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weeks since i got in trouble for not filling out apartheid clyde’s 5 things bullshit for a week i’m on leave. love the atmosphere, just not this one.

wait until you hear about the guy in charge of the cdc

This awesome OKC program is only funded 7am-11pm right now. The City is currently taking budget feedback. Tell them you want the Mobile Integrated Healthcare Unit funded 24/7! Feedback form: vision.okc.gov/2025-budget-...

normalize giving dads flowers on father’s day

“The centerpiece of the project is the creation of the Greenwood Trust, a private charitable trust, with the goal of securing $105 million in assets — including private contributions, property transfers and possible public funding — by next spring, the 105th anniversary of the attack.” 🎁 📰

i'm constantly angry for my colleagues. as for me, bane applies: these idiots trying to subject us to trauma merely adopted the dark, i was born in it. i'm going to keep doing science for the public if for nothing more than to spite these dickalopes.

one of the go-to tactics for tech bros and other entitled people is to claim simple things are complicated.

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

when we get these, we know it’s about to be followed by paragraphs of nonsense when “we are raising your rates due to market fluctuations in fuck you” would suffice.

fang straws

let’s just go whole dollars from now on. have a price, bake in tax, round up/down. like coins? fine. they have to be whole dollar amounts.

BREAKING: A 4-4 Supreme Court rules religious schools *CANNOT*I participate in publicly funded charter school programs. (Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond ex rel. Oklahoma, 24-394 & 24-396) #SCOTUS

these are tools built on other people’s work through “shoot first, ask for forgiveness later” theft by entitled tech bros. they are predictably used by stupid grifters to make shitty facsimiles because stupid grifters attract stupid grifters.

here’s the pdf. see if you can reproduce it. www.accuweather.com/wp-content/u...

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i survived hosting an end-of-school-year sleepover with five teenagers.