Kat
@kt8812.bsky.social
Biomedical Scientist || Desi || She/Her || Immigrant
People in the comments refusing to acknowledge that he didn't get the life he voted for, his wife did. Y'all really be like, "sucks that immigrants are collateral damage but look! we can dunk on the MAGA folks." You're not the heroes you think you are. You're just a different brand of callous.
Michael Thomas Rage@drsocialism.bsky.social · 5h agoVoted for Trump 3 times. Got his wife hemmed up by ICE. Have the life you voted for I guess.
"There is no human being who, as a result of desiring to build a better life, should be named or declared illegal." Alejandro G. Inarritu
“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good
Thinking about how a similar situation would be framed if the immigrant were from a different part of the world. A whole article, and nowhere were the terms "immigrant," "illegal," "deportation," or "alien," were in sight.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last wk.
Two people have died from cyclosporiasis in Michigan, marking the first fatalities in the largest U.S. outbreak of the intestinal illness
Michigan Reports Two Deaths In Ongoing Cyclosporiasis Outbreak
Cuts across federal health agencies have complicated the government’s ability to respond to foodborne disease outbreaks.
huffpost.com
If you've watched the Odyssey, what was your favorite scene? I'll start. Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon.
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.” Gore Vidal
And now I wish I could watch it for the first time again!
Kat@kt8812.bsky.social · 2w agoOff to see the Odyssey! Super excited!
Flashback to the Doctoral Thesis adviser who rejected a student based on their using the word "delve" in their personal statement. They accused the student of using AI, because "no real person would use that word." The only thing the student was guilty of was being a non-native English speaker.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w agoThe only thing more annoying than AI is people who are in my replies with a rote response that anything written by someone they don't like must be AI-generated content. Stop it. You're boring.
Two additional points. One: This was at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro. And: "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 3w ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
If you’re looking for state level estimates of the number of job losses due to ICE, @elizabethacox.bsky.social and I have a new report out on this with Immigration Research Initiative out today!! immresearch.org/reports/ice-...
ICE Arrests Result in a Decline in Employment: State-Level Projections - Immigration Research Initiative
The program of mass deportation being carried out by the Trump Administration is hurting American workers, both immigrants and those born in the United States. How much would employment drop in your s...
immresearch.org
In North Carolina, Ricky Wilson has been advocating for the release from prison of a man who shot him 30 years ago. “If I can forgive him, why can’t everybody else? I’m the one he shot,” he says. By @phillipvancesmith2.bsky.social:
In North Carolina, a Shooting Victim Pleads for His Shooter’s Release After 30 Years - Bolts
Ramulus Mason was sentenced to life without parole due to North Carolina’s three-strikes law. The man he shot insists that he shouldn’t still be in prison.
boltsmag.org
Women of all ages, cultures, and nationalities are saying "no thank you," to marriage, and the societal response has been to frame it as a "male loneliness epidemic."
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3w agoAn adage in my mother tongue: A sword is useless for a problem which needs to be resolved by a needle. Bigger is not always better. 🤷♀️
25,000 evacuated near Madrid today. It could be your city tomorrow. Climate hazards know no boundaries, no visas, no wealth filters. We need: Early warning systems Forest management & controlled burns Radical emissions cuts Climate adaptation funding NOW
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure. Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. She was born #OTD in 1920. #WomenInSTEM 🧵
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
didtheyghostyou.com
Jonathan Cecil. Davina Porter. Richard Armitage. Phenomenal voice actors off the top of my head.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” Stephen Jay Gould
Just received this from immigration attorney Mo Goldman. This is why ICE is in the airports. Please share! @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Please enjoy this home security footage of an oddly human-like bear raiding a fridge in Lake Tahoe www.wsj.com/us-news/blac...
This is such a cool thing to witness. Despite all the moral frailty of mankind, sometimes we do live up to our potential.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4w agoA 660 ton steel ball just did its job: watch it swing inside Taipei 101 during Taiwan's 7.2 earthquake, canceling out the tower's sway.
