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"Trying to help is not the same thing as actually helping," part 9,072: Someone has reached out to me to say they know that lots of my scientist colleagues have lost their jobs, and wanted to pass along a job ad. It's $10/hr to train AI to solve math problems. Nope. I will not be sharing that.

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Today- Hoy- An old Screamin’ Mars Attacks Topps model kit. Un modelo muy viejo de la serie de cartas ilustradas de Mars Attacks

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This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

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Oh, buddy.

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Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

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Fired for being Black. Fired for being a woman.

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CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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Bunch people accused me of misinformation saying they’re targeting the disease not the people with the disease. I’d like to ask: you think autism and ADHD and neurodivergence is a disease? And why exactly (and how exactly) do you think it’s ok to reduce the number of people with these conditions?

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The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

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Waiting for him to launch a fashion brand from prison.

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No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

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And here it is, my Joker moment. I am insane now.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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USPS is the second most popular federal agency after the National Parks Service and just ahead of NASA. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

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And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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I don't know about others, but my experience has always been more of a polite personal request in private years before anyone in charge creates even a non-binding document of best practices. Also damn can some people get big mad about a slackbot neutrally informing them of a community norm.

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I keep seeing DOGE’s actions called “auditing.” It’s not fucking audits. Audits are not performed by sailing into an organization you know nothing about, firing huge swathes of people, and THEN figuring out what they were doing

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If you live in the NYC Metro Area, help spread the word about the S_onewall Action. Download, Print and Post the Action Flyer everyone in the NYC Metro Area (and don't forget LI, Jersey, Westchester and.. and...) #Stonewall See you on Saturday.

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They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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HEADLINE: Texas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It’s the state’s WORST in nearly 30 YEARS. There is absolutely NO REASON measles outbreaks should be on the rise. Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% EFFECTIVE against measles. So, let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND others. 🧪🧵⬇️

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I may not live in the US anymore but my family does and whenever I talk to my mom or sister on the phone they're more concerned about the country being torn apart by Elon Musk's cadre of psycho tech neo nazis or the benefits they require to live being cut than they are inflation, you old dipshit!

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I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

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I think people disliked your article because its core argument is asinine! We're not upset about the mechanism by which Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico,we're upset because it is unilateral, absurd & racist. Authoritarians often use legal means for nefarious ends, we all know this. Why don't you?

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A good sign you're in a tech bubble is when non-tech people are raving about technologies. In a normal environment they shouldn't care how or why the product works, only that it works and that it's good. My dad shouldn't be calling me to talk about MongoDB or Typescript, it's just internal cogs 1/3

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Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

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New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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it snowed it portland, and our young blind bunny “cowboy” has never seen it. so nicole brought him a cup of snow and…. he was so happy. 🥲

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Whoever wrote this headline deserves to get beaten with hammers.

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Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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Over the past 6 months, folks have been asking (and asking, and asking) what a 40th Anniversary Microsoft crystal looks like. Well, when I got mine, the Microsoft Learn folks made a fun unboxing video of it:

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Unfortunately everyone will suffer. It won't be even. And it won't be fair. Those with direct responsibility for the mess will probably be the best insulated from the consequences. And the frightening part is not knowing if that was the goal all along: to put the masses in their place.

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Oh. Good. That won’t be a problem.

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

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People love to dump on the CBC but our state broadcaster is the only TV news that informs in detail, like this explainer on egg prices ⭐️

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