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Reporter at Genomeweb/PMO | SFF Writer MSU/UM grad | Ann Arbor 🏠 | Clarion '97 | AnLab 🏅 | Obligate herbivore | Cat lover | Allergic to cats | Achoo!
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It is not common for journalists to use AI to draft articles for publication. AI policy at GenomeWeb/Crain Communications specifically forbids such use.

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I'm a reporter with Precision Medicine Online/GenomeWeb, and I'm interested in speaking with current or former employees at the National Cancer Institute about firings and executive orders re: health disparities initiatives. #oncsky #medsky [email protected] signal: cathshaffer.05

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I don’t know any more what a happy ending looks like for Mark, Helly, Irving. Even Dylan’s prospects seem ambiguous. And oh my the tone shift on Burt and Fields…#severance

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I’m muting anyone calling for violence in these turbulent times, whether it’s a “joke” or not. At a minimum, it’s poor judgment.

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I had it last month, with a shot back in November. It was rough!

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Time for a nostalgia rewatch of Future Man.

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My primary motivation to write: I was the result of cloning experiments in the 1970s by aliens who were trying to breed humans for specific jobs like dogs and I was in the writer vat.

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From an interview today with a cancer researcher: "Science is bipartisan. Everybody wants to have cancer cures. It's odd to see a situation where science has become partisan somehow."

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Husband: What's that noise? What are you doing? Me: I'm doing selfies with Mishka on Photo Booth. See? All: Very good, carry on

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It is a small hardship having a high energy but tight-coated dog when the daily high temperatures are in the teens. She was up for about 10 minutes at the dog park yesterday, wearing a sweater and a quilted outer coat. No pic, she moves too fast.

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I published my first short story professionally in 1998, and have published many more since then. I haven't always written consistently, but it's taken me this long to find a method for plotting and structuring that produces the kind of character-driven longer form fiction that I enjoy reading.

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I would like to know what these jobs are, because LLMs consistently give wrong information

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I actually didn’t know this

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I didn’t expect Severance to deliver the sweetest m/m love story I’ve ever seen. Or m/m/m?

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Fragel! We gave him plenty of gravel, but failed to deliver fragel.

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We raised our son his whole life in Ann Arbor and never gave him a gravel. We’re going to fix that this weekend.

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