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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am. Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination. Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets. we stan Kant
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triangulation on wheels

added hilarious context: many of these same clinics have been busted for ignoring basic protocols 🥲

love goes hard

using my science editing superpowers to eradicate the phrase "seminal research" one paper at a time because ick

So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

Twitter is currently running ads for *checks tweet* pedophiles

It’s really amazing how the modern right has two goals: 1. Minimal obligations to society but that society must defend them from blacks, immigrant, and trans people (and also free highways) 2. Legally fucking a teenager. Like, that’s it. That is literally all they want out of politics.

"see my tweets from 2021" I'm dying 😭😭😭

Bobson

ffs no this ain't it

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

This is clearly supposed to be an attack on Los Angeles County, but I think this is just beautiful and makes LA great. To the extent I feel any sense of patriotism at all, it is precisely because of things like this.

worthy of gathara

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

Even after Trump, the US will have tens of thousands of activated brownshirts to deal with

the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

Your tax dollars pay for just about everything a police department does, which includes generating tons of reports, dispatch logs, and video recordings. Any citizen is entitled to see those public records to understand how the government works. By @andrewfordnews.bsky.social (Published June 2020)

Now here is a photo that is Pulitzer Prize worthy. From David Swanson for Reuters: www.reuters.com/pictures/pic...

wait is martial law a distraction from the vaccine stuff or is the vaccine stuff a distraction from martial law, can some insufferable would-be hall monitor let me know

POV: The 47 articles I bookmarked in January looking at me in June. #AcademicSky

Welcome to the odiocracy

sources report bean rations are expected to arrive on time

Bluesky isn't dying—its users are living

this is how my 5yo does it and frankly she's winning at life

Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵

The Swedish MFA seems to be glossing over the fact that this happened in international waters, which undermines their spineless excuse about their Gaza travel advisory

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

Somehow Youtube returned

Update — It’s been 15 hours since the Freedom Flotilla Coalition last saw or heard from their friends on board the Gaza Aid Flotilla. They have not been allowed any contact with them. Their exact statuses are not known.

My mom is an immigrant from Barbados. We are descendants of enslaved people. My grandma left everything behind on her birthday, not because she wanted to leave Barbados but because her children did not have enough to eat and didn't always have shoes. My grandpa had to beg for money at the big house.

Everyone involved should be named so that students can hold them accountable

anyway CNN is reporting that Pentagon lawyers are defining the RULES OF ENGAGEMENT for the U.S. Marines against civilians in L.A. and at the same time you have Serious Journalists™ defending the suspension of a reporter for calling Stephen Miller a hateful person

They won’t let us in to the public arraignment of David Huerta. This is what authoritarianism looks like

Charles Simic

I don't know how to explain this but jazz is the air fryer of music

It's time for elected Democrats and Independents to call their Republican colleagues by their true names: cowards and traitors. Get it on the official record.

They'll try to blood the foot-soldiers asap

abusers always start at home