Paul

Paul

@clockking.bsky.social

Amateur violist, DC fan, and environmental engineer

194 followers88 following326 posts

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dame@dame.is

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

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Algebra, numbers, principles of optics, medical encyclopedias, astronomy, hospitals, surgical tools, universities, coffee, lab chemistry--all of Arabic origin. This mfer had a brain worm, collects road kills, sounds like a dial up modem, works out in jeans. This is a uniquely American arrogance.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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California Proposition 45 is a handout to allow for more data centers and more pollution. I am a strong No. Join the firefighters, nurses, environmentalists, & working families fighting to stop Prop 45 from giving a green light to corporate polluters.

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My dad is on a mission to combat climate change through bee farming. With his expert craftsmanship, he's building bee hives that provide a nurturing environment for these important pollinators. His efforts are helping to protect the bee populations.

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I’d call this an October surprise, but is anyone actually surprised?

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

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it's a family tradition now

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

BREAKING Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's victory on Sunday. "It is impossible to acknowledge the result," he said from Brasilia, adding that "I am going to request the annulment of these elections"

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please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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Just a reminder that this man is solely responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide, including children and babies. All because he's a racist from apartheid South Africa who hates poor people, Black people, and Brown people.

My daughter’s handmade Big Bird costume has been well received this year. No pics, because this is the internet and I might not know you.

I’m thinking about a coworker from my last job who said he was worried about Trump v 2.0, but was at least reassured that someone as reasonable as Rubio was part of it… I wonder what he thinks now

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Bay of Pigs 2 trailer just dropped

Getting my car to the mechanic’s- needs to be done. Usually my wife picks us up with our other car, but I just got my bicycle tuned up, so I’ll be biking back

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Our pedophile terrorist president is now making random dementia grunting noises live during rallies, and about 40% of the country and 98% of republican politicians will proceed to completely ignore it and act like everything is fine

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ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

Still need a #GreenNewDeal Saving our children’s future can generate jobs, alleviate suffering now and later

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This guy was caught on video committing one of the worst road rage incidents I've ever seen, plowing into a group of riders—and then he left the scene. Seriously, fuck the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for framing him as some sort of a victim. You are complicit assholes. www.ajc.com/news/2026/10...

ajc.comA driver passed too close to cyclists. Now he could die in prison.A Georgia driver caught on video colliding with group of cyclists on a country road in Cherokee County could go to prison. He insists he did nothing wrong.

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Replying to @abilutangwa.bsky.social

It is more them than you, but the growing global middle class (especially in rich countries) that continues to enjoy unfettered consumption and hyper-mobility - in a Faustian pact with these companies for their own amusement - are also responsible and don't get off the hook this easily.

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GM just announced the biggest stock buyback in automotive industry history. Instead of investing in their workers or new product lines, GM executives are robbing from the future to pay themselves and their shareholders today. Stock buybacks should be illegal.

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Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

commondreams.org'What Meta's Money Is Buying': DOJ Halts Probe of Facebook Owner That Has Given Trump Millions | Common DreamsBillionaire Mark Zuckerberg's company was facing a criminal investigation for allegedly enabling and profiting from the

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Sad to see this piece today. I first went to Svalbard almost nine years ago and reported for WaPo on the speed of climate change there, and how many aspects of daily life were already changing in profound ways due to it. And now, here's another.

theguardian.comTap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metalsWarning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world