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Microbiology PhD, now clinical research scientist in metro LA. Persuading through marshaling data driven evidence, science, and moral suasion. In the words of U.S. District Judge William Young. "The future ain't what it used to be." -Yogi Berra
In the wake of current events, post a blue character
Aladdin Genie Robin Williams Applause
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Marc Quill / WON/F4W / QB1 Publishing@marcquill.bsky.social · 4h agoIn the wake of current events, post a blue character! fun bonus: she also likes to kick the asses of fascist villains. Art by @dylanmacri.bsky.social and @megaguardian.bsky.social
Southern politics had settled into a truce where African Americans got guaranteed representation in exchange for Republican statewide dominance. SCOTUS ended the truce. I'm convinced we're getting an entirely different Southern party system as a result, we just don't know what that will look like
Google just begging for schools to switch to one of the many other (and now superior because not enshittified) search engines out there archive.ph/WButd
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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 18h ago“Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine”
These chuds whine that a McDonald's employee asking to be paid 1:1000 of what the CEO gets, or that we tax billionaires even half the rate we tax everyone else is beyond the pale, but one person says we should believe women and all of a sudden:
Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · yesterdayman some people really took that Little Mermaid casting hard
Tell me again how private health insurance is superior to socialized medicine🙄
Sarah Karlin-Smith@sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 2d agoIn contrast, a country that aggressively negotiates drug prices and has a universal health care system is on track to eliminate the virus: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Donald Trump isn't the dumbest person named Donald Trump. Let that sink in.
Re-upping this post on the hypocrisy of Haley Stevens, for no particular reason
J@arthurdeodat.bsky.social · 3mo agoI went to school in an affluent Detroit burb (I lived in an adjacent town) with Hayley, though we didn't know each other. I do live on the West Coast now, though I have yet to own any car nicer than a Toyota Corolla. Unlike Hayley, who drove a Lincoln Towncar in high school. Who's the elite again?
Trump is using the FBI to harass small donors but major media outlets pretend that isn't the real story
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is sick. Trump's FBI is paying visits to Alaska voters to try to get them to say they were misled by the second "Dan Sullivan" on the ballot. It's not going so well. (Supports my argument below that this is really about creating a pretext for Trump to demand Rs refuse to certify/seat Peltola)
The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted By Sabrina Imbler
The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted | Defector
This week, one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s most malevolent plots was finally brought to a halt when police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers who intended to carry out a hepatiti...
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BREAKING Judge Carter REJECTS Trump DOJ's attempted election interference in California, denying a request to set aside 20,000 ballots. Here's how the ruling begins. Doc buff.ly/hSDF7SA
The funny thing is that El Sayed presumably does believe, as Islam and Christianity teach, that Jesus came here for our salvation. It's Jews, and members of every other religion (or those of us with no religion) who disagree.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoMoreno: "Rogers is in a race w/ somebody that is an affront to me as an American. El-Sayed can be nowhere near DC. Do you think he understands that concept that our rights come from God Almighty? That Jesus came here for our salvation? He should be nowhere near DC & Rogers is going to kick his ass."
Oh, a lot more people than that know what a dipshit you are, couch fucker.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago"There were like 35 Secret Service agents and 25 staffers who knew what I dipshit I was" -- JD Vance, campaigning in North Carolina, tells a deeply weird story about how he was playing with fireworks with his kids a few days ago and let one explode in his hand, burning his fingers 😳
Who cares about the World Series and its horrific ads? Weird Al reposted my comment!
To NY Times:
Firefly: My Days of Not Taking You Seriously
Alt: Captain Mal : My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle
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Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · last wk.one way you can tell tech companies know their AI sucks is they keep preventing you from turning it off
Yes on 40. No on 41 and 42 #CAProps
LA Public Press@lapublicpress.bsky.social · last wk.Meet the billionaires spending millions to defeat California’s Proposition 40, aka the billionaire tax. A cadre of billionaires and tech elites, including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, is bankrolling the opposition to Proposition 40. lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-c...
Oh wait the billionaires behind Jay Bhattacharya’s fake journal denying COVID risk also made more money if they kept their factories going by denying COVID risk??
Republicans only care about grooming if it's imaginary and by trans people. When it's real and by one of them, they'll try to elect them to office.
Matt Chilliak@mchilliak.bsky.social · 2w agoThese are real quotes from MassGOP Senate nominee John Deaton describing the 15 year old he had a sexual relationship with. Sounds newsworthy, but still silence from the news media
1:06: "I've been here 70 years and I've been free...well, I did go to jail once...or twice" I lol'ed
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper is questioning Trumpanzees about the definition of socialism and exposing their hypocrisy.
We always hear bs claims how "people want to live in red states because taxes are lower," but maybe should hear more of "people don't want to live in red states because they have no rights there"
🏈Optimus FF News@news.optimusfantasy.com · 2w ago📣📣📣 NEWS 📣📣📣 Colts backup QB Anthony Richardson has been charged for allegedly having marijuana in his possession. Per Fox 59 Indiana.
Gotta rant… I am not going to see the Elizabeth Holmes movie and it’s making me kind of crazy that it’s becoming a phenomenon, because the Theranos story is about who got fooled, not who fooled them. This jaunty @wired.com piece is reasonable all things considered www.wired.com/story/how-el...
How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
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So Meta will pay the tax he's going to owe to California instead of him (assuming we do the right thing and pass Prop. 40 but not 41 or 42)? As long as the state gets the money, that's a win. It makes no difference whether the billionaire pays it or his company does.
IcyDragon@icydragon142.bsky.social · 2w agoHeaven forbid that he should have to pay his own taxes. www.reuters.com/business/met...
When WSJ provides evidence that a whole lot of conservatives should be in prison, probably none of whom ever will go, you know the system is beyond broken.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2w agoThe Wall Street Journal scoop also seems to indicate that it's possible Musk did this unilaterally, and then had his SpaceX lawyers try to smooth over obvious blowback great country definitely not just grotesquely corrupt
Long past time to tell the fuckheads who claim scientists should be apolitical to shove it down their super intelligent throats.
Haven't these people ever seen Back to the Future 2? Why jump when you can fly?!* *Note, cars still can't fly. Or jump.
Doc Brown: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥@thoc.bsky.social · 3w agoAll smoov. No folds. Behold - the median Tesla Buyer:
As a teenager I worked at a summer camp at a local middle school. The computer teacher didn't like that I knew more about computers than she did (despite knowing very little) so had me removed from the class after a few days. They put me in the pool. Despite the fact that I couldn't swim.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w agoIn honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
It's absolutely assets. Which is why the concept of the ridiculously wealthy being millionaires hasn't been a thing in probably decades. And why "multi-millionaire" became a thing. Even many of those people are closer to the rest of us and those who are completely destitute than to billionaires now.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3w agoSpeaking of money, help settle something: I always thought a millionaire was somebody who earned a million dollars a year. But apparently there is another camp that thinks a millionaire is someone whose *total assets* are a million dollars or more. Which is correct?
