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Lover of science, the oceans, and all the strange wonderful creatures inhabiting this world; 📸 posted without other attribution are mine, despises fascists
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Regurgitating an existing corpus of knowledge is the exact opposite of "doctorate-level" work.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Really want everyone in a position of power and influence to internalize that these people are goons. Their work is illegal, they are implementing it haphazardly and they don’t have the state capacity to do fascism on their own. They are paper tigers. Just Say No.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

This is hilarious

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submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

I love this Toucan caught mid-hop - La Fortuna, Costa Rica

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Important and troubling thread:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine that the ONE THING you've been convinced your entire life is going to make everyone rich turns out to be an overnight killshot for the entire global economy

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I just don't see how you can have heard five minutes of Trump speaking extemporaneously over the past ten years and believe he has some kind of secret strategy and destroying the economy is part of it. He really thinks foreign gremlins are stealing our gold and this is how to get it back

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

I am no economist (took some classes, but no expert am I), but uh, that 'line go down' this morning is honestly more than I expected. I wonder if, more than just the tariffs, "oh crap, these guys actually have no plan" has just settled in for a lot of investors.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

submitted 14 days ago • 117 comments

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

submitted 17 days ago • 125 comments

The thing about foreign students and the first amendment is that the first amendment isn't really supposed to be a "right" that is granted to individuals as a privilege of citizenship; it's supposed to be a restraint on the power of the government.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Still waiting for RFK Jr to take on the big pharmaceutical giants and industrial polluters that he claimed were committing mass murder now that he’s the most powerful man in healthcare and can stop it. I’m sure he will do it right after he fires the person who helps your mom sign up for Medicare

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

It's amazing how blatant and obvious the Prestige Press' capitulation to the GOP is and has been for a long time. Picture a bunch of refs who've been "worked" so hard for so long they just instinctually penalize Democrats and wave through Republicans.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Tesla's continued access to Chinese markets doesn't pay for itself 😉

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

submitted 28 days ago • 225 comments

There's a Times story called "RFK Jr.'s alarming idea for tackling bird flu on farms" and it turns out the idea is to not tackle it at all

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments