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brettakulon.bsky.social
Former biophysicist; current biotech consultant. Grew up in a library, but also in the woods.
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My dad was killed by taking care of business and working overtime you son of a bitch

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

Yeah like I get why people want this but I absolutely would post something like “read banned books!” get 10,000 likes and then edit it to “how come we never see Elmo’s butt crack”

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

submitted 22 hours ago • 59 comments

A lot of old and stupid liberal elites are trying to make it 1997 again through science or magic and it's not going to work.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.

submitted 23 hours ago • 157 comments

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

"a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio's dismaying mayoralty" listen I have my problems with de Blasio but he got an enormously important expansion of the social safety net done and built a fair amount of affordable housing despite Cuomo sabotaging him at every turn out of petty jealousy.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Hell yeah I read theory

submitted 206 days ago • 10 comments

almost performance art

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Why do all swedish navy ships have barcodes painted on the side? So when they return to port they can Scandinavian

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

ten line T-shirt. small font. peak performance - nobody's doing it like Deadweight Loss Poster Guy

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Honestly, has any ideology so throughly discredited itself by its own standards as libertarianism? Everyone you knew in high school who supported Ron Paul is either a normie lib or Hitler.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

mr. Mamdani, if elected mayor, will you use your Mr. Cardamom persona to reunite Das Racist youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Minnesota noice

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

I will hold the line on this. Right-wing violence has far more support, materially, institutionally and ideologically, in the U.S. than left-wing violence. There is no both-sidesing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

The tributes are rolling out! #brianwilson

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody hates you. No one wants to come to your fucking party.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social You’re showing up in #Philly! #NoKings

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Living through the American years of lead low key sucks

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Just sold Robert F. Kennedy Jr. an ounce of the gamy-smelling green pellets I feed my turtle for $1200. "Can you throw in some of the juice?" he asked. It took me a minute to realize that he meant some of the water from the tank. I filled a shot glass with it and he tipped me $100 in cash.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

lmao get her

submitted 4 days ago • 147 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 739 comments

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.”

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

submitted 4 days ago • 351 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 4 days ago • 1596 comments

"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"

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments