just how much worse the interest rate situation makes the housing crisis my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month
CNBC@cnbc.com · 4d ago30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45%
Do yourself a favor and click through for the article itself, which is really well done, including info boxes on common myths about the food recall.
Maryn McKenna@marynmck.bsky.social · 4d agoFake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
(Bloomberg) - US manufacturers installed roughly 38,500 industrial robots in 2025, a year in which they simultaneously cut more than 100,000 human jobs. @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
my small son has been wearing a superman cape we got from goodwill all day every day for ... two weeks? three weeks? and asking that we all call him superman, and pretending he's superman. which is very funny because his understanding of superman as a concept is rudimentary at best
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
Texas GOP has been persecuting Crystal Mason for years; you've heard of her being sentenced to years in prison for voting while on probation. She says wife of the DA who's been trying to keep her in prison knocked on her door to ask her to vote for her husband! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
