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Finally a small win: NIH rescinds requirement to denounce DEI as a condition for receiving funding. Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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I can make no claim to East Coast authenticity, but damn the bagels at Bagel Union are good. BEC-Y on everything with pickled jalapeños: A+

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Straight men remain the most emotional people in the world.

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I don’t want to spoil it but I won, “If I Ruled The World” with Trevor and Christiana. Not that I’m into winning or anything. open.spotify.com/episode/6T1T...

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Lol, hard pass.

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Agree, two memories of the before times: When I moved to St. Louis the first time (1998) I would frequently get in my car, pick a road, and just drive on it to see where it went. A major benefit of a AAA membership was they would make you custom, illustrated map packs for long trips.

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If you've been thinking about donating in honor of 🌈 #PrideMonth, you can have an even bigger impact on The Trevor Project right now. Every donation is being quadrupled. Not clear how long this will be, so I donated today! www.thetrevorproject.org

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Heads up! APA is urging anyone who cares about health and science to let their reps/senators know now that they should oppose the admin's murder budget. Easy to do here: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA... APA is plugged in. If they say NOW, listen! #StandUpForScience

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When I turned 40 I made a specific effort to always reach out for the rail on the stairs. Here at 56 it's now entirely automatic, and has absolutely and literally saved my ass several times.

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Could you pay your bills if you stopped working? If everybody in your household stopped bringing in a paycheck, would you still have a place to live, groceries, healthcare, transportation, etc? If the answer is "No," you're working class. Working class means you have to work to get by.

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Does K-Pop Demon Hunters look like a dumb movie? Yes. Does it look like my kind of dumb movie? Also yes.

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There are people out there making at least 5x your salary, and the best they can come up with is “the only way we can solve this is to find a liberal Joe Rogan.” File that away next time you have imposter syndrome.

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By and large “The Four Seasons” is… fine. But the line “Can I go, I’m here for the open part, not the marriage part” is an A+ joke.

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If someone wanted to truly “innovate” in this space, set up a service that automatically subscribes and unsubscribes me to a rotating set of services. ie - January I have only Netflix, February I have only Hulu, March I have only Disney+, etc.

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Clearly the streaming services don’t realize how much I am looking for any reason to cancel them.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This juvenile has flown into the suet feeder, is standing right next to a massive piece of food… and won’t eat unless the parent feeds them.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The episodes of Behind the Bastards that tried to tackle Zizians and the AI Apocalypse banana pants situation had me channeling Douglas Adams for a while.

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I found myself nodding along to much of this, but this notion that DEI offices have had four decades to change their institutions and have failed is simply ludicrous. It took Mike Brown for WashU to begin acknowledging racial equity issues. The office I work for is barely 5 years old.

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You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

submitted 33 days ago • 66 comments

Thinking about how the Pope is going to vote for President in 2028, same as I will, and my vote will count the same as the Pope’s. Yours will too. It’s so weird.

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

Had some awesome Egusi with Fufu from www.fufunsauce.com at Food Truck Friday last night. At one point I picked out what looked kind of like a whole stewed Scotch Bonnet, ate it and discovered… it was in fact a whole Scotch Bonnet. 🔥🤯🔥

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“I asked ChatGPT-“ okay well I asked the big oak tree at the center of the woods and she said you’re a lazy dork

submitted 34 days ago • 26 comments

Pope Magic Cookie Bar VII 😋

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Registering for the #ACSFall2025, are these workshops going to be a place for folks to gather and stare in to the void, or....

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Just bought my train ticket for the Fall ACS meeting. Fly? Into DCA? In this environment?

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This is the one. SIR!

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$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

Sure would be a shame if someone designed an app to replace exisiting EXIF image data with nonsense before it was uploaded to OpenAI.

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Our TWO -- yes, TWO -- incredible silent auctions are NOW LIVE! Bid now and help raise funds to continue the mission of the Gateway Men's Chorus! Note: you do not need to be in attendance to bid, but those at the Gala will be able to go home with their items. Links in comments!

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I fear my generation has made the mistake of remembering all the stuff we got away with as teenagers and somehow thinking adding the internet to it won’t dramatically change the outcome.

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Watching season 2 of Arcane, my one complaint is that it’s meant to be binged. There are enough storylines that if I take a few days off, and a fairly major character shows up again, I ask “Wait, what happened last time we saw them?”

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