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Fan of microbes 🦠 All of the pronouns. Aspiring wrecker of civilization. I make my living as an R&D scientist, but I’m working on a novel and a garden and sometimes learning bass.
I had a dream I saw a dump truck with thousands of rocks painted as various pride flags. They were being gathered and destroyed. At first it made me very sad, then it made me think of all the people who had painted those rocks and still had that impulse in their hearts.
Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.
I inherited a nice couch from my grandparents a decade ago. Its cushions are worn out, so I’m getting new ones made. It’s distressing that doing this will cost the same as a new couch. Like I know why, economies of scale yada yada. But still. Cheaper to get a new thing than fix an old one.
woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.
Oh my god… this is real. www.kron4.com/news/propose...
Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care
A proposed California ballot initiative, named after alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, has been recently submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office. The initiative woul…
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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle)@theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 2y agoTo all those dorks that said "violence never fixes anything!" I would like to offer a counter-argument:
I have some dal but no rice or flatbread. Which is amore unacceptable accompaniment: tortillas or tortilla chips?
Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...
Beehold the U.S. Native Bees Hiding in Plain Sight This Spring
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees
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The number of people in the comments who don’t remember the original context on this one is pretty amusing.
Brendan@chibdm.bsky.social · 2y agoClear Channel has released a list of songs not to play in the wake of the stock market crash
Very cool work, though looks like this should be understood as a potential recycling technique rather than as a way to mitigate PFAS contaminated sites.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2y agoAmidst everything else, this seems like great news! apple.news/AZchIcDkbRAu...
My kid, who has been struggling with reading, just spontaneously read the title to “Catch 22” and therefore I got to explain what a catch 22 is, and now I can die happy.
"Feminism is bourgeois ... which as a member of the aristocracy, I resent."
🧪 Wow! This is potentially huge. Link to the original papers in the article www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Shingles vaccine linked to 20 per cent drop in dementia
The shingles vaccine could be an effective intervention for dementia, with a large "natural experiment" in Wales finding a substantial drop in dementia risk for those who received the vaccine.
abc.net.au
Brandon Sanderson heard our cries for more trans representation among body-stealing immortals and gave us Lady Leshwi’s girldick.
if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all
Over the course of the 12th & 13th centuries in Europe, the layout of the page in books became increasingly complex, due to changes to reading practice with the rise of scholasticism & the university. The sophisticated architecture of the page compresses an amazing amount of info into this space.
I don’t know that this is “crazy” so much as “it’s completely consistent for a bunch of billionaires who made their money contributing nothing to human welfare to dislike people who have the desire to do good in the world unconnected from the profit motive.”
Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 2y agoThe crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.
I have zero patience for people whining about the price of foreign video games right now. There are millions of people in this country who're about to be unable to afford food, housing, healthcare, and electricity.
I’m getting tired of “every accusation is a confession”.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoNew in PN: Musk is the autopen "Trump is trying to undo Biden’s presidency by claiming he was too incompetent to exercise power while some shadowy figure was running things instead. The juxtaposition is jarring as we are daily confronted w/a POTUS who's vigorously, confidently *not doing his job*"
Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts. This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state. The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin. This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
New political outlook on American politics just dropped
Technical explanations of various research I’ve done interspersed with descriptions of various bands and sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve read.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat would you talk about for 19 hours?
Has anyone yet written a parody short story about a spider mother who feels guilty for not staying at home and being eaten alive by her offspring?
Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2y agoNeed a little more of this kind of cheeky feminist provocation: a frank and unapologetic assertion that the lives patriarchy prescribes for women are in many ways joyless, claustrophobic, and intellectually vacant.
If being the sole, largely unsupported provider of childcare and domestic labor is so glamorous and empowering and fulfilling, why aren't men signing up for it in droves?
Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2y agoBeing a stay-at-home mom is something that is encouraged or compelled by many misogynist cultural norms and material conditions. But it is not a *feminist* desire or a *feminist* choice. Feminism wants women in the public world.
I thought I could evade this battle by being Not A Woman, but no. It’s time to go to war against my internalized patriarchy. Down with pervasive guilt about not being enough. Up with doing what I can and feeling ok (or maybe even good) about it.
Men can and will learn to adjust to a world where women are their equals. I have no doubt of that. It will likely take a period of adjustment, and some will find it disturbing. But the most obvious thing that needs to happen is power needs to be rebalanced. In finance, in politics, socially.
My couch cussions that my grandma made are basically broken so I’m replacing. I think she may not have used proper upholstery fabric which explains why they only lasted 40 years.
