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Chemistry teacher, animal lover, karaoke slayer
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@nameshiv.bsky.social Sam Darnold runs like you had nine beers the night before and now they’re about to come out but if you can just make the sideline there’s some toilet paper there

I can't decide if this is horrifying or slightly hopeful.

sort of think it’s not even that, it’s that people, particularly younger people, have gotten used to eating something uniquely different every day and that’s hard to do with a single grocery haul

I wish there were more room in our lives for the idea that our identities are what they are for the moment. That might change, and it doesn’t invalidate what they were or what they become.

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

I've been wrestling for nearly a decade now with how we play a game where the other side recognizes no rules. I never get how people can be so sure of the answers : |

I generally think that government should be hostile to corporations but if your business model is "we propel you through the sky at several hundred miles an hour" I want them FULLY up your ass at all times

I’d kill to see a McKinsey ROI case study on the NIH: “Imagine if we got all the hardest working, most self-motivated, brightest minds, at the peak of their careers to work for minimum wage round the clock for a decade. Project impact on GDP, assuming 1/1000 made a groundbreaking discovery.”

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

If we going to have smart TVs, can we at least have keyboards and mice for them? Do I have to type everything in through a slow janky arrow button interface for the rest of my life like an idiot?

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

An excellent clip from the 1986 Hollywood film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” explains why raising tariffs on Chinese goods will hurt the U.S. economy. In 1930 Republicans raised tariffs. As a consequence the U.S. economy suffered an even worse Great Depression. Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers.

So much of the shit people say about trans women is so transparently them projecting their weird shit onto other people. “They get horny from being in women’s bathrooms!” Buddy that’s a you thing

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Buffalo remains atop the hater standings. I respect it.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Wowwww

I’ve seen a lot of people allude to frogs in slowly heated water lately, and I need to TELL YOU about that whole thing, because, hoooeee, it’s a story… …a thread: 🧵🐸 1/9

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.

Reminder to clench your jaw tighter; you fought hard for the squeaky toy and some biped isn't going to take it away now

Voting Hillary 2016 and Voting Kamala 2024

*taps the sign*

Sometimes I think about the fact that there's an ideology called Longtermism and the central tenet *isn't* that we have to stop climate change now for the sake of countless future generations, and it makes my head explode

MSU Plant Bio has the best office staff!!!!!!! Here is a plant graveyard they made for halloween yesterday

I loled

while discussing those ads showing women secretly voting for Kamala and the right’s white-hot outrage about it, Nicolle Wallace said "I didn't even know there WERE men who still thought women never faked anything" and my soul left my body

so have libraries, immigrants, state bureaucrats, judges, judicial aides, abortion providers, poll workers, elementary school children with gay teachers,

For weeks (and arguably years) Trump and Trump supporters portrayed Harris as a barely verbal idiot. Then she thrashed him so badly he refused to debate her again. This says something about why diversity efforts matter and why the right opposes them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“ur mom” (end of paper)

I have concepts of a flan

"She's a Marxist. Its true. Look, there she is, publicly owning me right now."