Pete
Healthcare Data Scientist. Family planning, ART, general Ob-Gyn, and everything else. Previous life: 20 years US military, mostly MASINT. Jew. He/Him. Blue in Red CT.
- Reposted by Petegetting rid of the world factbook is so galactically stupid
- Reposted by PeteThis would be outstanding. Less militarization of our children & continued inclusivity? Awesome! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by PeteMasked thugs on the streets. Measles outbreaks across the nation. Blatant government corruption. Coverup of group of elite sex offenders. Ruling party trying to rig elections. Leader building grandiose monuments to himself. Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service. Third world America.
- Reposted by PeteDawg my opposition party
- Reposted by PeteThis legislative session starting on a high note as we've got a whole bunch of dogs in the Connecticut Senate chamber
- Reposted by Pete“True cosplay has never been tried before”
- Reposted by PeteLast week, one of the readings I taught was from Joan Roughgarden's Evolutions Rainbow. Roughgarden is reference very nastily by Trivers in the Epstein files. Wondering if there's any transphobe who's not projecting.
- Reposted by PetePerfection dot gif
- Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
- Reposted by PeteWhen anarchism isn't being villified as evil it's being dismissed with an eyeroll by people who think they know better. But in Minneapolis, we're seeing the power of this maligned philosophy. Today on Assigned: The argument for anarchism, by Emma Arcadia. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
- Reposted by PeteThey’ll just put anyone on TV won’t they. Where did they find this guy Sorry, what?
- Reposted by PeteThis is huge. Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by PeteRaspberry Pi is getting more expensive again—price hikes add on up to $60 to the price tag of a high-spec Pi: www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-me...
- Reposted by PeteI like to say "food does not come from the grocery store," and no one knows that better than The Black Forager (now with extra Blackness cause February).
- Reposted by Pete“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
- Reposted by PeteAnd just to further put a point on it, this is very explicitly the point of militant nonviolent protest. To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable
- Reposted by PeteAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by PeteIf he does this, and isn't impeached and removed, it's a Rubicon moment where we are no longer a republic. Sorry, I don't care how much Republicans like his policies or fear his wrath, you can't just let a president cut checks to himself from the Treasury.
- Reposted by Pete
The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too - Reposted by PeteHuh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
- Reposted by Pete
- Reposted by PeteWe believe this so much, we put it on a 700 square foot sign on the outside of our ballpark
- Reposted by PeteThe Tudor Heart Pendant. A spectacular 16th-century gold pendant linked to Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon. Discovered in Warwickshire by a metal detectorist in 2019. British Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
- Reposted by Pete[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by PeteHere's how I moved to a Blacksky server last year. Very happy to have switched. gregpak.net/2025/11/13/h...
- Reposted by Pete@abenewman.bsky.social to the Neo-Royalist courtesy telephone
- Reposted by PeteVIDEO: 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 Greenland's elite dogsled unit patrols desolate, icy Arctic US President Donald Trump has ridiculed Denmark's defence of Greenland as amounting to "two dogsleds", but the Sirius Dogsled Patrol is no joke: the elite navy unit works in extreme conditions where only the toughest survive
- Reposted by PetePlease buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
- Reposted by Pete[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by PeteWas super fun chatting with Fraser Cain about my recent paper and magnetars! youtu.be/Q3JGdARjzTA?...
- Reposted by PeteBecause kinksters heavily overlap with marginalized communities who already are doing mutual aid!
- Reposted by PeteY'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
- Reposted by PeteThis video is a good demonstration BTW that the people saying the anti-trans stuff was intended as preparation for this were dead on. The heart of the video is the exact same talking point: adopted children deserve to be protected and the adoption agencies are not screening carefully enough.
- Reposted by PeteThey're coming for gay marriage
- Reposted by PeteOn 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
- Reposted by PeteHead of MI6 signals change from data collection to war-time active measures against Russia. What Russia does to the West MI6 will do back. And in the next breath mention WWII era SOE, whose mission was violent operations including sabotage and assassinations behind German lines. archive.is/kbx9b
- Reposted by PeteVISITORS BEWARE 👀 @victoire-lphf.bsky.social enters the break with a perfect record in Place Bell!
- Reposted by PeteTrump deported people to Iran less than 48 hours before he posted this message.
- Reposted by PeteI think I just laughed so hard that I might have herniated myself.
- Reposted by PeteAllie Ziebell tied a UConnWBB record tonight with 10 3PM 🤯
- Reposted by Petea better world is never possible
- Reposted by PeteA senior U.S. envoy involved in efforts to end Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has displayed a lack of basic understanding of Ukraine's political system and the war itself while speaking to reporters, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
- Reposted by PeteThe mayor of Wallingford, Connecticut, says ICE was in town this past weekend.
- Reposted by PeteMay as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
- Reposted by PeteCanada central bank chief says era of rules-based trade with US "over," echoing PM Carney's stark warning that impact of Trump on global order is permanent. u.afp.com/SBtw
- Reposted by PeteOne thing I find striking, and which I haven't seen specifically mentioned yet, is how Trump II has abandoned any legitimizing narrative for its colonial claims. Simply put, the US should possess these territories because it must expand, and it can take them by force if necessary. 🧵
- Reposted by PeteIn times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. –Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957) #everynightapoem #fragment
- Reposted by PeteWest Hartford, Connecticut, Mayor Shari Cantor gave substantial remarks about the killings in Minneapolis at the town council meeting last night, linking the culture of impunity for killer federal agents to the pardon of Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Starts at 2:19:08 www.youtube.com/live/xy3SLdu...
- Reposted by Pete[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by PeteThis "just following orders" was deemed an inadequate excuse at Nuremberg, and it is an inadequate excuse now.
- Reposted by PeteThey just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
