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#girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 72.6% chance I will follow a fellow Jim.
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I’ve got a new book coming out Tuesday and you should order it! My last book won the AAAS/Subaru Award for excellence in science books and was an answer on JEOPARDY!, so I feel pretty confident you’re going to love the new stories in When the Earth Was Green. 🌱 🧪

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Very happy that we can search all a particular user’s posts here! I loved the search functions on Twitter

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“Out of work fbi agents with mortgages getting hit up on LinkedIn by a security firm in Dubai!” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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Good article on pig butchering scams. They suggest: “To fight the scammers, the authorities must create networks of their own.” I disagree. We need digital inoculation and to address “Our human frailties: fear, loneliness, greed, grief and boredom” @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

The kids are ok

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Measles are contagious. Measles cause 1 in 4 people to be hospitalized. Measles can be deadly especially in children. Measles can cause blindness & deafness. Measles can cause brain damage yrs later. Measles can cause "immune amnesia". Measles are preventable with MMR vaccine. #medsky #IDsky 🛟 😷🧪

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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I want Matt Gaetz to be locked in a room with Alan Ritchson for an hour.

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One of the plot devices I found too derivative to enjoy in the Marvel story lines was the idea of Hydra and a persistent Nazi-like aspirational government because that was SO DONE and good grief am I saddened to have been so wrong.

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I look forward to Jeff Bezos series of movies where James Bond is the bad guy for going after crazy, rich guys who simply want to rule the world.

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movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using GIFs only

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Thinking about the haphazard firings of government workers and the guy who called Jesse Watters complaining, I realized that we are approaching a new spoils system. If everyone gets fired, but only those that can petition someone important get rehired, we get a beholden federal workforce. 🧵

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I think anyone running the FBI needs to be able to list all the members of congress who have gone to jail. These mfers have completely memory holed Denny Hastert. I’m not “that” old

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