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j-mike.bsky.social
RN. Parent. Autistic. Trekkie. Queer. Jew. They/them pronouns but I'll take masc pronouns these days too.
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Damn that's a deep cut.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Whoooooo's ready for Pesach? NOT ME I often pretend that I'm doing the True Spirit of the Holiday by being wildly under prepared and doing a lot of last minute scrambling under pressure. But the truth is I just have the executive function of a fruit fly and probably always will

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

A podcast on memetics, myth and propaganda: how our narratives define the limits of our political and personal identity, how any era of civilization may be consigned to myth just as it was defined by it. www.jamescurcio.com/narrative-ma...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Statement: Nurses for America Stands in Solidarity with the American Public Health Association Executive Director’s call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Read their statement here: apha.org/news-and-med... @apha.org

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I wrote about how it is as if all the people behind those viral posts claiming people are being “trafficked” in the parking lot at Target are now in charge of ICE communications, or running the agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is a phenomenal article, and if you haven't read it, I need you to do so. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I already had a lot of trouble with "planning for the future" and now I literally can't conceive of the future. It feels paralyzing, which I know is part of the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

My latest. On the way antisemitism has become redefined as support for Palestinian life. And how that has led to the supposed fight against antisemitism becoming bigotry itself. And how that, then, has led to the failure to fight actual antisemitism in our midst, endangering Jews along the way.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

What Simpsons vibe are you bringing this summer?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment