michael-w-busch.bsky.social
Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
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@davidgerard.co.uk There was that Catholic church in Lucerne that had an "AI Jesus" chatbot running in a confessional booth last year.
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I had not expected another Megadeth story.
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And even within Christianity; someone getting kicked out of a group doesn't make them not a Christian.
But pointing that out to the offensive person in that thread seems unproductive. So I have just reported and blocked them instead.
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I enjoyed the lingonberries and new potatoes while I was in Stockholm.
But I confess that I cannot handle salty liquorice.
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There was discussion of disinformation campaigns targeting the recent Canadian election: macleans.ca/politics/the....
So I would go with "yes", for disinformation campaigns directed from anywhere at anywhere else.
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My Irish great-greats would approve this message.
(Although I understand they mostly directed their opposition at The Famine Queen in particular.)
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I personally know a few faculty who have left jobs in Texas since that decision.
Some of them are men - but they have partners who could no longer risk living in the state.
So. Yeah.
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I saw two Cybertrucks in the wild recently - both apparently belonging to the same local business.
And visibly rusted up from a year of Minnesota weather.
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This in the town where a freeway bridge collapsed not that long ago.
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Dr. Stroop has explained at length how Christians saying "No True Christian" in response to other Christians behaving badly is not helpful.
That some versions of Christianity have been deliberately constructed to give justifications for racism, sexism, and systemic oppression doesn't change that.
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I assume that geneticists like @punkrockscience.bsky.social are all very tired of having to explain that many variations are nearly neutral: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearly_....
Evolutionary selection does not apply.
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"Not sure if stress or cardiac event" is one of my least favorite things.
Good luck over there.
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Driscoll could have been talking to Jonathan Kim or Nichole Ayers, who are also on station right now. But they are Navy and Air Force respectively.
(And, yes, NASA astronauts remain highly disproportionately military.)
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Anne McClain is currently a flight engineer on the ISS. She is also a colonel in the US Army.
Daniel Driscoll apparently does not understand the difference between the International Space Station and the Moon.
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Venus-like planets.
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I assume the phone staffers for my Senators and Representative go "this guy again".
But they do log the calls.
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I will make another round of calls saying the same.
And also adding Schumer, per @matthewcort.land.
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Added to my calls to Congress for today.
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Call for Congress to do its job and impeach & remove Noem, Hegseth, and Trump.
And to remove Kash Patel too, since the FBI was apparently involved in this assault of a sitting member of Congress.
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I am not going to share the video of Senator Padilla being assaulted by people under Kristi Noem's command as she further threatened the people of Los Angeles.
It is enough to know that it happened.
End all of this and remove the offenders from power, United States.
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I had understood that this was why so many people seen wearing Google Glass when that was a thing were kicked out of many social spaces - nobody wanted to be recorded by spyware all the time.