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tadthurston.bsky.social
Data scientist with RTI (contracting for NCEI/NOAA), former Professor of Physics and Astronomy Publishes physics tutorial videos https://youtube.com/c/tadthurston And general scicomm articles https://firstexcitedstate.substack.com
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It seems to me the playbook is clear: knowing that billionaire tax cuts will blow a $multi-trillion hole in the debt, the cover is to (falsely and loudly) claim $multi-trillion savings by DOGE, whether it’s true or not.

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Another opportunity for high-profile Dems to call this what it is: stupid If they said they'd fabricated numbers and rationale and straight-up lied to everyone around them, would they get promoted?

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Grand Maester Pycelle has entered the chat

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

submitted 25 days ago • 67 comments

Trump is like the cop-beating, dark-timeline version of Jesus where if you commit violence in his name, you are forgiven.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

2024: Warmest year recorded! -> we inject CO2 into the atmosphere -> the concentration of CO2 goes up -> since CO2 absorbs and re-radiates heat, the temperature goes up. We should stop doing so much of the first thing. 🧪

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

It still blows my mind that we talk about the last election as though Dems should have 'listened more' and promoted better economic and inflationary policy. What did the winning side do? Blast false assertions about economic numbers and promise to do the opposite of what their policies actually do.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I had a feeling that "Thomas Jefferson daily prayer" quoted by Mike Johnson didn't really sound like something from TJ: www.monticello.org/research-edu....

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November global update: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The @meetthepress.bsky.social Trump interview was a primer on how to lie and get away with it: brazenly, and without correction. Among others, 3 or 4 times it was asserted that crime was “at an all time high” and the (correct) pushback to criminals immigrating was flatly denied, without pushback.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 How far away is the horizon? It's easy to figure out: height (in feet), square root it, add about 20% = horizon distance in miles. 6 feet tall: h = ~3 miles Empire State Bldg (1000 feet): ~40 miles Plane (35k feet): ~230 miles Here's the math: firstexcitedstate.substack.com/p/how-far-is...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Even in late November with lows in the 30s-40s and leaves falling off the trees, the Dipladenia from the summer are still booming

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Expel him if he tries to assume his seat in the new Congress.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is. 2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here. 3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.

submitted 99 days ago • 136 comments

I made my nebula-ish cover image using the free @blender3d.bsky.social Blender3D software and Gleb's (@glebalexandrov.bsky.social) remarkable tutorials. Opened up a whole new avenue of creativity!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

All of those documents are the very epitome of OER, which the State of Oklahoma, in every other situation, presses for.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

submitted 102 days ago • 757 comments

Considering the numerous allegations and civil findings against the actual President-Elect of the US, how in the world are these allegations disqualifying for the GOP?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

🧪"How can there be global warming when there has been recent cooling" is something I ran into when I was teaching #ClimateChange. My current favorite analogy is comparing GW to the seasons:

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