Gluten-free Seitan

Gluten-free Seitan

@davidjohansen.bsky.social

In the southern USA. He/him Interested in world events, US politics, science, music

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@davidjohansen.bsky.social

If spiders dream, about what?

Nadja Geiger@nadjageiger.bsky.social

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

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Matthew Gertz
@mattgertz.bsky.social

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

axios.comRubio warns Venezuela's Machado: Street protests won't get you democracyMachado's demands for elections and her surprise return to Venezuela have put U.S. officials on edge.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
@abeardedpanda.bsky.social

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

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Abigail Nussbaum
@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

Replying to @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

But even if you don't care about Israelis, I don't think people appreciate just how much this kind of democratic backsliding influences policy and geopolitics. People who do not believe voting matters and that their representatives answer to them do not produce good governments.

Gluten-free Seitan
@davidjohansen.bsky.social

Aiding the military regime, which is having a lot of trouble with al-Qaeda and ISIS factions

Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social

Breaking with decades of official non-interventionism, Algeria’s parliament authorizes troop deployments to Niger. @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/africa...

reuters.comAlgeria to send troops to Niger in first foreign deployment since 1973Algeria's parliament approved a resolution on Sunday authorising the deployment of army units to Niger, a parliamentary statement said, in what would mark ​Algeria's first foreign troop deployment sin...
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@davidjohansen.bsky.social

[Ghost to killer] 🎶Stabbed through the heart And you're to blame You'll give our species A bad name🎶

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, shows evidence of a potentially lethal spear wound, offering rare insight into violence among our ancient relatives. The findings are published in Scientific Reports. 🧪🏺

go.nature.comEvidence for funerary behaviour and lethal trauma in a new Neanderthal individual from Shanidar Cave - Scientific ReportsShanidar Cave has long featured in debates concerning Neanderthal cognitive capacity and behaviour, including evidence for care and intentional burial. By identifying additional individuals, including Shanidar A reported here, new excavations have expanded a burial cluster first identified in 1960. Shanidar A, an older adult, was deposited around 75,000 years ago, decayed, and their skeletal remains were subsequently disturbed by a flash flood. Our findings raise the minimum number of individuals in this unparalleled cluster to five, supporting interpretations of complex, potentially meaningful Neanderthal mortuary behaviour. Shanidar A also demonstrates major non-fatal trauma to the face and rare evidence of perimortem penetrating trauma among Neanderthals. Trauma among Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Neanderthals and modern humans, and subsequent survival, is common. However, the facial injury was severe and unusual. It suggests care from group members, the evolutionary origins of which are also contentious. The nature of the perimortem penetrating traumatic injury adds to a small corpus of such injuries in the hominin fossil record. The morphology of this scapula perforation is consistent with injury from a wooden spear, providing valuable (albeit indirect) evidence for the use of wooden implements in the Middle Palaeolithic, which is often difficult to demonstrate given the rare preservation of organic materials.

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Drunk On Mystery, but like....Spooky
@drunkonmystery.bsky.social

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So if even 0.5% of Democratic officials are transphobic, that would still be plenty of ammunition to bombard you with "Dems are evil" messaging at full volume multiple times a week. Also: even if Dems sucked on trans issues(and they don't), that wouldn't preclude them from being the best party

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Francesca D'Annunzio
@francescadnunz.bsky.social

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This is a town of three stoplights, five gas stations, five Mexican restaurants, and five churches. It is — or was — 45% Latino. Yet within a year of the flood, the town’s tiny PD had delivered the equivalent of 10% of Ingram to ICE.

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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social

Replying to @thorbenson.bsky.social

I've figured out why Trump is recently so fascinated with examining men's bodies. It isn't homoeroticism, that would be too normal and healthy; he's shopping. He's got a very seasonally themed scheme to replace his failing carcass with a new body constructed to order, and he's looking for parts.

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Matt Darling
@besttrousers.bsky.social

You know what DOES have a demonstrated causal relationship with increasing the unemployment rates for men? Experience rating in unemployment insurance: aibm.org/policy/fix-u...

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

This isn't a causal claim. Of course unemployed people spend a lot of their time watching tv and playing video games. Like, that's a very common activity on weekends too.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

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13/ “My guys wear masks every day. They have glasses they can wear,” Fenn said. “Me? I don’t wear it at all. Never have, never will, because I’ve been doing it for 40 years.” Read the full story:

propub.liBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Mike 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@notkissinger.bsky.social

I just watched NAZA at my local theater and it is unbelievable. Highly, highly recommend finding a way to watch this. I've never left a showing feeling those kinds of emotions before

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF
@jennifershin.bsky.social

Omg...this is horrific. “So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

open.substack.com“So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being AbandonedService members, contractors, and military families share photos, videos, and firsthand accounts of the Iran war that they say the Pentagon has kept from the American public

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G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris.com

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

blog.fiftyplusone.newsFiftyPlusOne just caught a pollster faking data — and they copped to itIn response to a request for comment on a FiftyPlusOne investigation, Wedgewood Polls admitted their data was bogus
FiftyPlusOne.news@fiftyplusone.news

50+1 has caught another pollster faking data: fiftyplusone.substack.com/p/fiftypluso...

fiftyplusone.substack.comFiftyPlusOne just caught a pollster faking data — and they copped to itIn response to a request for comment on a FiftyPlusOne investigation, Wedgewood Polls admitted their data was bogus

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

I’m glad alito put in writing that originalism has nothing to do with rigorous historical research and is in fact just him talking to his imaginary friends bsky.app/profile/audr...

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

A Texas Republican wants a billboard featuring Trump's endorsement to come down. A lawyer for Eric Flores, who's running in a competitive House district, sent a cease and desist over a billboard it argues could "cause voter confusion."

washingtonsun.comA Texas Republican Wants a Billboard Featuring Trump's Endorsement to Come DownA lawyer for Eric Flores, who is running in a competitive House district, sent a cease and desist over a billboard it argues could “cause voter confusion.”

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅
@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social

really is one of the dumbest political blunders of all time that Dems sent the TikTok ban to Biden's desk and then chickened out on actual enforcement, thus letting Trump negotiate a "deal" to hand it over to the chuddiest media mogul alive