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technologist, autistic, amateur artist, mother, loves animals. Here to learn. I believe in human rights! (Fka @deathweasel on that other microblogging platform)
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Have you ever seen a very rare Curlew Starling? 😮 I have.... last week at St Ives in Cornwall! 😉😁😍🐦 #birds 🪶

the moderate position is “people need to go to prison” for the deportation of people to el salvadoran concentration camps. the radical position is something akin to guillotines on the washington mall

I protest. www.thetimes.com/world/europe....

I hate it

Congress has the power to stop this economic chaos right now. Here’s the plan to end Trump’s game of red-light, green-light with worldwide tariffs:

Scary stuff

I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.

Science Saru’s The Ghost in the Shell series gets a new teaser trailer

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

How can we be expected to be authentic when we are taught from a young age that inauthenticity is rewarded and how we stay safe?

Apple and Almond Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! It’s flourless, though divinely tender; dairy-free, though tastes ridiculously buttery; perfect for Passover, though great at any time. It’s a pretty big cake, but you can halve quantities and bake in a 20cm/ 8inch Springform www.nigella.com/recipes/appl...

Had to add the words “fuckable” and “cum” to my muted words. @bsky.app why am I getting fetish/porn shit on the discover feed? Can we work on this? Seems like it should be an easy addition to whatever code does the muted words filtering

Telescopic view of tonight's superb almost full Moon! Waxing at 98.9% illuminated.#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social

Started a newsletter. My first post is going to be a deep dive into insider trading on Wednesday. I’ll be writing about tech, San Francisco, politics, and AI. With kindness and snark. I’d be grateful for any boosts as I’m excited and nervous for this. data-and-politics.ghost.io

@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

Thanks, Debra, for teaching me how to make your famous matzah ball soup today. To everyone in the Jewish community celebrating: Chag Pesach Sameach.