JetteDuffy

@jetteduffy.bsky.social

Former Comp. Chemist/structural biologist, now team coach. Many interests, not enough time. Need a camper van and a map. No MAGA, No DMs.

The Correspondent looked intriguing until I read Anne Patchett’s blurb praising it. I can’t stand Patchett after her stupid State of Wonder book with her ignorance of drug discovery featuring yet another🙄 greedy mad scientist. Now I can’t buy The Correspondent. The publisher killed it for me.

In response to Neon (who has turned off comments), why are you blaming “scientists”?? The way this works is scientists invent things that cost a lot of money to research. Vulture capitalists like Elon buy those patents and do whatever they want with them.

Well, that didn’t take long. There are two toddlers who got on the bus when I did and almost immediately started to protest and cry. That means I will have go listen to this all the way home. 🤦‍♀️

I don’t get it. Why is Maine so short on Democrats who can run for Senator? What about Heather Cox Richardson running as an independent? I’d contribute to that campaign.

He got so many other things right but why can’t he see that the political landscape has shifted so far right that only a strong yank from the left will get us anywhere near the New Deal again? I just don’t get it.

#PRT #Pittsburgh. That’s it. I’m done with the P1. It’s too dangerous. I got pushed by some teenage b*tch today, lost my balance, phone went flying. I had surgery on my eye a few weeks ago& can’t risk this. Last week my car was vandalized in the park and ride. Nope. After 13 years, never again.

I guess we should have seen it coming but the #PRT buses in #Pittsburgh are PACKED. And there seems to be fewer of them. They used to come about every 3-4 minutes on the busway. This morning it was about 10 mins & the crowds on the busway are huge. Gas prices are killing us.

Had a conversation with a relative in a high control religion tonight. Ok, it’s a cult. Anyway, I asked her what would happen if aliens showed up. Spoiler alert: religious people are going to be basket cases.

If Trump and Farage have ever been in the same room together, I’d plaster those pics all over the place. Also any time Trump said he and Nigel were buddies. Or whenever Victor Orban said something nice about him. Guilt by association.

I get why some journalists are going to the White House Correspondents dinner. It’s newsworthy that Trump is finally going to attend. Gotta cover it. Network and cable probably don’t have to be there. Let the independent media cover it. 😏

Why do people insist on using the word “utilize”?? Why not just “use”? It’s right up there with “levelset” as words to never “use”. And why in god’s name do people say “levelset” in the first place? Are they carpenters? Brick layers?

Just a partially informed American here (Harris/walz voter). Starmer might not be the ideal politician but do you REALLY want to change horses now, when Trump is running with scissors? It is possible that he didn’t know everything. Focus on de-Brexitizing yourselves.

Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩‍🔬

A black and white photo of Dr. Reatha Clark King from the 1960s. She is wearing a white lab coat and has short hair. Dr. King is adjusting the stopcock on a lab apparatus to fill a vial that she is holding in her left hand.

Trump admits on camera that at his request, the U.S. is now stealing Venezuela's oil to fill the American war chest. This is the world's richest country, plundering a country where 80 percent of people did not have enough food to eat in a 2017 survey, according to Human Rights Watch.