Well, That Was Spooky
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Behavior Analyst, M.Ed., Liberal Socialist, Musician, He/Him, Coachella Valley https://elirector.bandcamp.com/music
The parallels between skepticism of evolution and phylogeny are strikingly similar to that of radical behaviorism and ontogeny.
This is why I often cite a campaign slogan of Gaius Gracchus - yes, that Socialist Working-Class Man Of the People Gaius Gracchus - which was "Unlike some other candidates, I don't rape other men's enslaved boys!" Which, um, thanks Gaius, but that low, low bar still leaves a lot of questions!
Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.
Novelists don't rewrite their debut work a decade later. Artists don't repaint their first canvases a decade later. So why do rock bands and pop stars insist on remixing all their debut singles? Even worse, why do these crap tracks so effectively pollute streaming services?
Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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Iran only has to hit a couple of pipelines once. Every single plan that doesn't contemplate that is a non-starter.
1/4 This beautiful image, captured by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on 18 January 2005, shows the heavily cratered moon Mimas drifting across the blue-tinted northern latitudes of Saturn.🔭🧪⚛️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia0... Image by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #planetsci #histsci
republicans are perverts trying to find any legal way to abuse children/females
Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌎@bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 6h ago
If you see the difference between RW and LW as a matter of values and cognitive style first, that then becomes flywheels of ideology and behavior, you can see how it bubbles up regardless of purported ideology. 1/
This is all good, but behavioral change *always* needs to be examined in terms of functional contextualism, and the first part that is - is the problem even with the individual, or society? i.e. how much do we go after individual change when change upstream will remove the issue? 1/
In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?
If you're not terminally online, you might not recognize VDARE, but trust me: VDARE is blatant, overt, not even remotely hiding it white supremacist stuff.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h agoGonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Imagine having concierge health care services. Pay a $50k yearly retainer and they just take care of everything for you. Find all the best doctors and guide you through everything, manage it all. The rest of us are left sifting through coffee-stained papers, passwords and and representatives.
Still thinking about centrists taking an approach to free speech, debate, and 'the life of the mind', that relies on many tenets of liberalism but one, egalitarianism. And how this is not just a value but a principal that unlocks new thought and *importantly* new epistemic truth authorities. 1/
Whenever I listen to Touch of Grey, despite my interest in it as a pop banger, it always kinda feels like a sad coda for lonely confused and burnt out hippies. We lost so many to MAHA and silicon valley, onanistic white appropriation circles and right wing rigidity. There was something there, but.
Watched Sisters with Transistors, a documentary survey of pioneering but under-recognized women who shaped early electronic music, drone and ambient during the 1960s-70s: boxd.it/pt6c
Sisters with Transistors (2020)
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning w...
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I'm still tripping out that in the Carbiniferous animals had to lay un-shelled eggs in the water until amniotes evolved, which could lay shelled eggs further out into dry land - caves, burrows, trees, etc. They could essentially live anywhere as long as the parent had access to drinking water. 1/
Like I started playing the piano ~a month ago, & I can do two different things with each of my hands because I can play the drums, and I can play chords because I used to play the guitar (before I broke my left hand twice playing water polo). I still suck but I suck WAY less than I expected to.
Really happy with this. This is a nailbiter district. Lawrence will need all our support!
William Lawrence@wewill2026.bsky.social · 20h agoI couldn’t be prouder of the movement we’ve built in mid-Michigan. Thank you, Ambassador Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam, for your years of public service and all your hard work on the campaign trail. While tonight we celebrate, there’s still much more work ahead.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Trump’s continuing insistence that vandals, rather than his idiot contractors, ruined the Reflecting Pool was deranged and ridiculous from the get-go. The NYT characterizing it as one of Trump’s “most cherished narratives” is sanewashing. See presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday“.. During the meeting, Ms. Pirro, her voice raised at times, directly confronted Mr. Burgum, accusing him of misleading the president. She made the case that Mr. Burgum had promoted a self-serving cover story to conceal his own missteps.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Hey folks, another reminder we’re raising funds to go back to Utah next month for the next round of pre-trial hearings in the Tyler Robinson case. Please help out if you can!
LCRW HAS TO GO BACK TO UTAH!! PRETRIAL HEARINGS REPORTIN' ROUND II
Pretrial hearings for Charlie Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, resume on September 1st. LCRW is going to be there no matter what and we need your help! We're upping the ask this time because I (...
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We have been lucky—2 plumbers have worked with us over the years. One writes plays, an improv comic, really well read, and a great plumber. The other, with whom we work now, is eccentric & religious. He is studying biblical Greek to see if the Bible translations he is reading are accurate.
I like it that I can say “You silly bird” to my bird and it’s not an insult because he is a bird and in fact silly (who acts like that?)