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If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

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If I crowdfunded a TV series involving history, scientific exploration, global cultures, and a very cute and much-loved animal, would anyone be interested in contributing? 🤔

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something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Since you guys learned Ant is a robot, I present to you, the dumbest thing I ever drew-

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#ICYMI: The Air Force revealed earlier this year that a general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate relationships with five women. Sources say one of the women whose relationship with him was scrutinized was Sen. Joni Ernst. (Published March 2025)

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This is what fascism looks like. Richard Vought's vision of Project 2025 sweeping across America is so close to becoming a reality. Analysis courtesy of our friends @freestatecoalition.bsky.social Check out their Substack! #StopHR1 #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #WethePeople #StopProject2025

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In NYC, officers with DHS detained Rep. Jerry Nadler’s staff member in their district office under the guise of staffers “harboring rioters”.

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If you are a SFFH writer affected by the Unbound/Boundless royalty theft, please be aware that even if you are not a SFWA member but qualify, Griefcom help is still available! Griefcom explainer: www.sfwa.org/what-is-sfwa... (w/ subsidiary links) Griefcom contact form: www.sfwa.org/what-is-sfwa...

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Transphobes are angry today because Hollywood is considering hiring the person who looks most like Zelda of anyone who has ever lived to play Zelda in the upcoming live-action Zelda movie

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Direct File is now open source. Finally. A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire... Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

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Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

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that's nothing have you seen what politicians have figured out doing, and they need hardly as much water

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The Supreme Court’s emergency docket is now simply the Trump docket and it’s bad for us all.

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Actually I'm pretty sure they've been caught lying in court repeatedly as well I think you mean to say that they say one thing when they're conspiring in private to destroy our country, another thing when they're in court, and another thing when they're courting a new class of open insurrectionists

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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Shit is getting real in Des Moines.

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Oh, look, this Cybertruck got the aftermarket Roman customization package.

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New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.

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There are a LOT of sickening revelations about Blue Cross in here but I want to highlight that they found while Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of breast reconstruction procedures they approved special deals on those procedures for executives’ wives.

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AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%. www.nber.org/papers/w33777

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My next novel is about a curmudgeonly dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at a local dragon riding academy. I'm giddy about it. To support trans rights, I'm auctioning off something special. The winner of this auction will be tuckerized as a dragon rider in this book.

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New from 404 Media: the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan website. Was part of the network of sites the CIA used to communicate with sources. Iran discovered the network, imprisoned people. Later dozens died in China after exposed www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...

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Took me quite a while, but I finally finished @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance". What an amazing book, one that I'm sure will change how I see the world, past, present, or future. Downside: now I want to become a History student.

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Clean indoor air makes life better for everyone! Every HVAC system and large building should have improved filtration: daycares, hospitals, restaurants, the office they make you go back to Better for preventing infections. Better for asthmatics. Better for everyone.

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No man more beneath contempt has lived in America in my lifetime. Donald Trump is across the board the worst human in my country; our inability to educate our population to any decent standard is what led to this monster—and he is, daily and unabashedly, a veritable monster—becoming our dictator.

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Nothing to add here tbh

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There are no words.

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Right when I'm about to wrap up this paper on the history of headbutting, I find a new myth about how Ibex allegedly throw themselves off of cliffs onto their horns. I continue to be throughly entertained 😂

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My brother is moving in this July! He'll be moving into the Skype a Scientist stock room nervous laugh. Now would be an excellent time to get a Save Our Freaks shirt 😅😅😅 Also? They're cute! 10 left! squidfacts.bigcartel.com Pictured is NOT my brother but another roommate of mine also named Nick

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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@propublica.org did a series of investigations on this "911 call analysis" junk science a few years back. Read, if you want to feel angry: www.propublica.org/article/911-...

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Random Fact The Adult Dragonfly will eat up to its body weight in mosquitos every day with a 95% success rate. Their aquatic larvae, called Nymphs … are known to eat tadpoles and fish.

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Trumpist fascism is coming for everyone. Yes, you too. This time it was a legal resident of New Hampshire (a) with an American-citizen child, (b) married to an American-citizen cardiologist.

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I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing.

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If we were a serious country, where the rule of law actually mattered, the fake government employees who vandalized USIP would be charged with crimes & sent to jail.

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Their baby was diagnosed with abusive head trauma, the newer name for shaken baby syndrome. Now, a father faces criminal charges, even as the science over the diagnosis remains unsettled. (Published Dec. 2024)

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That's right, my free covid science zine is BACK for 2025 baybee, because respiratory viruses sure didn't go anywhere! Biggest change: I simplified ALL the dang text to make everything easier to follow. READ ON to learn WHY WE MASK, then print & share to your heart's delight!

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We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

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The number of times I see "waning immunity" without including "evolution of virus over time" to describe why we need a new flu shot or a vaccine booster saddens me. We just went through the best practical example of this, showing how new & better-evolved variants escape immunity, yet the media >>>🤷‍♂️

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We love to see it.

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Check it out. I just published TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool micahflee.com/telemessage-...

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Corporations used to go after people for copying music to put on an iPod shuffle for convenience; now they are arguing they should get to possess everything creative ever made by a human for their anticreativity planet killing engines We got a dystopian future but it's such a dumb one

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If I got red MAGA printed N95 masks do you think I could make heads explode at the grocery store 🤔

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