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dad and scientist. wrestler and cyclist. probably too sarcastic for my own good.
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The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.

submitted 14 days ago • 507 comments

[record scratch] Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. See, I wanted revenge on Joe Biden. And this guy said he was the richest man in the world and he'd help me. He'd even let me sit in the chair and play president. He said I wouldn't even look like a cuck...

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 15 days ago • 143 comments

“I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.” Brilliant.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The Leaning Tower of Treason.

submitted 31 days ago • 780 comments

Terrible. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 57 comments

I wonder what Afghan vets think about this.

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

my crabbiest millennial view is: I see you sent some kind of 'voice note' in this chat window, too bad I'm not listening to it because this is a chat window

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina trial court DENIES Republican Party motion to throw out 60,000 votes cast in the November 2024. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 44 days ago • 785 comments

When you pretend that you know how to use Linux

submitted 44 days ago • 13 comments

When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy. by Charlie Kirk

submitted 46 days ago • 157 comments

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

submitted 48 days ago • 183 comments

For single cell foundation model fans, Raul Rabadan & colleagues just published GET in @nature.com, which trained on chromatin accessibility data to predict transcription factor interactions/motifs, cis-regulatory elements, & gene expression from 213 human cell types www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

It sounds like the PA have a list kf demands and no concessions. I kept reading to see what would Israel gain and it's.... Nothing

submitted 297 days ago • 1 comment

Review: Single-cell genomics meets human genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️

submitted 362 days ago • 0 comments

Bioframe: operations on genomic intervals in Pandas dataframes academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️ github.com/open2c/biofr...

submitted 362 days ago • 0 comments

Jews only have as many free speech rights as Berkeley students deign to allow them www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 364 days ago • 17 comments

No, no, the protestors just decided that choosing a night to break windows was their form of free expression

submitted 364 days ago • 4 comments

Also he played an enormous and I think understated role in normalizing the idea that Republicans don't operate in the national interest and why would anyone expect them to

submitted 364 days ago • 6 comments

I'll probably just continue with not bothering to test and determining based on symptoms whether to stay home.

submitted 379 days ago • 0 comments

This is 100% correct. I feel the same way about the belief that “the sixties” were tie-dyed and psychedelic. The 1960s were The 1950s, Part Two. What people are remembering is a brief period in roughly 1970-73.

submitted 423 days ago • 12 comments

modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves

submitted 425 days ago • 131 comments

Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞

submitted 507 days ago • 28 comments

Just to add to this, I think JJ Abrams is bad even in comparison to other vapid blockbuster filmmakers like Michael Bay. Rise of Skywalker is bad not just in comparison to other movies generally but it’s bad in comparison to soulless profit hungry movies. It’s bad compared to Transformers.

submitted 507 days ago • 11 comments

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

submitted 511 days ago • 129 comments

This is one of the things I try to hammer home repeatedly when I teach bioinformatics. Just because an experiment is being done on a computer doesn't mean it doesn't need proper controls!

submitted 518 days ago • 1 comment

All batch correction methods are wrong, but some are useful.

submitted 519 days ago • 2 comments

This is super cool software and a great idea. R’s understandable, flexible grammar should make working with omics data cleaner and quicker for everyone. 🧪

submitted 531 days ago • 0 comments