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calydo.bsky.social
Psychologist, appreciator of uncomplicatedness, trying to dwell happily in things as they are but I curse a lot. Cats are my people. I like the feeling of contemplating a vast starry sky.
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It was always performative outrage.

48% of being an adult is unsubscribing from emails.

For folks saying,"Ignore the Pope thing! He wants to offend you! Don't you get it!" I have this rule I follow. I say what I think. I don't get into second order head games in which I think I'm outwitting someone else by strategically not saying what I think. Perhaps Im simple. But that's how I roll.

“Democrats would feed 100 people in order to avoid allowing one person starve. Republicans would starve 100 people in order to make sure one undeserving person didn’t eat.”

So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Just out, The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State www.nber.org/papers/w33697 The tldr: there were significant positive effects on emotional state due to deactivation for both FB and Instagram, despite significant increased use of other social media.

Won’t be surprised if eventually research confirms that the rise in autism is linked to the rise of widespread use of ever more potent marijuana, and is related to both the nature and nurture effects of paternal MJ use. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Today meta sent me a text with a link saying ‘to rejoin facebook click this link’. I replied STOP to the message and that reactivated my fb account. What desperate dirty slimy scumbags—and they make it near impossible to find the page to de-activate.

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When is bluesky launching the friends only feed?

They will bring home two rapist, sex trafficking, misogynist woman beaters from Romania, but will not bring home one innocent man that they condemned to an El Salvador prison. =MAGA values.

History will record that when fascism came to America in the form of an easily identifiable psychological disorder, America’s most prominent psychology professors chose to spend the next eight years focusing on the problem of woke students asking for trigger warnings

It’s so MAGA that the economy is crashing and lives are in ruins and previously controlled diseases are returning, while the president is attending million-dollar-per-seat dinners and playing in a golf tournament, while poor Magats praise his genius.

Had my Dad lived to experience what Trump is doing to people’s retirement accounts, he would’ve been terrified and enraged at the financial insecurity he would be facing right now. He lived a humble life and saved for retirement responsibly. A life of hard earned savings would be getting decimated.

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

The only thing being liberated today is money from the bank accounts of hard-working Americans.

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Inside the Bop House, Tariffluencers, Gen Z's safe space, the latest meme stock, Grok dunking, India's Netflix, and Ashton Hall and the rise of isolationist masculinity— All in today’s newsletter!!

Can we get the billionaire Democrat donors to step up their game and offer some incentives for democrat voters?!?!

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

WHERE IS THE FUCKING OUTRAGE? Imagine if that was Biden. Or Hillary. Or ANY Dem. There would be subpoenas flying out the door quicker than I can post this.

Lock them up. All of them.

Trump Derangement Syndrome really should be defined as the worshipful sycophancy that his supporters demonstrate when they defend every single awful thing he says and does no matter how destructive and illegal.

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All the MAGA people were worried about immigrants taking their jobs. They should have been more worried about this guy. #ElonMusk #Jobs #Immigrants

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One cool way to avoid feeling vilified for your religious beliefs is to not try to force the entire country to live according to them.

As markets plummet again today from Trump's chaotic economic policies, ask yourself: Why would billionaires back policies that tank their own stock values? It’s the taxes. I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view: Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

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I'll vote for whoever in 2028 shows the most contempt for people like David Axelrod and James Carville. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

David Axelrod is exhibit A as to why Democrats continue to look weak and lose. Saying Al Green’s protest was dispicable in the middle of a hostile takeover of our government shows how privileged and out of touch he is. Democrats need to be done with people like David Axelrod.

What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

Trump illegally cut $400M in federal funds to Columbia University over pro-Palestinian protests, claiming they're not quelling antisemitism. Meanwhile, Nazi Musk gets billions in federal funds. He has no issue with Musk but targets legally protesting students. He's as hypocritical as he is hateful.

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.

We should worry about migrant rape gangs, says the man who just pressured Romania to free the Tate brothers so they could return to the U.S.