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Sara Benincasa@sarajbenincasa.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Meg Ryan provides cumspiration for Syd Sweeney at Katz’s, also Billy is there, AND MAY I REMIND YOU our product STRONGLY resembles jizz.” - me in the pitch meeting for that mayo commercial

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2y ago

you have to recognize that a lot of the bone-deep panic among conservatives these last couple decades is based on them slowly losing the culture war

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Eternal victimization mentality. Who is "the regime"? GOP has trifecta control of the federal government and a big supreme Court majority. Tech and finance are on your side. There's no pleasing these people because their demand is to dominate and to be revered for it.

Matt Gaetz: The halftime show you just watched is clearly the regime’s response to Trump’s historic gains with black men.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 2y ago

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

Deleted Elon musk tweet from February 2023 that reads “go eagles”
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm sitting here, thinking about this weird onion from the mountains of Iran, wondering what we can learn from Vavilov and his team. In another era of anti-science, what's our take away? One thing seems to be: believe in a better future, plan for it, & fight to make it happen, at any cost.

nikolai vavilov out by a rock wall in a jacket, combing through a leafy plant
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · 2y ago

His pseudoscience said if you expose a plant to new conditions, it's progeny will be adapted to this change. Winter wheat became spring wheat, just as a peasant farmer became a collectivized comrade. You just needed exposure to change Under Lysenkoism, famines killed ~25-75 mil in USSR & Mao China

“Working hard will give a good yield”: A Soviet poster of 1947 praising work at collective farms. A soviet poster with red text, depicting a woman holding a loaf of bread with wheata photo of lysenko kneeling in a field, examining some sort of grain
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · 2y ago

Horrifically, while Vavilov's research is revered today, things... didn't go great with Stalin Stalin's agronomist, Trofim Lysenko, declared Mendelian genetics "bourgeois" lies. Geneticists were fired, arrested, tortured, jailed. Most were outright shot, or, like Vavilov, died hungry & sick in jail

Trofim Lysenko, a man in a suit with medium, carefully parted and smoothed hair, holding some sort of grain in his handsNikolai Vavilov's mugshot from prison, looking grayer, unkempt, and unshaven compared to previous photos
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · 2y ago

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engravinga black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)