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Former biophysicist; current biotech consultant. Grew up in a library, but also in the woods.
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lmao get her

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The 2000s were the worst decade of pop culture since mass media was invented. Worse than the 1910s when every song was Camptown Races recorded onto a candle

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no one who has seen a squirrel carrying a french fry in its mouth could believe humanity's influence on the earth is purely destructive

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THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

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Good news here, with the courts working well & swiftly!

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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People.

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I love that everyone On Here was 100% right about what we all said would happen, but I am decidedly less jazzed that our prize is “getting to live through what we all said would happen.”

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"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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go ahead, post another "both sides" take. tell me about cafeteria complaints and affinity group graduations at liberal arts colleges set the groundwork for today's DHS. write another essay comparing the domestic mobilization of the military to the social dynamics of leftist group chats.

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whining about how the protestors need to mind their manners sure looks fucking stupid now

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I told you we’d be back

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"likely to draw an uproar from pro-vaccine groups" like the opponents are a tiny special interest group and not "literally all doctors and 95% of parents"

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This is incredible

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i knew there was going to be brutal weeks in the 2020s & 30s where we lose essential artists by the day, and man, this is one of them

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Fallingrise: The Rise of the Fallen — Book I Of The Risen Fall Saga

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I am once again tapping the “stop playing three dimensional chess and just say that bad shit is bad” sign

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Absolutely love this Behind the music clip

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If a soulless chancer like Gavin Newsom is willing to seize this opportunity, no other Democrat has any excuse

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oh you want abundance... ill give you an abundance alright... an abundance of scorn!!

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Every article about the inevitability of AGI

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BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires ACIP, the panel responsible for advising on vaccines. This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

This is sometimes hard to do--especially in moments like this--but it's important to just say what you think. You don't have to filter everything through the distorted prism your ideological enemies offer. You don't always have to play defense.

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The conclave dominating the Lambeth Country Show vegetable sculpture contest this year

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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

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youtu.be/KcADqxnQA_4

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Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

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THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house

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one thing i absolutely do not understand is why the primary editorial position of the new york times is sneering contempt for customers of the new york times

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments