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The AMMRL message board is pretty low-nonsense but does feature bangers like: - does anyone want this old superconducting magnet - my university wants to put <giant metal thing> next to my magnet; how to tell them no - you’ll never believe how this sample got stuck - helium so expensive, whyyyy

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 4 days ago • 1253 comments

I am so hungry for senators to use whatever power they have creatively in this moment and YES, “making things super awkward” is a great example. Go get ‘em @vanhollen.senate.gov .

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Steve Silberman's groundbreaking book NeuroTribes, which fully debunked any story of an "autism epidemic," is 10 years old this summer. The answer has been out there for a decade. He'd be LIVID about this.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Meanwhile, in Great Britain… Quakers are being arrested for talking about the climate crisis and Gaza inside their own Meeting House. As a Quaker myself, this is mind-blowing. 😳 Quakers are KNOWN for their commitment to peace and non-violent conflict resolution. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

As predicted, they’re coming for NMAAHC www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 29 days ago • 91 comments

Given this administration’s utter contempt for neurodivergent or disabled people, they’d likely see this as even more reason.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 32 days ago • 330 comments

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

submitted 32 days ago • 192 comments

This is gross ableism. Especially since Democrats are talking all the time about Medicaid being on the chopping block. Ableism is ableism whether a Democrat or Republican does it.

submitted 31 days ago • 22 comments

seems like a good time for the Working Families Party to be dramatically ramping up their national efforts…

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

A very lovely night even with city lights. The sky was unusually steady for an hour or so and Jupiter and Mars views were among the best I’ve ever seen. I also said a likely goodbye for the season to the Orion Nebula, and also got nice views of clusters M48 (Hydra), M35 (Gemini), and M37 (Auriga).

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Really good thread, relevant to other areas of science as well (especially space science)

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

I... do not understand this new construction of masculinity? it's not athletic. it's not stoic. it's not handsome. it's not accomplished. it's never been intellectual. it's just rich white loud dudes on the TV who look like they don't wash their genitals? is that it?

submitted 71 days ago • 114 comments

A little over a year ago, I was pretty resigned to being single forever. I was done dating men and figured no woman wanted to date a 50 year old baby queer. Then a year ago today, I met @portianoir.com for a drink in Chicago. Now we're living in Colorado together: two Black Rocky Mountain Queers. 🤎

submitted 83 days ago • 324 comments

Folks, I see a lot of you recently feeling free to use some variation of the "R" word for mentally disabled, including appending the last four letters as suffix to describe people you don't like. I'm not down with that, so if you do it in my comments, I'm gonna hide that shit at least. Be better.

submitted 82 days ago • 402 comments

Remember, when the Moon is new, that’s because all the pieces have finally gone back into the puzzle box, and it shows up as a crescent first because that’s the easiest part to assemble.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

submitted 85 days ago • 23 comments

Fun fact! When the Nazis were looking for templates for their horrible fucking laws, guess where they went looking! Yes! That's right! The US Jim Crow laws! So, yes. Fucking Jim Crow, yes.

submitted 85 days ago • 45 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 86 days ago • 130 comments

OpenAI right now

submitted 86 days ago • 299 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 86 days ago • 3742 comments

Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true

submitted 95 days ago • 147 comments

One thing I do a lot of: amateur astronomy. Last night I was outside with my trusty 12.5” Dobsonian looking at Jupiter, some star clusters (M35 in Gemini and M36, M36, and M 38 in Auriga), and the Orion Nebula. Still a lot to see with a 12.5” scope even in the city!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Still trying to figure out what sorts of things I'll be talking about most often, so, in the meantime, have a cat.

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments