Karl Magnacca

@kmagnacca

Entomologist, naturalist, all-around bug nerd.

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Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 11

She is in no sense an establishment lib

Peek spent more than 20 years on Wall Street as a research analyst focused on the oil industry. She began working for Wertheim & Company in 1975 and in 1983, was one of the first women to become partner at a Wall Street investment firm. 31[4] She left Wall Street in 1990 to raise her children, but remained active as a commentator. 4 She has written for The Fiscal Times, Fox News, 151 the New York Sun, The Wall Street Journal, Alternate Universe, the Motley Fool, and Women on the Web and has appeared on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto and Fox & Friends.161
Peek contributes opinion pieces to The Hill. 7]

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 10

No sounds like he’s in the right one

Most people who look at the dip, like Hemminger, credit it to the rise of transgender rights advocacy and the conservative backlash to it. Rasner’s position on trans rights is to the right of Trump’s; he calls gender medicine for children “child abuse” and says that parents who allow it should “lose their parental rights.”

And he got some viral attention for a gag video where he pretended to kick a man (his political rival Gray) out of a women’s bathroom.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 10

Definitely Google causing the decline in traffic

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 10

Huh, I wonder why he would do that www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Platner’s campaign saw an immediate drop in fundraising after the tattoo disclosure, with donations falling to less than half of what the campaign had been averaging daily, according to a former staffer familiar with the numbers.

Tensions over strategy emerged quickly over how best to shore up Platner’s image, according to people familiar with the discussions. Though the money was tight, Katz pushed a six-figure ad campaign to be produced by his firm. It was still very early in the campaign for a major ad buy, and at the direction of Platner, a staffer paused the funding for the ad campaign, these people said. Katz, who was furious, told others in texts that the staffer needed to be reined in.

The ads eventually ran later in the campaign. A campaign official said its fundraising had picked up to close the year with a $4.6 million haul.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 8

I guess they only like the Norse, because there's a Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, but no Finland.

road sign in Lynchville Maine:

NORWAY 14 MI.
PARIS 15MI.
DENMARK 23MI.
NAPLES 23MI.
SWEDEN 25MI.
POLAND 27MI.
MEXICO 37 MI.
PERU 46MI.
CHINA 94 MI.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 6

"There is an international Jewish conspiracy to keep me from getting fake internet points" is a new one.

Walter Robards @alouicious.bsky.social . 1mo
I love it when Israeli-backed epsteinesque honeypot operations decide
to follow me while never liking my stuff. Obvious.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 6

The reference in WP doesn't mention that or even Schumer at all, but it's here (from Sotomayor's hearing) where he simply says 'people felt at the founding of America that we were ‘‘God’s noble experiment.’’' It's like he's playing a game of Telephone in his own head. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Mr. Chairman, people felt at the founding of America that we
were ‘‘God’s noble experiment.’’ Judge Sotomayor’s personal story
shows that today, more than 200 years later, we are still God’s
noble experiment.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 3

He looked pretty normal only four years ago. Maybe part of the accelerating insanity is because he knows he’s going downhill fast.

Peter Thiel in 2022, looking more or less like a normal human

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 3

Tsetse flies have an unusual life cycle, which may be due to the richness of their blood food source. A female fertilizes only one egg at a time; she will retain each egg within her uterus, the offspring developing internally (during the first three larval stages), in an adaptation called adenotrophic viviparity. During this time, the female feeds the developing offspring with a milky substance (secreted by a modified gland) in the uterus.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 2

I’m not in any sense a Catholic but like…this isn’t how it works, right?

Vance admits that, about "half the time these days, we attend Mass at home." (Your book is called "Communion," my brother!)

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jul 2

Challenging the prevailing narrative about Epstein and telling the truth that THEY don't want you to know about

screenshot from the Onion movie "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile" with a woman saying "He was awesome!"

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 28

Hypocritical coming from him though

He added, "I shit myself onstage in Charlottesville but that's because I am dedicated to my craft."

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 27

A bowl made by (great-great-)Uncle George, who I never met because he died the year I was born. Made sometime around 1965, but I also have a couple of other things he made that might be older.

A checkerboard bowl made of alternating light and dark woods, with three oranges in it.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 25

Lazy day at the beach

a Hawaiian monk seal lounging on the beach next to a large rock as waves wash over its tail flippers

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 25

Calvin as detective Tracer Bullet with a speech bubble

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 23

I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me except it's algae

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 22

Not today Satan

email from Wired Science: "What sperm-maxxers get right"

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 21

Meanwhile this account that includes a spam app link in every post or reply has 50k and still gets reposted

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 21

Also this explains a lot @civilbeat.bsky.social

The group energetically commented on stories about Gabbard on the websites of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii's biggest newspaper, and Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit news organization. The effort grew to

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 16

An American with a bullpup?

SA-80 or similar bullpup style assault rifle painted in US flag colors

Three fingers scene from Inglourious Basterds

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 15

Can't believe nobody has posted this yet

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 6

And the ADA leadership specifically disavowed it in the publication

Kahn said ADA leadership had inserted a statement in the editorial that the organization "had nothing to do with the writing of this manuscript. That is their insert."

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 1

Just needs some adjusting

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· Jun 1

I guess you're right, because I have it turned off and it still shows it, probably from my IP address. Sounds like it's a you problem.

"when is sunset" answered by the top link being where it is in my approximate location

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 31

The Following feed is chronological and you can set it to show replies or not (I prefer not). It's under Settings > Content & Media > Following Feed Preferences. I kind of wish you could set these by account but that's probably too complicated.

Following Feed Preferences menu, allowing you to show or hide replies, reposts, and quote posts.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 30

All these things are terrible, but in all the discussion I've seen on Bluesky it seems like this one has gone under the radar. This would allow them to give grants to their hack cronies, like RFK's antivax friends, without even any public notice that it was happening.

17. Agency Heads Can Exempt Grant Competitions from Public Notice (§200.204)

A new exception allows a federal agency head, or their designee, to approve an exemption from the requirement to publicly post a funding opportunity on Grants.gov when “publicly announcing an opportunity would pose a risk to national security or is in the national interest of the United States.” While narrow national security carve-outs for classified defense research are legitimate, this language is considerably broader. “National interest” is a phrase this administration has used expansively, and it could justify conducting entire grant competitions outside public view.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 26

Punchbowl National Cemetery. Seeing the results of war so starkly and tangibly only makes you more angry at those who treat it as a game and view human life as worthless.

Some of the 61,000 graves at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl crater, Honolulu.

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 23

Pretty big one all the way from Kona…Mauna Loa adjusting itself earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Earthquake map: M 5.9 - 12 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo,
Hawaii
2026-05-23 07:46:01 (UTC) |
19.343 N 155.868°W
24.5 km depth

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 22

>90% chance it’s an AI fake just based on this

Quoted post hidden due to being flagged as from “Blue Heart Emoji” account

Karl Magnacca@kmagnacca· May 21

She went to Stanford jewishstudies.stanford.edu/people/micha...