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we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris

submitted 26 days ago • 443 comments

Dinosaur Train too

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May 15, 1923: Supporting the #longshoremen, Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading the Bill of Rights #OTD. "Warning #UptonSinclair to 'cut out that Constitution stuff,' the police arrested him before he finished the first three lines," @aclusocal.bsky.social. www.aclusocal.org/en/news/aclu...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is very cool

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Thinking, for no particular reason, of the conversation I heard with a Russian colleague in 2016ish. He said that the Russian science foundation stayed surprisingly independent for surprisingly long… but a few years prior a political appointee took over, and science became impossible.

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How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Call me old-fashioned but no living thing needs more than a single cell.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

It’s even happening invisibly- I was planning to propose and run a ~100 workshop on a niche topic, but I’m not going to ask international colleagues to come to the US at the moment

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

submitted 17 days ago • 538 comments

I love how finding out the head of HHS doesn't believe in germs isn't the craziest part of that fucking sentence

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

submitted 20 days ago • 145 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 26 days ago • 614 comments

Tiki had a very busy day at doggy daycare today and is very, very tired. Came upstairs and she was snuggled up with her sleeping owl. I went to give her scratches and she decided she was going to sleep on my arm.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.

submitted 29 days ago • 133 comments

ALWAYS RESKEET RHIANNON

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This is eugenics. He is advocating straight up eugenics based on obvious and bald-faced lies. I genuinely believe he is a monster who is a threat to every American for as long as he holds any office.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

This is a hell of a lede:

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Be ready to see this phrase come up more and more. During Tested several folks who I interviewed insisted on this language (and rejected the phrase “assigned female at birth”) and I think we are going to see it pushed a lot.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

How low can you go with DNA concentration for Nanopore sequencing?

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Wishing all my trans friends a life filled with the love, respect, acknowledgment, and support you deserve ❤️

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Recommendation for best current service for deleting old tweets en masse on the other site?

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

Judge Benjamin Settle, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench born in 1947, had this to say to the Trump administration tonight about its defense of its anti-trans military ban: www.lawdork.com/i/159798593/...

submitted 55 days ago • 20 comments

Excited to share that My Music with Rhiannon Giddens is back for another season—this time from Ireland. I had the joy of talking and playing with some incredible musicians who are not only masters of their craft, but keepers of deep cultural and historical knowledge and traditions.

submitted 55 days ago • 9 comments

If you're wondering whether there are 52 atoms in the universe, Google has you covered:

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

NO NOT JUJU

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

What this administration is teaching Universities is that even if you comply - punish students for protests, ban masks, remove DEI from websites and classes - they will still defund you and try to break you apart. Basically, there is no point in complying.

submitted 59 days ago • 24 comments

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists... Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains My daughter makes an excellent point:

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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 63 days ago • 614 comments

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

submitted 65 days ago • 99 comments

Some good news: today I saw a dude on a longboard which was just a single snow ski with skateboard wheels.

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HAN SOLO: Chewie's bandolier smells like a pickled womprat R2D2: beep boop HAN SOLO: how is that racist

submitted 228 days ago • 8 comments

Yet another extremely stupid and destructive move appears to be underway. Those people who advised me to calm down, that everything was actually going to work out fine, know what they can go do with themselves. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

submitted 68 days ago • 491 comments

I cannot believe how many Dem leaders are failing the “It is wrong to kidnap people for exercising free speech” test.

submitted 71 days ago • 111 comments

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

submitted 72 days ago • 18 comments

My book got a starred review from Kirkus! They called it "A glorious gallop through one of the last, and possibly most important, frontiers of science." How cool is that??!!! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

submitted 78 days ago • 141 comments

Remember how the Nazis started by just piece by piece eliminating certain peoples' ability to participate in everyday life? Yeah, that's what's fucking happening right now.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Microbiome people: is there a standardized "conventional" microbiome consortia that people in your field use? If so, what is it called and/or do you have a paper on which it was described? TIA 🧪🦠

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

Calling research on gender identity “unscientific” and stating “no corrective action is possible here”…this letter should alarm all scientists. The scientific process refers to how you approach answering anything unknown about the natural world around us, not OPINION about the questions asked.

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Welcome to oceanography baby!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Since 8 am I have recieved, on average, one text message every 1 minute and 47 seconds, which is too many text messages

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment