scienceintheend.bsky.social

@scienceintheend.bsky.social

Recently retired scientist. Still adjusting. I want to understand…everything. And I make stuff. Motto: “Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.”

As if I couldn’t hate the orange felon more than I already do, over 60 trees which include historic Cherry Blossom trees were quietly cut down recently in Washington DC without court approval. I’ll never forgive anyone who supports this monstrous hateful destructive criminal.

They were so beautiful. Japan famously gave thousands of cherry trees to the U.S. in 1912 (and earlier shipments around 1910) as a symbol of friendship, which grew into Washington's iconic spring landscape. Why doesn’t anyone STOP him!!!

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"I don’t know about you, but Trump’s intervention in the World Cup has ruined the game for me," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "How can the fine athletes representing us rejoice in a victory when the president of the United States has used his political power to seek to change a referee’s call?"

Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich

We try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack

theguardian.com

I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now we’re the bad guys. He destroys everything.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

It really hurts how true this is. It used to be a resource. And a very good resource at that. There had never been anything remotely like it in our lifetime. An endless virtual encyclopedia Britannica full of expertise you hadn’t known existed. And then people started lying.

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸@resistrebelrevolt.net · 5mo ago

"I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon. Gooale, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled carden of garbage and commerce."

Someone tweets: I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon. Gooale, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled carden of garbage and commerce.

Someone replies: The internet used to be full of websites: there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.